Comedy
Why we’re still obsessed with this small-town mystery
How a tiny outback suburb inspired an award-winning podcast, an HBO documentary, and a TV series “inspired by true events”.
- by Thomas Mitchell
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Royal family
Give Kate a break. Family photos are always built on lies
Believe me, I need to Photoshop out a lot more than a sleeve.
- by Thomas Mitchell
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Spectrum
With the Great Deskilling, it’s open season on human competence
Who needs to remember anything in the world of autocorrect and Google Maps?
- by Richard Glover
Ready Steady Cook is back, but these are the food TV shows we’d really like to see return
The garish ’90s cooking show returns tonight, but while we’re at it, how about remaking Iron Chef, Surprise Chef or Come and Get It, too?
- by Ben Pobjie
Opinion
Spectrum
25 ways the big supermarkets can win back our trust
For starters, enforce the “12 items” rule.
- by Richard Glover
Not just Ken: Ryan Gosling is the greatest male comedic actor of the 21st century
He’s become a better, more watchable and more consistently bankable comedic lead than any other male actor going around.
- by Tom W. Clarke
How Hannah Gadsby harnessed Netflix’s ‘damage control’
The Tasmanian-born comic has curated a comedy special with a seven-strong genderqueer lineup to “leverage my position and a little bit of power that I may or may not continue to have”.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Opinion
For subscribers
Our woke world can’t take a joke, and it’s no laughing matter
Laughter has been critical to our evolution, yet too many of us have lost that human touch.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Wellness
The three words that sum up precisely how we’re all feeling right now
Is it too much screen time? Not enough sleep? Probably something to do with my iron. Either way, “I’m so tired”, and I bet you are too.
- by Thomas Mitchell
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Parenting
Tears, tantrums and mild trauma: Surviving daycare drop-off
Leaving your screaming child with strangers might seem traumatic, but where else would they eat mushroom risotto and learn the ukulele?
- by Thomas Mitchell
British comedy’s hottest new double act: Hugh Bonneville and Noel Fielding
Taking the piss out of history is one of the great British comedic traditions, carried on in the riotously funny The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.
- by Ben Pobjie