Nick Boshier’s entry into showbusiness was via community radio and managing the singer-songwriter, Lior. Then, in 2008 he made Youtube viral sensations “Trent From Punchy”, which is currently sitting on 9 million views, and “Beached AZ”, an animation about a Kiwi whale, that reached 10 million views, sold 80,000 T-shirts and won the hearts of The Flight of the Conchords. After those early videos, Nick went on to develop the ubiquitous Bondi Hipsters with Christiaan and Connor Van Vuuren, the ABC...
Aug 29, 2021•25 min
He’s one of the few performers on Australian television who has fans from multiple generations. First, there were the Comedy Company fans who loved him as Uncle Arthur, then there were the Russell Coight fans – and then the Kath and Kim fans who were beguiled by his multiple outings as Kel Knight. I speak of course of the great and enduring, Glenn Robbins. In this episode, we chart his beginnings in performance – from turning his back on being a town planner, to taking a drama teaching degree, b...
Aug 23, 2021•46 min
One of the people I’ve known longest and admire most in the Australian entertainment industry and that’s Dan Ilic. Dan’s had success on Australian television thanks to writing and starring in such shows as The Ronny Johns Half Hour, Hungry Beast and Can of Worms, and then taking on the grown-up jobs of executive producing and showrunning ABC shows Tonightly and At Home Alone Together, which could really do with another series right now. He’s also had stints producing satirical comedy for Al Jaze...
Aug 15, 2021•41 min
One of my favourite actors – a performer who can do comedy and drama, stage and screen, and that’s Kat Stewart. Kat got a degree in marketing and arts before attending the National Theatre drama school at night while working as a publicist during the day. After graduating, she started making guest appearances on The Secret Life of Us, Stingers and Blue Heelers before landing her first leading role on BBC’s Supernova opposite Rob Brydon. After that, came her award-winning turn as Roberta Williams...
Aug 08, 2021•24 min
You’d know Mark from his brilliantly observed sketches for The Roast on ABC 2, The Feed on SBS and most recently for 7.30 on ABC. He’s also hosted the channel 10 quiz show, Pointless and, along with his co-writer Evan Williams, has written the book On Politics and Stuff. Which is bloody funny. I don’t want to generalise, but in comedy, people are generally scoundrels, but Mark’s one of the decent ones. And sorry to completely embarrass him, but that decency shines through here. Socials Twitter -...
Aug 01, 2021•44 min
Jan Fran was born in Lebanon, came to Australia when she was a kid, grew up in Bankstown, went to the University of Technology in Sydney, then started working for SBS current affairs shows Dateline and Insight before becoming a foreign correspondent and filing from Bangladesh and then Uganda. When she returned Australia she became a presenter on SBS’s the Feed. And it was her work on a Feed segment called The Frant, which won her a 2019 Walkley Award. Since then, Jan Fran has appeared on Q and A...
Jul 25, 2021•30 min
Scott rose to prominence in 2005 with the release of his micro-budget independent feature The Magician – a mockumentary about a hitman called Ray Shoesmith. We’ll talk about how that came into being as the show unfolds. Then more than a decade went by before Scott and Nash Edgerton, one of the producers on The Magician, turned Ray Shoesmith’s life into a TV series called Mr InBetween, with Scott writing and starring and Nash directing. The show was picked up by FX and since then Scott has won pl...
Jul 18, 2021•23 min
Most people know Merrick from his long-time radio partnership with Tim Ross, who I interviewed for this show in October 2017. Merrick and Rosso started on Triple J in 1998, moved to Nova in 2001 and ended their 11-year partnership in 2009. During that time, they also made the TV shows “Planet Merrick and Rosso” and “The Merrick and Rosso Show” for the Comedy Channel, “Merrick and Rosso Unplanned” for Channel Nine, and “The B Team” for Channel 10. When their partnership ended, Merrick went on to ...
Jul 13, 2021•46 min
Nell started her career writing for Spy Magazine and Vanity Fair. Since then, she’s written for The Simpsons, Letterman, Murphy Brown, Newhart, NCIS, she created Sabrina The Teenage Witch, she was the executive producer on Charmed. She has written jokes for Obama. She co-wrote Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s best-selling book, Lean In. And her autobiography, Just the Funny Parts, is an enthralling book. If you’re ever stuck, or feeling alone as a writer, dip into Just the Funny Parts, and I’m cer...
Apr 09, 2019•30 min
In light of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival we're replaying a handful of shows. This episode was first published 9 December 2015. He's since morphed into the sitting Prime Minister on occasions. Check out the videos. 2018 MICF Show Lawrence Mooney: An Evening with Malcolm Turnbull Running until 22 April 2018 Athenaeum Theatre Two (map) Tickets - $30 to $42 Socials Twitter - Adam Zwar / Lawrence Mooney Facebook - Adam Zwar / Unofficial Malcolm Turnbull 10 Questions with Adam Zwar is p...
Apr 09, 2018•33 min
In light of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival we're replaying some comedians who've answered 10 Questions. 2018 MICF Show Fiona O'Loughlin: "Gap Year" Tickets available now. Shows available on 10th and 15th of April. Melbourne Town Hall, Lower Town Hall Price: $25 - $37 This episode was first published 13 February 2017. The interview takes place after Fiona was in a coma for a month, then a stint in rehab. Lately, Fiona won the fourth season of "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here" S...
