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00:05actually really keen for this oh yes I love her we've learnt so much it's the lady from
00:11Australian Story how are we all oh very keen good are you curious to hear how he
00:16sounds when he walks in he's gonna say hello hi everyone all right he's on the way in oh
00:33come through come say hi you smell nice I appreciate that so I have got some aftershave on so yeah
00:49have
00:51you watched the assembly yet oh yeah it's great show yeah you've had some massive celebrities
00:55you guys are legends hello husie hello we are a collective of autistic journalism students and
01:03we are very happy to have you join us today no subject is out of bounds no questions off the
01:08table anything might happen good so without further ado welcome to the assembly thank you
01:21okay so Abby can you get yourself onto this mark here okay in three tonight the assembly returns and
01:33graduates from past series are back another day another prep and Lee sales is mentoring us
01:45the students have graduated from the journalism foundations course and they're ready for the
01:49next step taking us on the road wow and behind the scenes this is really awesome to level up our
01:58media
01:58skills hey Abby we're about to record a song okay I'm ready to go on both sides of the camera
02:04square up to
02:05the camera some of Australia's most celebrated names are taking the hot seat no making me cry okay for
02:13interviews like you've never seen before what do you consider your most important decision um have you
02:18ever been arrested that is a good question what is the most bogan thing you've ever done oh you've got
02:25this just this is the most fun I've ever had I go first cuz I'm the disabled one
02:52I'm gonna put my my lonely headphones in now let me guess I am right here is always I behind
02:59this
03:00annoying ass plant it's a good plan everyone be quiet leaves coming good morning everyone
03:09how are you good okay would you like to know who our next guest is
03:14yes I'm dying to know he is one of Australia's most popular comedians he's had a career of a
03:21couple of decades on both television and radio oh my god also a very busy and popular stand-up comedian
03:30it's Dave now what what do you all know about Dave Hughes it was on the project he was um
03:40on you see we have a problem hello my name is Dave Hughes and like everyone else I've got problems
03:47three of them are my children and don't get wrong I love them and I finally got something that I'm
03:53prepared to die for but the thing is I probably want that day to be today to be honest he
03:57was the
03:59goblin from next door from do not watch the show hang on you're that fella from that do not watch
04:06this
04:06show show aren't ya he was on I'm a celebrity get me out of here and he was I think
04:13he was a judge on
04:13the mask singer think I might have an idea here yeah yeah we were talking controversial sports star I
04:20think this person highly strong might be a tennis player Savannah he has a strong Australian accent he
04:30really does does he I can actually do it can you show me oh yeah how are you yeah how
04:36are you everyone
04:37thank you shall we split into groups and go and work on our questions all right let's do it okay
04:44don't
04:45get my notebook I feel so excited about meeting Dave Hughes this is probably about gonna be the best one
04:52of
04:52the season so he's been a a very funny man he's been on the glass house spics and specs and
05:00even
05:01on the Logies was he ever up for a gold or never even up for a girl oh my god
05:06I feel bad hello my
05:10name's Lee nice to meet you oh hi Lee I'm Anastasia lovely new you looking forward to doing Husey started
05:16to see a funny man fun guy do you know much that Dave Hughes has been on Savannah I do
05:21know the show
05:21Husey we have a problem because whenever there's drama happening within the family or a group of
05:25friends of mine I say Husey we have a problem I think he'll be a good guest I think um
05:32he'll tell
05:33stories even yeah even before his even before his mask breaks down he'll probably at least be good at
05:38chatting to us I guess my um thought is whether it'll feel like he's having a conversation with
05:44us or whether he's kind of performing yeah that's true that is a very good point have to see if
05:49we can
05:49come up with some creative questions to bust him out of that yeah Husey's been around so long and
05:54there's so much content online about him it's actually quite hard to wade through it all so
05:59what I'm gonna do is take the students to a comedy club where he's performed to just try to get
06:03to
06:03the essence of the man all right let's go come on in whoa look at this play what I'm hoping
06:15is that
06:16they get a sense of what it's like backstage in a theatre which is always really exciting even when
06:20there's nobody here so this is backstage for the performers okay but also what it feels like when
