The Saturday Quiz

This special bonus episode is to make up for the episode missed a few weeks ago. The Canberra Theatre Centre has curated an electrifying performance series under the banner of “Valence”. Shows that will ignite the senses and challenge perceptions, made by artists exploring the now, pushing the boundaries of convention, and which invite viewers to confront uncomfortable truths and embrace the possi...

Madeleine Stewart and Bec Charlwood are two comedians who are part way through a tour around the country with a night of comedy appropriately called Are You Pulling My Leg?  This show brings brings together some of Australia’s funniest comedians with disability or chronic illness for a raucous accessible comedy event offering entertaining and uncensored insights into disability and so-much mo...

Claire Bird and Hugo Williams are both members of Ponycam Collective. What is a ponycam collective? Well, that is a good question that Claire and Hugo are probably well equipped to answer, but which, unfortunately, is not on the quiz, so there’s not much point in asking them. Although performing seemingly pointless tasks does seem to be very much part of the Ponycam Collective reason for bein...

Sweeney and Ethan are award winning comedians who have combined comedy and wine-tasting to create one hilarious show. That doesn't necessarily mean they're great at trivia though... Get tickets to In Pour Taste at Bondi Festival here: https://www.bondifestival.com.au/event/in-pour-taste-show/ This podcast is made on the land belonging to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respec...

Two years ago, British comedy musical duo Flo & Joan (aka real life sisters Rosie and Nicola Dempsey) came and did the quiz and were justifiably stumped by a whole lot of Australian-centric questions. This time around, they're lucky enough to get at least one question right in their trivia sweet spot. If you're in Adelaide, go see a show at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival https://cabaret.adelaid...

As well as making this podcast, John is also an actor. Right now, he's rehearsing a brand new play by Francis Greenslade called The Platypus which also stars Rebecca Bower. And since they are the two people he's seeing the most of these days, it seemed perfectly logical that they should be this episode's guests. They're also both very clever people with a knack for quizzes. Get tickets to see John...

The podcaster community is a tight one. We tend to all have the same challenges of finding fresh guests for each episode. Invite one podcast host to be a guest on your show, and they’ll put you in touch with another who could be a potential guest, or they’ll introduce you to a podcast that you may not have been aware of.  Todays episode is a case in point. Alexei Toliopoulos has been on the s...

Grant Piro and Alison Whyte are two of the hardest working actors in the country. Stars of stage and screen, they are both in the very special production of Death of a Salesman directed by Neil Armfield which has just opened at the Theatre Royal in Sydney.  Get your tickets here: https://salesmanaustralia.com.au/ This podcast is made on the land belonging to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin...

Comedian Tarsh Jago and cabaret artist Imogen Whittaker met in the considerably unlikely world of Aboriginal health policy and advocacy. But these friends found that they share a great deal of common ground. In their defence, the first half of this quiz is pretty tricky. Question writer Cindy MacDonald really didn't hold back this week. See how you go yourself! Get your tickets to Imogen’s show “T...

Liam Pieper and Sofija Stefanovic are old friends who went to high school together. They've since both gone on to write moving and funny memoirs about their childhoods. Sofija wrote about being an immigrant kid in Australia during the dissolution of Yugoslavia, while Liam used his teenage experience of selling pot around the suburbs of Melbourne from the back of his pushbike to tell a story of fam...

Sean Kelly and David Marr are two of the sharpest minds in the country writing about politics and unflinchingly examining our history and national character. They are both appearing at the Melbourne Writers Festival on the panel discussion Year in Review: Australian Politics with Laura Tingle and Michael Williams to talk about the year in Australian politics and consider w...

This episode is possibly the most chaotic the podcast has ever been. Demi and David are masters of surfing the absurd and are both very comfortable teetering at the edge of the abyss of improvisation. They are also both very funny people. See Demi and David in their show at the Sydney Comedy Festival: https://www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au/event/demi-lardner-david-correos/ This podcast is made on the...

Annie Louey and Mohammed Magdi are comedians dating across continents. Annie is Chinese-Australian living in Melbourne. Mohammed is Egyptian but has lived in China for 11 years. Annie is still getting used to learning about her own Chinese culture through an Arab. They first met on Love Island , aka Hong Kong. Annie returned to Australia with a long-distance relationship, a massive medical bill an...

