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Author Archives: Tom
The World Keeps Happening @ Soho Theatre
I’m coming back to this delightful venue for 6 shows in September and would love you to come please yes yes.
71 – This Podcast Still Exists
Just a small message to say that this podcast is still happening and everything, I just got distracted and tired and drunk at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Sorry lol.
New episodes coming soon!
The World Keeps Happening is at London’s Soho Theatre from September 12th
Campaign for Australian Aid’s Comedy Gala Who The Bloody Hell Are We?
Thank youse.
Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2016
You guys my show The World Keeps Happening got nominated for the 2016 lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Awards. How bloody ridiculous.
It was a true honour to be up there alongside the likes of Nish Kumar, Al Porter, Kieran Hodgson, Richard Gadd, James Acaster and my fellow Australians Zoe Coombs-Marr and Randy. A huge congrats to Richard for taking out the big prize, rendering the rest of us worthless losers.
Sincerest thank yous to Assembly Festival, Token Artists, the Pinder family, my flyerers, my techs Nikolai and Jamie, my family and of course all of you out there who actually came and watched the thing. I’m a lucky laddy indeed.
Edinburgh 2016
You guys I am returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! Hurrah! You guys!
I had a bloody blast last year and can’t wait to get back amongst the cobblestones and the drizzle.
The show will be slightly updated with all that silly Australian politics stuff and will almost definitively have some Trump gear in there. I mean, SOMEONE has to take that guy down, right?
70 – David Manne
In a week of Sonia Kruger and Pauline Hanson nonsense, let’s talk to someone who’s actually doing something GOOD for immigrants and refugees and people of colour.
David Manne is a human rights lawyer and the Executive Director of Refugee Legal (formerly the Refugee Immigration Legal Centre or RILC). He’s passionate about helping people who ask our country for – and are deserving of – legal protection.
David gave me the lowdown on the Australian refugee crisis as he sees it: where we’re at, what laws we’re breaking, just how generous we are and what should (and can) happen next – an evacuation of people languishing in our offshore detention centres.
You can catch me at the Splendour In The Grass Comedy Club
Comedy Central’s Roast Battle @ JFL 2016
The World Keeps Happening at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Five facts to fight Sonia Kruger’s fear of Muslims by Jamila Rizvi
Human Rights with Philip Ruddock – The Wheeler Centre’s Fifth Estate Podcast
Cause of the Week: Refugee Legal (rilc.org.au)
Roast Battle 2016
I am excited and terrified to be returning to the Roast Battle at Montreal JFL this year. The whole brutality is going to be filmed for Comedy Central and in Round 1 I’m up against this crazy motherfucker, Earl Skakel:
Wish me luck and follow all the action on cc.com/shows/roastbattle
69 – Alain de Botton
It’s episode 69 so let’s talk about LOVE.
Writer and philosopher Alain de Botton is in the country to promote his (brilliant) new book The Course of Love: an exploration of the confusing ideas romanticism serves up for us. He thinks love is a serious matter indeed and one worth examining closely, and in this chat we talk about its effects, its position in our hard-wiring and its many forms.
Also, in the wake of Brexit and Trump, Alain reflects on how emotional intelligence might better inform our public debate.
You can catch me at the Splendour In The Grass Comedy Club
The World Keeps Happening at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Article: “Classwashing” Australia’s racism problem won’t make it disappear by Ruby Hamad
Video: In Praise of Short-Term Love
Cause of the Week: The School of Life (schooloflife.com – Sydney, Melbourne)
68 – Jeremy Sear
How about that election, hey?!?!?!?!?!
As the votes continue to be counted and we all wait to see what happens next, half of the brilliant Something Wonky podcast Jeremy Sear joined me to discuss what it all means. He told me how he came to be a progressive person, negative gearing, tax cuts, Hanson, the plebiscite, humanising politicians and a whole new way of thinking about our electoral system. Good times!
The World Keeps Happening at the Sydney Comedy Store, July 9th
You can catch me at the Splendour In The Grass Comedy Club
The World Keeps Happening at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Article: AEC Admit They’ve Lost Count And Will Have To Start Again by The Backburner
Cause of the Week: Refugee Legal (rilc.org.au)
67 – Jason Ball
I’m back! And the election is upon us! Before the big day, I sat down with Jason Ball, the Greens candidate for the seat of Higgins. Some polling suggests the Liberal Party’s primary vote has fallen sharply and the blue ribbon seat could change hands on Saturday, which would be, to put it mildly, fucking remarkable.
Here Jason explains why he thinks he could be in with a shot, what it’s like to be involved in such a campaign, how progressive Australia really is, homophobia in the AFL and in wider society, some of his run-ins with potential voters and whether he’d actually be ready to be an MP if he actually wins.
The World Keeps Happening at the Sydney Comedy Store, July 9th
You can catch me at the Splendour In The Grass Comedy Club
The World Keeps Happening at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Stand Up 4 Orlando at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne
Article: The Battle for the Electorate of Higgins by Vice magazine
Article: Greens candidate Jason Ball hits back at homophobic graffiti
Please vote good and proper! Head to aec.gov.au for all the info about the election
Cause of the Week: beyondblue (beyondblue.org.au)