10 Questions with Adam Zwar

Actor, writer and producer Scott Ryan was, less than five years ago, driving cabs. Now he has a billboard with his face on it on Sunset Strip in Hollywood

Radio host, actor, and comedian, Merrick Watts.

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 certain it’ll bring you out of your funk and inspire you to stay the course. It certainly did that for me.

I interviewed Nell in Sydney in front of a live audience at the invitation of Jungle Entertainment where she is working with a bunch of Australian writers.

 

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In light of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival we're replaying a handful of shows.

In light of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival we're replaying some comedians who've answered 10 Questions.

In light of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival we're replaying a handful of shows. First broadcast: 29 Feb 2016 Sam's 2018 MICF Show  Sam Simmons Radical Women of Latin American Art, 1960-1985

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.

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.

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, she’s been an advocate for women in the workplace which has led to her high profile investigation of sexual harassment in Australia media.

The investigation has left Tracey physically and mentally exhausted. She talks about that in the interview. Tracey’s got broad shoulders – and over a thousand women who have been horribly treated by work colleagues are relying on her to tell their story, which in turn, will hopefully bring about a seismic change in how people interact with each other in a professional setting and, more particularly, stop men using a position of power to sexually exploit women.

But we get to all that later because I had to start off by asking Tracey when she was most happy.

 

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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.