This Week in Comedy is a weekly podcast dedicated to tracking, celebrating and lightly skewering the Australian comedy scene as it unfolds in real time. Hosted by Lily Geddes and Morry Morgan, the show sits at the intersection of comedy culture, industry insight and sharp-witted conversation. It’s designed for comedians, comedy writers and producers, promoters, fans and anyone curious about how jokes, festivals and funny people actually function behind the scenes.
At its core, This Week in Comedy works as a pulse-check on what’s happening right now. Each episode reflects the immediacy of the comedy world, including new shows launching, festivals taking shape, odd stories bubbling up from clubs, and broader cultural moments that comedians are reacting to in real time. Rather than polished interviews or heavily produced segments, the podcast embraces a conversational format that mirrors how comedians actually talk when they’re offstage: candid, playful, opinionated and occasionally absurd.
The show regularly acknowledges the importance of regional scenes, grassroots venues and emerging performers, highlighting how comedy survives and evolves outside the biggest stages. This perspective gives listeners a more complete picture of the industry - one that recognises comedy as a living network of rooms, producers, promoters, festivals and communities rather than a top-down hierarchy.
The tone balances humour with genuine insight. While jokes, riffs and tangents are ever-present, the hosts frequently engage with bigger questions: how technology is influencing comedy, how audiences are changing, how comedians adapt to shifting cultural expectations, and what the future of live performance might look like. These discussions are never academic or preachy; they’re grounded in lived experience and filtered through the hosts’ comedic sensibilities.
This Week in Comedy also thrives on curiosity. Strange news stories, unexpected comedy crossovers and offbeat cultural moments are treated as opportunities to explore why certain things are funny, or why they aren’t. This reflective approach gives the podcast depth without sacrificing accessibility. Listeners don’t need insider knowledge to enjoy it, but those within the comedy world will recognise familiar challenges, in-jokes and realities.
Ultimately, This Week in Comedy is less about delivering punchlines and more about understanding the world that creates them. It’s a weekly snapshot of comedy that's messy, funny and thoughtful.
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This Week in Comedy is a weekly podcast dedicated to tracking, celebrating and lightly skewering the Australian comedy scene as it unfolds in real time. Hosted by Lily Geddes and Morry Morgan, the show sits at the intersection of comedy culture, industry insight and sharp-witted conversation. It’s designed for comedians, comedy writers and producers, promoters, fans and anyone curious about how jokes, festivals and funny people actually function behind the scenes.
At its core, This Week in Comedy works as a pulse-check on what’s happening right now. Each episode reflects the immediacy of the comedy world, including new shows launching, festivals taking shape, odd stories bubbling up from clubs, and broader cultural moments that comedians are reacting to in real time. Rather than polished interviews or heavily produced segments, the podcast embraces a conversational format that mirrors how comedians actually talk when they’re offstage: candid, playful, opinionated and occasionally absurd.
The show regularly acknowledges the importance of regional scenes, grassroots venues and emerging performers, highlighting how comedy survives and evolves outside the biggest stages. This perspective gives listeners a more complete picture of the industry - one that recognises comedy as a living network of rooms, producers, promoters, festivals and communities rather than a top-down hierarchy.
The tone balances humour with genuine insight. While jokes, riffs and tangents are ever-present, the hosts frequently engage with bigger questions: how technology is influencing comedy, how audiences are changing, how comedians adapt to shifting cultural expectations, and what the future of live performance might look like. These discussions are never academic or preachy; they’re grounded in lived experience and filtered through the hosts’ comedic sensibilities.
This Week in Comedy also thrives on curiosity. Strange news stories, unexpected comedy crossovers and offbeat cultural moments are treated as opportunities to explore why certain things are funny, or why they aren’t. This reflective approach gives the podcast depth without sacrificing accessibility. Listeners don’t need insider knowledge to enjoy it, but those within the comedy world will recognise familiar challenges, in-jokes and realities.
Ultimately, This Week in Comedy is less about delivering punchlines and more about understanding the world that creates them. It’s a weekly snapshot of comedy that's messy, funny and thoughtful.
Hard Knock Knocks Comedy School
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's episode 3 of This Week in Comedy and hosts Lily Geddes and Morry Morgan aren't in the Rubber Chicken studios. But that doesn't stop them riffing on crime, public transport lines, shopping centres, and the increasingly common appearance of machetes in local news.
The conversation moves into Australian comedy news with the announcement of the Brisbane Comedy Festival for 2026. With strong attendance figures from the previous year, the festival is framed as a major stop on the national comedy circuit, landing immediately after the Melbourne Comedy Festival. It turns out that while the lineup, which includes Denise Scott, Melanie Bracewell, Ray O’Leary, and Tom Cashman, is of top comedians, it might also be a little Kiwi-heavy for Lily's mum.
Up and coming comedian Elouise Eftos and her show Australia’s First Attractive Comedian show then takes centre stage. Lily highlights the satire, and the irony that a few female comedians couldn't take the joke. Were they the usual suspects? Probably. You'll have to listen.
The episode’s history segment looks back to 1963, when British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan intentionally dropped the first F-bomb on live television, causing public outrage and political fallout that now feels almost quaint. This leads into a trivia discussion about Fawlty Towers, revealing that Basil Fawlty was based on a real hotel owner, Donald Sinclair, whose rudeness toward guests and Monty Python cast members directly inspired the character.
And in the 'whip-around' segment Morry chats with Sydney comedian and producer Seizure Kaiser, who offers insight into Sydney’s comedy scene, paid rooms, touring acts, and his Comedy on Edge venues. The episode closes with a call to embrace being “funny in the moment,” finding small opportunities for humour in everyday life as a way to push back against an increasingly bleak world.
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Learn more about This Week in Comedy by visiting www.thisweekincomedy.com.au
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