Other Voices
21 March 2025
Why breakthroughs emerge from fooling around
Books & arts
22 March 2024
Is British comedy pervaded by the worldview of the Oxbridge graduate?
Books & arts
5 September 2023
How the comic genius of John Clarke found its anchor
Essays & reportage
13 June 2023
Was Barry Humphries’s least overbearing character really an ex-serviceman?
Essays & reportage
12 April 2023
The brilliant cartoonist illuminated Australia as it is, and as it could be
Books & arts
9 July 2021
Even the Romans used jokes to drive home their point, though they tend to lose something in the translation
Books & arts
10 July 2019
Books | Does incongruity always explain why some things seems funny and others don’t?
Essays & reportage
11 April 2017
The satirist inverted conventional journalistic formats to probe politics and power
Books & arts
7 April 2015
Television | There’s plenty to enjoy about Stephen Oliver’s survey of TV humour, writes Jane Goodall. But how uniquely Australian is the phenomenon…
From the archive
17 February 2011
Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist who made anxiety funny