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Comedian | Writer | Doe’r of other stuff

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3 years
Just one. I’m telling you. We eat just one billionaire and the rest will fall into line.
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3 years
In two days Melbourne’s had a double rainbow, a blood moon, and now a lockdown. In ancient times we’d sacrifice a leader to the elder gods by now. #justsaying
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3 years
There’s no world in which Australians returning from Europe or America would be threatened with jail time.
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4 years
I haven’t seen a single person from yesterday’s St Kilda beach gathering named in the press. No one blaming them for not knowing enough English, or being a result of multiculturalism. It is ... and I say this with all sincerity ... fucking bullshit.
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Open mic night at the Whitesplain Improv
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3 years
NSW couldn’t even vaccinate without being corrupt about it
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2 years
Back in the old days this would be the time Harry and Meghan would make their move, kill Charles, throw William in prison, and declare a new era after a few days of killings. Honestly, no one has a sense of tradition anymore.
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2 years
“As a baby Albo used to be naked sometimes. DO YOU WANT A PM WHO IS A NUDIST PERVERT?” - Aus Journalism right now
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3 years
Remember when governments were increasing surveillance and the justification was, if you’ve got nothing to hide what are you scared of? Same but ICAC.
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3 years
Scott Morrison: I’m committed to hearing women Women: we are getting raped and can’t get justice Scott Morrison: yes, Facebook is bad
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2 years
5 years ago this guy made me a citizen. We’ve both been fired from our jobs since then.
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2 years
Changing the definition of “close contact” to distract from the failure to order enough rapid antigen tests when we needed them is exactly the kind of solution a marketing guy comes up with.
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3 years
I don’t mind when someone’s Anti Vax if they then are also against ALL modern medicine. Like, all of it. I want consistency. If you bash your head, or have weak eyesight, too bad. Cancer, IBS, a sprained wrist. It doesn’t matter. You can’t go to a doctor ever, for anything.
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2 years
I don't wanna raid my super, I wanna raid rich people's homes for goods and supplies
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7 years
Muslims in Muslims countries should take a long look at average Americans standing up for minorities. Too few in our countries do the same.
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5 years
All the countries that hate refugees are keen on starting wars that create refugees
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4 years
Scary to watch Australian right wing embracing a kid in America who gunned people down, a day after an Australian terrorist was sentenced to life in prison for gunning people down in Christchurch.
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3 years
Imagine the Sky News and Fed Government rage if the BLM protests were even mildly as aggressive
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2 years
I like how conspiracy theorists were all like "Dictator Dan", meanwhile Scott Morrison
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3 years
If she won’t give you $170 million for a hospital in Wagga Wagga does she even love you
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3 years
You people are so fucking weird. Everyone here curses like a sailor with a stubbed toe, but one “shit” on ABC and it’s boomers clutching pearls. Grow up you fucking shitting losers.
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2 years
Australian media: Every racial slur is just jokes! Get over it! Also Australian media: Voldemort is a slur and we need to be more respectful
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3 years
Rudd and Turnbull are my new favourite hecklers
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3 years
Publishing a suicide victim’s writing to question their mental health is a great way of revealing your own questionable mental health through your publishing decisions
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3 years
Based on polls it seems at least half of Australia agrees that buying expensive watches is much worse than raping
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4 years
Seriously, why are religious groups tax exempt? If making up stuff gets you out of paying taxes, why aren’t the Arts tax exempt?
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2 years
The people carrying nooses and signs calling for hangings and violence definitely flinched at Adam Goodes' imaginary spear
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4 years
Things like dropping Jonah From Tongah and Fawlty Towers are the distraction. It’s the kind of useless change companies will do instead of committing to real diverse progress. And it will trivialise the goals of the protest movement.
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3 years
A lot of people pointing out how it’s over for Porter now, and Linda Reynold’s is done for, and the government can’t bounce back from this which means a lot of people don’t pay attention to all of human history
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2 years
Celebrity deaths rarely hit me hard, but Bourdain’s four years ago today still hurts.
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8 months
Racism, in Australia, is somehow seen as the worst accusation to make against someone, and yet a minor problem to experience.
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3 years
Crazy that Christian Porter could possibly have accepted funds from ISIS
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4 years
Am I doing this right?
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3 years
Vaccine rollout is worse in New Zealand says Prime Minister who once told women to be grateful they aren’t being shot at like in other countries
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3 years
This really is an irony-free country
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4 years
This is a perfect case study of why Australian media needs to have more non-white journalists and reporters in its ranks.
