Meshel Laurie's literary dream
Posted January 11th, 2010 by debritz
Update: Who wants to see Meshel Laurie in print in a major newspaper or online news service? Twitter hash tag #acolumnforMeshel
Meshel Laurie, the popular standup, TV guest and host of the top-rating breakfast show on Brisbane's Nova 106.9, says she can't get a column in a newspaper or magazine, so she's started her own blog (which you can read here). She writes:
I've been trying for years to get one. I eventually tried to get just a local one in Brisbane which frankly would not have satisfied my literary dreams but I thought it would be a start. Well, the Brisbane 'media' expects you to work for free ... They let me fill in for their resident domestic diva once when she went on holidays, then refused to cough up the fee afterwards and that was that. Bullshit.
More details, please.
PS: Oh, and in her profile, Laurie states "I am a comedian and at present I live in Brisbane because I got a radio job here". Does the use of the words "at present" mean she's contemplating a move - or am I still trying to flog a dead horse of a prediction I made years ago that she was bound for a southern radio gig?
PPS: Meanwhile, Dave Thornton has been officially added to the line-up of the Nova breakfast show when it returns next week, however this report says the door is still open for Ash Bradnam, currently in rehab following a drink-driving offence, to return to the show.
Disclosure: Brett Debritz will be heard on the Spencer Howson Breakfast Show on 612ABC on Fridays at 6.50am beginning January 22.
I say, to the Courier-Mail, stop wasting your energy on Jillian Whiting. Let Meshel write a piece, and you'll have the younger audience in your lap.
I think you mean Frances Whiting....but well said. Meshel is hilarious & is deserving of her own column.
Gawd, if Meshel can't get a column, I'm stuffed!
Personally I think she would attract a much larger following than Emily O'keffee who the Courier have employed. But then again, I have learned not to expect much from the CM.