The Gold Coast trio’s frontwoman shares her list of clips – including Creed, dogs, and multiple TikTok trends she wants to try with her bandmates * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I have such a love-hate relationship with the internet and TikTok. I honestly find myself doomscrolling way more than I’d like to admit, but I am a true sucker for a funny video. When you find something that makes you laugh so much it brings you to tears, it makes the hours of scrolling through unboxing and Temu haul videos worth it. Continue reading...

The performance artist and ‘sex clown’ shares her list of (mostly) wholesome clips: the cutest children, the best dog and the glitziest aerobics workout * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I am a person who believes in laughter. I work in live art. My main medium is performance. In art-making I revere legacies of border-riders, defiant sexualities, witches and rascals. I have been known as a sex clown and I am proud to invoke laughter. Some of the best laughing is out of absurdity. Laughter erupts and massages. Purrs and murmurs. It erodes calcified, rational, top-down thinking. It appears mysteriously, sometimes even when we think we should not laugh. My grandmother Betty used to say to my brother and I: “You’re laughing now, you’ll be crying in a minute!” We need our tears and hope; I wouldn’t be laughing so hard if it wasn’t so deeply serious. Continue reading...

The Twitch streamer and comedian curated her list by scrolling back to 2020 in her TikTok likes. Some call it objective research, others call it retina damage * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I am a comedian, Twitch streaming buffoon and getter of a journalism degree. People usually end their bio with a funny third thing but I am here for a serious investigation. When I was asked to write this column, I did the normal amount of research and read every single previous piece in preparation. And you’d never believe it but a lot of people will use this opportunity to platform fresh comedic talent, some of whom they personally know. It’s like nepotism but for uplifting talented friends who deserve a spotlight. It’s disgusting and biased journalism that only serves a greater good. There will be none of that here today! Not on my watch! Continue reading...

The comedian, screenwriter and actor’s list includes a Jurassic Park melodica cover and Kristen Wiig’s Liza Minnelli impersonation * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I’m a breakfast radio producer, so I spend countless hours scouring the internet for comedy gold. I’d love to say outside work I’m decidedly offline, joyously pursuing real-world activities such as jogging, baking and not being perpetually afraid of the news. But that would be a dirty stinking lie. Nope, this 21st-century gal is hooked! And if compiling this list has taught me anything … it’s that I’ve been glued to the interwebs for quite some time. So, in honour of my crippling decades-long addiction, let’s start with a few gems from back in the good old days of dial-up. Cue old timey modem sound! Continue reading...