Why am I putting some of my Social Media Credit on the line to get money for Febfast at the time of year when I'm also trying to get people along to my show in Adelaide? In general as a cap-in-hand artist, it can often feel like you don't have generosity to waste.
Talking about the power of ugliness, some nostalgic dissection of cliques and problems with the word 'Progressive'.
Listen here: http://apple.co/2kaCuCb
2017-01-27 18:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, it's been a charmed run of non-troll feedback, with lots of people who liked The Resistance on iview and the television.
Having spent a few weeks last year helping out with social media for a television program, (the toxicity of which I discussed here in my post Ankle Deep in Vitriol ).
I had felt quite overwhelmed by t...
2017-01-26 17:03:06 +0000 UTC View Post
So I've had my first TV special. (There's an arrogance for you, making the assumption that I'll get more work from here, and that the creative career is a linear progression).
I'm feeling very glamorous in my birthday-present-bathrobe, and I'm replying to lots of (so far) very nice messages, so I'm half waiting for the other shoe to drop, but mainly grinning like a fool.
So far all the comments I've got have been very positive, which is lovely. I imagine that can't last but we'll...
I sat down in Stuart's flat in London to talk about the process of talking to people about process, his encounter with sudden rage and the mutability of facts. We also talked about the power of saying 'I don't know' as a tool for making conversations more representative.
I really enjoyed the chewing over we had about affirmative action, which I'm not sure about, and the question of whether we're being left behind by an increasingly young world.
The pod (and all the others) ar...
2017-01-20 18:18:21 +0000 UTC View Post... then they changed the second one to 'boning', and then they gave up. This week's SBS Comedy article has a content warning for rude words. It also made me giggle a lot while writing it so make your own judgments. https://t.co/hP3R7T8t2L
2017-01-20 09:41:43 +0000 UTC View PostSo yesterday, slightly underslept, I embarked on a little pun-run on my twitter. It's a nice feeling, to make a joke - it feels like a little construction project. Some people liked it, some people didn't, which is fair enough. Puns are silly, and can be annoying. Which is part of the joy of them, if you're in the mood for them. They're deconstructive of our general agreement that words mean the things we usually use them for. If you're not in the mood for that, it can come across as a quite ag...
2017-01-17 11:56:15 +0000 UTC View PostFriends! I have a favour to ask for a secret project. The best/worst/most insane comment you’ve seen online? Screencaps please! If you’re in a friendly mood, when you send the awful screencap, say something nice about anything or anyone. Just so I don’t get buried in grime and depressed by the world.
2017-01-17 11:25:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Alice sits over tea in YumChaa talks to Jason Stone of The Guardian and DavidReviews.com about
- being the Cheryl Cole of media journalism;
- the power of words;
- the difference between fighting for equality and celebrating difference, if there is one;
- gender roles and science;
- how far we should be limiting freedom of speech;
- the nature of screens leading to a two dimensionalising of discourse.
Plus assorted banter and tea.
Find it here: http://apple.co/1RFWx1E
This was an interesting conversation. We began by talking about insomnia and music, and ended by talking about death and art - it's odd to find myself sometimes saying things that are... not quite cliche, but close to it.
Having visceral personal realisations of things that are commonplace, like the way grief can be incohate and overpowering, like a sucking wound somewhere yo...
2017-01-11 11:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Tomorrow, if you are in London or know people in London who might like my gear. 8pm, if you'd be so kind as to come. I will bring snacks, you bring your laughter or judgmental silence - both will be equally useful.
Also, it's close enough to my birthday that I'm willing to leverage your sense of birthday generosity. The greatest gift is coming to watch me fail my way towards funny.
2017-01-03 16:43:29 +0000 UTC View Post
New Teacast is up , with the brilliant Ed Byrne on how to deal with (or not deal with) trolls, why he doesn't like tea, how free speech is overhyped and the dolphins in his radiator.
I'd just had a cup of breakfast tea, black, and Ed went tea-free for reasons I'll let him explain.
Click here for the link: 2016-12-30 12:47:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The Times I Failed
If it can't be helped, at least maybe it can help.
We all wake up sometimes haunted by shame and regret. Those emotions are either cripplingly useless or important ways of protecting us from making the same mistakes again. They can be a little of both those things, or a pendulum between the two states.
I've made it a pet project recently to encourage people to fail. Particularly young women on the way up the ladder in the way that I am on my way up (p...
2016-12-19 14:00:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Talking about family, holding grudges & the difficult question of telling the truth in jokes.
This was an interesting and difficult podcast for me. I enjoy the conversation I had with Amy, but talking about mothers and illness and the show Savage always feels quite loaded to me, and I don't think I was hugely articulate. I was tempted to edit this podcast heavily.
I've left the c...
