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Conan O'Brien hosting the 2026 Oscars

Conan O’Brien Opens 2026 Oscars With Sharp Jokes And A Controversial Pedophile Line

by Paul Cashmere

Conan O’Brien opened the 2026 Oscars with a sharp monologue that targeted Hollywood, streaming giants and awards culture, including a controversial line about British actors that quickly became one of the night’s most talked-about moments.

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Jeff Durham

Jeff Dunham Announces 2026 Australian Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Legendary comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham will perform across Australia in August 2026. Tickets on sale February 27.

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Nikki Glaser delivers her opening monologue at the 2026 Golden Globes, making the audience laugh with sharp celebrity jokes.

Nikki Glaser Opens 2026 Golden Globes With Sharp, Hilarious Monologue

by Paul Cashmere

Nikki Glaser delivered a fearless and hilarious opening monologue at the 2026 Golden Globes, roasting stars and celebrating the best of film and television.

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Jonathan Van Nesse supplied

Jonathan Van Ness Brings Hot & Healed Tour To Australia And New Zealand

by Paul Cashmere

Jonathan Van Ness announces the Hot & Healed tour, returning to Australia and New Zealand with a new live comedy show starting in Auckland.

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Danny Bhoy Announces 2026 Australian Tour With Dear World

Danny Bhoy Returns To Australia In 2026 With New Show Dear World

by Paul Cashmere

Danny Bhoy will return to Australia in early 2026 with his new show Dear World, fresh from a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe season.

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Akaash Singh To Tour Australia and New Zealand With Generational Triumph

Akaash Singh To Bring Generational Triumph Tour To Australia and New Zealand

by Noise11.com

American comedian and podcaster Akaash Singh will tour Australia and New Zealand in February 2026 with his Generational Triumph Tour, performing in Auckland, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney.

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Nurse Blake performing live on stage during his comedy tour.

Nurse Blake to Bring But Did You Die? Tour Back to Australia in 2025

by Noise11.com

Nurse Blake will bring his brand-new comedy show But Did You Die? to Australia in February 2025. The five-city tour follows his previous sold-out shows and promises a night of outrageous laughs.

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Jimmy O Yang

Jimmy O. Yang To Return To Australia With His Biggest Tour Yet

by Noise11.com

Jimmy O. Yang, the Hong Kong-born, Los Angeles-raised comedian who broke through on HBO’s Silicon Valley before finding global fame in Crazy Rich Asians, will return to Australia in late 2025 with his most ambitious stand-up shows yet.

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John Bishop

John Bishop Celebrates 25 Years of Comedy with New Australian Tour

by Noise11.com

On 2 October 2000, John Bishop stood nervously in front of a small audience at the Frog and Bucket comedy club in Manchester. By day, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry; by night, on this occasion, he took a chance that would transform his life. As he grasped the microphone for the very first time, he didn’t know it then—but the moment marked the beginning of a 25-year journey that would see him become one of the UK’s most loved comedians.

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Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard Brings The Remix Tour Live to Australia – A Celebration of 35 Years of Surreal, Intelligent Comedy

by Noise11.com

Eddie Izzard is set to return to Australia in 2025 with The Remix Tour Live, a unique and exhilarating new show that revisits, reimagines, and reinvents some of her most beloved comedic moments from a career spanning over three decades.

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Spinal Tap The End Continues

Spinal Tap The End Continues Soundtrack Cover Pays Homage To The Crosby Stills & Nash Debut With The Same Photographer Henry Diltz

by Paul Cashmere

The album cover for the upcoming ‘Spinal Tap: The End Continues’ is a homage to the ‘Crosby, Still & Nash’ album cover, the 1969 debut album from Crosby Stills & Nash and they even used the same photographer Henry Diltz.

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Spinal Tap II The End Continues

‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ Trailer With Paul McCartney and Elton John Premieres

by Paul Cashmere

‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ has a brand new trailer with Paul McCartney and Elton John both making cameo appearances.

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Stephen Colbert Facebook profile

CBS Cancels The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

by Paul Cashmere

CBS television in the USA has announced the cancellation of the high rating, high profitable ‘Late Night With Stephen Colbert’ seemingly for political reasons.

