The zeitgeist of the boy’s club. On being white,
middle-class, 20 something comedian. Punching
up vs punching down. On copycatting. Being too
aggressive on stage: Its effects on the scene.
Being a father with a comedy career.
These are some of the issues that we look forward
to cover and naturally some of these issues will
mirror the women of comedy issue whilst some
will not depending on the context.
Would you ever publish ethnic comedy? Disability
in comedy? Anything which focuses on comedy
which is not about a white male?
These issues are currently in production and are
set to be released late 2014 and early 2015. They
are issues which are important to a lot of our
comedians. In the Melbourne context, Italians,
Greeks, Spanish and Vietnamese played a big
role, not only in shaping the social landscape,
but also propelling the Melbourne stand-up
scene in the 1980’s with ‘Wog’ humour that
poked fun at itself in order to dilute the racism
opinions of the people effected by the issues at
hand, as opposed to being an outside observer
giving comment and opinion.
I am very proud and indebted to my writing staff
here at the magazine and can guarantee that
through the editing technicians with a solid grasp
of the issue.
There is so much in this issue that is left out.
This is due to a number of factors: File upload size,
and the fact that we are human all contribute
to the issue not being fully comprehensive. We
would love to hear from any of our readers who
would like to hear more from a particular person
about topics not brought up in this issue. From
July, we move onto the University comedy scene,
then onto ‘The Web series’, ‘Musical comedy’ &
‘Touring as a comedian’. We have to allocate our
resources in such a way which gives credence to
all the issues as evenly as possible.
The people at the magazine work tirelessly
without pay to bring an enriching commentary to
the Melbourne scene has given the scene shape the Melbourne comedy scene and in all things,
and texture which has made the scene better, we ask for your patience as we slowly but surely
richer, more substantive.
grow into the product that you want.
In the same breathe, people with disability use
comedy to educate on their lived experience, In light of the nature of this, we will be introducing
opening the eyes of audience members to a a comments section in our magazine to highlight
way of seeing the world that was previously some o