Meshel Laurie: Comedy, Cancellation, and Male Violence
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
A legend of Australian comedy, Meshel Laurie has endured her share of woke social media pile-ons. The top-rating radio host, comedian and TV performer is invariably described as “divisive”. Why? Because she’s a woman? Because she’s uncensored?
Meshel’s podcasts are Australian True Crime and Can We Be Real. Here, she and Josh reflect on social media, alcohol, drugs, comedy, stardom, Buddhism, the pandemic, and how to discuss male violence without alienating men.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas and just such dangerous ideas |
| 0:07.4 | are what today's guest, Michelle Lorry, has been wrestling with all her life as a stand-up comic, |
| 0:12.6 | a radio star and a television personality here in Australia. She's one of our most beloved comics. |
| 0:18.7 | She was born and raised in Queensland and achieved stratospheric success |
| 0:23.3 | on Brisbane Breakfast Radio up there and then became known nationwide as a television personality, |
| 0:31.2 | a television comedian on shows like the project. She hit it out of the park at the Edinburgh |
| 0:36.2 | Fringe Festival, the Melbourne Comedy Festival, |
| 0:37.9 | and at the Opera House all the way back in the year 2000, |
| 0:41.1 | and has been a fixture of Australian entertainment ever since. |
| 0:43.7 | We talk about women's rights and domestic violence, which is in the news at the moment, |
| 0:48.0 | and creativity and how you juggle it all. |
| 0:50.5 | And why she's a Buddhist. |
| 0:51.8 | I hope you enjoy as much as I did this conversation |
| 0:54.1 | with the one and only, Michelle Lorry. |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah, yeah, we're good. |
| 1:00.1 | Oh, where are you? How are you? Are you juggling children at the moment? |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, not at the exact moment. They are at school. But yes, in my life, I am a mother of two. |
| 1:13.0 | It's exciting, isn't it, juggling work and kids? |
| 1:15.2 | Have you just had holidays? |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah, school holidays. |
| 1:18.7 | Yeah. |
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