AliceFraser

Predators in Comedy: A List

Or: one road to the horrorshow.There’s plenty of stuff that’s been written about the recent wave of revelations about powerful men abusing their power to get sexual attention from women. Many people have explained in detail how wrong that behaviour is, and others have outlined excellently how it affects women.Tea W...

New Tea With Alice Podcast: Al Murray

I met Al Murray remotely, doing a Bugle podcast. He was in London in the studio with Andy Zaltzman, I was in the foyer of the ABC studios in Melbourne.We drank tea in Camden, and talked about belief, anger, organisation, gendered laws, history, Vanta Black, politics and the new world. Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7...

New Teacast: Steele Saunders

Steele Saunders drinks turmeric and ginger tea to fit in with the Tea With Alice brand, talking the class issues of Iced Coffee, Overdoses, how to make meaning in life, Star Wars as a microcosm of society and angry fans.Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7VyNon- itunes listeners can catch it here Steele can be found at @...

Manners

I had a moment the other day of wishing for a more structured set of rules of engagement.This is possibly the result of me reading too much historical fiction, but also having learned German as a kid. The difference between the formal Sie and the informal Du, the Regency formality that people (at least of the class gen...

The Hot Guy Fallacy

There's a certain argument that I have been hearing a lot of in the wake of the #metoo hashtag about the kinds of men that women are 'outing' as harassers.Rather than describing the argument, I'll give some examples:"The ability to label men as ‘creepy' is just one privilege that women enjoy, ...

New Teacast: Laurie Kilmartin

Laurie Kilmartin sat with me in LA over black tea with creamer (no camomile!), talking about dating while being a comedian and single mother, what you can ask of partners, death sharing and American Politics.Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7VyNon- itunes listeners can catch it here Laurie Kilmartin can be found at @an...

Top Tips for Expressing Grievances via Email

Hi Patreonites. Some of the higher tier subscribers have the option of requesting content (articles/podcast topic/etc) that they would like me to post or topics to discuss. This is one of those posts.I guess you'd call it a sponsored post, though I have kept the question asker anonymous at their request. Here is an...

A side effect

Well, my sheltered childhood and uncool young- adulthood of not watching much TV is finally coming in handy.Everyone’s all, “did you hear about X being a creep!?” And I’m like, “who?”And then they explain it, and then I’m all like, “oh, I can see why that would be sad and confusing to have a part of you...

New Teacast: Troy Conrad

I had a lovely cuppa with Troy Conrad, over a triple bag (!) of lemon herbal tea. We talked about alkalising the body, and about relationships - whether it's possible to remake your character, and being a good person.Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7VyNon- itunes listeners can catch it here Troy can be found on tw...

Beyond Law

‪I did an interview about why I’m not a lawyer anymore. https://goo.gl/dWEVRa‬

The Problem With Beauty

I’m not a big fan of beauty. I mean, I enjoy beautiful things and find many kinds of people beautiful, but messages about ‘access’ to beauty bother me. You know the ones I mean - the every body is beautiful ones.The push for public acknowledgement of a wider range of beauty is a political aim. Beautiful people ha...

New Teacast - Lisa Sharon Harper

Over Rooibos tea, I spoke to Lisa Sharon Harper, consultant, church engagement officer and activist about the American Narrative Gap, the conflicts of identity, her experience at Charlottesville, and more.Jarrod McKenna, friend of the podcast acts as a translator for esoteric church/activist language and asks a few que...

Subscriber Content Poll

I'm hoping to refine what I'm doing here a little bit with your feedback - topic suggestions, people you know who you'd like me to talk to, more of x, less of y.This is a bit of a grab bag of things I saw people at podfest doing specially for their people, and wanted to see if I could make more things to su...

New Teacast: Graham Elwood

The Chamomile VigilanteI'm sorry this ep is going up a little late - I lost a day in transit from LA to Sydney, but I hope you'll enjoy it.I spoke over Chamomile tea with Graham Elwood, who cohosts Comedy Film Nerds, is one of the organisers and originating minds behind the Los Angeles Podcast Festival, and pub...

Kindness and the long tail of death

Yesterday (12 October) was the anniversary of my mum’s death. I’ve written about this before - at length, here on this blog and in my sad poetry blog. I’ve spoken about it, both in my podcast, in my TEDx talk and in my show Savage. I will put up (again) the podcast that I did with Lucy, my mum, in the last six mo...

