The stand-up veteran admits it’d be far more lucrative to join those complaining that they “can’t say what they want to”.
Wil Anderson is worried he has wasted his life. The man with several high-profile jobs across TV, writing, producing and podcasting says he hasn’t squandered it entirely. But he thinks he might have wasted time doing things that were good for his career, “but not necessarily good for my creative self”.
At 26, he landed a job as co-anchor of Triple J’s breakfast show, and shortly after became the host on“Things just kept going,” he says. “So I’ve done comedy shows in that time, but often I only perform them 30 or 40 times.”, I think Hannah had done that show 250 times before she recorded it. Most people will have done their show hundreds of times.”
He’s not giving any spoilers, just that it’s something he discovered after organising a present for his dad’s 80th birthday. “He’s a dairy farmer who doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke – you can’t even buy him cigars or brews, you know? So my brother and my sister and I were trying to think, what do we get this guy who’s impossible to buy for?”Anderson’s dad “ doesn’t know how to download a podcast, but my mum does it for him and then he listens to it like it’s the radio”.
Anderson always looks for a theme, and the conceit of his discovery about his dad is a “sensational hook”, the concept of which also feeds into some of the things he’ll discuss. He gives an example: “If I was like, ‘Tom Gleeson is not hard, he’s actually soft’, Tom Gleeson then has to come out and escalate whatever it is and then, it’s like, ‘what are we doing?’ Where we’d once read a newspaper in the morning and perhaps watch a news bulletin at night, now we’re bombarded with news – and non-news – all the time.
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