06:28you walk out onto a stage I want them to imagine that the room is full of people and you
06:32are on stage
06:34at the end more this is really awesome wow Oliver you've had a bit of experience in theatre what what
06:45do you reckon would be going through your mind if you were stepping out with so many people I think
06:49I'd be nervous but I often find that the nerves are what fuels the energy to go on stage would
06:56anyone
06:56be interested in having a go of some stand-up hello I should probably tell you about myself my name
07:13Oliver my age 27 this is a gift I'm far more at home on stage than I am off my
07:23star sign irrelevant
07:24but Capricorn and the fact that I have autism I mean you probably could have figured that out from
07:31the fact I'm on the assembly but you know here we are I know what I have to say I
07:37get off I was at
07:38home I love that here comes Fletcher did you hear about the circus fire it was intense
07:53hello everyone I'm going to be doing an impersonation of a journalist let's see if you can guess who this
07:59is hello prime minister why aren't you answering the question you're not answering the question
08:06prime minister this is politics guilty guilty you're not giving us a proper answer
08:12and for the next guest Lisa do you know what as hilarious as I would be and as much as
08:20I'd bring
08:20the house down I have actually got a real comedian here to talk to you
08:35I've invited Will Anderson to come along today to tell the students a bit about what it's like
08:39doing stand-up but also he's a mate of Dave Hughes so perhaps to give them a bit of intel
08:43on Dave
08:44um everyone this is Will hello thanks for having me today he's one of the country's most successful
08:50stand-up comedians has his own TV show um and so Will thank you very much for coming in to
08:55have
08:55a chat to us I mean that's it's pretty exciting to interview Dave Hughes yeah has anyone got
09:00something they want to ask Will out of all the questions we could ask what do you think would
09:04make the best conversation with him from your experience knowing him that is firstly an excellent
09:10question and I might even steal that question to use when I'm interviewing people because that's
09:15a very good way to start a conversation I think how do you talk to Husey well firstly I think
09:21sports
09:21is a good way to start if you want some small chat he loves his sports he's obsessed by the
09:26Carlton
09:26Football Club who are terrible you have to be a comedian to like the Carlton Football Club but I
09:30think also the other thing you've got to realize with Husey is he loves to talk but he's talked so
09:34much over his career that what he'll really love is being asked a question he hasn't been asked before
09:40there's Husey and then there's David Hughes what is the character and what is the person and I mean
09:47I think that's a really great question and what I would add to that is how does becoming the persona
09:53night after night affect who the real person is that's what I'm interested in Dave Hughes the man and
10:00all his eccentricities I think you will find him a absolutely generous funny willing to laugh I think
10:08he'll absolutely just love getting the opportunity to be asked questions by you but ask him some hard ones
10:14oh it's a good crew amazing crew fantastic how many times have you been to the ABC
10:30when this building was first opened I was here so a TV show called the glass house and I've been
10:36having nervous wheeze in this building since 2003 we can go with the toilet humor if we want it's all
10:42good okay we're good we're good to go so Pat do you want to keep things off hello everyone this
10:49is a
10:49safe space everyone can relax and be themselves there will be no judgment please do what you need to
10:56join in for example fidget move take a break and yes even go to the toilet if you need to
11:01ask ask if
11:03you need anything to help and you will be included thank you Mitch okay hello Mitch hi Mitch so what
11:14makes you love the AFL team Carlton so much because they don't win very often no you that's a very
11:19good
11:20point and I hope that the players are watching so they can improve their play when I was five years
11:29old which is a long time ago Carlton were on top of the ladder and I and I supported another
11:34team but
11:35a five-year-old friend of mine said why don't you buy it for Carlton and I looked at the
11:39ladder and said
11:40I don't know why I should and so I started supporting Carlton in 1976 and for the first for the
11:47next 20
11:47years that was a good decision because we were always winning we won a lot of premierships and
11:53then it went wrong in 2002 we just went to the bottom of the ladder and we really haven't improved
12:00and all that in the last 23 years and that was it coincides with when I met my wife the
12:07whole time
