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Australian comedy - Australia's Culture Portal

Comedy is central to Australian cultural identity. Comedy forms the basis of many forms of popular entertainment from live cabaret with stand up comedians to television sketch shows. Australia is a country of climatic and geographic extremes and Austral...

Barry Humphries - Australia's Culture Portal

Barry Humphries is first and foremost a comedian and satirist - one of the funniest and most loved performers Australia has produced. Greg Gorman, Dame Edna Everage. His most famous and enduring creation was Melbourne housewife, Dame Edna Everage. ...

Australian political cartooning - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia has a strong and vibrant history of political cartooning. Since the 1830s, when political cartoons were first featured in Australian newspapers, they have provided satirical, witty or humorous comment on political and public affairs, social cus...

Australian children's books - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian children's literature rests on the enthusiasm and talents of many individuals, including a great many more Australian writers, illustrators and books than can be listed in this article. The earliest books published for children were mostly ins...

Australian female filmmakers - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian films and filmmakers receive acclaim on the world stage, and the achievements of Australian women onscreen are celebrated. The play's success encouraged Kate to turn the play into a film (1920), which she co-directed with Charles Villiers, mak...

Australian humour - Australia's Culture Portal

Humour is seen in the Australian use of slang, and across media from cartoons in print, as sketches on radio, as comedy series on television, in films and with witty observations of life in Australian literature. Mocking the wowser is another common elem...

Australian novels - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian novels are an impressive collection of written works, and represent a dynamic body of excellent writers, some with significant international awards to their credit. The Australian poet Alec Hope said that, 'The Bunyip of Australian literature ...

Australian language, letters and literature - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian language, letters and literature in Australia has been influenced by Aboriginal storytelling, convict tales and the desire by colonists to relate their experiences in a new country. Similarly, the bush ballads of Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo...

Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Fire can often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ra...

Modern Australian poetry - Australia's Culture Portal

Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language ...

Popular Australian television - Australia's Culture Portal

Since then, Australian television has grown to include: five national free-to-air stations; regional stations; community stations; and countless cable stations. The government-owned Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) also expanded its radio broadca...

Theatre in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Like other art forms, Australian theatre has built on previous traditions and developed over time, shaped by local and international artistic movements, events and trends. Australian theatre history incorporates the stories of many actors, entrepreneurs,...

The Australian Bush - Australia's Culture Portal

The bush has an iconic status in Australian life and features strongly in any debate about national identity, especially as expressed in Australian literature, painting, popular music, films and foods. The bush was revered as a source of national ideals b...

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Rodney Marks   (more info)

Rodney Marks is an Australian corporate comedian. His comedy satirises management language, and is usually in the form of fraudulent keynote speeches at business events.

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Australian comedy - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Comedy is central to Australian cultural identity. Comedy forms the basis of many forms of popular entertainment from live cabaret with stand up comedians to television sketch shows. The history of Australian comedy and the distinctly Australian humour,...

Get the Picture - Release of Australian productions - TV ratings - Comedy series   (website(s) Screen Australia    Australian Film Finance Corporation    Australian Film Commission (AFC)    Film Australia )

>Before 2004, ratings for comedy and drama series were reported together; see Ratings: Top-rating programs: Drama/comedy series before 2004. Notes: > All people, five-city metro average, 1 January to 31 December 2005, program average. Notes: > All people,...

Australian Comedy Online - AIAN   (website Australian Indepependent Artists Network )

puppetry of the penis | links | order | other australian music | festivals | realaudio Puppetry of the Penis is a mind blowing cabaret show consisting of two men Simon Morley and David Friend who manipulate their genitals into various shapes, objects and...

CHECKOUT! A new West Australian black-comedy musical. | theatre australia   (website Theatre Australia )

trip-search-more-link { font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } . A new West Australian black-comedy musical. Perth born actor/writer/composers Jane Raitt & Ethan Tomas are commited to bringing high quality drama that might actually resemble life... ...

Get the Picture - Release of Australian productions - TV ratings - Comedy series   (website Australian Film Commission (AFC) )

>Before 2004, ratings for comedy and drama series were reported together; see Ratings: Top-rating programs: Drama/comedy series before 2004. Notes: > All people, five-city metro average, 1 January to 31 December 2005, program average. Notes: > All people,...

Inside Film: Film and Television Industry News and Issues for Australian Content Creators - ABC partners with Film Vic on comedy   (website Inside Film Magazine )

ABC TV and Film Victoria last night announced a new comedy initiative, STITCH, designed to stimulate Victoria&rsquo;s production of successful narrative comedies. <br/> <br/> Announced at the National Screenwriters Conference, in South Australia, STITCH ...