comedy

Tracy Morgan will tour Australia and New Zealand in 2020

by Paul Cashmere

Tracy Morgan will is heading back to Australia and New Zealand in 2020.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, 90s, comedy, Tracy Morgan, USA

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Jason Alexander To Play A Stack Of Standup In Australia in February 2020

by Paul Cashmere

Seinfeld star Jason Alexander is heading back to Australia in February for a series of standup around the country.

Tagged as: comedy, Jason Alexander, Seinfeld, USA

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Justine Clarke To Host Screen Music Awards In Melbourne

by Paul Cashmere

Queen of children’s entertainment Justine Clarke has been announced as the host of the Screen Music Awards when it returns to Melbourne in November.

Tagged as: AMCOS, APRA, Australia, children, comedy, Justine Clarke, music industry, Screen Music Awards

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Fred Armisen is heading to Australia for the first time

by Paul Cashmere

Musician and Comedian Fred Armisen is coming to Australia for the first time with his Comedy For Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome show.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, comedy, Fred Armisen, USA

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Jeff Tweedy of Wilco photo by Ros O'Gorman

Jeff Tweedy To Join The Cast of Curb Your Enthusiasm

by Paul Cashmere

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy is expected to be a new face when Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm returns for a 10th season.

Tagged as: 90s, alt-country, Americana, comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jeff Tweedy, rock, roots, USA, Wilco

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Sammy J has a hands down winner for Song of the Year with ‘Queensland We’re Breaking Up With You’

by Paul Cashmere

Sammy J has morphed into Country Star Buster J and together with his band The Franking Credits has given us what is potentially The Song of the Year. Fuck it, let’s call it now … ‘Queensland We’re Breaking Up With You’ is the Song of the Year.

Tagged as: ABC, Australia, comedy, Sammy J

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Barry Humphries Resurrects Dame Edna for My Gorgeous Life

by Paul Cashmere

Barry Humphries has put the defibrillator on Dame Edna and brought the old chook back to life. Humphries will star Edna in his new show ‘Dame Edna My Gorgeous Life’.

Tagged as: Australia, Barry Humphries, comedy, Dame Edna, Paul Dainty, theatre

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Melbourne Comedy Festival Drops Barry Humphries Name From Award

by Paul Cashmere

The Melbourne Comedy Festival has dropped Barry Humphries name in The Barry award following his outrageous comments about the LGBTI community.

Tagged as: Australia, Barry Humphries, comedy, Dame Edna, Melbourne Comedy Festival

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Comedian Ian Cognito drops dead on stage after making dropping dead on stage joke

by Paul Cashmere

British comedian Ian Cognito (Paul Barbieri) literally became his own punch line after he dropped dead on stage in Bicester, UK minutes after joking about dying on stage.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, comedy, Ian Cognito, UK

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Walk Off The Earth and Sarah Silverman Cover Video Killed The Radio Star

by Paul Cashmere

Comedy star Sarah Silverman has joined a band. Silverman is the lead singer on the new Walk Off The Earth track, a cover of the 1979 Buggles classic ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’.

Tagged as: 10s, comedy, pop, Sarah Silverman, USA, Walk Off The Earth

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Miles Allen to bring One Man Breaking Bad back for another session

by Paul Cashmere

In one hour one man will tell the story of all of Breaking Bad at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and across Australia.

Tagged as: comedy, David Roy Williams, Miles Allen, One Man Breaking Bad

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Angus Young AC/DC Etihad Stadium, Rock Or Bust World Tour. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Angus Young Reveals the New AC/DC Line-up

by Noise11.com

Following Brian Johnson blurting out he is back in AC/DC this week, Angus Young has decided to reveal the full all-new AC/DC line-up.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Abbott & Costello, AC/DC, Angus Young, Australia, Brian Johnson, comedy, rock

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Comedian Kevin Barnett dead at 32

by Paul Cashmere

Kevin Barnett, best known for his Fox comedy series ‘Rel’, has died while on holiday in Mexico. He was 32.

Tagged as: 10s, comedy, Kevin Barnett, Rel, USA

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Billy Connolly confirms he is Not Dying, Not Dead

by Paul Cashmere

Billy Connolly has posted a jovial post to tells fans in song he is “not dying, not dead, not slipping away”.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Billy Connolly, comedy, Scotland, UK

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Curb Your Enthusiasm star Bob Einstein dies aged 76

by Paul Cashmere

Bob Einstein, the comedy genius and Curb Your Enthusiasm star, has lost his battle with cancer at age 76.

