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Mick Molloy's new show is nuts " and just what we need on free-to-air TV
19+ hour, 7+ min ago (156+ words) SMH. com. au April 20, 2026 " 8: 30pm The set-up is that Mick Molloy and Glenn Robbins have identified a handful of celebrity pals who, for the sake of their flat-lining careers and questionable personalities, need reputational rehab. Robbins sets off to bag that…...
Guaranteed laughs and shows worth a punt: Something for everyone in our comedy festival guide
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (171+ words) SMH. com. au April 16, 2026 " 5: 30am With a deluge of decidedly unfunny headlines upon us, the Sydney Comedy Festival has arrived at just the right time. It's bigger than ever this year, with more than 400 shows representing every conceivable strand of comedy....
In this play, a weekend trip quickly devolves into a powder keg of drama
1+ week, 4+ day ago (388+ words) April 10, 2026 " 12: 25pm THEATRESpare a Thought for Jana Wendt "La Mama Theatre, until April 26 A group of people sequestered in a house together under the guise of a weekend away is fertile ground for drama. As social niceties are stripped away, etiquette…...
Comedies about Big Tech used to be funny. Now they're just unsettling
1+ week, 5+ day ago (195+ words) SMH. com. au April 9, 2026 " 5: 30am SBS is doling out an episode weekly, and that's probably the right prescription for medicine tinged with this kind of frisky bitterness. The back and forth between Duncan and Joanne keeps escaping common sense, so that…...
Size matters in Matthew Macfadyen and Elizabeth Banks" wonderfully silly new comedy
1+ week, 5+ day ago (38+ words) SMH. com. au April 9, 2026 " 1: 30am The Miniature Wife streams on Stan (which is owned by Nine, the publisher of this masthead) from April 9....
The comedian who played to no one: Lloyd Langford on his worst-ever gigs
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1118+ words) April 6, 2026 " 11: 30am Comedian Lloyd Langford is famous enough that he gets recognised in the streets, usually two or three times a day. But at least one person stops the Wales-born comedian to tell him how much they love his partner, fellow…...
This UK play is fierce, funny and uncomfortably familiar. Did anyone say "Hanson?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (836+ words) April 5, 2026 " 11: 59am Add us as a preferred source on Google THEATRETill The Stars Come Down KXT on Broadway, Ultimo April 1, until April 11 Reviewed by JOYCE MORGAN" Three sisters gather for the wedding of the youngest. Add a potty-mouth aunt, awkward speeches…...
Aliens, lad culture and "Fat Tom Cruise: This festival has it all
2+ week, 4+ day ago (645+ words) April 3, 2026 " 12: 49pm Chloe Petts | Big Naturals Melbourne Town Hall - Portrait Room, until April 19 Lad culture formed Chloe Petts, and it informs every aspect of her show, which takes its title from slang for large, non-surgically-enhanced breasts of the sort historically favoured…...
Alex Duong performs stand up comedy
3+ week, 1+ day ago (46+ words) Comedian Alex Duong, who died aged 42 after a battle with cancer, performs stand up about his childhood Updated March 30, 2026 " 10: 28am, first published 10: 25am...
And now for The Evening Muse: Hannah Gadsby turns talk-show host
3+ week, 4+ day ago (587+ words) March 27, 2026 " 3: 30pm Add us as a preferred source on Google Fame has made Hannah Gadsby a little self-conscious when talking about introspection and existential crises: "Before that I used to have to deal with a lot of life stuff and scramble…...