From the Melbourne Comedy Festival

Catherine Deveny: God Is Bullshit, That’s The Good News

Newspaper columnist Catherine Deveny’s atheist proclamation doesn’t get off to the best start, describing God as an ‘imaginary friend in the sky who did magic tricks’. That may be true, but it’s also the universal line for the non-believer. Couldn’t she think of anything more distinctive, especially given how common the heathen angle is in [...]

Kale Bogdanovs: Sympathy For The Devil

The devil may have all the best tunes, but he doesn’t necessarily have all the best comedy shows. This low-key, late-night offering from the quietly affable Kale Bogdanovs is a kinda thoughtful, kinda funny quasi-philosophical lecture on the legend of Lucifer. And therein lies two inescapable problems. Firstly, ‘kinda’ doesn’t cut it in a crowded festival [...]