You had phenomenal early success in your comedy career with the Doug Anthony All Stars. What is a foremost memory of those years? We were doing a gig with U2 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in 1988 when the gigantic set collapsed. I was nearly killed; Richard Fidler was nearly decapitated; Paul McDermott was…
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TED Talk By Tim Ferguson
TED Talk by Tim Ferguson ‘SEX & GODS’ Australia’s foremost academic teacher of narrative comedy explains why the writing establishment erroneously regards comedy as an inferior craft to drama and tragedy. Combining Ancient Greece, Western culture and Australia’s recent history his talk explains the entrenched imbalance between these two and how narrative comedy is the…