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Australian Rapper Briggs Is Now A Writer For Matt Groening’s New Show Disenchantment

by Paul Cashmere

Australian rapper Adam Briggs (aka Briggs aka AB Original) has landed as job as a writer on Matt Groening’s new show for Netflix ‘Disenchantment’.

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Mrs Browns Boys

Brendan O’Carroll To Stage Mrs Brown Boys In Australia In 2018

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Brendan O’Carroll’s hit UK comedy Mrs Browns Boys will head back to Australia in January 2018.

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Stephen Furst

R.I.P. Stephen Furst ‘Flounder’ from Animal House 1954-2017

by Paul Cashmere

Stephen Furst, the actor who played Flounder in ‘Animal House’, has died from complications to diabetes at age 63 at his home in Moorpark, California.

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Rhys Darby

Rhys Darby Has A Stack Of Aussie Shows On The Way

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Rhys Darby, the biggest thing to come out of New Zealand since Phil Rudd’s court case, will tour Australia in August.

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Adam West as Batman

R.I.P. Adam West 1928-2017

by Paul Cashmere

Adam West, the iconic Batman of the 60s TV series, has died following a battle with leukemia at the age of 88.

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Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld Explains The Awkward Kesha Hug

by Music-News.com

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld refused to hug pop star Kesha on the red carpet because he thought the gesture “was a little off”.

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Rhys Darby

Rhys Darby To Return For Just For Laughs 2017

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NZ comedian Rhys Darby will be back in Australia for Just For Laughs in August.

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Jim Gaffigan

Jim Gaffigan Australian and New Zealand Shows Cancelled

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Comedian Jim Gaffigan has cancelled his upcoming Australian and New Zealand tour due to the ongoing illness of his wife Jeannie.

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Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert Farewells Pig Bill O’Reilly

by Paul Cashmere

Late Show host Stephen Colbert has farewelled alleged sexual predator Bill O’Reilly.

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John Clarke

R.I.P. John Clarke 1948-2017

by Paul Cashmere

New Zealand-born comedy writer and actor John Clarke has died suddenly at the age of 68.

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Don Rickles

R.I.P. Don Rickles 1926-2017

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Don Rickles, also known as Mr. Warmth and The Merchant of Venom for his biting comedy, died on Thursday (April 6) morning at his home in Los Angeles from kidney failure. He was 90.

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Music Mirth Mayhem

Music Mirth & Mayhem Returns To Benefit Mirabel Foundation

by Noise11.com

As part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival the event Music, Mirth & Mayhem will return with proceeds going to kids charity the Mirabel Foundation.

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Saturday Night Live Donald T Marump Turnbull

Malcolm Turnbull Gets A Name-Check In Saturday Night Live Opener

by Paul Cashmere

Saturday Night Live star Beck Bennett played Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in a hilarious show opener featuring Alec Baldwin as “little white bitch” Trump.

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Aziz Ansari

Aziz Ansari Likens Trump Voters To Chris Brown Fans

by Paul Cashmere

Comedian Aziz Ansari has focused his Saturday Night Live monologue American demagogue Donald Trump and likened some of his supporters to Chris Brown fans.

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Dick Gautier

R.I.P. Dick Gautier, Hymie From Get Smart 1931-2016

by Paul Cashmere

Dick Gautier, best known as Hymie the robot in the 60s TV series Get Smart, has died at age 85.

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Alec Baldwin as Trump

Trump Chucks Another Wobbly Over New SNL Sketch

by Paul Cashmere

Donald J. Trump, the second most voted for politician at the 2016 American election, has once again gone into meltdown over a comedy sketch on Saturday Night Live.

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Weird Al Yankovich, music news, noise11.com

Weird Al Yankovic Has A Box On The Way

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

If parody is the sincerest form of flattery, then Weird Al Yankovic has flattered a LOT of music artists.

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Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer Cancels Australian Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Amy Schumer has cancelled her Australian tour due to illness.

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Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer Responds To Formation Backlash

by Music-News.com

Amy Schumer never intended her take on Beyonce’s Formation to be considered a parody.

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Ross Higgins as Ted Bullpitt

R.I.P. Ross Higgins 1930-2016

by Paul Cashmere

Ross Higgins, the star of Kingwood Country, the Naked Vicar and the voice of Snap, Crackle and Pop for Rice Bubbles, has died in Sydney at age 86.

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Hot Chocolate Party Streaming

What If Your Streaming Services Were Real People? Check Out This Hilarious Pisstake

by Paul Cashmere

Spotify is going through a painful breakup with Apple Music coming along and offering something that it can’t … Taylor Swift.

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Weird Al Mandatory Fun, music news, noise11.com

Weird Al Yankovic Confirms Australian and New Zealand Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Weird Al Yankovic Australian and New Zealand dates should be announced any day now.

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Madonna does stand-up on Fallon show, music news, noise11.com

Madonna Makes Her Comedy Debut (Seriously) On Fallon Show

by Paul Cashmere

“The comedy styling’s of Madonna” was how Jimmy Fallon introduced Madonna for her first ever stand-up comedy routine.

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Stan Freberg, music news, noise11.com

R.I.P. Stan Freberg 1926-2015

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Stan Freberg, an all around creative icon who had a number of hits during the 50’s, died on Tuesday of natural causes at a Santa Monica, CA hospital at the age of 88.

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Rhys Darby in The Boat That Rocked

Rhys Darby Scores His Own Tele Show

by Paul Cashmere

NZ comedian Rhys Darby has been given his own show on the tele.

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Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard Australian Tour Tickets On Sale Now

by Paul Cashmere

Eddie Izzard will return to Australia in 2015 following a flash visit this month for Just For Laughs in Sydney.

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Rhys Darby in The Boat That Rocked

REVIEW: Rhys Darby, Melbourne October 12 2014

by Paul Cashmere

Rhys Darby has one of the funniest shows you will see on stage in Australia this year. He even has a hard time upstaging his opening act – himself.

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Joan Rivers, Photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11

Joan Rivers Remembered, Her Final Joke and David Lee Roth Interviews

by Paul Cashmere

Joan Rivers once joked that at her funeral she wanted “Meryl Streep crying in five different accents”.

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