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After weeks of relentless rain, the city of Sydney has finally given up hope.

Game over, Sydney. The sun may be back, but the rain has finally defeated us all

Once a city that was able to weather the weather, this recent bout of record-breaking rain has pushed us all to breaking point. 

  • Thomas Mitchell

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Susan Provan, director of the Melbourne Intrnational Comedy Festival.

‘I can’t do this forever’: Comedy festival boss to hand over baton

After 30 years in the top job, Susan Provan is thinking it might be time for someone else to take the wheel. Maybe.

  • Karl Quinn
Designed to be a dimly lit place where sad people can eat alone together, our relentless desire for everything to be fancy is turning the food court into something it is not.

Fine dining is not welcome here. Long live the depressing food court

Designed to be a dimly lit place where sad people can eat alone together, the food court is being turned into something it is not by our relentless desire for everything to be fancy.

  • Thomas Mitchell
“There’s a fair bit of tension about the body. Pull the right lever, though … and the kids laugh like drains.”

‘Pull the right lever and kids laugh like drains’: Andy Griffiths on his comedic formula

The acclaimed children’s author on surviving as a punk rocker, becoming sex-literate and why kids find bodily functions so hilarious.

  • Benjamin Law
“We legalised weed in a lot of [US] states and I think that’s correct. Has there ever been a serial killer on weed?”

Comedy was just a hobby for Atsuko – then three years ago, ‘things happened’

The Japanese-Taiwanese-American comedian Atsuko Okatsuka on her family history, her husband’s vasectomy – and a buffet strategy.

  • Benjamin Law
Bulge-enhancing underwear, a T-shirt designed to hide your DadBod and endless promotions for hair transplants. If Big Tech has our data, why are targeted ads so terrible?

Targeted ads are talking to me. I don’t like what they’re saying

Bulge-enhancing underwear, a T-shirt designed to hide your DadBod and endless promotions for hair transplants. If Big Tech has our data, why are targeted ads so terrible?

  • Thomas Mitchell
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Paul Feig, The director of Last Christmas, an English comedy.

Why Hollywood’s comedy king thinks Aussies appreciate him most

Paul Feig, the director of Bridesmaids, Spy, The Heat and more, is receiving a lifetime achievement award in Australia.

  • Karl Quinn
Garry Starr.

Frankenstein without pants: This may be the show you didn’t know you needed

Damien Warren-Smith’s award-winning show includes plenty of audience interaction and a large naked penguin.

  • Daniel Herborn
Tom Lehrer has died aged 97.

Legendary Cold War satirist Tom Lehrer dies aged 97

The comedian/mathematician laughed at the threat of nuclear annihilation, denounced discrimination and poked fun at politics and religion.

  • Gillian Flaccus
Tom Walker is the new co-host on The Great Australian Bake-Off.

‘Let’s try a freak’: How this chaotic comedian landed TV’s most wholesome show

Tom Walker is the strangest pick for the Bake Off shed to date – but history proves the show is right to do it.

  • Meg Watson