So I was on the Bugle Live last week, as a giant head coming in via a screen and this week I did ABC television’s show “Question Everything”. Two different things that weren’t quite a live comedy show but both of which were WAY closer to a live comedy show than I’ve done for a long time.
The Bugle was interesting, because I have been doing the “comedy via zoom call” thing for a while, but there was a *distinct* difference provided by the live audience; the nature of the au...
2021-09-16 04:34:47 +0000 UTC
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I never get over how beautiful this lighthouse is and how lucky I am to be able to walk to it from where I live now, to see it in all different lights.
Well. The response to my little announcement was overwhelming and kind. I feel warmed by everyone’s generous hearts. It took a few days to feel comfortable with having shared, given how strictly I usually draw the lines between private and public, which was a thing I had to think about more.
Sometimes people will proje...
2021-09-13 01:39:05 +0000 UTC
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Hallo lovely people
A New Tea With Alice is up with the brilliant Cal Wilson, talking about creativity, gardening and what comes next.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Non- itunes listeners can catch it here
Cal's about to launch a ne...
2021-09-06 05:33:51 +0000 UTC
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Hallo lovely Patreonites!
For those who missed the salons; I did make bullet points, and will try to recreate the content faithfully here.
- From some time in mid October (exact date TBC) I will be taking six weeks of maternity leave. To have a baby. That’s what it’s for. I mean it won’t take me six weeks to have the baby, (I hope) but I’m reliably informed that it’s an absorbing adjustment period.
- This will not affect The Gargle, as...
2021-09-03 10:05:53 +0000 UTC
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Tea With Alice Salon 35a
Time: Aug 31, 2021 09:00 PM Canberra,
Melbourne, Sydney
Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86122998003?pwd=dXlGS0ZqKzM5S0xFWTdXRkRsMVg1dz09
Passcode: 980823
Tea With Alice Salon 35b
Time: Sep 1, 2021 07:00 AM Canberra, Melbour...
2021-08-31 07:12:58 +0000 UTC
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Hallo!
This is an old gun emplacement overlooking the mouth of Sydney Harbour, near where I live. The decrepit architecture of war overlooking natural beauty is one of those things I find emotionally moving, even if I find it hard to put a finger on what emotion exactly is evoked. Melancholy? Nostalgia? Admiration? Disgust? Gratitude? Something in the Venn diagram overlap of those feelings.
We now have a Forum, so you can chat among yourselves about things that come up in the sa...
2021-08-30 02:00:38 +0000 UTC
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If you want to chat among yourselves or discuss topics that have come up in the podcasts or Salons or anything really, the magnificent Sam Streeter has made it possible with a discord server.
Link Here
Open to all levels.
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2021-08-25 01:37:39 +0000 UTC
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There is a new Tea With Alice up! With Craig Quartermaine, talking about opportunities, work, playing the cards you’re dealt, being lucky and how to talk about it.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Non- itunes listeners can catch it
2021-08-24 01:22:35 +0000 UTC
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Hallo Darling Patreonites
Thankyou for all the lovely messages as always.
This bird was eating the flowers out of a local garden, which was extremely cute. Though I know cockatoos can be very destructive, I find it hard not to be charmed by their brash confidence and fancy hats.
Sydney lockdown wends onwards with various people all over the country having extremely strong opinions about whose fault it is, all of which I find intolerably annoying to engage with. I’m just s...
2021-08-16 05:25:15 +0000 UTC
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Adam Richard came on the podcast to talk about weight, work, how to dress, giving up comedy and being a nerd.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Non- itunes listeners can catch it here
As always, your support keeps me going. If you like any of my work, please...
2021-08-06 00:41:14 +0000 UTC
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I have a prepper friend who talks about hoarding amoxicillin and ammo, and every time he does, I think “I’m allergic to amoxicillin”, which is true. It brings me out in a full body rash. Well, it did once, and now I have to write it on forms. I guess I’m allergic to bullets too; if they’re delivered in the traditional manner. But I don’t tell him either of those things, because he doesn’t need that information. You need to be a form for me to deliver that k...
