Alice Fraser

Multi award-winning comedian, broadcaster, writer and performer Alice Fraser grew up halfway between suburban Sydney and her own imagination, raised as a Burmese Buddhist by an ex-Catholic and a Jew.

Listed as one of the Telegraph (UK)‘s 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century, Alice’s solo comedy shows have been commissioned as TV specials on Amazon Prime, NextUp and ABC TV (Australia).

A regular writer and performer on BBC Radio‘s flagship satirical news comedy show The News Quiz, ABC Radio’s Thank God It’s Friday and the multi-Australian Podcast Award winning A Rational Fear, Alice conceived the ABC radio podcast Trollplay which she hosted alongside Sami Shah and Cal Wilson, and is a beloved regular co-host on The Bugle and ‘Bugleverse’ spin-off shows: the deranged and experimental The Last Post and The Gargle, and more recently the Fantasy, Sci Fi and speculative fiction offering Realms Unknown.

Her podcast Tea with Alice brings together a thoughtful and clever community, drinking tea with a rotating cast of bright and brilliant guests including Wil Anderson, Baratunde Thurston, Cal Wilson, Osher Gunsberg, and her next door neighbour. In 2016 Alice was awarded the AMP Tomorrow Fund grant for the podcast.

She’s written for and performed on TV for Channel 10’s The Project; ABC TV’s Tonightly and Question Everything; several seasons of Just For Laughs‘ stand-up series (filmed at the Sydney Opera House); appeared as a guest panellist onChannel 9’s Mornings and Channel 10’s Studio 10; and been published in Cosmopolitan and Marie-Claire magazines. Alice has delivered a TEDx Talk about vanity in the face of death, debated the power of the media against Julian Assange at Splendour in the Grass music festival and once did a 75th birthday party gig to sixteen people in an upmarket butcher’s shop next to a rotating carcass display that was exactly the same as having an existential crisis.

At the 2018 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Alice performed Savage, The Resistance and Empire back-to-back in a three hour marathon performance that became The Alice Fraser Trilogy. The show was received with a full house and standing ovation at Melbourne Town Hall before playing as encore seasons at London’s Soho Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe, and was voted Best Australian Podcast of 2018 by Apple Australia. All three comedy specialsare available to view on Amazon Prime, with Savage being one of the first Specials ever to be released on the global platform.

With four extremely popular documentaries (on Meditation 101, Habit Change, Wellness and Work-Life Balance) recorded for Audible, In The Habit was named in the platform’s top 5 downloaded podcasts in its release year. And with a special mention to Alice’s regular co-hosting, The Bugle was the number 2 pick of TechAdvisor (UK)‘s Top Ten Podcasts of the decade. She also co-hosted the BBC Radio 4 series Stranger Than Sci Fi, about ongoing conversations between science and science fiction.

In March 2022 Alice featured on SBS Insight‘s special episode ‘Bad Joke’ – an investigation into the line when it comes to humour and what happens when you cross it. Here Alice shares her thoughts on ‘cancel culture’, and whether there could be an alternative to this phenomenon.

In 2025 Alice released her debut book. A delirious love letter and glorious homage to genre romance fiction told through the works of self-published romance maven ‘D’Ancey LaGuarde’ (who may or may not actually exist), A Passion for Passion celebrates the solemn silliness of romance novels.

Alice does reliably silly, unpredictably meaningful, narratively unorthodox, gut-punch comedy, and is available for corporate events and charity fundraisers, stand-up, MC work and comedy debates.

Astonishing

★★★★★  Funny Tonne

Gut-punchingly funny. See this show.

 ★★★★★ Herald Sun

Stand-up like you’ve never seen it before

★★★★★ Broadway Baby

Could give Daniel Kitson a run for his money.

Chortle (UK)

Brilliant and humble, self-deprecating and charming

Herald Sun

Big, amazing, entertaining, funny, tragic, sad, uplifting, occasionally musical… beautiful… a very strange show… I really thought it was tremendous

Kate Copstick, The Scotsman (UK)

A towering achievement, one of the festival’s very best.

Funny Tonne

Razor sharp and intriguing

TimeOut

Hilarious, charming, moving, gently sarcastic, silly and always a warm presence

Squirrel Comedy