Apr 02, 2018•36 min
In light of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival we're replaying a handful of shows. This episode was first published 29 Feb 2016 Sam had won the Barry Award in 2015 for his show "Spaghetti for Breakfast". 2018 MICF Show Sam Simmons Radical Women of Latin American Art, 1960-1985 Running until 22 April 2018 Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne. Tickets - $27 to $42 Socials Twitter - Adam Zwar / Sam Simmons Facebook - Adam Zwar / Sam Simmons 10 Questions with Adam Zwar is produced in party...
Mar 27, 2018•20 min
The doyen of entertainment journalism, Angela Bishop. She’s been with Network 10 for 29 years and she’s interviewed everyone from U2 to Julia Roberts and she was one of the last journalists to interview the legendary Audrey Hepburn. Not only has she been on the news every night for nearly three decades, but she’s always on the red carpet at the Emmys, The Oscars, and the Golden Globes as well as all of the Australian award shows and premieres. She was on Hinch, Alan Jones Live, she was the resid...
Jan 25, 2018•32 min
The champion Australian leg spinner, Stuart MacGill. Now, I’d probably be happy to devote more of this podcast to cricket, but I’ve held off because I wanted to speak to a cricketer who thinks a little deeper about life and the world than your average test legend. In cricketing terms, Stuart was an incredibly gifted leg spin bowler who turned the ball a mile and had a brilliant test average, and who just happened to come along at the same time as the greatest of all leg spinner bowlers, Shane Wa...
Jan 04, 2018•1 hr
Tracey Spicer was my favourite newsreader in the 90s and 2000s – back in the days when you had a favourite newsreader because there were only about 12 of them. But I had no idea what was going on for her behind the scenes – the general harassment and discrimination. All this she talks about in her book,The Good Girl Stripped Bare, which has just joined the best seller list. Since her newsreading days for Ten and then Sky News, Tracey’s been a columnist and documentary producer. But more recently...
Dec 22, 2017•28 min
One of the best things about moving to the US is that I’ve met so many great Australians. That wasn’t the plan. But that’s how it’s worked out. And one of the greatest of these Australians is the best selling author, wild-life documentarian and former Paratrooper, Bradley Trevor Greive. BTG, as we call him, has sold 30 million books in 29 languages across 115 countries. The Blue Day Book is certainly what launched him, but more recently there’s been Penguin Bloom, which is being made into a movi...
Dec 15, 2017•58 min
My guest is former Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. For those who live outside Australia, Kevin Rudd was Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and then briefly again in 2013. The circumstances of his resignation in 2010 and reemergence in 2013 is a dramatic story and familiar to every Australian. And every Australian has an opinion on it. So if you like Shakespearean- style histories, then I invite you to do some research. Kevin Rudd’s first memoir Not For the Faint-Hearted: A Pers...
Nov 28, 2017•28 min
Former advertising copywriter turned social commentator turned novelist Jane Caro is filled with wisdom. If you suffer anxiety or insecurity and want to turn your life around – then listen in. I first came across Jane on what used to be The Gruen Transfer, then invited her to be on Agony, and was immediately bowled over by her clear thinking and the effortless way she gets her points across. For those wanting to hear Jane speak beyond this interview and her regular spot on Sunrise can check her ...
Oct 15, 2017•41 min
Today’s guest is the broadcaster and comedian, Tim Ross. I made a show back in 2011 on the ABC called Agony Uncles – and Tim was literally the first person I approached to be on the show. I’d been a fan of his since he was Triple J with his comedy partner Merrick Watts. And I’d followed him through his various radio and TV incarnations and felt that he’d be perfect for Agony Uncles as he had an always hilarious perspective on the Australian male. These days he’s all about architecture and design...
Oct 08, 2017•55 min
Smart guy. Dux of his school. Studied law at university. But quit Law for comedy. He was soon picked up by Triple J and hosted its breakfast show for four years before quitting that for comedy. Since then he’s hosted an episode of Q and A, The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardis Gras on SBS and the ABC panel show, Reality Check. And along the way, he has performed some ground breaking and award winning one man comedy shows. In the interview, we talk about his comedy influences, his sense of social jus...
Sep 27, 2017•25 min
Here’s my new 10 Questions interview with Tim Minchin at the Australians In Film headquarters at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood – the home of Charlie Chaplin. In this interview, Tim talks about wanting to leave Los Angeles, the ups and downs of an artist’s life and refusing all invitations from Andrew Bolt to appear on his show. As most of you know, Tim is a singer, actor, composer, writer and comedian. He won the Perrier award for best newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2005. He is the composer ...
Sep 10, 2017•43 min
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Aug 11, 2017•29 min
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Apr 30, 2017•29 min
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Apr 09, 2017•37 min
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Apr 04, 2017•45 min
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Mar 19, 2017•38 min
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Feb 21, 2017•46 min
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Feb 12, 2017•36 min
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Feb 03, 2017•37 min
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Jan 29, 2017•25 min
