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Kvelling in their seats

(Comedy, Humourists, New York Magazine) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-05-04 15:27 - 0 comments

A Cad and a Gentleman

both extraordinarily pompous (much of the comedy comes from the character’s cringeworthiness) ... for the purpose of breeding perfect Aryans”. Few films would attempt to make comedy out of Wilson’s curt reply: ... and signifiers?” For Winterbottom, when he directs comedies, mischief will always trump tonal neatness. ...

The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2012-05-03 12:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

'Life in Movement' by Bryan Mason and Sophie Hyde

choreography was muscular, witty and heartbreaking, marrying physical comedy to virtuosity and to virtuosity’s ... (April 2012, Noted, Arts, Comedy, Dance, Tanja Liedtke) ...

The Monthly - Anna Goldsworthy - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Top SlowTV Videos of 2011

Howard Jacobson on Comedy and The Finkler Question Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ...

Blog - Monthly Wire - 2011-12-21 13:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Stand-Up Comedy Masterpiece

(standup comedy masterpiece, standup comedy masterpiece) (October 2011, Masterpieces, Arts & Letters, 20 Australian Masterpieces, Arts Masterpieces, Aussie Masterpieces, Comedy, Humour, Modern Masterpieces, Stand-Up Comedy Masterpieces, Top 20 Arts Masterpieces) ...

The Monthly - Tim Ferguson - 2011-10-06 12:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Best Satire of 2011

(Comedy, Humour, Humourists, Satire) ...

Blog - Monthly Wire - 2011-12-20 09:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Laughing Gas

not the first time that small-calibre police brutality has become a comedy meme. In 2007, when a protester ...

Blog - Richard Cooke - 2011-11-29 12:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Bush Love

Benjamin Law In retrospect, we had been warned. Days before we arrived at Wooroolin’s Peanut Pullers and Backfatters Ball – an annual singles’ event in rural Queensland – I’d spok ...

The Monthly - Benjamin Law - 2011-07-12 14:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Howard Jacobson on Comedy and The Finkler Question

Giles about writing comedy. Jacobson is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. He has lectured ... Use Preroll Video (howard jacobson comedy finkler question) (Culture, ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Age of Innocence

a comedy of manners; a bundle of short stories; a novel of conversations; and a vast rumination ... She has it all worked out. In a scene of heartbreaking comedy, Edith instructs Richard’s children ... career he has been investigating the comedy and wisdom of manners: how they reveal and disguise time, ...

The Monthly - David Marr - 2011-11-04 16:04 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

It Tolls for Thee: Generation Text

rollicking comedy at the expense of people asking for a wake-up call. O’Kane gets the funny side, reeling ... California, Comedy, Dance, Facebook, Literature, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY) ...

The Monthly - Guy Pearse - 2011-12-01 15:46 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The dark comedy of Werner Herzog

The dark comedy of Werner Herzog " The New York Times's Janet Maslin described Herzog as 'the consummate master of doom'. ... (Comedy, Documentary film, Werner Herzog, Guardian) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:23 - 0 comments

Music Theatre Masterpiece

story: Stand-Up Comedy Masterpiece ...

The Monthly - Robyn Archer - 2011-10-06 12:50 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Popular Music Masterpiece

October 2011, No. 72 Previous story: Stand-Up Comedy Masterpiece Next story: ...

The Monthly - Robert Forster - 2011-10-06 12:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Craig Ellis

comedy”. Craig Ellis Sydney, NSW Published in The Monthly ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2011-10-04 16:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

20 Australian Masterpieces Since 2000

    * STAND-UP COMEDY  Justin Hamilton Circular , ...

The Monthly - The Monthly - 2011-11-14 08:13 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Bowing to the Bard

which conveyed a strong sense of generations at war with one another. His comedies, which have a touch ...

The Monthly - Louis Nowra - 2011-10-06 13:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Divine Comedy

in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose suppress Aristotle’s treatise on comedy. The spectacle of a man ... by the prospect of damnation, said that comedy was a mark of “the Satanic in man”, a memento of some primal fall ... motives of comedy: ribaldry versus revenge, an unbridled saturnalia versus a starchy critique of improper ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2012-02-15 15:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Kid Grows Up

The Wogboys comedy stage shows with Nick Giannopoulos and Vince Colosimo. He did eight shows a week, ... bitterness among the comedy team at the suddenness of his departure. In a new medium and a darker register, ... Dimitriades made another film, a modest Australian comedy, and four years before he made another TV series. ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-09-22 09:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

You're a dummy!: On ventriloquism

You're a dummy!: On ventriloquism "Quit complaining that people say we're weird. We talk to dolls. We ARE weird, ok. Just own it."  ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-01 15:11 - 0 comments

Rupert and James Murdoch before Parliament

Rupert and James Murdoch before Parliament "If they make a movie of the scene, perhaps Jack Nicholson could capture the glowering menace and dark comedy of some of the older Mr Murdoch's lines. Asked by a MP, primly, if he had frequent ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-20 15:00 - 0 comments

The Porn Ultimatum

the world for ‘comedy’ videos in which black actors were hired to laugh delightedly while white actors ...

The Monthly - Cordelia Fine - 2011-09-19 11:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In defence of offensiveness. Ben Pobjie

The Wheeler Centre 4987237 Comedy is relative. One person's hilarity is another's ... in comedy, even though it's misinterpreted as mockery of serious topics. Pobjie suggests that while we ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

What’s Sex Got To Do With It

general. Perhaps because it is written by Mark O’Toole, an award-winning comedy writer, Sex: An Unnatural ... (what with, what with) (August 2011, Arts & Letters, Abortion, Biology, Comedy, Contraceptives, ...

The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-09-16 15:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Steve Coogan's grand ambitions

Steve Coogan's grand ambitions "At moments The Trip seems to want to contain not simply all of cinematic history (through Coogan and Brydon's endless impersonations) but all of Wes ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-25 14:58 - 0 comments

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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