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How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

I put everything I owned, plus my border collie Winnie, into a Toyota Corolla and drove from Brisbane to Melbourne at the end of 2019 to pursue a stand-up career, just in time for the lockdowns. I want it on the record that I didn’t pussy out and run back to Queensland. I stayed through it all, got the fittest I’ve ever been in the first lockdown, and really good at making whiskey sours in the second.

Not long after things started opening up and I could get back on stage, Daniel Burt saw me do a five-minute set on tampons, and believe it or not, that got me on as a Friday Funnybugger. I thought I’d made it. A couple of years as a Funnybugger, and one or two fart jokes later, I got to do Fakefasters. I’ve never been more nervous for a job in my life, but it was so fun, and now I’m lucky enough to do it all the time.

What does Triple R mean to you?

I’m a transplant to Melbourne, so I don’t have the formative Triple R story that a lot of people do. I am, though, a comedy nerd, and when you look at the names that have come through the station, thank god Melbourne had a space for people to be weird and funny and a little cooked. Australian comedy owes a real debt to the station.

Greig “HG Nelson” Pickhaver, Sam Pang, Kate Langbroek, Dave O’Neil, Geraldine Hickey, Santo Cilauro, John Safran. I’m sure I’ve missed a bunch, but my point stands.

What's your favourite Triple R story?

My friend and fellow comedian Prue Blake and I once submitted some demos for a summer fill-in show, and Bec, the programming manager, gave us some of the most brutally honest feedback we’d ever received. From memory, one line was 'no laughs''. To be fair, Bec was right. After the initial hit to the ego, we had a laugh, and I think it made me an even bigger fan of Triple R.