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Sarah Chalke as Elliot Reid, Zach Braff as John ‘JD’ Dorian, and Donald Faison as Christopher Turk.

Yep, Scrubs is back. But is nostalgia enough to keep this old favourite alive?

The hospital comedy was pronounced dead after its ninth season. Sixteen years on, it’s back with the same crew.

  • Karl Quinn

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Scout Boxall.

Scout endured a harrowing night in a small town. Then they wrote an award-winning show

As soon as the misery set in, Scout Boxall began looking for a way to get something positive out of it.

  • Daniel Herborn
A Super Progressive Movie

‘Comedy poison’: I watched the Pauline Hanson movie so you don’t have to

A Super Progressive Movie clearly wants to sit in the tradition of Australian satire. It just badly overestimates how long one joke can survive on screen.

  • Rob Harris
Fold the cheese? Catherine O’Hara as Moira Rose in a scene from Schitt’s Creek.

A thousand faces, one heart: The quiet modesty of Catherine O’Hara

Forged in the fire of improvisational comedy, Catherine O’Hara possessed the rare ability to turn a grain of truth into the most absurd characters.

  • Michael Idato
Celia Pacquola stars in new ABC comedy Dog Park.

This new ABC show is Celia Pacquola’s dream gig (just don’t ask about Bluey)

“I wasn’t even asked to audition. I asked to audition … I don’t know if I manifested it, but if I did, good on me.”

  • Nell Geraets
Mel Brooks, in the new HBO Max docuseries Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man.

I called Mel Brooks about a fart gag 44 years ago. I never expected him to pick up

The great comedian is being celebrated with a new HBO documentary this week. But his legacy extends all the way to Australia for this former Age journalist.

  • Peter Wilmoth
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I don’t want you to like me for my morality: comic Gianmarco Soresi

The musical theatre student-turned-stand-up understands that the line between skewering the sacred and being plain mean is a wobbly one.

  • John Bailey
Jimmy Kimmel had a crack at the Trump administration in his Christmas message on the UK’s Channel 4.

‘Tyranny is booming’: Jimmy Kimmel takes aim at Trump in UK Christmas message

The US late-night TV host delivered this year’s alternative to the King’s address on British public broadcaster Channel 4.

  • Lizzie Dearden
This was Spinal Tap in its heyday: Harry Shearer as Derek Smalls, Christopher Guest as Nigel Tufnel, and Michael McKean as David St Hubbins.

Life turned up to 11: Why I tapped into profound silliness

Long after anyone’s forgotten about how Rob Reiner and his wife died or what Trump said, they’ll still be getting something from Rob Reiner’s movies.

  • Malcolm Knox
Comedian Tania Lacy was a regular on Australian TV in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

She was one of Australia’s hottest TV stars – then she vanished. What happened to Tania Lacy?

A dramatic firing, cruel rumours and a battle with addiction saw this 1990s TV sensation retreat from the limelight. Now, Lacy reveals the story behind her disappearance.

  • Michael Lallo