Editing the Trilogy
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New Tea With Alice Podcast: James Nokise
This week's episode is with James Nokise over lemongrass tea in Degraves Street Melbourne, on why he avoided Australia, Pacific Island history, the ins and outs of trench warfare, the pragmatism of injury, rights and responsibility, construction worker-esses.
Here you go: 2018-04-25 08:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Trilogy (plus one) rundown
So yesterday I did a thing that I’m not sure has been done before. Four separate and different solo hours! It was an amazing experience. <br><br>The ABC commissioned my Trilogy (Savage, The Resistance and Empire) so I performed them as one long three hour show, a one off event during t...
2018-04-22 05:58:27 +0000 UTC View PostFRASER UPDATE: MICF
Dear Patreonites,
Thankyou so very much for being here with me.
The Melbourne International Comedy Festivaaal has been a busy fun bonanza of busy fun.
So far this month has been:
1) Wrestling a robot into shape and working on ETHOS. I’m performing at the Chinese Museum, in the ...
2018-04-16 04:08:30 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tea With Alice: Tim Batt
I had a chat with Tim Batt, New Zealand comedy star, outrage merchant, in the Chinese Museum about courage and vulnerability on stage, shouting at street preachers, the use of 'boys' by young men. Blackface, golliwogs, American politics, local politics. Online activism, pros and cons, and who are th...
2018-04-11 01:45:16 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tea With Alice: Dean Mayes
Working class man, romance novelist and night nurse, Dean Mayes talks over Gyokuro with Alice in Adelaide about being a man in female dominated industries, and whether he understands anything about anything any more.
He also talks briefly about how much voice he has left, and the use of Boto...
2018-04-04 02:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tea With Alice Podcast: Kirsty Webeck
Dear friend of the podcast, Kirsty Webeck caught up with me over an old school iced tea when she was in Adelaide. She was recently involved in a 'twitter dragging', where a group of people took a joke that she'd written as evidence of serious malice. I wanted to ask her about that, her relationship ...
2018-03-27 02:10:27 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tea With Alice - Aditi Mittal
I found an old file I'd thought I'd lost. This is a conversation with Aditi Mittal in Edinburgh 2017, in a busy tea cafe. She is a great comedian, and well worth looking up.
We talked about the life cycle of a performance, the history of comedy in india, finding your voice, oat milk, what ma...
2018-03-20 04:39:40 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tea With Alice: John Hastings
John Hastings sits with me in an outdoors cafe in Adelaide talking about Tyson, Chappelle, Adulthood, Advertising, making good rape jokes, Masculinity and school uniforms.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy&nb...
2018-03-11 06:02:34 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tea With Alice: Elf Lyons
Elf Lyons sat with me at an outdoors cafe in Adelaide, talking about alcoholism, AA, Malthusian Economics, the punchline of Veganism, impostor syndrome, ambition and queer self policing. It was an interesting if slightly bus riddled conversation. I hope you enjoy listening to this chat as much as I ...
2018-03-06 00:36:56 +0000 UTC View PostWhat Rich People Eat
Food and wealth have an often fraught, occasionally delicious relationship. Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP website is a very good example of one end of the food/wealth spectrum. As you can see, if you can stomach the vibe for long...
2018-02-23 17:15:20 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tea With Alice: Winnie M Li
This was a fascinating chat with Novelist, Activist and returning Teacast guest Winnie M Li about heaps of interesting things including polarising narratives that pit felt truth against fact, how to prevent human predatory instincts becoming bad behaviours, the pop-hashtag #MeToo and the relationshi...
2018-02-20 18:14:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe Safe Comedy Guide
‘When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? Comedy attacks.’
- Sam Kinison
I was asked by the comedian and Tea With Alice guest, Lisa Skye, if I’d like to be part of a Safety House guide she's putting together, to help people who want to come to ...
2018-02-16 14:33:05 +0000 UTC View PostValentines Day Song
Anniversary of sorts - valentines day song. I get to roll it out once a year. Early Fraser comedy, for those who are interested in what I thought was funny a decade ago.
2018-02-14 20:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tea With Alice: Lucy Howard-Taylor
Lucy Howard-Taylor is a published author, charity fundraiser and poet. She is also a very old friend of mine, and we sat in a cafe in London, talking about the ethics, logistics and metaphysics of making a career in the arts.
