Ok, so I might be a little late, but I've rediscovered Andrew Denton. Before I left for the US some three years ago, Denton was one of the funnier guys on radio. He's also been around the Australia media & entertainment circles for years. His latest latest effort on ABC TV is Enough Rope (plently of transcripts at the site, btw).
On last night's show he interviewed Steve & Terri Irwin (+ a cameo from baby Bob), and Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir. Mir has interviewed Osama bin Laden three times over the years, and his insights into the mind of the world's most wanted man were intriguing (eg. bin Laden has been eating lots of olives because he wants to make his four wives pregnant).
The Croc Hunter interview was also very watchable. Terri is actually a funny woman, and Steve actually had valid reasons (in his mind) for doing that how croc feeding thing with Bob.
So Denton seems like he's on a roll. He's generating a ton of news coverage from his bin Laden, Lisa Marie and Irwin interviews, and the show's refreshingly amusing. And what's more, since it's the ABC you get a full hour of entertainment, news, and very skillful interviewing with no ads. Now there's a novel idea.
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