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To anyone who has ever 'solved' a Rubik's cube by peeling off the stickers and rearranging them, go to Lawrence Leung's show The Marvellous Misadventures of Puzzle Boy. Lawrence has spent the last 20 years trying to learn the secret behind solving the iconic 80s puzzle toy. "There are hundreds of different methods, but they all require a lot of memory and pattern recognition, and the most important ...

Question: what if Australia's pre-eminent political comedian, described by The Age as 'a living Melbourne treasure', were charged as a terrorist? It could happen. Last week Rod Quantock hosted The Inaugural Golden Guy Fawkes Award, in which local and international comedians competed for the 'Comedian Most Likely to Blow-Up Parliament' Award. Quantock was expecting some very special visitors to the event, held at The Old Melbourne Gaol. 'I sent ...

How is your Festival going? Good. I'm enjoying myself but I'm getting a bit tired, as I'm sure all comedians are, at this point. I've checked out your schedule and it seems like you're doing pretty much every night? Yeah. I'm working full-time as well. Are you a masochist? Yeah I am actually. So I'm basically trying to do a little bit too much at the moment I think. You work as a teacher ...