Comedy

Tim Minchin’s career has been a mixture of luck and hard work – and now, with the release of his new book, he’s coming out from behind the piano.

Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, Melbourne performance group APHIDS helped to create a DIY feminist queer aesthetic that reshaped the art form globally.

Scottish memoirist and comedian Fern Brady draws on peculiarities of a Catholic upbringing and her autism to create a Melbourne International Comedy Festival highlight.

Comedian and cabaret performer Reuben Kaye is a collection of paradoxes, but mostly he’s an introvert pretending to be an extrovert.

The best performers at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival bring a new buoyancy to observations of social ills and private sorrows.

British comedian Tim Key builds his stand-up around his poetry, and his pandemic musings have morphed into a new show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Author David Sedaris, in Australia next month to promote his new essay collection Happy-Go-Lucky, finds humour in his intense touring schedule, connections with fans and his own success.

Over 40 years, radical inclusiveness has always been at the core of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Musician, comedian, author and rescuer of wild animals Bill Bailey is always adding new strings to his bow.

Diana Nguyen, who has just co-adapted Alice Pung’s novel Laurinda for the stage, says laughter is the way through pain.