Interview 8 – Jeff Green and Matt Elsbury From the gains and losses of late-in-life parenting, the demise of heckling and the social media ‘self-esteem train’, to building comedy bridges on the back of global disasters… it’s an action packed half hour of Stellavision chat. Jeff Green – famous in both the UK and Australian […]
Interview 7 – Mitchell Faircloth Mitchell is perhaps best known as ‘Slim Whittle’, playing alongside a cast including Tracy Harvey, Tony Rickards as “Con Marasco” and John Rothfield as “Dr Turf” on ‘Punter to Punter’ – the seminal radio show broadcast on 3RRR on Saturday mornings during the eighties. But his talent reach is much […]
Interview 6 – Steve Kearney and Neill Gladwin From the primordial soup of the late 70’s, free education, Dada discomfort, performance art, teacher training at Rusden, Buster Keaton and post ‘vaudevillia’ came the bumbling genius of Steve Kearney and Neill Gladwin as Los Trios Ringbarkus – the ‘anti-tainers’. Melbourne’s thirst for cabaret, variety and live […]
Interview 5 – Lauren Bok and Joanne Brookfield “I’ve felt the steely, cold wind of a giant bomb stinking up the stage and when you get off and you’re like, I can’t look anyone in the eye…I’m going home to wash myself of the failure that is surrounding me.” Lauren Bok on a bad night […]
Interview 4 – Mandy Nolan and Ellen Briggs Tune into a rapid fire chat with the authors of the book and hit show: ‘Women like us’, Mandy Nolan and Ellen Briggs. In an hilarious look at gender stereotypes, parenting, comedy coaching and writing, Stella, Mandy and Ellen ‘rip the band aid off’ our changing cultural […]
Interview 1 – Hung Le and Rod Quantock Stella brings in the maiden interview of the ‘Funny about books’ podcast live at the Newport Comedy Room with special guests and legendary comics – Rod Quantock and Hung Le. Rod proudly confesses to having never written for his stand up routines, but Hung admits to aiming […]
Interview 3 – Richard Stubbs and Evan Hocking Comedy, radio and TV icon – Richard Stubbs – joins Stella and ‘grass roots’ comic Evan Hocking for a wild discussion covering everything from duty free to running the country. Richard, who is best known for hosting variety show Tonight Live on Channel 7, pioneering breakfast and […]
Interview 2 – Richard Evans Born and bred in Williamstown, Richard has challenged himself across a range of pursuits including: actor, AFL footballer, corporate executive and in 1993, was elected to the federal seat of Cowan (WA), that he held for six years. His most recent novel is ‘Deceit’ – episode one of the ‘Democracy’ […]
Interview 1 – Sara Rena Vidal In this inaugural ‘Hobson Words’ podcast episode, Stella is joined by the warm and wonderful Sara Vidal. An avid and outspoken supporter of people displaced and traumatised by war. Sara feels she is not a natural writer, but after 25 years in the making, she has published a story […]