12:08we've been together I haven't been happy oh no don't say that yeah but she because of Carlton have been
12:15terrible so we may have to get divorced um so I can look guys this has turned into Oprah has
12:24it um
12:25no I won't get divorced I'll stay with her but she needs to realize I've sacrificed yeah so it's sad
12:32yeah I'm sorry to bring you down but go to the swannies oh the swans win a lot and it
12:37annoys me
12:38thanks Mitch Willow hi Dave my name's Willow hello Willow do you get stage fright because
12:44I do what do you do to get over your stage fright I used to get stage fright a lot
12:48so back then I
12:50just use power through but you know lately I realized this is true it's only really recently
12:57and I've been in showbiz for 25 years longer 30 years lately I realized no one cares and you know
13:04what the first time I did stand-up comedy I've been dreaming about it since I was 14 or 13
13:09and I was a
13:1222 when I first started I'd failed uni a couple of times and my first ever gig no one laughed
13:19and I
13:19was like the spotlight was on me I felt like I was being interrogated and in my brain was going
13:26you're
13:26a loser and you're going to be on the dole for the rest of your life that's what's happening
13:31internally that's not a good way to make a room relax and I was talking about being teased at school
13:36that was my schtick my what I was my angle was and as I walked out of the room after
13:41no one had laughed
13:42some some audience members said to me as I'm walking out feeling humiliated that they were right to tease
13:48you that was exactly but so I felt even worse but I thought if I don't go back the next
13:56week to this
13:56same comedy club I'll never do it again yeah and you know as I realized even in that failure I
14:01what I
14:02realized was I'm not physically hurt so it's my choice whether to you know to be offended or not
14:09so I went back the next week and I did okay but then the next time I did the third
14:13time as I walked
14:14on stage I thought to myself something come to me you're a winner just for doing this it doesn't
14:19matter what happens I relaxed and that third time in 1993 I had possibly the best gig I've ever had
14:28and everyone laughed so much in my mind they did and I walked out of that I floated out of
14:34the room
14:34that time and I knew I'd found my life's calling I'll remember that next time I get stage fight
14:39thank you Abby oh thank you hello Dave welcome to the assembly hello Abby Dave how exactly does someone
14:50learn to talk like that is there a special school for Aussie bogan accents oh yeah no wait no
14:58hang on wait but no seriously Dave um can you tell us about the voice and how successful it has
15:06made you yeah look I know probably a third of the comedians in Australia do an impersonation of me
15:11on stage and get laughs and so but I take it as a compliment because it means people know who
15:19I am so
15:19um I don't know why I speak like this I didn't mean to speak like this um I remember back
15:25being on the
15:26masked singer and sitting next to Lindsay Lohan you know international bloody superstar and the first
15:32time I met her she's like why don't you speak English I said I am you should be like oh
15:42I'm sorry
15:42jolly good show isn't it so that's funny we're laughing at him now so I should you know what
15:50you guys are really helping my act well I think your voice is very funny and every time I listen
15:57to you talk I laugh yeah and I bet some people don't but that's fine and I appreciate that I
16:02do
16:02as well but um yeah you're not going to please everyone you have been in comedy for decades how
16:08have you seen the industry change over the years especially when it comes to being more inclusive
16:13or are comedians still making jokes about people with disabilities like me um look I think it has
16:21generally over the years I haven't had to worry about that because my most of my jokes are on me
16:27you know and no one can complain about me mocking myself so occasionally you do a joke and you you
16:34don't
16:35think it's going to offend people but then it does so and you know you might have to apologize
16:40I remember I did a joke about diabetes once and the diabetics association weren't happy
16:45but I was talking about diabetes type 2 not type 1 which is either way
16:53well um no it's my my father-in-law's diabetic anyway so it is it that can be tricky but
16:59yeah
17:00I think you can be mindful and I think I have been mindful over the years absolutely thanks Abby um
17:06Oliver do you want to go hi I'm Oliver hey Oliver um when I do comedy I often play a
17:12character of
17:13Oliver yeah that is both a true version of me and a heightened character having done this for a while
17:19it sometimes becomes harder and harder to figure out where the character begins and the person ends
17:26for you who's been doing this for decades what is the difference between David William Hughes in real
