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Lots of people out there have lengthy, insightful comedy podcasts.

I’m  too lazy for that, so I’m interviewing comedians on Vine.

Here’s Episode 1, featuring Wil Anderson.    

Just a quick post to highlight the extensive and brilliant work of really-good-comedian and my dear friend, Justin Hamilton.

Hammo’s body of work is constantly inspiring to me: this is a man who wrote an interconnected trilogy of one-hour stand-up shows in a single Comedy Festival, then another year wrote a stand up show involving a phone app.

His work is highly considered and he always makes a conscious effort to do interesting things, differently.

Mega-comedy nerds (such as myself) will appreciate his blog, upon which he is writing about EVERY SINGLE GIG HE’S DOING THIS YEAR. If you want to get inside the mind of someone who constantly pushes themselves with their stand up, here is the doorway.

Ham-dawg also has a tops podcast called Can You Take This Photo Please? which I would highly recommend. He does great long-form chat with comedians and other people he likes, plus awesome one-offs like a Breaking Bad special or a blow-by-blow account of his shows.

Read this article concerning a recent tweet from Newcastle Knights half-back Ryan Stig and got angry.

He posted this:

So I posted this:

And my friend Tom Jaspers (much more cleverly) posted this:

A bloody inspiration, he is

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Cool announce today at the ol’ triple j: we’re now powering Dig Music. Heaps of new music with a few classics mixed in there and cool guest hosts.

There’s some good explainers on the Music Network here and in Fairfax here.

Also – while we’re at it – I really enjoyed this piece on triple j by Andrew McMillen. To be honest, over the years I’ve read some pretty shitty, cynical press about the station I love (click-bait, etc), but this one felt right. I’ve always felt that triple j is so big and diverse and involves such a big mix of people and audience that if any one person thinks that absolutely everything it does is good, something’s wrong. 

Here’s to the future!

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