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Comedy
25 ways the big supermarkets can win back our trust
For starters, enforce the “12 items” rule.
- by Richard Glover
How Hannah Gadsby harnessed Netflix’s ‘damage control’
The Tasmanian-born comic has curated a comedy special with a seven-strong genderqueer lineup to “leverage my position and a little bit of power that I may or may not continue to have”.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Opinion
Comedy
Our woke world can’t take a joke, and it’s no laughing matter
Laughter has been critical to our evolution, yet too many of us have lost that human touch.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Comedian, clown or agony aunt, this rising Estonian star is in demand
Big-name comedians flocked to Julia Masli’s packed Edinburgh Festival shows but even she doesn’t know what might happen in Melbourne next month.
- by Richard Jinman
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Zoe Coombs Marr thought her life was boring. Until she remembered that smell
The comedian was feeling at “odds with her existence”, so she took a personal stocktake of her life. “It matters and it doesn’t matter at all.”
- by Lenny Ann Low
If you bring your own food onto planes, you need to read this
The arrival of the meal cart on an international flight was once an entertaining island in the sea of boredom.
- by Carolyn Swindell
Laughter could be the best medicine for Chinatown
An all-Asian comedy showcase is aiming to breathe new life into the historic precinct.
- by Jada Susas
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‘I don’t have impostor syndrome, I am an impostor’: Hannah Gadsby
The comedian is preparing for a new show, and is still stunned by how far their career has come since being catapulted to international fame with Nanette in 2018.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
The Australian Open is over, and now I have the post-tennis blues
The real new year doesn’t begin until the Australian Open ends. But it’s time to get back to real life.
- by David Free