"A comedy podcast about things that are actually sad."

September 3, 2018 2:42 AM

The Alice Fraser Trilogy is a series of three stand-up specials where Australian comedian Alice Fraser tells the story of when her mother died, with digressions into her past and other subjects. It's available as a podcast [iTunes link]. For regular listeners of The Bugle, Alice Fraser will be familiar, but for those who aren't her comedy is a mix of absurdism, earnestness, wordplay and pessimism.
posted by Kattullus (10 comments total)

Oh! Thank you for this! I'm a long-time Bugle listener, but had no idea she had this available as a podcast. She is wonderful.
posted by robotmachine at 5:30 AM on September 3, 2018 [2 favorites]

She also has the fantastic podcast "Tea with Alice."
posted by Wink Ricketts at 5:46 AM on September 3, 2018 [3 favorites]

pudcast.
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 6:07 AM on September 3, 2018 [2 favorites]

I'm trying to enjoy this but there's a big VRRROOOOOT noise where they've cut it.
posted by adept256 at 11:34 AM on September 3, 2018

She's also got a wonderful (Hannah Gadsbyesque?) special up on US Amazon Prime.
posted by grandiloquiet at 12:12 PM on September 3, 2018 [1 favorite]

As far as I understand, the middle part of the trilogy (Resistance acts one and two) is the same as the special on Amazon Prime.
posted by Kattullus at 12:16 PM on September 3, 2018 [1 favorite]

The first hour is just the recording of a performance. They're doing some stupid editing thing on the second one that I don't understand and it's not working for me. I hope the third hour is less annoying in this respect.
posted by hippybear at 2:15 PM on September 3, 2018

The editing is much more judicious in the third hour. I'm glad I listened to these. Her look at the world as a rolling wave of absurdity and sorrow really meshes with me, and I laughed out loud several times which is always a sign of good comedy when listening alone in the house.
posted by hippybear at 3:10 PM on September 3, 2018 [1 favorite]

She also has the fantastic podcast "Tea with Alice."

Do not confuse this with the "Tea with Alice" Youtube thing I just googled up.

You want the Tea with Alice (itunes.com link) audio podcast by the person who did What are we doing? | Alice Fraser | TEDxMacquarieUniversity (which is a video version of part of the same standup podcast this post is about?)
posted by pracowity at 5:13 AM on September 4, 2018 [1 favorite]

Can't wait! Alice Fraser is terrific on the Bugle. Hopefully she doesn't sell out to Big Smurf.
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 12:19 AM on September 5, 2018 [2 favorites]