Wendy Harmer ‘On Being Australia’s Ricky Gervais'
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Wendy Harmer is the most groundbreaking female comedian in Australia. She shattered the glass ceiling in the 1980s as a stand-up comic and TV host, before ruling the radio airwaves for decades. Her book is “Lies My Mirror Told Me: A frank, funny, fearless memoir”. Josh picks her brain about when she bombed hosting television’s night of nights.
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| 0:00.0 | Goody, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. How do you achieve success as a woman |
| 0:08.3 | in a fairly sexist and misogynistic industry, such as stand-up comedy in the 1980s? Today's |
| 0:15.1 | guest, Wendy Harmer, did it. She's arguably the most successful Australian female comedian of all |
| 0:20.4 | time. |
| 0:21.3 | At her peak, she was hosting the Logies, which is Australia's kind of Emmys and Oscars, rolled into one. |
| 0:28.1 | She's hosted radio shows. |
| 0:29.4 | She's hosted television shows. |
| 0:31.2 | She's basically entertainment royalty in Australia. |
| 0:34.6 | I chat to her about how she got there and what it was like to be there and some of her |
| 0:38.8 | missteps. |
| 0:39.7 | I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, the one and only, Wendy Harmer. |
| 0:47.3 | Are you pleased that I've brought chocolates? |
| 0:49.7 | I'm very pleased. |
| 0:51.0 | I mean, you know, of all the hosts, who you've spoken to on this book tour, how many bring |
| 0:59.5 | chalkies for you? |
| 1:00.1 | Not many, but the thing is, I was quite disappointed to see. |
| 1:04.6 | We were really down on the Turkish delight quotient. |
| 1:08.6 | Right. |
| 1:09.2 | I think there are only two of each. A lot of people think that your Turkish delight quotient. Right. I think there are only two of each. |
| 1:10.8 | A lot of people think that your Turkish delight is just perfume. |
| 1:17.0 | This is, yes. |
| 1:18.4 | There is another individual in my household who thinks that, who thinks that it's just |
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