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#BREAKING : Unlawful assembly declared as police try to control crowds. #9Today
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3 years
Is every old white guy in Australia legally required to write an opinion column about “rule of law” this week?
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3 years
Reminding everyone that these Sydney vs Melbourne fights are distracting us from the true enemy: Queensland. We need to join forces against them before it’s too late.
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4 years
Received so many lovely messages over the last few days, but this is the one that made me cry
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4 years
If you hate Melbourne’s multiculturalism, then ... leave? One racist fucking off is a lot more practical than millions going ... where exactly?
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3 years
Honestly feel terrible celebrating our end of lockdown in VIC while NSW is still stuck in such dire circumstances
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4 years
I’m drunk on Aldi wine, have the hair of an extra in a 90s hacker movie, and I’m cooking Aloo Qeema in a bathrobe. How’s your isolation going?
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4 years
I like how Australia’s Labor looks at all the lessons NZ Labour has to teach and goes, “Nah, we’re good being the shit version.”
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4 years
There was no crackdown on those weirdos gathering to protest 5G at the height of lockdown. Just a reminder for tomorrow.
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3 years
Remember when they literally ran a trial by media to overturn the trial by rule of law for Pell
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3 years
Yesterday I had wine in the afternoon, napped too long, roamed around the apartment in my underwear all evening, and then didn’t sleep all night. Lockdown Sami is back baby!
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In this industry it’s impossible to find someone universally loved and respected. Cal was that impossibility. I love her so and will miss my friend. Goodbye Cal.
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3 years
The amount I’ll lose between last week and this week in comedy gigs is basically the month’s rent. I’ve got savings, but I know a lot of friends who don’t. This is a gig economy for so many of us, and the economy has stalled completely.
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4 years
Baked a delicious lasagna, and dropped the whole thing on the floor as I took it out of the oven. Now I’ve ordered Maccas. Fucking 2020.
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3 years
“No trial by media” say newspapers and TV channels that have run trials by media against migrants, refugees, black people, indigenous people, women, women of colour, minorities...
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2 years
God I miss lockdown
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5 years
When the only non-White person on the panel calls out your racism, don't get "offended", try learning why you might be racist. Also, if you're going to talk about indigenous issues, try having an indigenous person on. HOW IS THIS STILL HAVING TO BE STATED
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2 years
Was it for 4 hours?
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Sky News Australia
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Sky News can reveal the Prime Minister is monitoring for COVID symptoms after a positive case attended Kirribilli House, in Sydney.
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I started crying again watching this. All our hearts.
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SBS News
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This small group of kids started an impromptu haka in tribute to two of their peers slain in the Christchurch shooting. Soon they were joined by scores of fellow students to form a deafening chorus.
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The big ass news: My divorce is final! Last year's lockdown was hell for me, because I spent it alone and mostly dehydrated from crying. But here I am a year later; having survived another lockdown, and well hydrated. And to celebrate...
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3 years
This is amazing. All the federal government had to do was secure enough vaccines in time. We did the rest. We locked down for insanely long periods. Lost jobs. Lost our freaking minds. And now they’re tossing the vaccination ball to retail outlets?
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4 years
Great. Now I gotta find 5 friends. Thanks for nothing Daniel Andrews.
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3 years
Am using Microsoft Teams for the first time in my life. Never hated anything more. It’s like they took all we have learned about intuitive design and said “Yes but what if we don’t”
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4 years
Making up for that time my previous employer made me apologise for telling a Neo Nazi who tried doxxing my wife to go fuck himself.
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Everyone I know is struggling. Even the kids are starting to break down bad. All this could have been avoided if the vaccination plan had been more than lies and bluster. Meanwhile, politicians actively pushing anti-vax strategies are being indulged for their election value.
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Brace yourself Melbourne, here come all the “we got this” tweets that’ll make you really want to not got this out of spite
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4 years
Criticising your country because you want it to be better is patriotic. Pass it on, no takebacks.
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5 years
I’ve been working on a documentary on Free Speech. Every white person interviewed, except for Ginger Gorman, said their biggest fears were Political Correctness or identity politics. Every poc said it was rise of Nazis and hate speech leading to attacks.
