MICF 2016 Breakdown. 0 nervous breakdowns; 24 Shows performed; 16 other people's shows watched; 1x Max Watts Festival Club spot. $180 worth of snacks for my audiences including; 19 x 1kg bags of organic carrots; 14 brown rice avocado hand-rolls from Yoyogi (for me). 18 x delightful audiences, 5 x quiet but pleasant theatric...
2016-04-18 02:48:23 +0000 UTC View Post
It's amazing to me how different the same show can be, two nights in a row. Like, it's mainly the same words, in mainly the same order - I'm telling the same story in the same room to the same number of people at the same hour of night, the LIGHTS are the same - you've removed so many possible variables from the scenario, but ...
2016-04-10 12:03:41 +0000 UTC View Post
There had to be one. Statistically. One with weird persistent chatty front row hecklers who offer to be your dad then one leaves and then comes back and then storms out 25 mins in. Also festival judges in. I think the show was not the show they expected to see. Which is fine. But tonight was a bit heartbreaking, because the s...
2016-04-09 11:21:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Monday I had a day off and walked in the park with my friend Laura Davis, and there was a tree that looked like an elbow. That was good. Aside from that, the show is going very well. My biggest problem is wrestling comps for artists who want to come and see the show. If you don't know the logistics of the Melbourne Internatio...
2016-04-07 03:36:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Punks! Isn't it weird how we tend to think the universe balances itself out? That when bad things happen we assume they'll get better just out of fairness. Equally, when things go very well I immediately begin to worry about when and how they'll go horribly wrong. Which is to say, MICF is going very well, thankyou, and I...
2016-04-04 01:38:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh hi punks Hope you're all doing well. I'm in the kind of cold sweat you get when your email alerts you that you've got a thing in your inbox from the people who tell you about your ticket sales. Will the numbers have moved? Will I feel elated or dashed by the wonky columns my phone refuses to justify, so that every list of ti...
2016-03-23 06:02:41 +0000 UTC View Post
... ... or not. Depending. The point is (and I've made this point before) that people who have opinions about the political or social impact of a joke shouldn't focus on whether it's funny or not. It's a distraction, a conflation, an irrelevance, and worse, refutable. If you're attacking a comedian for telling a joke by tell...
2016-03-15 03:59:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I was really pleased to be asked to chair a session at the Opera House's All About Women event, part of their Ideas at The House series. The session they brought me in for was Mallory Ortberg's talk, "The Happy Feminist", and I loved it (I love her work, and I thought the topic was an interesting one to engage with, which indeed...
2016-03-07 10:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post
So I've come to the end of the Adelaide Fringe. I feel like it's been an odd journey - having been grieving for so long had the side effect of making me feel quite numb to the ups and down of performance life. The highs and lows. This festival I've been up and down at the whims of audiences from one night to the next or from o...
2016-02-28 09:07:02 +0000 UTC View Post
So, the upside of being at a festival is that I get to meet and talk to a lot of interesting comedians, and try to get them on 2016-02-17 03:04:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Punks
Tonight's the night I launch The Resistance at Adelaide. This means back to regular 2016-02-12 03:28:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I did mention over on my twitter (@aliterative if you don't already follow me there) that listening to music these days gives me goosebumps. Here is photo-proof that my metaphors are ALWAYS literal and exact. I'm not going to tell you what song this was, because it's mildly embarassing.
I am just back in Melbourne fr...
2016-02-06 12:07:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Looking at this foot-painting scene from the floor of the fringeworld artist services section of the state library raises a few thoughts for me. First, my legs aren't really this pale, blame the lighting. Secondly and more importantly I'm not sure if I fit in with the whole fringe thing. On one hand, maybe that is the fringe ...
2016-01-31 07:02:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo Punks!
Hope your new year has been going along at a good pace, and you haven't completely given up on all your fresh and excellent plans. I'm trying to do monthly resolutions, to give myself a better chance of sticking them out, with the only problem being that I sometimes don't notice when the month has finished.&nb...
2016-01-28 05:34:49 +0000 UTC View PostHallo Punks! So 2016 is well underway, and I'm in the middle of churning out some big and medium sized projects, slightly overwhelmed by my workload. The Resistance is shaping up for the festivals, and I have some glorious Tea With Alice guests in the works. That said, I've been thinking about how much I love limits and brief...
2016-01-11 07:32:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo Punks!
So, 2015! That was a big year. A lot of things happened, and I won't try to sum them up, but I'll try to count ten to give you a bit of a picture of everything that happened. I'd hyperlink it all, but I can't figure that out.
1) I wrote and performed a show called Savage, which got lots o...
2016-01-01 08:33:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Punks!
This month has been a busy one, with a lot of things rolling out of my production cannon. (Let's pretend that image isn't as phallic as you just made it in your head).
Articles
My semi-regular column for SBS comedy has now been made into a weekly Friday thing, and I've been given an e...
2015-11-17 07:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patreons
Welcome back post hiatus!
It's been a big month. A couple of SBS articles, and starting to write my new show, as well as some other projects that I'll tell you about if I get my Sh-t together enough to actually make them happen.
I've been making decisions about the shape of next year, as A...
2015-10-25 06:08:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Punks I'm settling in to Melbourne, and thought I should send a message to you guys - something private and special and bonus. All that. A roundup of what I've been up to. I have been SBS Articling like a maniac - I am scheduled to do one every two weeks, but I tend to be the person who's called in when someone else drops ...
2015-06-06 02:14:09 +0000 UTC View Post
So - I've come to the end of my 2015 Festival run. It's been a good thing, and a profoundly strange thing, to have been grieving and working on SAVAGE, and trying to be a person in a community at the same time. Thankyou, Patrons for helping me out. Being a full time comedian is a weird and strange life. If you would like to dr...
2015-05-13 07:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, I've put out a couple of articles for SBS comedy, and the weekly podcast, including a special re-release of my Lucy Fraser right of replycast. These are up at https://itun.es/au/utgeV.c or the website, alicecomedyfraser.com. I've done a bunch of wr...
2014-11-20 04:29:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This was the most epic Teacast to get up. First I recorded it with my twin at the end of a hospital corridor and got feedback that the sound quality was not good enough. Pulled it down and then recorded a different conversation with Hen and put it up... without an intro. So, ten minutes of silence at the beginning. Not cool. N...
2014-10-05 22:57:30 +0000 UTC View Post
