I got a call from Dick Smith out of the blue just before christmas. “Dan, I got your number from Andrew Denton, I want to make an ad” Why not? He’s an Australian legend. Sounds like fun. So I wrote the funniest script I thought I could muster on our tiny $10k budget. Then convinced [...]

You may be familiar with my comedy work on television and on stage, but what you may not realise is that being a comedian and working television doesn’t necessarily  pay the bills. So when I can, I try to whore myself out as a writer/director for people with money who want to try and sell you [...]

If you’re in LA November 4th, swing along to the LA Comedy Festival!! Y2Gay will be screening in the Shorts Programme 10 at 4pm at Los Feliz 3 Cinemas 1822 N. Vermont Ave.   (Any Aussie comedians in the vicinity of the screening, if you could represent our little film that’d be great…. if you could do [...]

The poor parrot, lately he’s been out of his cage causing a racket. Alan Jones has been a powerful force in Australian media for a very long time. It’s been said that his influence can make or break Prime Ministers. However lately he seems to be losing that golden touch. Traditional media in all forms is becoming flatter, and [...]

On facebook one day I came by this amazing Commonwealth Films Services  promotional film about Sydney in the 1960′s, it shows Sydney in all its post-war glory from the perspective of the perfect family, portraying Sydney as the perfect, modern, western, white, city that it was. It reminded me of another film. “Sydney 2030″ was [...]

Thinking ahead 5-10 years to when Gina Rinehart finally sacks a few Fairfax executives, rips up the charter, and installs a sympathetic board, it’s not too hard to imagine the front page of the SMH for that day. I should point out here that I occasionally work worked for Gina Fairfax Media…  Click Image for [...]

Back in 1973 a typist, a stenographer and a secretary showed the other smart white girls in the rest of Australia just how fun it was to live and work in Canberra. According to the sticker on the front of the book, this piece of retro gold was saved from obscurity and plucked from the Public [...]

Read my rant without irony about the death of television whilst steadily being employed by television in one of Australia’s best television and film industry verticals, Encore Magazine… READ IT HERE

Annoyed at the Gillard Government’s ability to articulate how a carbon tax may work. Dan Ilic has taken the liberty of dumbing it down for us all. It’s kind of like this, a friend comes over to your house and raids your pantry and then cooks up a feast, then eats it and then, takes [...]

James Pender (Ronnie Johns) and I wrote and directed a little film over summer called Y2GAY. The gate keepers over at Tropfest have deemed it good enough to sit in their final 16. It stars the very excellent, very funny and talented Kate Worsley, Dave McLaughlin, and Nick Mattick (Smart Casual). So James, Peter Slee and [...]