17:32life and the huesa you play on stage yeah that's a good question uh so yeah I think
17:38my onstage persona is a heightened version of my real persona but it's funny how different people
17:45don't see that and for example my son who's just turned 16 he came to see a show this year
17:52for the
17:53first time a full show and he said dad that was weird I said why because I've lived with him
18:00for 16
18:00years he said I've never seen you so happy
18:06then I realized maybe I should bring my heightened version of myself to my real life
18:15you infamously brought a house on the block for just over three million dollars without asking your
18:20wife yeah um I was an adult for a long time by the way things can change despite occurring nearly
18:29a decade ago it's still remembered by many it is how long did it take your wife to forgive you
18:34for
18:35that she still hasn't but um she still own it never moved into it I want to move into it
18:41and she
18:42goes no everyone will know where we live and I said honey no one cares so but yeah so she
18:48still
18:48hasn't forgiven me the fact you then did it again and bought a house without telling her
18:52no I bought the other one before that but yes um the fact you did it twice that was terrible
18:58I know
18:58I'm I know and these are first world problems I get it um but again I'm saying I was on
19:03the
19:04die I grew up in a commission house and so yeah so I haven't done it for a while she's
19:09good that's
19:09good I hope you don't do it again but yeah I look I mean property is still a good investment
19:14in Australia if you can get you know it's hard it's so hard now though maybe just ask your wife
19:19first I know I should absolutely I mean yeah you're right good point thanks Oliver Fletcher
19:25hello hughesie hello Fletcher I really hate cats I don't know how much you hate the F1 commentators
19:33is there anything else that makes you mad yeah right so you hate cats yeah I think you can learn
19:40to love cats oh no way nah nope nope nope nope if you met Minka or Bambi or Marshmallow our
19:48three
19:49cats you would like two of them yeah cats are fun I hate kitty litter can I say that kitty
19:58litter I
19:58really hate and luckily we've got a new dog ginger who loves eating cat poo so that's good for me
20:04so
20:07in one episode of I'm a celebrity get me out of here the other celebrities played the prank on
20:13you by putting stickers on your back and you didn't realize it until the end did you ever get a
20:17chance to shall we say prank them back did I get them back so I can't remember now I hope
20:24I did like
20:25I mean obviously this this shows going great guns and most of you will probably end up on I'm a
20:30celebrity get me out of here nope nope nope nope nope if that happens just be warned that shows
20:38hard all right so imagine having no electricity for a month I would go crazy I went crazy you know
20:46and I had one we got one letter from our family in six weeks on that show one letter that
20:52was it and
20:53I text my wife every two hours basically for the last 23 years also in her letter to me all
20:58she
20:58talked about was the cats and obviously we've already mentioned the cats and I love the cats
21:02but I've also got three children that I'm quite interested in thank you Husey thank you pleasure
21:10I'm Savannah good morning Dave hello my name is Savannah welcome it's great to be here appreciate the
21:20curtsy if other comedians are more famous than you do you get jealous of them yes yeah and I'm working
21:28on
21:28that it's a that's a that's a work in progress for example Will Anderson or Hamish Blake or no Kitty
21:36Flanagan I don't like walking down the street with famous people because I get scared they're going to
21:43get asked for photos and I have to take the photo so I absolutely avoid it have you made out
21:52with anyone
21:53famous have I made out with anyone famous yes kiss and towel yeah look I've really only had two proper
22:03girlfriends in my life first girl I was 24 got me through to probably 30 then I had a year
22:10of being
22:10single and I've met my wife and we've been together 23 years so in that year I did have a
22:18couple of
22:19hashes with some actresses one of the logies I won't name but yep remember going down the down
22:26the escalator the logies pissing at someone from a TV show um so yes is the answer but I won't
22:33name
22:33them in case they get annoyed but um thanks hughes you appreciate that yeah thanks lady
22:45you ate bull penis on I'm a celebrity get me out of here what did bull penis taste like compared
22:51to
22:51chicken or steak well again because I haven't eaten meat for I think I've been I've been hescetarian
22:57which is just eat fish yes the only meat for about 20 years but I've gone full vegan probably
23:03close to 10 years now so I have not eaten any meat for 10 years and I tell you a
23:09bull penis was a
