AliceFraser

A side effect

Well, my sheltered childhood and uncool young- adulthood of not watching much TV is finally coming in handy.


Everyone’s all, “did you hear about X being a creep!?” And I’m like, “who?”

And then they explain it, and then I’m all like, “oh, I can see why that would be sad and confusing to have a part of your childhood shadowed with such unpleasantness”.

I find it depressing in a general way, because it confirms to me some ideas I have about access to powe...

New Teacast: Troy Conrad

I had a lovely cuppa with Troy Conrad, over a triple bag (!) of lemon herbal tea. We talked about alkalising the body, and about relationships - whether it's possible to remake your character, and being a good person. 

Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy 

Non- itunes listeners can catch it...

Beyond Law

‪I did an interview about why I’m not a lawyer anymore. https://goo.gl/dWEVRa‬

The Problem With Beauty

I’m not a big fan of beauty. I mean, I enjoy beautiful things and find many kinds of people beautiful, but messages about ‘access’ to beauty bother me. You know the ones I mean - the every body is beautiful ones.

The push for public acknowledgement of a wider range of beauty is a political aim. Beautiful people have a power in society that those who don't fit that narrow mould don't have. But as a political aim I find it a troubling one.

Activism on this front can’t ...

New Teacast - Lisa Sharon Harper

Over Rooibos tea, I spoke to Lisa Sharon Harper, consultant, church engagement officer and activist about the American Narrative Gap, the conflicts of identity, her experience at Charlottesville, and more. 

Jarrod McKenna, friend of the podcast acts as a translator for esoteric church/activist language and asks a few questions of his own.

Lisa Sharon Harper can be found at @lisasharper on twitter or from mid-nov at FreedomRoad.us

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Subscriber Content Poll

I'm hoping to refine what I'm doing here a little bit with your feedback - topic suggestions, people you know who you'd like me to talk to, more of x, less of y.

This is a bit of a grab bag of things I saw people at podfest doing specially for their people, and wanted to see if I could make more things to suit you

New Teacast: Graham Elwood

The Chamomile Vigilante

I'm sorry this ep is going up a little late - I lost a day in transit from LA to Sydney, but I hope you'll enjoy it. 

I spoke over Chamomile tea with Graham Elwood, who cohosts Comedy Film Nerds, is one of the organisers and originating minds behind the Los Angeles Podcast Festival, and publishes a youtube channel that's a fascinating deep dive into the convoluted issues of US Democracy called Political Vigilante. We talked about the benefits of loose leaf gr...

Kindness and the long tail of death

Yesterday (12 October) was the anniversary of my mum’s death. I’ve written about this before - at length, here on this blog and in my sad poetry blog. I’ve spoken about it, both in my podcast, in my TEDx talk and in my show Savage.

I will put up (again) the podcast that I did with Lucy, my mum, in the last six months of her life, where she talked with me about the process of a degenerative neurological condition, MS, and her feelings about the cancer which was her final illness. I ...

Bladerunner 2049

I was up on the Comedy Film Nerds Podcast with Graham Elwood and Chris Mancini talking about Bladerunner 2049.

It was the day after the Podcast Festival and Graham Elwood mentioned that he would be watching Bladerunner 2049 at a cinema in LA later that day. I brought some snacks. I always feel a little bit strange about watching things with people who don’t know me well, because as my brother says, I watch movies with my whole body. I am very bad at poker face, and worse when there’s...

Podfest Scoop and subscriber questions

So I’ve just finished up my time at the LA Podcast Festival. It was a fascinating and excellent weekend, at the ridiculously pretty Millenium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

The second-last event of the festival was a talk given by the organisers about the difficulties involved in previous years.

Coming up to the festival there had been a lot of talk about the fact that it was likely to be the last LA Podfest. Last year’s Festival had turned out to be both a fantastic f...

New Teacast: Paul Gilmartin

This week's podcast is with Paul Gilmartin of the Mental Illness Happy Hour Podcast.

I spoke to him about shame, his experience with doing a podcast about mental illness, and American Politics.

Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy 

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Another Month, another Country

I am in L.A at the moment. After having returned briefly to Sydney to hang out with dad and sleep in the empty shell of my family home (dad is selling up, so the house was being painted and floored and all that pre-sale stuff), I have flown to America for the L.A Podfest.

This trip was paid for out of the AMP Tomorrow Fund grant which I was given to help Tea With Alice get over here. It’s an incredible privilege and one that I am grateful for.

My Podcast is an odd beast - deliberately...

New Teacast! Andrew M.

This week on the podcast, I talk to my friend, Andrew X, engineer, polymath, autodidact and hospitality worker. 

Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy 

Non- itunes listeners can catch it here  

We chat over the memory of water about manners, whether the pay ga...

Long day.

New Teacast! Justin Hamilton

I sat with friend and friend of the podcast Justin Hamilton over a long black and an English Breakfast. 

The itunes link is here 

Non- itunes listeners can catch it here  

We talked for a long time and spanned a number of topics, fro...

New Teacast: Wall Time

Hey Chaps

This is a true ramble at a wall by me. Enjoy almost completely incoherent solo chat about death threats, free will, and Artificial Intelligence. 

The podcast is here for itunes listeners

Non- itunes listeners can catch it here  

Television, Heckler, Jumpsuit, Jetlag

Hallo lovely punks.

This morning I landed back in Sydney from London. This evening I did one of the Just For Laughs comedy galas at the Opera house.

That flying in in the morning, performing that night is an interesting (read, probably v silly) thing to do. For those of you who weren't with me last year, I did the same stupid thing last year for the filming of my show The Resistance for the ABC.

My harebrained theory is that jetlag is unpredictable, and you're better off d...

New Teacast: Tiff Stevenson

This is a long chat. Tiff is incredibly easy to talk to for ages, and I definitely did that. We cover a lot of ground here, from representation in standup, to the feeling of having done Edinburgh, to whether you should respect people's cultures even when you don't agree with their values. 

The podcast is here for itunes listeners

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New Teacast: Laura Davis

I love talking to Laura, and it's been lovely to hang out with her in Edinburgh and also London.

We had Choc-Mint Rooibos tea and talked about Moths, Travel, Existential Crises, the Essential trouble with Comedic News Satire and Laura's take on her first Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 

The Link is HERE 

New Merch - discount code for Patreon Subscribers

Hi pals. My excellent all-round hench-human Sarah has built new merch for you guys, based on the line in my show Savage "only the unfinished can contain the infinite.

and it's up at the shop here: http://www.alicecomedyfraser.com/shop/bracelet


There's a discount of $5 for all subscribers and the code is

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New Teacast: Andy Zaltzman

Perhaps it's the hair-resemblance, perhaps it's the shared tea obsession, perhaps it's the fact that I have such fun on the Bugle, but I love chatting with Andy Zaltzman. He is a very sweet and lovely man, who has forcibly carved for himself a niche in comedy and podcasting - gathering people who are incredibly on board with his very specific tastes and style. Through main force of will, really. 

I had a lot of fun doing the first live Bugle in Edinburgh and Andy's lineup show ...

Edinblog Final Week

Oh god - it's the final day of the Fringe. This one happened to me very fast, although this is the first year I'm not doing multiple full length shows.

Friday and Saturday night were lovely - Saturday night especially so because sold out and the excellent Phill Jupitus was in the front row, and then took me out to dinner and put me on his poetry show the next day. So that's a thrill. It's really really lovely when other acts come watch you - of whatever level. It's a deep and satisfying c...

Edinblog day 17-19

I can't believe we're in the last week. I feel like I've lost some days in this blog, but I can't figure out where.

Edinburgh is very absorbing - it feels like a sort of Jetlag, in that days are very long but they melt into one another. One day you might be doing six promo spots, the next day, none, and somehow they feel like exactly the same day.

This last week has been strange because Scottish schools have gone back, which means the streets are a lot quieter, and that inexorabl...