Here you go: 2018-02-12 19:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post
New Tea With Alice: Brendon Burns
Alice sits in Brendon Burns car, and over some Mother Energy drink for him, and some elderflower tea for her, they talk about women, alpha males, money, how violently 14 year old Perth boys deal with sexual discomfort, and how Brendon is going on a quest to change how he feels about manhood, women a...
2018-02-05 14:39:27 +0000 UTC View PostSeeing the Future
It’s a sideways time of year. I’m currently in the midst of locking down rooms and deciding on strategies for the Edinburgh Fringe, which is in August.
Looking at spreadsheets that describe break-even points on different percentages of tickets sold is a disconcerting feeling. It’s a gamb...
2018-02-02 21:03:39 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tea With Alice: Dr Gillean Denny
Over a mocha and a matcha in Jesus College Cambridge, Alice's ex-flatmate; architect, writer and mother, Gillean Denny, talks about space, time, walls, creative restriction and the difference between teaching adults and teaching 3 year olds about gothic windows.
Here you go: 2018-01-31 15:55:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The C*nt Song: Clip from The Resistance
Share it if you like it.
The full show is available for download for $5 subscribers here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/resistance-full-8193604
or you can buy it full price at the website shop...
2018-01-25 18:58:55 +0000 UTC View PostSome Advice for Teenagers
A Patreonite asked me to write up some advice for teenage girls, and another one asked me entirely separately to write some advice for teenage boys.
Putting aside my...
2018-01-25 16:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostTiff Stevenson: New Tea With Alice is Up
Consent Cast Comes Again
Tiff Stevenson talks over a decaf abomination to Alice, about the Aziz Ansari scandal, the competition between social and personal battles, workplace vs individual harassment, personal accountability and journalistic standards.
Here you go: 2018-01-21 13:56:43 +0000 UTC View Post
New Tea With Alice: Solo Ep
I asked you to ask questions, you asked questions!
I answer some of them coherently, others incoherently, and refuse entirely to address the third category.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy ...
2018-01-16 12:02:47 +0000 UTC View PostInfidelity, Procrastination, New Year and All That Jazz
I was asked by a Patreon-ite to write a post about infidelity, a while ago. It's been one of those things that I've tried to start about eight(een) times and failed to organise even the most incoherent of arguments about. In part, I think it's something that I don't want to understand, whic...
2018-01-12 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Pigeon Song from The Resistance
Hallo, I've decided to start sharing a few bits and pieces from The Resistance in the run up to Ethos. This is a very silly song.
2018-01-08 21:50:37 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tea With Alice: Chris Skinner
I sit with Chris Skinner, producer of The Bugle Podcast in a tea shop in Soho over not-quite black tea and talk about inheritance, the news, dignity, class fiction and meeting your enemies in a pub.
Here you go: http://apple...
2018-01-08 20:26:09 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tea With Alice Podcast: Ed Byrne
In a special end of year special, Alice talks to Ed Byrne over a cup of bean-to-cup coffee about twitter conflicts, conscience, achievement and admitting you're wrong. Also, a sparrowhawk, climbing mountains and industry allegations from the perspective of a powerful man in comedy.
Here you ...
2017-12-27 16:06:51 +0000 UTC View PostGOOD TIMING
Hallo beautiful patreonites. In response to various lovely emails asking me to share some of my behind the scenes glamour I will tell you about my last few days of top notch fun.
WHAT FUN!
This is why I don’t take holidays.
(TLDR: first world problems/ third world problems wit...
New Tea With Alice Podcast: Henry Fraser
In a busy cafe in Drury Lane I made my long suffering twin and Oxford Alumnus Henry talk to me about nuance, the techniques of mediation, and the complexities of feminism.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy&nb...
2017-12-13 20:48:47 +0000 UTC View PostETHOS TOUR: PATREONITE BONUS
Hey Punks<br><br>I am going to be touring my show next year and tickets are starting to go up on my website.<br><br>If you’re a subscriber, I’ll give you 2 for 1 tickets. Hit me up as and when you’re booking tickets, and I’ll sort you out. <br><br>Also, if...
2017-12-11 17:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostTiff Stevenson: Tea With Alice
"I didn't sign up to be a female comedian."
Over Black Decaf Tea, Baklava and a coffee, Tiff Stevenson talks with Alice about good men, consent, the hedonistic level, body image, the time she got in a sauna with all her clothes on and the complexities of libel laws in the age of accusation.<...
2017-12-01 13:55:06 +0000 UTC View Post