Andrew Denton
Andrew Denton
Andrew Christopher Dentonis an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie-nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program Enough Rope and the ABC game show Randling. He is known for his comedy and interviewing technique. He is also responsible for introducing the troupe of The Chaser to Australian audiences...
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth4 May 1960
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Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.
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Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
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I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
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I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or European writers, I realised that there was an articulate way or a language to express all these feelings that I had had for years and years and so I became a raging feminist as a young woman.
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The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.
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I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
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I've become a much more serious young insect.
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We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.
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A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times,
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Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche
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If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.