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The Chaser Annual 2019 What a wild year it's been. With at least 20 Prime Ministers ousted and replaced this year, at least things have been steady at a political level. And who would have thought Andrew Bolt would have done that? On national TV? The Chaser and Shovel Annual 2019 brings you all the funniest headlines of the year...

The Chaser and Shovel Annual 2021 brings you all the highlights from the Chaser and Shovel websites (and some of the low-lights), as well as fresh original content. It's the perfect gift for anyone you can't think of a better gift for. It's the year in review that's designed to make you laugh, but will probably make you cry. It...

Featuring over 300 satirical headlines, 20 pages of bonus content, and over 500 typos, The Chaser Annual 2023 is being described by critics as "a reliable stocking filler" and "something I buy my brother-in-law each year because I can never think of a present for him". The Chaser and Shovel Annual 2023 brings you all the highlights from The Chaser...

Each year, The Chaser and The Shovel combine forces to generate an end-of-year Annual, compiling together in one volume all the best satirical news from the year, as well as fresh original content, that makes it the perfect gift for anyone you can't think of a better gift for. This year, The Chaser and The Shovel outsourced all their writing...

The World's Largest Lack of Personality Contest Move aside Antony Green. Get stuffed Chris Uhlmann. Think you know politics, Leigh Sales? With a Federal election due by May 2019, The Chaser provides a must-read guide to Australian politics, and how it works. Know your electorate. All the other guides will tell you the swings and demographics of the seats. Only...

We all know the tale of Hansel and Gretel, or The Sleeping Beauty, but yesterday's morality tales need serious updating. Written by one of Australia's leading satirists, Charles Firth (The Chaser), each tale investigates a current topic that you can read to your kids to teach them about how morality actually works nowadays. Why it's alright for banking CEOs to...

It's been 20 years since The Chaser began in the spare bedroom of a student house in Glebe. Now, for the first time, the history of The Chaser, as told by the original founders, complete with behind-the-scenes photos, and needlessly sordid details. From the original newspaper, to their first show on Triple M, to the television years, the famous APEC...

The world is in turmoil and the facts are to blame. The Chaser far-rights the wrongs made by showing how so-called theories such as evolution, climate-change, vaccination, nutrition and human biology have been too dominated by "experts" who "know stuff" for too long. The Anti-Expert's Guide to Everything is about taking back control for the everyman. Whether it's Medicine, Biology,...

Forget baby love. The Chaser has written the definitive guide to parenting in the modern age, fully updated for post-pandemic parenting. Jam-packed with 132 pages of spurious information, written by some of Australia's top comedians. It's the perfect gift for new parents, prospective parents, and essential reading for anyone who has ever considered becoming a parent. Forget Baby Love. Say...

When the pandemic hit Australia, and Victoria in particular, a then-unknown blog called The Shot emerged through the haze as a voice of reason, comfort, hope and swear words. As one lockdown blurred into the next and curfewed Melburnians sought community, connection and a counter-narrative to the warped reality presented in the Murdoch press, The Shot became one of the...

Each year, The Chaser and The Shovel combine forces to produce an end-of-year Annual, compiling together in one volume all the best satirical news from the year, as well as fresh original content, that makes it the perfect stocking filler for anyone you can't think of a better gift for. This year, The Chaser and The Shovel chart the choppy...