Gleaned from sources sundry and various:

• If you missed the first show of SBS new homegrown comedy Swift and Shift Couriers on Monday night, you can catch the full episode online at the SBS TV homepage. The next show airs on Monday 3rd November at 8:30pm.
• Melbourne impro troupe The Crew are providing the entertainment at a fundraising trivia night at the Melbourne Town Hall to support the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre. Book by October 31st! [The Crew blog]
• Ying Tong: A Walk with The Goons is heading to Adelaide in November after a strong run in the eastern states. Veteran comics Geoff Kelso and Johnny Biggins play Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers respectively. [Independent Weekly]
  

  Written by Roy Smiles, the show also features David James as Harry Secombe and John Hannan as voiceover man Wallace Greenslade and follows Milligan through a period of hospitalisation after a nervous breakdown.

• Kitty Flanagan is appearing in Byron Bay on November 3rd. [Byron Shire Echo]
• A new celebrity improvisation show is coming to the Comedy Channel on Nov 8th: Comedy Slapdown, hosted by HG Nelson. [TV Tonight]
• Pam Ann back in Australia:[SameSame]
  

  Fresh from her recent run of Terror At 41,000 Feet, the insatiable Pam Ann, air hostess with the mostess, has flown to Sydney to film her new show The Pam Ann Experience at Foxtel Studios.

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June is when most comedy tours finish up here in Oz for a few months as flocks of comedians head north for the comedy festivals of Edinburgh, Montreal and various smaller summer comedy festivals in the northern hemisphere. So the next few weeks are your best chance to catch top comics putting those finishing touches to the shows they’ve been working on all this year. (Of course their absence in July/August means that our winters are the best months to go to your local comedy room to see emerging talent alongside the veterans who’ve done their festival rounds years ago.)

Update: The QPAC In Stitches Comedy Festival 17-29 June at the Queensland Performing Arts Festival - see new post with full details.

Touring now:

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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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Booking details can be found at the performers’/venues’ websites linked below:

The Chaser’s Age of Terror Variety Hour on tour until July 2nd. Remaining shows will be in
SYDNEY • ADELAIDE • CANBERRA • GEELONG • MELBOURNE • BRISBANE • NEWCASTLE

Heath Franklin’s Chopper in Make Deadsh*ts History - on tour until June 8th. Remaining shows will be in
BRISBANE • GOLD COAST • BUNDABERG • DARWIN • MACKAY • CAIRNS • TOWNSVILLE • HOBART

The 2008 Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow is gadding about all over the country until the last weeks of June, and then hitting Singapore in July.

Mark Watson: Can I Briefly Talk to You About the Point of Life? (UK) Finishes this Saturday at the Factory Theatre in Enmore, Sydney.

Emma Powell and Bev Killick in Busting Out are touring NSW until mid-June, then BRISBANE from June 11.
SYDNEY • ORANGE • PARRAMATTA • SUTHERLAND • PENRITH • WOLLONGONG • GOSFORD • CANBERRA

Let me know of more tours in comments and I’ll add them above.