Fern Brady and John Kearns were both contestants on series 14 of the UK tv show Taskmaster - in fact they even scored the exact same amount of points to finish joint last. The good news for them on this podcast is that since there are no other competitors on the quiz, no matter how badly they do, they will finish joint winners  Get tickets to Fern’s show - I Gave You Milk to Drink - here...

Zoë Coombs Marr and Tom Walker are two of the funniest and most creative comedians at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. If this episode of the quiz is anything to go by, there are very few boundaries either of them are too cautious to cross. This one comes with a bit of a content warning, so if you’ve got little ones listening, you might wanna skip ahead once Tom talks about his show an...

For an episode of a quiz podcast to promote two comedian's shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, there is an awful lot of chat about soccer in this one. According to the webpages for their shows Chloe Petts and Rob Auton are both English comedians "fresh from Edinburgh" - but as Rob says, what it really should say is that they're "match fit". Listen to this delightful episode and t...

The episodes of the Quiz with Brian and Julia are always a bit longer than normal and this one is no exception. Stop reading this and just press play and enjoy. Watch the RocKwiz cover of "Keep on Rockin' In The Free World": https://youtu.be/dc455XOLGxk?si=SOrRyE54g7jQTYCq Get tickets to RocKwiz Live! RocKwiz’s Really Really Good Friday: https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2024/co...

In this episode, regular guest Kirsty Webeck has brought along a newbie to the quiz, Fellow comedian (and almost fellow Canberran) Daniel Connell. They are both on the road right now, taking their shows around the country. Kirsty's is called "I'll be the Judge of That" and Daniel is a "Little Aussie Battler" But before they do, they have ten questions to answer. Find out when they'll be in a town...

From paying to be nominated for awards to getting your friends to write your reviews, it's not always easy to make it as a comedian in this country. Two of the best join John on this episode for their fourth time on the podcast - Luke Heggie has been described as “ an efficient punchline machine,” while a reviewer called Chris Ryan “ one of those rare comedians that are so good at what they do, th...

Rebecca Massey and Shannen Alyce Quan are both actors soon to appear in Belvoir’s Holding the Man. This new production comes nearly 20 years after the plays premiere in 2006. Written by Tommy Murphy, the play brings to life the heartfelt and heartbreaking memoir by Timothy Conigrave, about his fifteen year relationship with John. From falling in love at high school in the late 70s, to its devastat...

The only other person to have hosted this podcast, William McKenna returns as a guest with Laurence Boxhall. Appearing for possibly the only time together on stage in the play "Milked" at Fortyfive Downstairs, these two show off their knowledge across multiple categories including nineteenth-century physicians, US geography and big land animals. Get tickets to "Milked" here: https://fortyfivedowns...

This is only the second episode of the podcast with just one guest, but Michelle Brasier has more than enough talent to make up for it. Writer, actor, singer, comedian - you name it, she can do it. She's on here today to promote her show at the Malthouse Outdoor stage "Michelle Brasier Songs with my Friends. If you're in Melbourne tonight, you should go and see it. Get tickets here: https://www.ma...

Usually, the guests on this show - mostly actors and comedians - tend not to have the answers to the sports questions, since the fields of theatre and sport tend to remain somewhat seperate.  However Tristan Black and Anthony Taufa are currently starring in “Alone It Stands” at The Ensemble Theatre. Written by the Irish playwright John Breen, it tells the story of the 1978 Rugby Union match b...

For the first episode of the fifth season of The Saturday Quiz, we're very lucky to have musical theatre heavyweights Tim Minchin and Andy Karl. Tim has written the songs for the musical Groundhog Day and Andy sings them - day, after day... after day. Get your tickets to Groundhog Day - The Musical here: https://groundhogday.com.au/ This podcast is made on the land belonging to the Wurundjeri peop...

The Saturday Quiz will be back in its regular format for Season 5 next week! Until then, please enjoy these bonus bits that didn't make the cut last year. This podcast is made on the land belonging to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and acknowledge their traditions of sharing knowledge and stories for millennia on this land. Support th...