Tagged as: Bob Einstein, comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David, television, USA

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Netflix removes episode of Nasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act critical of Saudi Arabia

by Paul Cashmere

Netflix is under fire for removing an episode of Patriot Act by comedian Nasan Minhaj because it criticizes Saudi Arabia over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Tagged as: comedy, Nasan Minhaj, Patriot Act, USA

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Absolutely Fabulous star Dame June Whitfield dies at age 93

by Paul Cashmere

Dame June Whitfield, who starred as Edina’s mother in Absolutely Fabulous, has died at the age of 93.

Tagged as: Absolutely Fabulous, comedy, June Whitfield, television, UK

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Peter Pan Goes Wrong gets it right about funny – REVIEW

by Paul Cashmere

‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ will make you laugh. If it doesn’t, you are the dictionary definition of ‘buzz-kill’. This is a laugh out loud show.

Tagged as: Australia, comedy, Mischief Theatre Company, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, theatre

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MEMO Music Hall presents The Fabulous Singlettes Christmas Show this weekend

by Paul Cashmere

The Fabulous Singlettes Christmas show is on for two nights at MEMO Music Hall in St Kilda this weekend.

Tagged as: Australia, comedy, Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, The Fabulous Singlettes

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Australian agent/booker Kevin Somers loses battle with cancer

by Paul Cashmere

Kevin Somers, the Australian agent/booker who worked with Jimeoin, Dave Hughes, Eric Bana and Vince Sorrenti over the years, has lost his battle with cancer.

Tagged as: Australia, comedy, entertainment industry, Kevin Somers

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Tim Minchin Adds Even More Shows

by Paul Cashmere

Live Nation has added another six Tim Minchin shows across Australia.

Tagged as: Australia, comedy, Live Nation, Tim Minchin

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Tim Minchin Doubles Dates For His Australian Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Tim Minchin’s BACK Australian tour has almost doubled in size with 10 new shows announced today.

Tagged as: 00s, Australia, comedy, Live Nation, Tim Minchin

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Weird Al Yankovic Pleads ‘Don’t Pickaxe My Star’

by Paul Cashmere

Weird Al Yankovic has pleaded with fans to “not pickaxe my star” at the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week.

Tagged as: 80s, comedy, pop, USA, Weird Al Yankovic

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ABC Axes Rubbish Comedy News Show Tonightly

by Paul Cashmere

Tonightly, the embarrassing ABC production loosely classified as comedy, has been axed.

Tagged as: ABC, Australia, comedy, television, Tom Ballard, Tonightly

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Ariana Grande Defends Boyfriend Over Manchester Bombing Gag

by Music-News.com

Ariana Grande has broken her silence about her fiance’s comedy gaffe, telling fans she was upset to learn he had cracked a joke about the bomb blast at her Manchester, England show last summer (17).

Tagged as: 10s, Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, Canada, comedy, Pete Davidson, pop, USA

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Jimmy Barnes Makes A Cameo In These New South Whales

by Paul Cashmere

“What would Jimmy Barnes know about punk? Cold Chisel weren’t punk”. And so goes a very funny scene from the Comedy Central show These New South Whales.

Tagged as: 10s, Australia, Cold Chisel, comedy, Jimmy Barnes, rock, These New South Whales

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Seth MacFarlane References Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust For Third Time

by Paul Cashmere

Seth MacFarlane is obviously a huge Queen fan, so much so that the Queen classic ‘Another One Bites The Dust’ has now been referenced three times across two of his shows.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Chic, comedy, Family Guy, Nile Rodgers, Queen, rock, Seth MacFarlane, UK

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Cheech & Chong Exhibit To Open At Grammy Museum

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Grammy-winning comedy duo Cheech & Chong will be the subject of a new exhibit opening at the Grammy Museum on 4/20. Titled Cheech & Chong: Still Rollin’—Celebrating 40 Years Of Up In Smoke, the exhibit is curated in collaboration with Grammy-winning producer Lou Adler, who uncovered the legendary duo, produced many of their albums, and

Tagged as: 70s, Cheech & Chong, comedy, Grammy Awards, Grammy Museum, USA

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Triple J Matches The Funny With The Musical For Melbourne Outside Broadcast

by Noise11.com

Triple J’s Ben & Liam will broadcast live from the Melbourne Town Hall on Good Friday with a dose of funny mixes with a smidge of song.

Tagged as: Australia, Ben & Liam, comedy, music industry, radio, triple j

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R.I.P. Ken Dodd 1928-2018

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Legendary British singer and comedian Sir Ken Dodd has died aged 90.

Tagged as: 50s, 60s, 70s, comedy, Ken Dodd, UK

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