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Spinal Tap DVD

Spinal Tap’s Viv Savage (David Kaff) Dies At Age 79

by Music-News.com

David Kaff, best known as keyboardist Viv Savage in This Is Spinal Tap, has died peacefully in his sleep, aged 79.

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Spinal Tap II The End Continues

Spinal Tap II Gets An Official Release Date

by Paul Cashmere

‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ will be in cinemas on 12 September 2025.

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Jimmy Rees photo supplied Frontier Touring

Jimmy Rees Sets Dates For Australia and New Zealand

by Paul Cashmere

Comedy royalty King Jimmy Rees of Moomba, will zip across Australia and New Zealand in October and November.

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Spaceballs 2

Mel Brooks is Making ‘Spaceballs 2’ After 38 Years

by Paul Cashmere

38 years after his hilarious Star Wars spoof ‘Spaceballs’, Mel Brooks has announced a sequel ‘Spaceballs 2’ is coming in 2027.

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Tim Michin Time Machine

Tim Minchin Premieres New Song ‘I Wouldn’t Like You’

by Paul Cashmere

As we creep closer to the release of Tim Minchin’s ‘TimMichinTimeMachine’ album, Tim has dropped a third preview of the album ‘I Wouldn’t Like You’.

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Jimmy Carr

Jimmy Carr To Play A Shitload of Aussie Dates in 2026

by Paul Cashmere

Comedian Jimmy Carr is coming back to Australia in 2026 and his first announcement for the tour includes 21 dates.

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Graham Norton

‘An Evening With Graham Norton’ Is Like Having a Mate Around for a Few Yarns

by Paul Cashmere

Graham Norton has had a remarkable career. With his ‘An Evening With Graham Norton’ shows in Australia and New Zealand, Graham is sharing insights into an occupation that grew organically.

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Spinal Tap II The End Continues

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Teaser Premieres

by Paul Cashmere

A teaser for the long overdue Spinal Tap sequel ‘Spinal Tap II : The End Continues’ has premiered.

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Will Ferrell and Amelia Dimoldenberg on Saturday Night Live red carpet

Watch The Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Red Carpet

by Paul Cashmere

Prior to the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special, Amelia Dimoldenberg hosted the Red Carpet Event.

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Robbie Williams at A Day On The Green Geelong 2023 photo by Winston Robinson

Robbie Williams Spends £20,000 On Eric Morecombe’s Glasses

by Music-News.com

Robbie Williams has achieved a childhood dream by buying beloved British comedian Eric Morecambe’s glasses and pipe at auction.

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Nikki Glaser TEG Dainty pic

Golden Globes Host Nikki Glaser To Perform In Australia and New Zealand

by Paul Cashmere

Roast host, comedian Nikki Glaser will perform in Australia and New Zealand in July.

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TISM Death To Art

TISM ‘Death To Art’ Includes At Metaphorical Melbourne Travelogue

by Paul Cashmere

The new TISM album ‘Death To Art’ contains a Melbourne suburban travelogue featuring a hearse of a 78 minute journey to Springvale cemetery.

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Graham Norton

Graham Norton To Bring ‘An Evening With Graham Norton’ To Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Graham Norton will perform in Australia in 2025 for the very first time when he brings his ‘An Evening With Graham Norton’ show down under.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry To Perform In Australia In October and November

by Noise11.com

Stephen Fry wears many hats. He is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director. In October and November he will head to Australia for performances.

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Jack Black photo by Ros O'Gorman

Jack Black Says Tenacious D Will Return But Really … Who Cares?

by Paul Cashmere

Jack Black appears to have cooled down from his hissy fit in Australia when he cancelled the tour over a joke.

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Watch Bruce Springsteen “Act” On Curb Your Enthusiasm

by Paul Cashmere

Bruce Springsteen made his first cameo acting job (at least I think it is his first, I can’t find another reference anywhere) in Season 12 of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’.

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Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band perform at AAMI Park on Thursday 2 February 2017. Photo Ros O'Gorman

Bruce Springsteen Stars In The Second Last Episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm

by Paul Cashmere

After a cameo in episode two of the last ever season of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’, Bruce Springsteen is back in a starring role in episode nine, and it is one of the funniest episodes so far.

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