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
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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.
Welcome back to This Week in Comedy, the podcast that bravely asks the big questions: Can robots be funny? Should governments fund comedians? And what exactly is happening in Geelong? Episode 4 is a wide-ranging, mildly unhinged tour through comedy news, history, technology, beer, festivals, and the creeping sense that the machines are absolutely coming for us.
We kick things off in a “quiet week” for comedy news, which somehow still includes half a million dollars of government funding being handed to robot comedians. Yes, actual robots. Non-humanoid ones. Ranging from 40 centimetres to two metres tall. Performing non-verbal slapstick. In Melbourne. The duo grapples with what this means for the future of comedy, audience fear responses, accessibility ramps, and whether this is yet another example of governments funding literally anything except working comedians.
From there, things take a sharp, but refreshing turn into sponsorship territory, with a tasting of Oishi Rice Lager - described as “almost too dry” and tasting suspiciously like something a Starfleet food replicator would produce. It’s beer. It’s on trend. It’s reviewed with all the rigour you’d expect from a comedy podcast drinking on mic.
The heart of the episode is a deep dive into the Geelong Comedy Festival, via a long chat with festival director Blaise White. We cover the festival’s growth, its surprisingly rich comedy scene, venues ranging from cosy bars to an actual jail under the gallows, and why regional festivals might just be the future of Australian comedy touring. If you’ve ever wondered whether Geelong secretly rules, this segment will aggressively suggest that it does.
Elsewhere, we unpack the invention of canned laughter (and whether it was the first step in comedy’s robotic takeover), revisit the legacy of Arrested Development, tip our hats to Billy Connolly’s longevity, talk Raw Comedy, preview the Business of Comedy Conference, and somehow end up discussing under-16s being banned from social media and parents radicalising children on Roblox.
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