Best Australian Humorous Writing

Andrew O'Keefe · Steve Vizard

Dec 2008 · Sold by Melbourne Univ. Publishing

About this ebook

In The Best Australian Humorous Writing, Andrew O'Keefe and Steve Vizard corral our funniest minds and canniest observers into one entertaining anthology. The writers bring a unique antipodean mirth to everything that has touched our lives in recent times-from Sir Ian McKellen disrobing on stage to busting up the Logies, from the privatisation of Telstra to the curves of Nigella Lawson, from the perils of entertaining children to the perennial outrage that modern telecommunications offers.

Among the contributors:
Phillip Adams * David Astle * Graeme Blundell * The Chaser Kaz Cooke * Ian Cuthbertson * Mark Dapin * Catherine Deveny Frank Devine *Alexander Downer * Dame Edna Everage * Charles Firth Germaine Greer * Gideon Haigh * Marieke Hardy * Wendy Harmer Clive James * Danny Katz * Malcolm Knox * John Lethlean * Mungo MacCallum * Shane Maloney * Shaun Micallef * Paul Mitchell * Les Murray * Guy Rundle * Roy Slaven * Tony Wilson * Julia Zemiro

Ratings and reviews

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About the author

Andrew O'Keefe is one of Australia's most recognisable comedic creators and observers. He has written for and performed in theatre, radio and television, and is a regular host of Channel 7's Weekend Sunrise program.

Steve Vizard is a prizewinning writer, broadcaster, lawyer and research professor at Monash University and the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide. He has written and edited books on topics ranging from Australia’s Constitutional Convention to Australia’s population challenge and Australian humour. He has helped create, write and produce numerous groundbreaking television shows, including Fast Forward, Big Girls Blouse, The Micallef Program and Seachange, and hosted his own Gold Logie awarded TV show Tonight Live with Steve Vizard.