What sort of voice should we read your answers in? My real voice is just another slightly wanky Australian…

1. Comedy Festival 2013: Jarred Fell

One of the problems with writing about television is that I have to look at more of the stuff than might actually be good…

1. Diary: Matt hooks the big 'uns

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1. Comedy Festival: Tom Green

What sort of voice should we read your answers in? A Welsh accent with a slight lisp might be fun. Are you worried about…

1. Comedy festival 2013: Greg Ellis

It is that time of the year when mirth abounds, as the International Comedy Festival rolls into town…

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Comedians Guy Williams and Chris Martin join us for a live chat as they prepare to embark on a New Zealand tour together…

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Hardly anyone saw it, but Rainer Hersch's homage to the great Victor Borge was brilliant, writes Russell Baillie.

1. Comedy Festival 2013: Guy Williams

You can just imagine how many hours Sam Wills (The Boy With Tape On His Face) must spend in variety or emporium stores…

1. Going on a crash course

I'm not too sure what my 5-year-old Mia made of Dr Brown at first, an odd-looking man wearing white tennis shorts, a suit…

1. Giving the Facebook era a good poke

They aren't in fact billed together, but Britain's young gun Chris Martin and American veteran Tom Rhodes…

1. Comedy festival 2013: Steve Wrigley

He told the June issue of GQ magazine: "I don't think I've seen much of it.

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1. Comedy Festival 2013: Jarred Fell

Patua means "to hit, kill, subdue, ill-treat", and writer-director Renae Maihi bravely takes on the subject of child abuse…

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