2021-08-03 12:39:23 +0000 UTC
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Look at this remarkably shiny beetle! There’s a tree near my house that’s absolutely coated in them, and when I go for my walk, I see people walk past it on the footpath. Many of them are so close they brush the leaves. These shiny beetles cling calmly on. None of the people seem to notice the beetle-tree.
Who has shared / is sharing a house during lockdown? With family or friends or aquaintance style housemates? It’s such an interesting and difficult balance of moving around in a...
2021-08-02 07:29:25 +0000 UTC
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This picture is of the moon, not the sun. It doesn’t capture how MASSIVE that moon was (help me, science/photography friends - why doesn’t big moon-ness come across in pictures?)
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Some Thoughts on Sexiness
Over the last few days I have kept seeing examples of ‘creepy’ writing by men about their children - the beauty of their children, the innocence and plumpness and wide-eyed naïveté. To clarify, I don’t think these men have inappropriate fee...
2021-07-27 02:27:56 +0000 UTC
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Hallo Patreonites!
Updates and thinking:
The last few episodes of The Gargle podcast have been so much fun, and I just recorded an episode of a BBC Radio sitcom last night (rehearsal call time: 1am, recording call time: 4.45am, Bed time 6.30am. Current daytime condition: fuzzy).
I was a villain character (opposite a pretty anti-hero lead); a self involved eco-poseur running a conference on a private island. I got some boos from the audience which was delightful, as someone w...
2021-07-20 04:29:09 +0000 UTC
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Visa is a thinker who thinks about thinking - I've known him for a while on twitter, and I've always enjoyed watching the process of him organising thoughts in webs and threads. This episode we talked about enthusiastic nerdery, online selfhood and making connections.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Non- itunes listeners can 2021-07-16 01:19:30 +0000 UTC
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Hey lovely Patreonites, I’m going to be doing some loose writing time on Friday morning at 11am. Nothing formal, just a way to hang out and be in a creative ‘space’ when you can’t actually be there. DM me if you’d like to join. I’ll send the first five or six people the link only so it doesn’t become a show. If it works out I’ll do it more regularly.
Also This Wednesday 14 July come watch #CHRONOS online, courtesy of @NowhereComedy
The virtual curtain lifts at 6pm...
2021-07-12 23:44:35 +0000 UTC
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Hallo all!
Looks like football didn’t come home to the U.K. this week, and boy are their arms … not tired (because you don’t use your arms in football, unless you’re cheating or the goal keeper). I’ve never really followed football, but it’s always interesting to see anything that has such a wide and intense fandom.
This week’s Salon is open to all levels, and will be at 8pm Sydney Time on Tuesday 13th July. I’ll talk about prepping for the next day’s Live Video...
2021-07-12 03:41:00 +0000 UTC
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Hallo!
Lockdown in Sydney is going well, though of course there are ups and downs. It’s fascinating the psychological impact of not being allowed to do something - how many people who otherwise are living very routine and boring and constrained lives (work, home, local cafe for a takeaway coffee) are indignant at having their liberty of movement curtailed. I have a friend who’s a gamer and might happily spend 22 hours a day in a single room during certain seasons of his life, who i...
2021-07-05 10:23:29 +0000 UTC
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Hallo lovely people! With the sad cancellation of my run of CHRONOS at the Bondi Festival I’ll be doing an online version of CHRONOS for you streamy online types on 14 July. I may make my dad come round and watch it again to provide an audience vibe if we’re still in lockdown on the 14th. That said, he has seen it 3 times, so maybe he would laugh in weird places.
Tickets are here:
htt...
2021-07-02 21:53:36 +0000 UTC
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So, Sydney is back in lockdown - the price we pay for having had a relatively charmed run through this pandemic as a city is being able to make plans and have them cancelled when these lockdowns come. The delta variant is no joke, though, and I haven’t yet seen a country be able to head it off - even the ones that have pretty good pandemic records.
The Bondi Festival run of CHRONOS on 9 & 10 July is off, and I don’t know when I’ll have the chance to perform that show live aga...
2021-06-28 05:31:32 +0000 UTC
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Hallo friends - this water was a ridiculous deep colour that defied the way light is supposed to work and it really thrilled me.
