Tag: Comedy

REVIEW | Eat, Pray, Laugh! Barry Humphries Farwell Tour at the London Palladium is probably the furthest thing from a stage version of the best-selling novel Eat, Pray, Love.

Hillford Girls Grammar school captain Ja'mie King is the most popular private school girl in Australia, breaking online viewing records.

UK audiences have a lot to look forward to, after the first episode of Chris Lilley's new show Ja'mie: Private School Girl screens in Australia.

Don't miss out on hilarious stand-up genius Jimeoin when he presents his new show 'Jimeoin - What?!' to the Apollo on Saturday 23 November 2013 with our special TWO FOR ONE reader offer.

Master of the Absurd, Australian comedian Sam Simmons, brings his unique, subversive and hilarious brand of comedy back to London's Soho Theatre with Shitty Trivia. Catch it while you can!

INTERVIEW | Named Best Newcomer at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the world is now Luke McGregor's oyster. His awkward quest to find the woman who will be his pearl is bared in My Soulmate is Out of My League, on at Soho Theatre until 17 August.

It's summer in the city, and the weather is fine. Celebrate the sun with the best comedians Australia has to offer in the UK. Our finest funnymen and women are UK bound, and we've got the top Australian comedy acts that will be gracing London's stage in 2013.

The Edinburgh Fringe is a chaotic place that is bursting at the seams with every kind of performance art that you could possibly imagine. To help navigate, POPPY DAMON has prepared a list of the top ten Australian acts performing at the festival.

As Barry Humphries announces Dame Edna Everage's retirement with a final Eat, Pray, Laugh! UK tour, including a run at London's Palladium, we reflect on our top 5 Dame Edna career highlights as we prepare to say - Goodbye Possum!

The legendary entertainer Barry Humphries and his well-known alter-egos — inebriated cultural attaché the Honorable Sir Les Patterson, Sandy Stone and irrepressible Dame Edna Everage — will bid adieu to their London fans at the iconic London Palladium with a farewell tour Eat, Pray, Laugh!.

INTERVIEW | Ahead of a two week run at London’s Soho Theatre, Wil Anderson takes a breather to speak with BONNIE GARDINER about his life, his legs and his comedy.

THE EXPAT FACTOR | Matt Parker used skills learnt as a maths teacher to springboard into a new career in London - stand-up mathematician. Matt now does regular stand-up on his favourite topic, as well as spots on TV and radio talking all things maths and education. Add in regular ...

Crash, bang, wallop! It’s The Claudia O’Doherty Experience! An elaborate season of ‘nofeather-boas-allowed’ Friday night cabaret shows, presented by Australia’s prodigal daughter Claudia O’Doherty.

POSTCARDS FROM JIMEOIN | Jimeoin is having so much fun on his UK tour he's added another date at Hammersmith Apollo on 23 November. He writes us a postcard from the road, somewhere inbetween Leamington Spa and Newcastle.

In 2004 Australian Sarah Kendall became the first comedienne to be nominated for Perrier Award in almost a decade. Now she's bringing her hilarious and unique brand of political comedy to Soho Theatre from 5-9 February. Get in quick for your chance to catch this critically acclaimed Aussie stand-up comedienne ...

POSTCARDS FROM JIMEOIN | Fair Dinkum mate. Jimeoin writes us a postcard from monsoonal Queensland ahead of his UK tour.

Australian comic Nick Sun is performing his stream of consciousness, absurdist free form, free-wheeling 'Death is a Work in Progress' show at Soho Theatre. Performing three shows only from Thursday 17 January - Saturday 19 January, Aussie fans should get in quick.

Australian-born Claudia O’Doherty brings her eccentric ‘this is not comedy’ comedy show, The Telescope, to Soho Theatre from 9 - 12 January.

A comedy night for the insatiably sci-curious - stand-up mathematician Australian Matt Parker, geek songstress Helen Arney and TV experiments guy Steve Mould explore who we are and where we come from in their new show ‘Life, Oh Life’ at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London.

REVIEW | Sam Simmons's show About the Weather at Soho Theatre is to stand-up what Lady Gaga is to Britney Spears style sanitized pop. The genre’s crazier, unpredictable, more theatrical cousin.

REVIEW | Judith Lucy’s Nothing Fancy is irreverent, awkward, hilarious and uniquely Australian.

Ahead of her first UK stand-up show since 1999, Judith Lucy talks to GEORGE KATRALIS about her journey up through the ranks of Australian comedy, and what she would do with Ryan Gosling if she had the chance.

You may think that the London Underground offers up the ultimate in awkward or unpleasant experiences when it comes to public transport travel, but maybe that's because you haven't yet experienced the latest craze in Aussie comedy: public transport pranking.

Award winning comedian Matt Okine launches his first full-length stand-up on London audiences at the Soho Theatre. GARETH MOHEN experiences the roller-coaster of hilarious highs and poignant lows, and talks with the comedian about what inspired his insightful and intelligent show.

Punched on stage, banned by Christian groups and hated by ‘many’, Jim Jefferies is one Aussie comedian who is seriously turning heads. PAUL BLEAKLEY finds out how this ‘unknown bloke back home’ cracked America, how he keeps cracking up people around the world, and how he’s moved on from the ...

REVIEW | Returning to the Fringe Festival with a new show in 2012, this time it's more about raising funds for the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Kids than keeping the masses chortling.

Australian comic Denise Scott is currently one very busy lady.

Fresh from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Aussie funnyman Lawrence Leung returns to London's Soho Theatre with his new, adventurous and "beautifully told" one man comedy show - Beginning. Middle. End.

Fasten your seatbelts and turn off all electric devices: Pam Ann has touched down in the UK and is ready to give London audiences the ride of their lives. Aussie Pam shares a couple nostalgic words about her homeland with BIANCA SOLDANI and explains the challenges involved in wowing her ...

Talented Australian comedian Steve Hughes spoke to HANNAH CARRODUS about his philosophies on life, Aussie politics and the end of the world.

After only a very brief phone conversation, Liam Flanagan found out why Hannah Gadsby has quickly become one of Australia’s most successful comedians.

It takes a great show to sell out a venue at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival but takes an even greater show to come back the next year with the same show, upgrade to a larger venue and sell it out once again. That's exactly what The Boy With Tape On ...

When PAUL JUDGE spoke to funnyman Adam Hills recently, the Aussie comedian was in a London backyard kicking a football with his 13 month year old daughter after having spent all morning reading through a script for Spicks and Specks.

Lovable funny man Jimeoin is returning to the UK this summer with a very busy touring schedule. He was kind enough to give Lesley Slade a few minutes of his time.