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3 years
A lot of journalists were upset at us for making fun of Morrison’s religious faith. My rebuttal in Gadfly
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2 years
Which fucking loser is going “the last 3 years weren’t enough. I need to see how they campaign for the next 4 weeks to make up my mind”?!
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I don’t understand why West Australia is doing whatever it can to protect itself from Covid, when it can let it rip and fuck up the rest of the country like Sydney
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4 years
Normalize this response to all new podcasts
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Fyre Fest's Billy McFarland placed in solitary confinement for launching podcast
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4 years
Donald Trump still paid $750 more in tax than News Corp did
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Remember January? Man, that was a time. We were so young and carefree.
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3 years
If the NSW government put half the energy into governance that it does into fighting comedians
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It’s hard to stand out as the dumbest person alive these days, but god bless Adam for trying to so hard
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"Melburnians are enduring the longest, most draconian restrictions any Western leader has imposed on citizens".
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Again: if you don’t like multiculturalism, leave Melbourne. Move to Queensland. Inbreed until your family tree is a stump. Eat flavourless food. Fuck off. You lost this battle.
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4 years
Daisy Cousens takes time out of cosplaying as a plantation owner or whatever she does to post support for a terrorist. Imagine if a brown media personality posted support for ISIS like this.
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3 years
How do people have lots of money? How do they do that?
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2 years
After the Ben Roberts-Smith case, it’s now clear how wildly unrealistic the SAS TV show is. The next season should involve kicking old people off cliffs, shooting stray dogs, drinking from a prosthetic leg, and then courting Kerry Stokes.
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2 years
Yesterday was three years since the Christchurch mosque massacres. Every year since, I'm reminded of Dr. Naeem Rashid from Abottabad, Pakistan. He charged the terrorist, allowing many to escape and flee. He was awarded the New Zealand Cross posthumously.
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They never invite anti-racists on these show. It’s always racists and clowns. Because TV producers know there’s spectacle value in bigotry, regardless of how it normalises and increases the reach of that bigotry.
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Big “it’s not hot where I am so global warming is a hoax” energy
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3 years
Is Chris Uhlmann a parody account like that Sky News one?
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5 years
An editor of European appearance wrote a headline of racist appearance
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Seven have been hospitalised after a car carrying six youths of African appearance collided with another car in Melbourne
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3 years
This is actual cancel culture
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If this were all a work of fiction, you could not script a greater entrance for the archvillain than this. #March4Justice #auspol
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3 years
9 years in Australia today.
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My daughter just asked me if most what being an adult involves looking for parking
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Federal Labor confused by this “spine” thing Dan Andrews apparently has
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One of the only responsible columns written about Glady Berejiklian’s overdue departure and the media and politicians’ disingenuous hand wringing:
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The Chaser #Waron2020 continues with Ghislaine Maxwell's first day in jail! She's a bit paranoid for some reason.
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4 years
Apparently Andrew Bolt's angry at me. I can't read it because I don't have a Herald Sun subscription. Someone copy paste it to me please?
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3 years
Who the fuck is going on cruise ships still?!
@ABC
ABC News
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JUST IN: Six passengers on Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas ship have tested positive for COVID-19 during routine testing.
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As someone with IBS, I live in fear of “code brown”
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3 years
When your 12yo daughter is bored in lockdown
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In 2013, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison told Manus Island detainees they would never see Australia. This led to a riot which killed Reza Berati. Saying things that increase misery and tensions is the brand.
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5 years
49. A Teacher. A Futsol player. A Software engineer. A PhD. A Fathers. A Mothers. A 3 year old. A 4 year old. A 14 year old. Immigrants. Refugees. Kiwis born. Muslims.
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2 years
Has anyone described as a “larrikin” ever not turned out to be an asshole
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3 years
“The most brutal dictator of all ... DICTATOR DAN!” The League of Dictators has a new member! Watch the full sketch at #chaserwaron2020
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison rejects cash incentive for Vaccinations, meaning he’ll definitely be announcing cash incentives for vaccinations in a few weeks.
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Some Australians are more offended by tweets about Manus than the actual abuse and suffering on Manus. Reveals a lot about their priorities.
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4 years
Reaction to Meghan Markle has become an effective barometer for racism
@Daily_Express
Daily Express
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Meghan Markle fury: Duchess should be STRIPPED of royal titles – ‘Done NOTHING to earn it’
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Had one round of Astra a few weeks back. Second round in a month. But I won’t breathe easy until my 12yo is vaccinated.
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