It’s April in Melbourne again, which means one thing: I will miss a lot of good Comedy Festival shows. Two that I won’t miss (because I’ve already gone to see them) are the Bedroom Philosopher’s Songs From The 86 Tram and Adrian Calear’s Code Grey: Adventures In Public Health. This is the Bedroom Philosopher’s third…
Tag: Comedy
Comedy Festival posters: the Facebook quiz
I spent some time with Sarah yesterday going through the Melbourne International Comedy Festival program and enjoying the head shots and ads. Clearly there’s a number of quite specific poses comedians default to when they’re getting their photo taken (this chap pointed one of them out here). So we separated the many shots into a…
The new Precinct project
First, something unrelated: in case you didn’t know, Tony Martin and guest writer Justin Heazlewood both have new writing on The Scrivener’s Fancy, a website which appears to have popped up out of nowhere to make me happy. Good for them! Secret proj I alluded in an earlier post to a “secret project”. There’s not…
Funny jokes from Mordy
Last month, my friend Saul’s little boy heard jokes being told and thought he’d tell us a few of his own. They cracked me up! Q: What do you give a sick statue? A: Meat! Q: What do you give a flower? A: Building! Q: What do you give a rabbi? A: Rabbi hair! Mostly…