23:11that's jumping into the deep end actually it was a boar's penis anyway it was an animal that starts
23:17with B and it was its penis um and they're very chewy so yeah you need to have a lot
23:24of tomato
23:24sauce with you and I didn't if you want to know what it's like you know grab your garden hose
23:30cut
23:31off cut off about six inches and try to eat it you know the annoying thing is I got kicked
23:37out straight
23:38away after I'd eaten it because I ate it to stay on the show and I still got kicked out
23:43I mean I had
23:45three inches of penis in my mouth when I got kicked out which is Anastasia yes all right um hello
23:54Dave
23:54hello I'm Anastasia lovely to meet you you too um if you were a contestant on The Masked Singer
23:59what would your identity be and what song would you sing I think my identity would be an air fried
24:06chip
24:08eh yeah and I would sing I'd probably sing True Blue from John Williamson hey True Blue and I'd say
24:17I
24:17would get kicked off straight away because people wouldn't know who I was and I would be the worst
24:21singer the show's ever had because I'm tone deaf I don't know what it is but just a terrible singer
24:28thank you Thomas hello Hussey with your comedy you would um use your family um for your routines
24:38have you ever gotten into trouble when you were at when you got home yeah I have yeah yeah um
24:43I
24:44remember once I talked about buying shoes because the uh the um the shoe salesman was an attractive
24:50woman and then I did that on radio in my early radio career and my girlfriend at the time I
24:54came home to
24:55her thinking she'd be happier about my new radio show and as I opened the open the door and she
25:00looked down at my new shoes and just slammed the door to find somewhere else to live so you've got
25:07sometimes you've got to be careful I'm Finn hi Dave I'm Finn big fan thank you pumped up as you
25:13say
25:14we're pumped up yeah do you ever worry about marketing larrikinism and bogan culture when you're
25:21actually clean living and into meditation yeah look I I don't worry about it but I am a bit of
25:27a
25:27contradiction um and people I haven't had a drink for since 1992 just before I started comedy actually
25:33I was a big uh user of alcohol as a young person and it would always get me in trouble
25:38so and I was
25:40it wasn't making me happy so I made a decision just before I turned 22 to stop drinking alcohol and
25:46all
25:46drugs go up all drugs and um yeah but people look at me now and still think I'm off my
25:52nut so and
25:54people always think I've got a hangover I look like I've got a hangover the whole time often people
25:58are you look terrible you must have had a big night no I've had nine hours sleep I'm fine
26:02so you should call my sign though thanks mate appreciate it thanks Finn Dale
26:08hello Husey hey mate you've been open that quitting alcohol in your 20s was only half the story
26:14and what's been harder is your obsession with work approval and being everywhere what specific
26:19boundaries have you set to stop work becoming the new addiction yeah yeah it's a good question and my
26:24wife thinks I'm addicted to work look you've got to try to get a balance right my father used to
26:29say
26:29family's the most important thing and I'd go yeah whatever dad I'm going to be a star and um
26:34but I do realize what he's saying now it took me a long time to realize that he was right
26:39so yeah
26:39doing the project back in the day when I started that tv show with everyone else um I was working
26:45every night doing that I was doing breakfast radio as well in Melbourne so I was gone both ends of
26:50the day
26:51and we had three kids in that time so yeah I wasn't there that much so I should have been
26:56there more
26:57but I was too worried about my own ego but and I have since realized that doesn't matter
27:03but I do love comedy though so and that's was my first love I love comedy long before my children
27:10were born and they need to know that so awesome thank you for answering that thank you um Daniel
27:18good hey mate how you going yeah good bro my name's Daniel hey Dan to stop drinking is very difficult
27:25for most people how did you manage this and what what was your motivation look I came from a long
27:32line
27:33of drinkers so I grew up with uh my dad drinking too much um which is can be really stressful
27:38for kids
27:38and I saw myself doing the same thing I was always got too drunk which would I'd sometimes wake up
27:45in
27:46a police cell I wasn't violent not a violent person but I would be locked up for my own safety
27:52really
27:52because I was asleep on the road or something and I could see my future laid ahead of me yeah
27:57so I just
27:57decided the age of 21 I said I'm not going to drink anymore and and I just I just made
28:02a decision yeah if
28:03you realize that alcohol is terrible for you and you fully accept it but then you just you go I