2016-12-18 20:29:12 +0000 UTC View PostHi Punks
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/tea-with-alice/id789603540?mt=2
This week's podcast is up with the charismatic Kirsty Webeck. We sat in my flat in Melbourne and talked about how to write a new show, being an expat in Taiwan for six years as a girl from Canberra where everyone knows your name, and the complexities of being a good person.
I really enjoyed hav...
2016-12-10 20:50:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Last night I was awarded an AMP Australia AMP Foundation#TomorrowMakers grant for my podcast, Tea With Alice. So that's lovely. My dad came along and was proud. So that's also lovely.
I wore a dress that ...
2016-11-25 04:02:40 +0000 UTC View Post
This ended up being a longer article than I had originally intended, so I broke it up with some pictures. Patreon only seems to support one picture up at the top of a piece, so I've published it at my Tumblr, below.
http://alicecomedyfraser.tumblr.com/post/153063368860/the-insight-of-children-and-whats-natural
If anyone knows how to put pic...
2016-11-12 02:41:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In the ACMI cafe, Alice talks over Lemongrass and Ginger tea and a Peppermint tea with Philosophy Educator and MetalHead, Mitch Alexander.
What's happened to the Left Wing? Moral Reasoning, Social Justice Warriors, whose job is it to educate you, who's on the wrong side of history, who has to fight and when. A good chat with some traditional (turns out to be Russian) dancing in the background
Mitch Alexander is online as @Philosophica on twitter
I am in all the usual place...
2016-11-11 03:57:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my face on the internet.
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Or rather, I am feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment. Part of my work writing jokes for The Project on Channel 10 involves replying to messages on their official page. It's a nice little insight into a side of Australia that I'm not usually connected with. But apart from the comments praising or censuring panellists for things they have or have not said, a...
2016-11-10 04:48:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a slightly re-edited re-post of a blog entry I originally published on Nov 5 2013, at http://alicecomedyfraser.tumblr.com/post/66160887706/storming-the-gates This was when I'd been doing comedy for about a year. - - I’m coming to a point where I am more willing to make other people uncomfortable. I’m still not sure whether that’s a good thing in absolute. I have a feelin...
2016-11-06 00:02:47 +0000 UTC View Post
If you don't follow these things on the internet, it's November. And among other initiatives (nanowrimo, Movember) some people have decided it is No Porn November.
This is worth talking about. Why not?
Feminism and po...
2016-11-05 00:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post
*Puts helmet on, ducks for cover*
TW for strong language, by definition: I'm discussing loaded language in this post, and will go with quotation marks rather than censor asterisks because I want to consider the impact of the words I'm examining.
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If you worry that you might have a problem with that stylistic choice, click away now (or if you really want to read, cut-and-paste into microsoft word, and do a pre-emptive find-and-replace on words you might feel to be deeply unsettling)
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Let's think about b...
2016-10-27 02:29:13 +0000 UTC View Post
New teacast is up! I sit with the delightful Tom Lang, on Plants, Science Education and branding versus reputation.
We had a great time drinking green tea and Liquorice with Mint tea.
Here!
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/tea-with-alice/id789603540?mt=2
2016-10-26 06:59:44 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I've been looking at fabric and dress-designs recently, signing up to pinterest and looking at costumes and clothes, which are not my normal area of expertise. I do like good design, and I tend to think that I dress well enough (even though usually in the same thing every day), but it's not one of my core preoccupations.
Who knew there were so many different kinds of fabric?
I'm in the middle of the very beginning of planning the writing and content of my new solo show ...
2016-10-20 02:10:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I just recorded my first Four-Way Teacast in the Sofitel at the Los Angeles Podcast Festival
I have a chat with the three stars of The 'The Jig is Up' podcast in the lobby of the Sofitel in Los Angeles. It was a really interesting conversation about Honesty vs Diplomacy and the complexities of Lust and Love in terms of Gender.
Do men want love? Do women want sex? Or vice versa?
What's a good man?
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On this anniversary, I'm rereleasing the podcast I did with her.
Lucy Fraser on creativity, suffering, permission: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/tea-with-alice/id789603540?mt=2
Hi Punks
Welcome to the first subscriber only post! It's much like all my other posts, but you can only see it if you're a subscriber. Ooo!
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Some behind the scenes BEAUTY TIPS
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In the picture above, you can see what happens when my hair won't co-operate with my normal hair-grooming plans which is have a shower, pin it up off my face with some bobbypins so I don't feel like spiders are touching me on my face (I don't like hair on my face, because I gre...
2016-10-12 02:50:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all, I've edited and popped a New Teacast up! In it, you'll hear me talking with the excellent photographer and inventor of Improv/Comedy formats Troy Conrad at the LA Podcast Festival.
We blithered about how insults are contextual (no really?) why everyone should be able to use hate terms (iro...
2016-10-04 04:53:43 +0000 UTC View Post