Bladerunner 2049

I was up on the Comedy Film Nerds Podcast with Graham Elwood and Chris Mancini talking about Bladerunner 2049. It was the day after the Podcast Festival and Graham Elwood mentioned that he would be watching Bladerunner 2049 at a cinema in LA later that day. I brought some snacks. I always feel a little bit strange abou...

Podfest Scoop and subscriber questions

So I’ve just finished up my time at the LA Podcast Festival. It was a fascinating and excellent weekend, at the ridiculously pretty Millenium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.The second-last event of the festival was a talk given by the organisers about the difficulties involved in previous years.Coming up to t...

New Teacast: Paul Gilmartin

This week's podcast is with Paul Gilmartin of the Mental Illness Happy Hour Podcast.I spoke to him about shame, his experience with doing a podcast about mental illness, and American Politics.Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7VyNon- itunes listeners can catch it here Paul Gilmartin can be found Here

Another Month, another Country

I am in L.A at the moment. After having returned briefly to Sydney to hang out with dad and sleep in the empty shell of my family home (dad is selling up, so the house was being painted and floored and all that pre-sale stuff), I have flown to America for the L.A Podfest.This trip was paid for out of the AMP Tomorrow F...

New Teacast! Andrew M.

This week on the podcast, I talk to my friend, Andrew X, engineer, polymath, autodidact and hospitality worker.Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7VyNon- itunes listeners can catch it here We chat over the memory of water about manners, whether the pay gap is real, and how to understand traditional marriage advocacy as a...

Long day.

New Teacast! Justin Hamilton

I sat with friend and friend of the podcast Justin Hamilton over a long black and an English Breakfast.The itunes link is hereNon- itunes listeners can catch it here We talked for a long time and spanned a number of topics, from the ups and downs of being a man in your forties, to the failings of commercial radio, the ...

New Teacast: Wall Time

Hey ChapsThis is a true ramble at a wall by me. Enjoy almost completely incoherent solo chat about death threats, free will, and Artificial Intelligence.The podcast is here for itunes listenersNon- itunes listeners can catch it here

Television, Heckler, Jumpsuit, Jetlag

Hallo lovely punks. This morning I landed back in Sydney from London. This evening I did one of the Just For Laughs comedy galas at the Opera house.That flying in in the morning, performing that night is an interesting (read, probably v silly) thing to do. For those of you who weren't with me last year, I did the s...

New Teacast: Tiff Stevenson

This is a long chat. Tiff is incredibly easy to talk to for ages, and I definitely did that. We cover a lot of ground here, from representation in standup, to the feeling of having done Edinburgh, to whether you should respect people's cultures even when you don't agree with their values.The podcast is here for...

New Teacast: Laura Davis

I love talking to Laura, and it's been lovely to hang out with her in Edinburgh and also London. We had Choc-Mint Rooibos tea and talked about Moths, Travel, Existential Crises, the Essential trouble with Comedic News Satire and Laura's take on her first Edinburgh Fringe Festival.The Link is HERE

New Merch - discount code for Patreon Subscribers

Hi pals. My excellent all-round hench-human Sarah has built new merch for you guys, based on the line in my show Savage "only the unfinished can contain the infinite.and it's up at the shop here: http://www.alicecomedyfraser.com/shop/braceletThere's a discount of $5 for all subscribers and the code isTEAOf ...

New Teacast: Andy Zaltzman

Perhaps it's the hair-resemblance, perhaps it's the shared tea obsession, perhaps it's the fact that I have such fun on the Bugle, but I love chatting with Andy Zaltzman. He is a very sweet and lovely man, who has forcibly carved for himself a niche in comedy and podcasting - gathering people who are incred...

Edinblog Final Week

Oh god - it's the final day of the Fringe. This one happened to me very fast, although this is the first year I'm not doing multiple full length shows.Friday and Saturday night were lovely - Saturday night especially so because sold out and the excellent Phill Jupitus was in the front row, and then took me out ...

Edinblog day 17-19

I can't believe we're in the last week. I feel like I've lost some days in this blog, but I can't figure out where. Edinburgh is very absorbing - it feels like a sort of Jetlag, in that days are very long but they melt into one another. One day you might be doing six promo spots, the next day, none, and...