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23 October 2024

  • Drew Forsythe, Jonathan Biggins, Phillip Scott and Mandy Bishop

    After 25 years of piss-taking Australia’s politicians, the ‘disturbingly accurate’ Wharf Revue bows out

  • Mel McGlensey in a sailor costume

    The funniest things on the internet
    Mel McGlensey: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

22 October 2024

  • man in a suit at a desk

    Jon Stewart: ‘We have officially entered into the fever dream portion of the campaign’

    Late-night hosts discuss Donald Trump ‘working’ at McDonald’s and ranting about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia
  • (L to R) Grégory Fitoussi, Suzanne Clément, Jean Reno and Franck Dubosc in Family Pack.

    Family Pack review – Jean Reno is game for a laugh in card-based time-travelling caper

    A family playing a game are sent back in time to a medieval village where they must kill werewolves in order to return to the future
  • Ken Campbell, circa early 1977.

    The play that changed my life
    The play that changed my life: Jim Broadbent on Ken Campbell’s electrifying epic Illuminatus!

    In the 1970s, Campbell’s sprawling sci-fi odyssey was a huge education and a hysterical adventure for an eclectic bunch of actors

21 October 2024

  • John Safran sitting on a staircase next to a window

    My week at Kanye’s: John Safran on his time squatting in the rapper’s mansion

    The Jewish Australian comedian-journalist spent a week living in one of West’s houses in Los Angeles. This is what he learned
  • Pressure from every side … Babatunde Aléshé.

    Comedy Q&A
    Babatunde Aléshé: ‘Dipsy from the Teletubbies got me into comedy’

    The comic talks heroes, his best-ever gig and why he blows raspberries for 20 minutes before going on stage

    • Maisie Adam: Appraisal review – cheery self-mockery skips lightly across the surface of life

    • Matt and Mara review – lo-fi answer to When Harry Met Sally offers uncertain relationship

    • TV tonight
      TV tonight: a ridiculously funny superhero movie spoof

20 October 2024

  • Saturday Night Live - Season 50<br>SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- Episode 1868 -- Pictured: (l-r) Musical guest Billie Eilish, Host Michael Keaton and Chloe Fineman during Promos on Thursday, October 17, 2024 -- (Photo by: Rosalind O’Connor/NBC)

    Saturday Night Live recap
    Saturday Night Live: Michael Keaton hosts and Alec Baldwin cameos in middling episode

  • Meryl Streep standing looking down at Anne Hathaway, who is seated behind a desk

    A planned sequel and a West End musical – but is The Devil Wears Prada out of step with our times?

19 October 2024

  • Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Isabelle Huppert and Rebecca Marder in The Crime is Mine.

    The Crime is Mine review – Isabelle Huppert and co revel in Ozon’s frothy French crime caper

    Set in 1930s Paris, François Ozon’s theatre-world courtroom comedy is a fizzing if throwaway delight

18 October 2024

  • Glenn Close, Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage in Brothers.

    Brothers review – throwaway madcap comedy wastes a host of stars

  • A man wearing a suit and tie waves his hand while talking on a late night television set

    Kimmel on Trump: ‘How much garbage are his followers supposed to swallow?’

  • Nina Oyama at Henson Park, Marrickville, Sydney for the Walk With Me series.

    Walk with ...
    Nina Oyama: ‘I really like being silly but I also really like being sad’

  • A still from Anora

    ‘Really speaks to sex workers’: can Anora help humanise a degraded profession?

17 October 2024

  • Simon Bird as David and Amy James-Kelly as Rachel in series two of Everyone Else Burns.

    TV review
    Everyone Else Burns series two review – this brilliant doomsday show might just save the sitcom

    The script is thick with jokes, Simon Bird and co are a joy to behold and scenes just zip along. This take on an ultra-conservative church is reinvigorating old-school comedy
  • man in suit

    Kimmel on Trump’s all-women Fox News town hall: ‘North Korea level propaganda’

    Late-night hosts spoke about the former president’s latest appearances on the campaign trail and his nonsensical remarks about the economy
  • Robustly performed … Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert and Nadia Tereszkiewicz in The Crime is Mine.

    The Crime Is Mine review – François Ozon’s 1930s crime comedy is a moreish crowdpleaser

    Ozon and a stellar cast serve up an entertaining, if shallow caper that shades a little too close to #MeToo
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