Sorry for dropping a week in the midst of all this Edinburghing, excellent people. If you missed me, catch up on The Bugle this week, where I guested on the first Live Bugle in Scotland.
This week's episode is with the charming and excellent Lydia Rickards - ...
2017-08-21 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe people who do not like it at all.
Gosh this fringe is getting away from me! One week to go. I've been buzzing around like a little bee and you'd think you'd have time to do a little blog a day. It's turned out to be one every two days, and I didn't put my podcast up this week. Maybe I'm getting old or lazy or some com...
Bullets and lightbulbs.
So Monday was a day off Empire, though I did a few spots. I walked up the Crag with Laura Davis and had a physio jab me a bit and it was all very relaxing and lovely.
Tuesday I had a quiet crowd and a reviewer in, who gave me a 5 star review, and then woke up to a second 5 in the morning. ...
Oof I have had two very full shows in a row. This is really lovely and very strange. Last night (Saturday, the turf of drunken douchebags coming into shows they have no idea about) was actually a lovely crowd, with an early mild heckle that I came down on with polite venom. Today was a different beast.
The afternoon was ...
Yesterday was a day of ups and downs. I hung out with Scott and Bolli (above, beautifying over a cuppa), and went to draw at the National Gallery of Scotland with Phill Jupitus. It's a lovely way to start the day at the festival - relaxed and quiet before the hectic starts. It was a good day.
Also, I sold out my show, AN...
So I've lost my boots.
I took them off last night after my show and swapped for flats so I could run over and do the improvised professoring at the Night at The Museum show and then I went back to the Gilded Balloon Artist bar to chat with Tiff Stevenson and at some point I no longer had boots.
Didn't realise until...
I always say on the podcast, let me know if there's anything you'd like me to cover, so here's one of those.
"Some public arguments perfectly encapsulate the fault line between two different mindsets. I think this is one of them.
Interested to hear what you think about it:
2017-08-08 05:42:16 +0000 UTC
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It's been a hectic few days. The shows have been going well - more and more people coming to the show each night, which I hope carries on. I'm in a huge room - and it's not going to sell out, but it's nice to reflect that every night so far has had at least 15 more people than would have sold out my room last year. Which is good...
2017-08-07 14:29:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode comes to you from the bowels of the Edinburgh Fringe festival. I had a chat with the excellent Sameena Zehra about culture, belief and family relationships.
Today was a good day. I hung out with Laura Davis and that is always a good thing. The weather was truly Edinburgh - the kind of day where you feel like a succulent in a tropical terrarium, constantly being misted by an enthusiastic horticulturist. The only variety in the drizzling was occasional periods of heavier rain.
Today was a ridiculously pretty day. I even did laundry and hung it outside, which is pretty baller for Edinburgh which is like Melbournex100 for temperamental skies.
I wonder if I should tweet out the short spots I'm doing for whatever help it would give the promoters. But I have lots booked in, so I'm worried it would ...
I arrived the day before my show to settle in. The train in from London was crowded with performers but I wasn't near anyone I knew (thank goodness). I like talking to people when I feel like talking to people, and that is rarely while in long transit when I have a book to read.
Coming in to Waverley station is starting ...
It’s three days before the 2017 Edinburgh fringe, where I’m taking my show, Empire. I open on Tuesday. This is terrifying but okay. Nobody's going to die. (2017-07-30 09:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a loaded topic at the moment, and a many-armed one. Gone are the days in which The Footy Show (an Australian institution) could guiltlessly wring comedy out of the hilarious sight of a big manly man in a floral dress.
Performers who do characters are under increased scrutiny for exploiting identity, perpetuating ...
I've come back from Brighton and am putting up this podcast. It was a delight to talk to Iszi and we ranged over a number of exciting and controversial topics on what was a very hot London day. (It can happen!)
Fatphobia! Women being weaker than men! Gender issues! A big guy coming at you with a chain! International Womens Day...