Been having thoughts about a bunch of stuff and as always want to discuss what you’ve been wrestling with. (DM me or drop a comment below if you’d like me to get a head start on wrapping my head around it).
Salon tomorrow is 8pm Sydney time and I can’t wait to chat with you after the week off.
Topic: Tea With Alice Salon 26
Time: Jun...
2021-06-21 10:57:15 +0000 UTC
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Hallo Beautiful Patreonites
This week’s salon is back to normal, after the excitement of last week’s guest / salon crossover experiment with the excellent Laurie Penny.
We will be in US pacific time, which is 1pm the next day in Australian East Coast time, which is some awful hour in U.K. time, but that’s the joy of the rotating timezone arrangement. Do the relevant conversion for the timezone you’re in and stick it in your diary - it’s in mine!
Because as I ofte...
2021-06-07 11:11:45 +0000 UTC
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See you in an hour!
Topic: Tea With Alice Salon 24
Time: Jun 2, 2021 07:00 AM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
Jun 1 10:00 PM London
Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85251124609?pwd=bnhmRHB1Z2ZlNG1DU0swSW9MdkNqUT09
Passcode: 650230
2021-06-01 20:03:08 +0000 UTC
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This week, I had the wonderful Justin Hamilton back on Tea With Alice. He’s always a delight and I loved our chat.
The podcast as ever is here:
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Non- itunes listeners can catch it here
Find Justin on Twitter at @justin...
2021-06-01 00:26:34 +0000 UTC
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This bird kept me company over breakfast today, what a nice friendly thing. Sometimes it’s a Kookaburra, but he seems more focused on his own concerns, and less companionable.
This week’s salon is Tuesday 8pm Sydney time, and I’ve got lots of things I’ve been thinking about after my week off - I hope you have too. Stick it in your calendars!
The link is here, I’ll send through the passcode for Afternoon Tea and up subscribers on the day.
Next week will be open to...
2021-05-23 02:10:34 +0000 UTC
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Will be in Sydney time, and I’ll send the invite through later this week. This week is off, as usual and then Sydney, U.K. and a US timezone.
I’m having a lovely time this week visiting my twin and his beautiful family. It’s extremely good and soothing and frustrating and delicious. My brother’s wife is 6 feet tall and my brother is taller than that by a few inches, and I canNOT convince them that they can’t feed me up to a proper height. So there’s lots of delicious food a...
2021-05-17 08:21:47 +0000 UTC
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Hallo Lovely Patreonites,
I finished my run at the Sydney comedy festival last night (sorry, I was forbidden from filming it for you, but I did record the audio and if it’s decent enough quality, I’ll put that up here).
The Tea With Alice salon for this week is 8pm Tuesday East Coast US time; details are as follows.
Tea With Alice Salon 22
Time: May 11, 2021 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada), May 12, 2021 11:00 AM Sydney, Melbourne Canberra
Link:
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2021-05-10 23:50:17 +0000 UTC
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I had the marvellous Dara Ó Briain on zoom explaining why he doesn't drink tea and how he's embarking on a podcast tour of the world. We discussed intergenerational and inter-dimensional differences, work process and how we get drawn back to themes or pole dancers over the course of our work.
I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed having it. Do hit him up on twitter at 2021-05-07 03:21:39 +0000 UTC
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Hallo loves! Passcode is below. All levels welcome.
I’ll see you in an hour!
Topic: Tea With Alice Salon 21
Time: May 4, 9.30 PM London
May 5, 2021 06:30 AM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81735795864?pwd=REl6UVNlRElRalZ1WXVPM0VtZ1Zadz09
Meeting ID: 817 3579 5864
Passc...
2021-05-04 19:33:55 +0000 UTC
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This is this week all of a sudden! Tickets for my solo show CHRONOS – at the Sydney Comedy Festival are here if that’s a thing you’d like to engage in. It’s only four nights, so jump on board the train. (This is a little inside joke because the show is set on a train. Of course, if you haven’t seen the show, it doesn’t make sense, and I’m mainly addressing this paragraph to people who haven’t seen the show, so it’s VERY self defeating).
2021-05-01 01:01:34 +0000 UTC
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