Update: too late now! Wonder how it went.

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Fresh off the press from Shapiro Tuesdays @ Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den: come down for a laugh and see some TV and radio being made.

Subject: Our hour of need… We need bums on seats!

Sorry for the late notice guys, but ABC RADIO and AUSTRALIAN IDOL’S CAMERAS are coming down tonight to record parts of the show and it would be just swell if the room was presented as a room that people actually go to and laugh. I’m not asking you to lie, just be here.

How’s this for a deal - You turn up and we’ll be hilarious.

And with Ben Russell leading the way how could it be anything less?

Details:
Tuesday Comedy Night at Lazy Susan’s - “Shapiro Tuesdays”
8pm @ Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den, Upstairs @ The Brisbane Hotel.
Admission Is Only $5
Location: 292 Beaufort Street, Highgate

Tags: ABC Radio, audience needed, Australian Idol, Ben Russell, Lazy Susan's, Shapiro Tuesdays, urgent

Then polish up your best routines and send them in to Auntie! Entries opened Thursday May 8th and close Friday May 30th, so get your skates on. You don’t have to be in the industry already, the opportunity is open to all.

The Comedy Hour is a new, weekly radio comedy series that will air later this year, and ABC Local Radio and ABC TV are giving aspiring comedy writers around Australia the chance to be on the radio - and maybe even on TV.

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Tags: ABC, aspiring writers, captive radio audience, opportunity, sketch comedy

A good way of keeping up with who’s around Sydney doing gigs - they usually turn up on Richard Glover’s Friday afternoon show Thank God It’s Friday on ABC 702 Local Radio, and for those who can get to Ultimo by 5pm to join the studio audience (see contact details and upcoming artists below) it’s a great end to the working week.

These shows have been podcast by the ABC for a while [subscribe to podcast], but now the good folks of NSW who don’t podcast can hear the show as well:

TGIF Weekly show - Goes to Air Statewide!
If you can’t make it to see Richard Glover’s TGIF as a live audience, we’re excited to announce Thank God Its Friday will air statewide! Live music, comedians, news and weather. Every Friday from 5pm - 6pm, tune in to your local [ABC] radio station to hear live radio at its very best.

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Tags: Anthony Ackroyd, comedians, Jackie Loeb, Jean Kittson, John Williamson, Kate Miller-Heidke, Lex Marinos, Mark Watson, Noelene Brown, podcast, radio, TGIF, Tim Freedman, Wendy Harmer