AliceFraser

Editing the Trilogy

New Tea With Alice Podcast: James Nokise

This week's episode is with James Nokise over lemongrass tea in Degraves Street Melbourne, on why he avoided Australia, Pacific Island history, the ins and outs of trench warfare, the pragmatism of injury, rights and responsibility, construction worker-esses. 

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Trilogy (plus one) rundown

So yesterday I did a thing that I’m not sure has been done before. Four separate and different solo hours! It was an amazing experience. <br><br>The ABC commissioned my Trilogy (Savage, The Resistance and Empire) so I performed them as one long three hour show, a one off event during the Melbourne Comedy Festival, which meant that I also had my regular (new) hour to perform that night. If I’d thought about it properly before, I might have cancelled the regular show that night but...

FRASER UPDATE: MICF

Dear Patreonites,

Thankyou so very much for being here with me.

The Melbourne International Comedy Festivaaal has been a busy fun bonanza of busy fun.

So far this month has been:

1) Wrestling a robot into shape and working on ETHOS. I’m performing at the Chinese Museum, in the very fittingly named Tea Room, which is just a room but I do have tea in it. 

If you have friends in Melbourne, make sure you let them know to come along, it’s been selling well, and most...

New Tea With Alice: Tim Batt

I had a chat with Tim Batt, New Zealand comedy star, outrage merchant, in the Chinese Museum about courage and vulnerability on stage, shouting at street preachers, the use of 'boys' by young men. Blackface, golliwogs, American politics, local politics. Online activism, pros and cons, and who are the villains, really?

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New Tea With Alice: Dean Mayes

Working class man, romance novelist and night nurse, Dean Mayes talks over Gyokuro with Alice in Adelaide about being a man in female dominated industries, and whether he understands anything about anything any more. 

He also talks briefly about how much voice he has left, and the use of Botox in his pursuit of staying forever young (or at least alive).

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New Tea With Alice Podcast: Kirsty Webeck

Dear friend of the podcast, Kirsty Webeck caught up with me over an old school iced tea when she was in Adelaide. She was recently involved in a 'twitter dragging', where a group of people took a joke that she'd written as evidence of serious malice. I wanted to ask her about that, her relationship to social media and her happy life. 

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New Tea With Alice - Aditi Mittal

I found an old file I'd thought I'd lost. This is a conversation with Aditi Mittal in Edinburgh 2017, in a busy tea cafe. She is a great comedian, and well worth looking up. 

We talked about the life cycle of a performance, the history of comedy in india, finding your voice, oat milk, what makes things traumatic, dealing with flattery, profuse sweating and blacking out during a show and the financial power of cuteness. 

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New Tea With Alice: John Hastings

John Hastings sits with me in an outdoors cafe in Adelaide talking about Tyson, Chappelle, Adulthood, Advertising, making good rape jokes, Masculinity and school uniforms. 

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New Tea With Alice: Elf Lyons

Elf Lyons sat with me at an outdoors cafe in Adelaide, talking about alcoholism, AA, Malthusian Economics, the punchline of Veganism, impostor syndrome, ambition and queer self policing. It was an interesting if slightly bus riddled conversation. I hope you enjoy listening to this chat as much as I enjoyed having it!

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What Rich People Eat

Food and wealth have an often fraught, occasionally delicious relationship. Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP website is a very good example of one end of the food/wealth spectrum. As you can see, if you can stomach the vibe for long enough, there’s a particular kind of rich-people-food that only rich people eat. It’s usually sustainably sourced, deeply adjectival (it’s not just salt, it’s purple, Himalayan, fair-trade, a...

New Tea With Alice: Winnie M Li

This was a fascinating chat with Novelist, Activist and returning Teacast guest Winnie M Li about heaps of interesting things including polarising narratives that pit felt truth against fact, how to prevent human predatory instincts becoming bad behaviours, the pop-hashtag #MeToo and the relationship of workplace sexual harassment to more extreme sexual violence - whether they're separate issues or part of the same spectrum, to discussions of media narratives about power, and Winnie's own experi...

The Safe Comedy Guide

‘When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? Comedy attacks.’

- Sam Kinison

I was asked by the comedian and Tea With Alice guest, Lisa Skye, if I’d like to be part of a Safety House guide she's putting together, to help people who want to come to shows at MICF, but are worried about being exposed to unpleasant or triggering material. The form that Lisa sent out had a bunch of questions, mainly aimed at determining what kind of material will be...

Valentines Day Song

Anniversary of sorts - valentines day song. I get to roll it out once a year. Early Fraser comedy, for those who are interested in what I thought was funny a decade ago. 

New Tea With Alice: Lucy Howard-Taylor

Lucy Howard-Taylor is a published author, charity fundraiser and poet. She is also a very old friend of mine, and we sat in a cafe in London, talking about the ethics, logistics and metaphysics of making a career in the arts. 

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