Comedy: More Than A Laugh
CULTURE
Howard Jacobson on Comedy and The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson, recipient of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question, has revived the comic mode in fiction. In this Sydney...
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CULTURE
Can We Be Heroes?: Peter Conrad on Chris Lilley and the Politics of Comedy
Peter Conrad
Why indeed? Laughter is instinctive, and what it conveys is a flushed awareness of superiority. But there is more to it than one boy’s...
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CULTURE
Preincarnate. Shaun Micallef in conversation
In conversation with Doug MacLeod at The Wheeler Centre, Shaun Micallef speaks about his new novel Preincarnate. Micallef is not only one...
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CULTURE
A whiter shade of pale. Christian Lander and John Safran
Part 1 | Part 2 The Wheeler Centre hosts this conversation between John Safran, one of the whitest men in Australia, and Christian Lander,...
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'The Family Law' by Benjamin Law
Linda Jaivin
Tolstoy was wrong: not all happy families are alike. As portrayed in this very funny collection of personal essays by Benjamin Law, the...
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SOCIETY
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...
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MEDIA
The Black Polo
Charles Firth
Some questions are taboo.At 7.49 pm on Friday, 24 October, two twenty-something women, both about 170 centimetres tall and with brunette...
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CULTURE
David Sedaris, Don Watson and David Rakoff: What's Funny about America?
American humourists David Sedaris and David Rakoff join Don Watson on the Melbourne Writers Festival stage to address the question, "What's...
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