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 overseas, and how to manage rage.
Listen Here: 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 little exoskeleton of psychological comfort - the illusion of security, for the span of your lease.
I ...
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:
We talked about race, politics, and how things are much mo...
2017-05-21 02:18:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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 fountain of joy.
Ex-Radio jock and chef, we talk about the complexities of jealousy, Paul's c...
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 good encapsulation of how my dad looked after mum. This was after her first round of chemo - before ...
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 audience was incredibly warm and kind and kept clapping til I got back on stage.
So I made him st...
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 that it's an obvious issue - it just doesn't seem like one with an easy solution.
link here: 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 and race, or are disingenuous about the data which exists; finding flaws in the methodology of those...
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 talked over fruit tea (Not camomile) about Lisa's approach to Fashion, synaesthesia, polyamory, artistic...
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:
http://www.sbs.c...
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.
This is not the first festival I've really struggled with my show in the first week, but this year I...
itunes link here: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
I really like Andrew McClelland, he's joyous, articulate and ethical. We chatted over tea and an almond milk latte about the universal basic income, his revis...
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 change the past in a laboratory.
Jeeves is one of those incredibly generous and open people - I rea...
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 over toast and tea (he had a coffee) and try to solve the world.
Have a listen.
I'm in writing jokes for The Project today, before my show tonight and there's some top notch office banter about avocado ripeness happening in the staff kitchen.
I was filling my water bottle a...
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 online about safety for women going home at night.
During the comedy festival, everyone's inte...
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 colleagues is being told to plug their shows online.
It's one of the pieces of advice every prim...
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 can feel dangerous to pull out memories and let myself feel the intensity of love that will inevitably...
2017-03-27 01:48:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This was an episode about good and evil - things that we all think we know intuitively. Karen is an old friend, an Archaeologist, Documentarian, Writer and comedian, she's...
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 in The Guardian about Periods.
It ended up being a bit too unfocused and not enough about pe...
This week's SBS Comedy article, in which I reveal slightly too much about my inner life.
http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2017...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tea-with-alice/id789603540?mt=2
This week's episode is with Ross Everett, who came out from L.A. to do his solo show at the Adelaide Fringe. 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 podcast is with Author and Night Nurse, Dean Mayes, who spoke to me on the podcast nearly a year ago (5 ...
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.
http://lucidandalight.tumblr.com/post/158180284917/sometimes-i-find-im-l...
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/tea-with-alice/id789603540?mt=2
James is a friend of the Teacast, and we had a lovely long ranging chat in a teahouse in Adelaide about all sorts of...
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/2hw3h6U
I really enjoyed talking with Gillian, and it made me think about my own reluc...
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 - knowing the beats, tinkering with the emphasis on a punchline to squeeze the laugh response from ...
I caught up with Constitutional and Refugee law academic Sangeetha Pillai to talk about fantasy, reality, empathy, hormones and the ethics of how we decide what's important to care about.
I first met...
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 Suzi, and although I was slightly wary about talking shop, I think we touched on some really intere...
2017-02-07 15:14:19 +0000 UTC View Post