Laura is excellent, even if she does have a mystifying (to me) love of Russian Caravan tea. We have a chat about ethical bra dilemmas, moving house, mementos of meaningful existential moments, going o...
2017-05-28 13:14:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Today, I put all my stuff into storage except for one suitcase and my banjo. Tomorrow I'll take my keys back to the rental agents. It all feels quite strange, as moving always does. Dismantling a litt...
2017-05-27 01:08:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Businessman, comedian, artist, South African. I had a chat with the very very lovely John Vlismas in Perth last week, and here it is:
Podcast Link here: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Whenever I come to Perth, I'll hit up Paulie Solomon. He is a childhood friend, and a...
2017-05-14 03:47:20 +0000 UTC View Post
When I scrolled back through my pictures to find a photo to use for this post, it hurt to realise how far back I had to go. This is a photo of a nice moment - I thought at the time that it was a very ...
2017-05-12 15:54:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Dad came to my show last night. I was nervous about that. He said he liked it a lot except for the bits where I retch.
I would do the show anyway, but it's nice to have his blessing. The audie...
This was an interesting podcast for me to do. I enjoy talking to dad about the things he's Professoring on, and I definitely haven't thought enough about privacy in the modern world, though I know tha...
2017-05-07 08:52:23 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a bit of stuff going round in the discourse, particularly on the right/alt-right about IQ and race - it's seen as a failing of the left that left thinkers refuse to engage with the idea of IQ ...
2017-05-06 07:09:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The episode is up here!
I had a fruit tea with Lisa Skye in my flat in Melbourne and we talk...
2017-04-30 12:12:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's article for SBS Comedy involves a long long cane toad metaphor and the phrase "rage-boners". Consider yourselves warned:
2017-04-28 05:22:40 +0000 UTC
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I've done solo shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for a couple of years now, so it's worth a look back on this one and see what was different about it, and what was familiar.
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itunes link here: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
I really like Andrew McClelland, he's joyous, articulate a...
2017-04-22 03:42:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I really enjoyed this chat with Jeeves.
We sat outside in Melbourne at the QV building, drinking tea with bits in. The world of Emojis, the reality of the times when people don't laugh, how to chang...
2017-04-14 02:39:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode is with little emperor and worst idea of all time haver, Tim Batt. We talk of politics ove...
2017-04-06 09:50:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm in writing jokes for The Project today, before my show tonight and there's some top notch office b...
2017-04-04 04:34:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the article I wrote for SBS Comedy this week in response to a thread in a group I'm in on...
2017-04-02 04:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I think it's part of feeling a bit helpless - social media is an easy place to go to try to whip up friends to come and see your stuff. At this time of year - the festival season, every one of my coll...
2017-03-29 00:25:51 +0000 UTC View Post
UK mothers day. Seeing all my friends over there giving love and gratitude to their mamas. Thinking about mine.
It's good sometimes to take a little while to be sad and think - sometimes it ca...
2017-03-27 01:48:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This was an episode about good and evil - things that we all think we k...
2017-03-25 09:16:03 +0000 UTC View PostI wrote this article in response to a request (yes really) from a UK agent for me to contribute a written up version of some of my material on this subject to the discussion that's currently going on ...
2017-03-25 00:53:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's SBS Comedy article, in which I reveal slightly too much about my inner life.
2017-03-17 05:31:18 +0000 UTC
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tea-with-alice/id789603540?mt=2
This week's epis...
2017-03-16 12:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tea-with-alice/id789603540?mt=2
This week's podc...
2017-03-12 08:05:10 +0000 UTC View Post
New Poem up on the internet for those of you who like that sort of thing when I do it.
2017-03-09 05:59:08 +0000 UTC
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https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/tea-with-alice/id789603540?mt=2
James is a frien...
2017-03-05 05:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post
If you want to hear me blither on morning radio about my show, here is an interview I did way too early for being coherent:
Rape and Football, aggression, storytelling and your responsibility to help other people.
The podcast is up here: http://apple.co/2h...
2017-02-24 05:38:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh man. It's brutal starting a new show. <br>
<br>You force yourself to step deliberately into the unknown, away from the smooth joy of surfing something you've worked on for a year...
I caught up with Constitutional and Refugee law academic Sangeetha Pillai to talk about fantasy, reality, empat...
2017-02-15 09:04:24 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a lot of fun to do as a podcast. I really like talking to...
2017-02-07 15:14:19 +0000 UTC View Post