Zoë Coombs Marr's Bossy Bottom: cheer yourself up with a short fix of standup – video
Amazon Prime is releasing 10 original Australian standup specials to tide you over. First off the rank? Zoë Coombs Marr in Bossy Bottom
April 2018
Lost in translation? The comics trying out Aussie humour abroad
Standup stars Jordan Raskopoulos, Zoë Coombs Marr, Charlie Pickering, Nazeem Hussain and Candy Bowers on the fraught art of adapting their jokes for different cultures and languages
March 2017
Melbourne comedy festival: top picks from Arj Barker, Hannah Gadsby and Zoë Coombs Marr
Women have better orgasms and other things I learnt at the All About Women festival
Gabrielle Jackson
January 2017
Stream lover
From Captain America to Crazyhead: the best film and TV new to Australian streaming services
Online services add new films and series every month – and we trawled through them for the highlights
December 2016
2016 in review
Australian theatre 2016: the 10 most groundbreaking shows by women
Although main stages still suffer from gender imbalance, there was much to celebrate this year – particularly in smaller theatres and experimental spaces
September 2016
Autumn arts preview 2016
The deranged Dutchman is coming! The finest comedy of autumn 2016
Brexit, starting over, a honey-selling scam and karaoke with chickens … these are the concerns of the big names in comedy this autumn
August 2016
Zach and Viggo review – new clown contenders bring silliness and charm
Edinburgh comedy diary
United states of comedy: is there an American style of standup?
Zoë Coombs Marr at Edinburgh festival review – thrillingly silly meta comedy
Edinburgh festival 2016: the shows we recommend
July 2016
Zoë Coombs Marr: why a 'cranky lesbian in her 30s' should be person of the year
‘You can’t make intersectional feminism funny,’ says Coombs Marr as Dave, her alter ego. He goes on to make it hilarious, in a show that everyone should see
April 2016
I watched my lesbian girlfriend marry a gay man
Kate Jinx
At Melbourne Comedy festival, comedian Zoë Coombs Marr married another gay comic, Rhys Nicholson. Her partner describes how it felt from the sidelines
June 2015
I'm an artist and I've received grants. Want to know what I do with all that money?
Zoë Coombs Marr
Contrary to popular opinion, I don’t spend my grant money on lollies or trips to Disneyland. I’m supposed to, you know, have a budget
April 2015
Dave is a sexist, beer-swilling jerk. Why do women find him attractive?
Zoë Coombs Marr
I’m a woman and a comedian (go with it) and sometimes I perform as a horrible, disgusting man called Dave. But women love Dave - why oh why?
January 2014
Sydney festival as it happened: Friday January 17 2014
