2+ hour, 33+ min ago  (286+ words) Melbourne international comedy festival A show about coming to terms with the fact that you might not have children, delivered with a deadpan humour that feels specifically Australian A drunk witch once told Bronwyn Kuss to have a baby. She…...

2+ hour, 16+ min ago  (1131+ words) Lower those expectations, Succession fans. The star plays a scientist who shrinks his wife (Elizabeth Banks) to 6in tall, in a screwball sitcom that should have been so much better I wonder what it's like to be the go-to actor whenever…...

19+ hour, 22+ min ago  (387+ words) Succession meets The Borrowers in The Miniature Wife. Plus: Jane Mc Donald heads to Nashville seeking musical inspiration. Here's what to watch this evening Succession meets The Borrowers? Matthew Macfadyen and Elizabeth Banks are the warring couple " one a vain…...

20+ hour, 44+ min ago  (409+ words) After every tour, I hate the sound of my voice," the actor and comedian says. Yet here he is, working on a new standup act and about to host Saturday Night Live. What does he have to talk about this…...

22+ hour, 15+ min ago  (270+ words) Bret Mc Kenzie and Jemaine Clement announce four shows at Wellington venue Meow Nui from next week " their first gigs since 2018 New Zealand's self-described "fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo-a cappella-rap-funk-comedy-folk duo" Flight of the Conchords sold out their first shows…...

21+ hour, 24+ min ago  (367+ words) Melbourne international comedy festival Buckle up: the comedian doesn't give his audience a moment to relax as he delivers a relentless string of one-liners in a show that never hits everyone all at once Don't come to Dan Rath's new…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (328+ words) The star returns as Ian Fletcher in this mockumentary from the makers of Twenty Twelve. But for every funny moment, there is a slightly off gag " and some truly woeful ones "Shall we begin? , Ian asks his new colleagues. "Oh'my…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (473+ words) Cryptic crossword setters are still finding new ways to celebrate April Fools" Day It"s April, so it"s time to continue our tracking of the ebb and flow of April foolery in crossword puzzles. In brief, the good times…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (317+ words) The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their go-to comfort films celebrates Steven Spielberg's escapist globe-trotting adventure The ancient Greek philosopher Lucretius writes in his epic poem On the Nature of Things: "It is comforting, when winds…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago  (707+ words) Kaija Saariaho's Innocence delves into guilt, grief and anger over a phenomenon largely thought of as distinctly American Gun violence, particularly the high-profile incidents that take place on school campuses, are often seen as a uniquely American phenomenon, one that…...