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Why I'm Raising Money for Febfast
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. But as I said to Brydie in my Teacast last week, the more people I help, the easier my life gets.And... well, here's the thing. I have a friend. She's one of those peopl...
New Teacast up with Brydie Lee Kennedy
Talking about the power of ugliness, some nostalgic dissection of cliques and problems with the word 'Progressive'.Listen here: http://apple.co/2kaCuCb
Compliments and Buttholes (actual, not metaphorical)
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 the concentrated negativity of personal comments directed to the people on that show, and was not looking forward to getti...
Televisioning - The Void
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 ...
Teacast with Stuart Goldsmith
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 incr...
They asterisked the first f*ck
... 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
Making Jokes
So 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...
Secret Project
Friends! 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.
Jason Stone
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.Listen and subscribe he...
New Teacast up with Kirsty Newton
Find it here: http://apple.co/1RFWx1EThis 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 you can't touch, but that usin...
Free Preview Tomorrow: Empire
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.
Ed Byrne Teacast up!
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: I really enjoyed this tea, I hope you like it too!I felt pleased with this podcast, because Ed Byrne gave me more than I'd expect...
My Failures: Part 1
The Times I FailedIf 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 ...
New TeaCast Up! With Amy Howerska
Talking about family, holding grudges & the difficult question of telling the truth in jokes.http://apple.co/1RFWx1EThis 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 conversation unedited, because I think i...
New Teacast - With Kirsty Webeck
Hi Punkshttps://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/tea-with-alice/id789603540?mt=2This 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 having this conversation, I hope you enjoy listening to it.As ever, hit Kirsty u...
AMP Tomorrow Fund Grant (Plus New Teacast is Up, with Prof Michael 'Dad' Fraser)
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 showed my arms, which I normally don't do, so chalk one up for body positivity.Also, everyone else who got the grant was doing incredible things, and hearing about all their incredible things made me feel really wonderful about people ...
The Insight of Children, and What is Natural
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 pictures through a post on Patreon, let me know! This seems like a less efficient way of doing things. ;)
Teacast 126 is UP! With Metal Philosopher Mitch Alexander
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 ...
Ankle Deep in Vitriol
This is my face on the internet. -- 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, and people asking for things from the program ...
An old post reflecting on the state of the industry in 2013.
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 feeling it’s a good thing for me, at least. - A lot of my (d...
No Porn November. Thoughts and things.
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 pornography have had a long and fraught relationship, and it looks like a discussion that will go on for a long time. Part of the problem (as always) is a terminological one. There are many different kinds of pornography, as th...
This week's article for SBS Comedy
*Puts helmet on, ducks for cover* http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2016/10/28/theres-no-feminist-conspiracy-your-feelings-arent-facts
Screw Euphemisms. Saying what you mean might be less offensive.
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. - 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 ...
Tom Lang Teacast Episode 124 is up!
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
Costumes and Bodies on Stage
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 ...
Teacast 123 is Up - Good Men, Honesty and Getting Fat
I just recorded myfirst Four-Way Teacast in the Sofitel at the Los Angeles Podcast FestivalI 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?I had a really interesting time with this c...
Remembering.
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
Bad Hair Days, Bad Brain Days
Hi PunksWelcome 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!----Some behind the scenes BEAUTY TIPS-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 ...
New Podcast Ep and Experts in The Middle East
Hey all, I've edited and poppeda New Teacast up! In it, you'll hear me talking with the excellent photographer and inventor of Improv/Comedy formatsTroy Conradat the LA Podcast Festival.We blithered about how insults are contextual (no really?) why everyone should be able to use hate terms (irony!???), how to create the environment to cultivate creative brain sparks & which insults are cross cultural and why.It was a fun chat. Lemme know ...
