Review: Arj Barker – Get In My Head (Perth Comedy Festival)
Get In My Head covered everything from ponies to boners to selfie sticks and, in a fashion typical of Barker’s style, deconstructed each new topic more intricately than the last.…
Review: Joel Creasey (Perth Comedy Festival)
Creasey’s energy was infectious; every word he said was funny and his dialogue was enthralling. Madeline Sarich review.
Review: Akmal Saleh (Perth Comedy Festival)
A regular on a cut of Australian TV shows and active since the '90s, Akmal brought his cheek to the comedy-starved west last week as part of the Perth Comedy…
Fringe World Review: Toby Halligan is The Bad Gay
Considering Halligan is an established comedic writer I was surprised with how sloppy the show was. It wasn’t just the provincial cultural transgressions that left me unmoved; the whole show…
Review: Simon Taylor’s ‘Funny’
I think it’s fair to say that good comedy can be roughly divided into two categories: the familiar, delivered well, and the new and exciting. Simon Taylor’s Funny falls squarely…
Interview: A Few Firsts with Daniel Connell
Daniel Connell is a comedian based in Melbourne, and has performed solo shows at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Perth Fringe & The Canberra Comedy Festival. He returns to…
Review: Infinite Jest at the Flying Scotsman
Sunday nights in the back of the Flying Scotsman, that institution cherished by Perth’s student body, there’s an almost perfect setup. A few rows of plastic chairs before a low…