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The voice that filled Australian lounge rooms  

The voice that filled Australian lounge rooms  

For a few heady decades, John Blackman was The Voice, widely heard on TV and radio but not seen. He was once described as being “as Melbourne as the MCG”.

  • by Debi Enker

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Give me back my landline, my desk drawers, and my dreary old office
Opinion
Comedy

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
Have you heard the one about the scientist who does stand-up?

Have you heard the one about the scientist who does stand-up?

Scientists are increasingly crossing over into comedy.

  • by Daniel Herborn
A male listener hated feminists like her, but then she made him laugh

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
I signed up for a one-way ticket to hell and (somehow) came out transformed
Opinion
Musings

I signed up for a one-way ticket to hell and (somehow) came out transformed

Group fitness: the term is a combination of two of my least favourite things.

  • by James Colley
Eight pressing questions I’ve left unanswered for decades
Opinion
Comedy

Eight pressing questions I’ve left unanswered for decades

The answers are surely a quick Google away. But do I really need to know?

  • by Richard Glover
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Did woke culture really kill the sitcom?

Did woke culture really kill the sitcom?

Jerry Seinfeld claims that the “extreme left” is to blame for the death of comedy on TV – but is he right?

  • by Thomas Mitchell
Jerry Seinfeld blames ‘extreme left’ for ruining comedy

Jerry Seinfeld blames ‘extreme left’ for ruining comedy

The 70-year-old comedian has revealed the jokes he says he couldn’t get away with on his celebrated sitcom today.

  • by Thomas Mitchell
Help, I’m pathetically addicted to loyalty points
Opinion
Comedy

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
Can babies and live comedy ever mix? We asked a bunch of comedians

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
I want to have Arj Barker’s babies, but I wouldn’t take them to his shows
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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