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Help, I’m pathetically addicted to loyalty points
Fifty bonus points for slivered almonds I’m never going to use? Sign me up!
- by Richard Glover
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Can babies and live comedy ever mix? We asked a bunch of comedians
Arj Barker asked a woman and her baby to leave his show. Would others have done the same?
- by Nell Geraets
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I want to have Arj Barker’s babies, but I wouldn’t take them to his shows
Arj Barker was entirely justified in throwing the mum and her baby out of his gig. In fact, a lifetime ban would have been in order.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
Comedian Matt Rife welcomes baby on stage
The American comedian interacts with a five-month old baby and its mother at one of his Australian performances.
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‘Focus is a delicate thing’: Arj Barker defends decision to boot mum with baby from show
The popular comedian asked the mother and baby to leave his Saturday night Comedy Festival show, saying it was for people aged over 15 only and the baby was “disrupting” his performance.
- by Elizabeth Flux
Opinion
Parenting
Arj Barker’s biggest joke was evicting a breastfeeding mum from his show
An expectation there be no noise is a high bar when applied to children if you consider the intoxicated heckles and liveliness among some comedy festival crowds.
- by Brigid Meney
Opinion
Musings
Gossiping isn’t evil, it’s our feminine duty
The art of talking about people when they’re not in the room deserves a positive rebrand.
- by Eliza Reilly
It’s the final weekend of the comedy festival: Here are the shows not to miss
From an existentially challenging joke about bin bags to the Norwegian clown who won Britain’s Got Talent, here are our latest reviews.
- by Lefa Singleton Norton, John Bailey, Sonia Nair, Mikey Cahill, Hannah Francis, Tyson Wray, Cher Tan, Cameron Woodhead, Donna Demaio, Vyshnavee Wijekumar and Guy Webster
Sarah Keyworth takes top gong at Melbourne comedy festival awards
English comedian Sarah Keyworth has reigned supreme at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival, winning the Most Outstanding Show award on Saturday.
- by Tyson Wray
The best heckles, riskiest jokes and most tender moments from this year’s comedy festival
After a huge month packed with shows, our team of reviewers has come together to pick out the best (and strangest) moments from this year’s comedy festival.
- by Guy Webster, Hannah Francis, John Bailey, Lefa Singleton Norton, Mikey Cahill, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
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Comedy
The everyday debates guaranteed to start an argument
Do you stack your cutlery in the dishwasher pointy end up or down?
- by Richard Glover