Comedy
Dumb and dumber: These characters are why TV is sometimes called the idiot box
Deliberate stupidity has fallen out of fashion on TV, but we can still celebrate the brilliance of these seven buffoons.
- by Ben Pobjie
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Opinion
Consumer confidence
My breaking point? Being on hold for 2 hours and 27 minutes
After hours of agonising hold music, I really should hang up, and yet a single thought keeps me on the line: what if I’m next?
- by Thomas Mitchell
Opinion
Social media
Unhappy birthday to me: How Facebook ruined my big day
The decline of Facebook means no one knows it’s your birthday any more which means I don’t get to hear from people I almost never think about.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Opinion
Opinion
Give me back my landline, my desk drawers, and my dreary old office
The modern office space is a noisy, annoying, overcrowded travesty.
- by Richard Glover
I saw a woman call Kathy Lette a moll. It could have been me
This literary fan had suffered an unfortunate affliction known as a spoonerism, where the beginnings of two words are transposed.
- by Jo Pybus
Agatha Christie meets Wes Craven in this gory, queer teen horror show
Ryan J. Brown’s Wreck is a highly inventive caper that also has something to say about how capitalism spits out young, low-skilled workers.
- by Benji Wilson
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Green Guide
The Cleaner turns gruesome tragedy into hilarity in this cameo-filled comedy
UK funnyman Greg Davies plays a crime-scene cleaner who can’t help getting involved with the oddballs he encounters on the job.
- by Ben Pobjie
Opinion
Public transport
The power of crying in public, more specifically, on the 8.08am train to Central
I’m sorry to everyone in the silent carriage who listened to my stifled sobs, but I finally understand the benefits of having a good – and public – cry.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Magazine
Sunday Life
The May 19 Edition
Writer Michael Idato catches up with the flamboyant social media star, Celeste Barber, who talks frankly about her “overnight success” which took 23 years.
‘Out for numero uno’: Anne Edmonds, Lloyd Langford take on Taskmaster
Can Australia’s best-known comedy power couple survive the inspired silliness of Taskmaster Australia?
- by Ben Pobjie
A male listener hated feminists like her, but then she made him laugh
Deborah Frances-White was surprised when a man emailed her saying he’d listened to 18 months worth of her show, The Guilty Feminist.
- by Wendy Tuohy