Comedy On Tap
Posted: March 1, 2013 Filed under: ART, COMEDY, FEMINISM | Tags: Australian stand up comedy, Brenda Trolloppe, Ciel Comedian, Comedy On Tap, Comedy On Tap Stand up comedy night, Fabulous female artists, female comedians, female painters, Lou Pollard comedian, Tap Gallery 2 CommentsI started doing stand up comedy 15 years ago, back when I only had one children. I supported Arj Barker, went to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, had loads of fun and got away with perving at a lot of good looking men from the stage. Then I embarked on a more extensive breeding program so I gave up stand up for a few years because I was so sleep deprived nothing was funny. Back when I was performing comedy regularly, a fabulous, strong, feminist lady artist called Pam constantly baby sat for me and ensured that my daughter had a magical time at Pam’s house drawing and painting and visiting art galleries. My teenaged daughter is now an artist because of the love and care and help Pam gave her when she was very small. I’m back doing stand up and I’m putting on a comedy night once a month with good friends at a gallery in Sydney. Pam died this week in a terrible accident and our first comedy night is the night before her funeral. I don’t know how I’m going to be funny in the face of losing my friend. I’ll be looking out into the audience and hoping she’ll be there because she really helped me to follow my dream. Thank you Pammy.
Comedy On Tap – fabulous live comedy
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Re-blog: There’s nothing funny about rape
Posted: November 10, 2012 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, COMEDY, FEMINISM, Self improvement | Tags: I Totally Have A Blog, Melbourne bloggers, Miss Aleksia, rape jokes 1 CommentA great post
I’ve seen a few comedians pull off this seemingly impossible task from time to time. Louis CK has managed it (is there anything he can’t do?). Glenn Wool did it earlier this year at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and he was one of my favourite acts.
However, the vast majority of the time, comedians who attempt humour around this particular topic get it horribly, horribly wrong.
This is the poster for a now-cancelled event that was due to take place at Station 59. And yes, you’re reading it right: it was going to be called There’s Nothing Funny About Rape: A Comedy Debate, and it was going to feature an all-dude lineup.
Social media existed, people pointed out how FUCKING OFFENSIVE THIS IS, and the event was cancelled.
Hallelujah.
Enter one of the aspiring comedians who was going to be on the bill: Alan Driscoll.
Station 59’s…
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When your dreams are dying hold tight
Posted: November 8, 2012 Filed under: COMEDY, Self improvement, SONGS, Thought For the Day, WRITERS | Tags: Australian literature, Blue Mountains, Cameron White, Dreams coming true, Evin Donohoe, Katoomba, New Radicals, Nicky Smith, The Eleanor Dark Foundation, The Writers' House, Tim Ferguson, Varuna, You get what you give 3 CommentsIn winter I spent a week at Varuna, the Writers’ House in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. My fellow comedy authors Nicky Smith, Cameron White, Evin Donohoe and the very cheeky monkey Tim Ferguson and I had a great time workshopping ideas for scripts, stand up comedy, YA novels and a sitcom, laughing, eating great dinners and drinking red wine (just a little bit on our cereal in the mornings). At Varuna I realised how my writing is almost as important to me as my children. My dream is to get my books published. I’m getting closer by the minute. I left Varuna inspired to continue my life of comedy, writing and clowning.
Whenever I think I’m not going to make it through the day or that life is just too hard, this song comes on the car radio
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Clown Doctors
Posted: October 18, 2012 Filed under: Clown Doctors, COMEDY | Tags: Clown Doctors Australia, fundraising, Humour Therapy, Peter Jess, smiles, The Humour Foundation Leave a commentShare this:
Farewell Dame Diller
Posted: August 21, 2012 Filed under: COMEDY, Thought For the Day | Tags: 12th Street Rag, Fang, female comedians, funny ladies, Liberace, Liberace Show 1969 Duet, Phyllis Diller, Phyllis' Fugue, RIP Phyllis Diller, stand up comedy Leave a commentThank you Phyllis Diller for paving the way for us gals to stand up and be funny. You were one of a kind, thanks for the laughs
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RIP Arnold Horshack
Posted: August 15, 2012 Filed under: COMEDY | Tags: 1970s Television, American sitcoms, Barbarino, Gabe Kaplan, Horshack, John Travolta, Mr Kotter, Ron Palillo, sweathogs Leave a comment
Ron Palillo died today. Another comedy great has left us. Welcome Back Kotter was one of my favourite shows when I was a kid. Thanks for the laughs and the one liners. Off my case, toilet face!
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I love Lucy
Posted: August 6, 2012 Filed under: Birthdays, COMEDY, LOVE | Tags: 1911 births, August 6 birthdays, fabulous female clowns, female comedians, female comedy actors, female executives, Laughter, Lucille Ball, Lucy is drunk again, The Lucy Show 2 CommentsOne of my favourite female clowns, Lucille Ball, was born today. She had the most marvellous face and superb timing. Lucy was pregnant on television at a time when this was frowned upon by male executives. She was also the first woman in television to be head of a production company: Desilu, the company that she and Desi Arnaz formed. Thank you Lucy for blazing a trail for women in comedy and sharing your gift.
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At least we never said goodbye
Posted: August 4, 2012 Filed under: COMEDY, Theme Songs | Tags: all good things must end, British comedy and comedians, British Comedy TV, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Not The Nine O'Clock News, Pamela Stephenson, Rowan Atkinson Leave a commentWhen I was a kid I wanted to be Pamela Stephenson. I still love her
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