Katherine Phelps

“Life’s easy, comedy is hard.” (George Bernard Shaw) **Wednesday, 7th December at 5.30pm (doors open 5:15pm)** **Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)** An insightful panel session looking at the why, wherefores and eternal dreams of perfecting Australian Television comedy. Television comedy is one of the most difficult program forms to perfect, this panel will [...]

Eugene Mirman was a regular on Flight of the Conchords and Adult Swim’s Delocated, had his own special on Comedy Central, and voices Gene in the animated Fox series Bob’s Burgers. He has made use of crowdfunding and social media to boost his visibility as a comedian and to found a comedy festival in New [...]

I am currently doing short-term contract work. This means I did not have the funding to produce any of my own shows this year or next year, and that I have to do some fast talking to convince people to let me see shows for reviewing. The easiest way for me to see much comedy [...]

Been wondering what I’ve been doing with my time? Making stupid TV comedies! YAY! Time Titties is a saucy time travel comedy made in Australia for a multi-national Gen-Y audience. The below is my pitch promo reel in order to drum up production support. With your help I can turn this madness into reality. Tell [...]

Hello Funsters and Seekers of LOLitanium, I have done my best to keep up with the blog and pack at the same time. However, this is the last week before M-Day and I’m doing my best to neither explode and leave a greasy brown mess on the boxes, nor implode and disappear into an alternative [...]

I don’t have so much a birthday as a birthMONTH! So I’m still celebrating, even though the  event was a week ago. This Friday was the actual party and here are a couple photos. The theme was “Rock Gods”. Yes, this doesn’t have a lot to do with comedy, but it’s my blog and my [...]

I’m not certain why I’ve been sucked into doing poetry recently. I redeem myself by most of it being silly, like Dr Seuss after a spin dry in a virtual reality machine. I have a poem I plan on taking with me to The Gov in order to check out their open mic night. I [...]

I ran an animation society for seventeen years. So yes, I am mad for good quality animation. At first I was overjoyed by the upswing in animation production in recent years, fueled largely by the popularity and increasing ease in creating CGI animation. Lately I’ve been a bit dispirited by the sameness of storytelling and [...]

I shall be performing Saturday 16 May 8pm at Star Theatres, 145 Sir Donald Bradman Drive Hilton at the RU Funny Competition. Mark Trenwith is MCing! Please come and help cheer me along for a win or at least a good time. Tickets are only $5. My soft toy Tiki Mbulu will be making an [...]

I am a great fan of Graham Linehan’s work.  Father Ted is such a delightful mix of sweet, surreal, and outrageous. He brought that same sensibility with him to the IT Crowd and my little geeky heart went pitter-pat. These are my people he’s celebrating! The faboo news is that IT Crowd actually won a [...]