Funny Women on Demand: Australian Female Comedians on Screen

Today, with on-demand and streaming services increasingly taking pride of place as audiences' main content-delivery platforms, we are seeing an explosion of media works encompassing a multitude of subject matters, techniques and sources. In the case of the comedy genre, these services have provided visibility for ever more diverse Australian female creatives and characters – and for an expansion of the comedy canon, writes Angela Jones.

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