10 Questions with Adam Zwar

Australian television icon, Dr Chris Brown.

The British broadcaster currently killing it on Australian radio.

Welcome to the interview with TV host and author, Jessica Rowe.

This episode is the Denise Scott episode.

It’s such an honour to have her on the show.  

Yes, she’s hilarious and an icon, but she’s also one of the most generous and supportive performers in our industry.

She started off in a clown troupe, gained national recognition on The Big Gig and Tonight Live With Steve Vizard, put in several Most Valuable Player performances in the Agony series before writing a couple of best-selling books and touring the nation with her comedy bestie, Judith Lucy.

In this interview, she leaves nothing in the shed. For your reference, “John” is her husband, and her children are “Jordie” and “Bonnie”.

And “Judith” is of course Judith Lucy. As usual, I started by asking Denise, when she was most happy.

 

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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 comedy, Soul Mates, and now the Amazon series, The Moth Effect.

Here Nick talks about the pitfalls of all-boy private schools, the influence of his father and his determination to work with great people.

 

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It’s been a long-held ambition of mine to have this guest on the show.

Check out Dan's podcast, A Rational Fear - "It's like #qanda on crack"

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 in Underbelly – followed by Newstopia, Tangle, Offspring, Mr and Mrs Murder and now Five Bedrooms.

We discuss most of those shows in this interview and a few more.

But before getting to the questions, we talked about our childhoods and Kat happened to mention she went to school with Portia De Rossi.

 

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One of my favourite comedy performers, Mark Humphries.

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, The Today Show, Studio 10, and is a regular on The Project.

We talked about her superman husband, her father’s dislike of television even though even though that would end up being his daughter’s career, and her burgeoning squash game.

 

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