Since 2005, the Australian film industry has been making movies up there with any period in its history including the New Wave of the 70s and 80s
• Join Luke Buckmaster, Margaret Pomeranz and Michael Loebenstein at the Guardian Australia Film Club at Adelaide film festival
Most standups will tell you that if they have a bad gig there are certain things they can blame. Broken sleep. Debilitating medication. A fight with a girlfriend or boyfriend. Drinking too much beforehand. But one thing they absolutely can’t: the audience.
A comedian friend explained this to me several years ago at a small bar in Melbourne while he fidgeted with a coaster and gazed into a pot of beer. He’d just come off stage. I thought he did pretty well but he looked crestfallen, convinced he bombed.
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