Adam's book Twelve Summers is out now.

Twelve Summers is the story of those big memories and the big matches that accompanied them, told by one of the funniest writers in Australia.

 

Writer, director and producer, Trent O’Donnell, is one of Australia’s most prolific comedy creators – co-creating such shows as Review With Miles Barlow, Moody Christmas, No Activity and Squinters.

He moved to the US in 2012 where he directed and executive produced New Girl. His other directing credits include Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place, and the new series of Saved By the Bell.

Alongside Patrick Brammall, Trent reimagined No Activity for an American audience on CBS and is now the set up director and executive producer of the US’s number one comedy, Ghosts.

 

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Twelve Summers is the story of those big memories and the big matches that accompanied them, told by one of the funniest writers in Australia.

 

Those who only know today’s guest Ed Kavalee from television are getting just a fraction of his personality.

His close friend, Josh Lawson, used to call him the unofficial mayor of Melbourne.

If you needed to get into a popular club or restaurant – you’d talk to Ed. I’d go further than that, if you needed a kidney, you’d talk to Ed.

Certainly, if you need someone to give you a rousing speech that will make you feel like you can lift a mountain, Ed’s the guy to go to.

Ed came up through theatre sports and worked in radio promotions before becoming Tony Martin’s co-host on Get This.

Then, when Get This was inexplicably pulled off the air despite bumper ratings, Ed became the co-host on Nova’s Hughesy and Kate.

Many radio gigs followed, as well as a stint in LA and now he’s hosting Hughesy, Ed and Erin on 2dayFM.

His TV credits include being a series regular on Thank God You’re Here, TV Burp, Santo, Sam and Ed’s Cup Fever, and now Have You Being Paying Attention.

 

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Twelve Summers is the story of those big memories and the big matches that accompanied them, told by one of the funniest writers in Australia.

 

The first politician I ever interviewed – way back in 1993 – was the former leader of the Australian Democrats, Cheryl Kernot. And I’m delighted she could join us here.

Cheryl was the Democrats’ Senator for Queensland from 1990 to 1997.

She then left The Democrats to join the ALP, where she ran for and won the seat of Dickson in the house of representatives. It was a seat she held until 2001.

I always liked Cheryl’s easy-going manner and it was during her time as leader of the Democrats that you always felt - given the right conditions, they might just challenge one of the major parties.

In this interview, Cheryl discusses the highs and lows of being the third party option, the pressure politics puts on a marriage, suddenly realising you’re famous and how her nine year old grandson requested to go to question time in Canberra for his birthday. 

 

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I’ve known Dil, as he is often called, from around the comedy traps for quite a few years and watched him graduate from open mics to headlining, and from bit parts in TV shows to main roles.

I last spoke to him in 2015 before I moved to LA and while I was gone he released two hour-long comedy specials, won a Logie and lost more than a third of his body weight. 

During this interview we talk about growing up in Sri Lanka, Melbourne University, being an account at KPMG and then moving into stand up. 

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Twelve Summers is the story of those big memories and the big matches that accompanied them, told by one of the funniest writers in Australia.

 

More thrills and spills from my chat with Kate Langbroek.

 

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Twelve Summers is the story of those big memories and the big matches that accompanied them, told by one of the funniest writers in Australia.

 

Our returning guest is my old friend Kate Langbroek, whose bold and hilarious banter is one of my favourite things about Australian broadcasting.

And she’s a great writer too.

She started out on Neighbours, then had a column in The City Weekly and then in News Corp’s Stellar Magazine.

Now she’s written a book called Ciao Bella where she charts the highs and lows of her and her family’s relocation to Italy for two years, which took in a pandemic.

Most of us know Kate from her radio partnership with Dave Hughes, which went from Nova to Kiis, to the Hit network and then eventually ended in Italy.

Because Kate and I had been living overseas for a period – we had a lot of catching up to do.

 

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Legendary Australian batter and captain, Gregory Stephen Chappell.

When I was growing up, I used to wear a t-shirt with his face emblazoned on it.

I also had a Greg Chappell towel and a Greg Chappell hat.

Chappell has just written the book called Greg Chappell Not Out, which takes-in his career post-cricket, including coaching, selecting and commentating as well as reflections from his playing days.

Here, we talk about all that PLUS rooming with Rod Marsh.

More - https://www.nearly.com.au/10-questions-with-greg-chappell/

 

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This time we revisit one of our most popular guests, my friend, the comedian, broadcaster, architecture enthusiast and design aficionado, Tim Ross. 

Most of Australia knows Tim from his stage, radio and TV partnership with Merrick Watts. But more recently, he’s travelled the world performing live shows with a focus on architecture and design. I was lucky enough to see Tim’s longest running show - Man About the House - at Robin Boyd’s Walsh Street house in South Yarra, Melbourne, and it was one of the great, heart-warming, soul cleansing nights of theatre I’ve seen. 

As well as the live shows, Tim has also hosted and produced the acclaimed ABC documentaries Streets of Your Town and Designing a Legacy, which profiles the Australian psyche via the houses we choose to build and live in. 

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Arguably Australia’s most popular comedian over the past 25 years.

He’s played to packed houses all over the country and hosted radio shows on Nova, KIIS and now on 2Day FM.

TV shows he’s either hosted or been a regular on include Hughesy We Have A Problem, The Project, Before The Game and of course ABC’s, The Glass House. 

During our chat, he talks about living in the moment, the occasional regret of not giving America a proper shot, sobriety and I also pick out some of my favourite moments from his comedy canon. 

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I’ve known Meshel Laurie for more than 30 years.

She was easily the funniest and most talented person in the first year of her acting course at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba.

I distinctly remember her doing a monologue for her end of year assessment and having the whole auditorium in hysterics but for some reason the lecturers didn’t let her graduate into second year acting.

So she was shunted into the drama course where she learned to be a drama teacher. It was one of those early moments in my life where I realised that there’s rarely any such thing as justice.

From Toowoomba, Meshel moved to Melbourne and started doing stand-up comedy. Her one-woman show The W***e Whisperer, which charted her time as a receptionist in a brothel,  was a huge critical and commercial success playing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Adelaide Fringe and the Sydney Opera House.

From there, she started doing radio on Triple R and then on Nova and Kiis. And TV stints included This Week Live and The Project as well as her stand up piece on ABC’s The Smallest Room in the House, where she talked about her time at University. Now she hosts the hugely popular Australian True Crime Podcast, which is an international hit with 1 million downloads per month.

I feel like this episode is sometimes less of a podcast and more just two old friends catching up.

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