2017-07-24 15:57:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not going to lie - editing this week was a real pain in the whatsit.
I normally use two mics, but this week had two excellent guests, so the ole zoom Hn4 ended up picking up a lot more o...
2017-07-16 22:57:29 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's podcast was an interesting and quite challenging one for me.
Link is here: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tea-with-alice/id789603540?mt=2
I met Charlie when he invited me to do his show "Stand-up Phi...
2017-07-10 18:42:36 +0000 UTC View PostSo SBS comedy has been shut down, but I'm still writing for its mum, the SBS website. This article includes my feelings about the prospect of fish watching me while I poo.
2017-07-06 13:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting the twin back on the pod. This was a very interesting chat, though I was incredibly jetlagged.
Link is here: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
He drank lapsang souchong and I had some jasmine green tea (I know I'm predictably green-tea based life-form). ...
2017-07-03 12:37:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This might be a really obvious thought, but I've just had a moment of realising one reason (of many) why it feels so uncomfortable to call a friend or acquaintance or work colleague on an off colour comment or tasteless joke.
I'm choosing to avoid for this discussion words like "problematic", because I think they tend to ...
Gosh I love talking to Kirsty - this was in the beautiful Victoria State Library over iced green tea on a very cold day.
We talked about the sadness of losing low-status, the tyranny of evolving languages, the misuse of the word Violence, my own ignorance and the joke that I'm sure is going to get me into trouble. <...
2017-06-25 06:50:26 +0000 UTC View Post
On Monday, I walked out of recording a podcast at the ABC towards the state library in Melbourne to do some work. I was listening to my book with half attention, thinking about what story I wanted to tell at The Moth storytelling night that night. I began to cross the road where I usually do to avoid the skin-care-harassers on S...
2017-06-22 03:56:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Well this is a wonderful thing. I've been thinking about doing merch for a while, but was reluctant to take the plunge - it seems like there's an inverse relationship between cost and ethical production of goods.
Obviously, this is a constant dilemma of capitalism, and not a surprise, but it is surprising how alluring th...
This week, I sit alone in a room with a cuppa, talking to the void.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
We discuss modular identities, why "whatabouting" depletes empathy, the night I hung out by a fridge with Alan Cumming and whether we're more...
2017-06-18 08:25:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Sydney patreons!
The Sydney Comedy Festival has decided to bring be back home for one last show.
I will be doing one night of Empire THIS FRIDAY at The Comedy Store. It is a lovely room for comedy, and it's also a VERY BIG room, with A LOT OF SEATS IN IT and I'd love to have as many of you in those seats ...
2017-06-13 03:54:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Philosopher and Metal "singer" Mitch Alexander rejoins the podcast to talk about the danger of the idea of dangerous ideas, virtue ethics and sex robots.
I always enjoy a wrestle/chat with Mitch. Here it is: http://apple.co/2hw3h6U
2017-06-11 12:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Since March 2014 I've been writing articles of various quality and popularity for SBS comedy, as it grew, establishing a weekly Friday routine:
http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/person/alice-rebekah-fraser
I've written more...
David is brushing up his resume - we talk about labels, Invisible Disabilities, New Age Medicine, Queer Comedy and Being a Tea.
I was glad that David spoke with me about his MS, and feel a little bit guilty about going down definitional rabbit holes, and making fun of his truly excellent rainbow scarf.
Listen...
2017-06-04 01:33:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Some thoughts...
Few things match the feeling of immortality you get when you have a crowd that is with you on stage. When people have decided they trust you enough to go beyond listening and into absorption. The crowd becomes an entity and you can feel yourself moving its mood with your lips and tongue; in that moment yo...
One of the most enjoyable things about writing for SBS Comedy is learning new things.
Having a deadline for jokes is basically the only way I am productive - I need someone else to be relying on me to get that drive to create...
2017-06-02 06:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post
