**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 discuss through anecdote, analysis and “War Stories”, the often perilous path through concept, script writing, production and marketing of successful Television comedy.

With a stellar cross-generational panel of TV comedy Luminaries; Adam Zwar (Lowdown, Wilfred), Tim Ferguson (DAAS Kapital, Shock Jock, The Cheeky Monkey), Lee Zachariah (The Bazura Project, Hell Is for Hyphenates) and chaired by Marc Gracie (The Adventures of Lano and Woodley, Full Frontal, WTF).

TV Comedy. How to do it! Will take you through the looking glass of Australian Television comedy production.

This Television comedy panel session will take place at ACMI on Wednesday, 7th December at 5.30pm (doors open 5:15pm).

Tickets for TV COMEDY are available for purchase at the ACMI box office located in Federation Square.

Prices are as follows:
* Full $10
* Concession $7
* ACMI Members $5
* **Open Channel Members Free**

For further information regarding this event call Open Channel (03 8610 9300) or ACMI on (03) 8663 2583.

He has made use of crowdfunding and social media to boost his visibility as a comedian and to found a comedy festival in New York.

You can hear him talk about how to effectively use online tools to boost your comedy (or crafting) career for FREE. And who is sponsoring this event? Etsy! You heard right, the place where you can sell your homemade wares. Good thing I was Christmas shopping the moment I was.

Read about the Almost Internet Famous event, and if you feel inclined, you can RSVP to watch it on Livestream at 10am Friday October 28 (Melbourne time—apologies to those who tuned in October 26 due to a date mixup).

Peace and kindness,

Katherine

The easiest way for me to see much comedy goodness is to receive a festival pass. Then I am free to see any and/or all shows that interest me. The easiest way to get that pass is to help with someone else’s show.

So, I am putting a call out: are you running a show for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and could you use some extra help?

• I am a performer in my own right. I did well in the Raw Comedy competition. I’ve done TheatreSports in performance. I have acting training (which I took to help with my playwriting skills). I sing, dance, balloon twist, and am just learning juggling.
• I can certainly help with any writing and storytelling tasks.
• I’m a respected director. In Adelaide I started being asked to consult with other directors on how to work collaboratively with volunteer actors.
• I worked in publicity at University of Washington Press. I was head of marketing for an indie comic company in the US. I still do a lot of electronic media marketing work.
• Anyone crazy enough to put on their own shows generally knows about production management. I can do that as well.

I don’t mind doing grunt work. The problem is the Comedy Festival limits to whom they are willing to give passes. So, if you have a task you think I can do that would get me that pass, that’s all I need.

Thank you for your help.

Peace and kindness,

Katherine

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 your friends about the video and encourage them to pass the word on. If you know of any producers in Australia/Britain/North America who might be interested. Send them my way!

Thank you for your support.

Peace and kindness,

Katherine

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 universe.

I would suggest for last week’s missing Friday exercise, and this week’s inevitably missing Friday exercise, to send jokes to keep me cheered up. The sillier the better. I’ll post my favourites.

Thanks everyone for your patience.

Peace and kindness,

Katherine

Yes, this doesn’t have a lot to do with comedy, but it’s my blog and my birth-month. Woohoo!

Rock God Birthday Party

Don’t I look like a rainbow barfed on me? And here I designed my own cake wreck which Michel’s Patisserie in Torrens Park kindly baked.

Groovy Birthday Cake

Lovin’s and huggin’s!

Katherine

So, here are the details

The Gov Open Mic Night

8pm Wednesday 27 May
59 Port Road, Hindmarsh

I will probably be reading “Will Play for Cheese”.

Peace and kindness,

Katherine

Mary & Max is a story about an unlikely friendship that develops between Mary, a plain little girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne Australia, and Max, an overweight Jewish man with Asperger’s living in New York. Their friendship begins when Mary randomly selects Max’s address from the New York telephone book and starts to write him. Despite their outward differences they find they both share feelings of vulnerability, insecurity, and pleasure in some of the small details of life.

This film is done using the slow process of clay animation where each movement involves making a small adjustment to a clay character then photographing it, then moving it again and taking another photograph, etc, ad infinitum. Hundreds of hand done images are created a day only to produce several seconds of film. The care and artistry shows in this form of film-making. Aardman are famous for it.

What I adore about this film is how lovingly the characters and their relationship is developed. Looking at the script most producers would put it to one side: where are the two major turning points? where’s the building action? where’s the big climax? Mary & Max avoids the formulas and still delivers a perfectly accessible and appealing film.

Mary & Max was chosen to open the Sundance Film Festival and more recently it has been selected for competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2009. Congratulations! Go Aussies!

Peace and kindness,

Katherine

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 appearance to assist me in reading my
most EVIL poetry. Some of you may remember “My Budgie”. I will also be
reading “A Paean to Villainy” and “Ninjas Ninjas Ninjas” (how could you
possibly miss that?).

I look forward to seeing you!

Peace and kindness,

Katherine

The faboo news is that IT Crowd actually won a BAFTA! Graham deserves the recognition 100%. I can’t wait to see another season of computer based mayhem. I’ll be looking for that Linux penguin floating around in the scenery.

As we say Downunda: Onya mate!

Peace and kindness,

Katherine