28:09fully accept it and so then it's just gone so it hasn't it wasn't that hard actually so what was
28:14the relationship with your father like um well again he had a lot of wisdom there's no doubt as
28:19you know about family being the most important thing and working hard and I was a lazy teenager he
28:24would drag out of bed so it was yeah and his drinking was an issue there's no doubt so yeah
28:29we had some
28:30tough times um but you know in hindsight there was you know he wanted the best for me you know
28:38he
28:38didn't he kept drinking which he shouldn't have in my opinion I think he would have had a better life
28:43if he had not drank yeah there was I mean a lot of people have trouble with their dads a
28:47lot of blokes
28:47have trouble with their dads and I get it so yeah I'm trying not to do that with my own
28:51son so yeah
28:52thanks mate I appreciate it thank you thank you Abby yep um you have talked about how important your
29:00mum was in your upbringing and how she helped you kick your addictions can you tell us a story
29:07about your mum that shaped who you are
29:11yeah yes I can I mean emotional but um she grew up in an orphanage so she didn't really have
29:19any parents so
29:22but she never complained about that or even wanted me to mention it so
29:27yeah she was a beautiful woman who was strong and um yeah she always
29:33she was my biggest supporter so yeah so thank you so yeah mum was um saw that I was a
29:43smart kid from
29:43yeah very early on so she um yeah she sort of could see that I would um that I had
29:52some you know potential
29:54I suppose so and supported me all the way along so yeah so um yeah mum was always on my
30:01side she
30:02died a couple of years ago so yeah she was a great person well my mum means the world to
30:08me and she's
30:09my biggest advocate good good good Evie hi I'm Evie hey Evie um the main thing I want to do
30:21is work in
30:22the creative industry and I find I find it hard to imagine anything else if comedy hadn't worked out
30:29for you what else would you be doing good question so um yeah I really burnt my bridges
30:35I start my first degree was information technology in 1989 if anyone knows the history of the internet
30:42really started in 1990 I could be Bill Gates right now so I quit after six weeks because I just
30:48couldn't
30:48focus so and then I did business quit that as well after two years and then I I got sacked
30:55from so
30:55many jobs I got sacked as a dishwasher and you might think because you were lazy no I was trying
31:01hard
31:02and when you get sacked as a dishwasher and you're trying really hard you think my employment
31:08opportunities are going to be limited but you know I turned that into jokes and and these so things bad
31:14things that happened to me humiliating things became comedy for me so and yeah the good thing
31:21about social media now is that you can be you're created just by having an Instagram account or a
31:26TikTok account and you create your own work your own art or your own you can do whatever you like
31:31maybe you don't get paid for it when maybe you're you know your account gets discovered after you're
31:36dead it could be you you never know just keep creating art thanks Evie let's give um Andrew a turn
31:45off you go hello Dave I'm Andrew hi Andrew did your meeting with the Dalai Lama influence the way you
31:53see
31:54meditation and mindfulness yeah it did so I did meet with a Dalai Lama while I was on the project
31:59back in the day um and he's someone who people see as being a wise soul and he just giggled
32:07the whole
32:08time he looked at me and said I like you and he said because you've got crazy eyes and I
32:13appreciate
32:13that so and I actually got into I said can you bless my football my AFL team Carlton and he
32:22said I can but
32:23it won't make any difference and he was right so but he did so yeah it's really good yeah it
32:28was great
32:29and again someone a giggle giggle at life and that's what he does so yeah and that's what I
32:34think we all should do as much as we can Dave Hughes it's been an honor to interview you today
32:39I appreciate that thank you so thank you James hi Dave I'm James hi James you are known for poking
32:48fun
32:49at yourself what's something about yourself other than your family of course that you are secretly proud
32:55of um I would some prize something I would try to avoid actually because it will lead to sorrow
33:07basically so it's like you know I was proud of having a successful radio career and then like I
33:15got sacked from my last radio job so it's like that's that pride is um something that you know ends
33:21up making you feel miserable but also pride means you're thinking about yourself and I read this study
33:27recently I didn't it said that the happiest people in the world are the people who think about themselves
33:32the least just imagine you didn't you didn't think about yourself for a second and you just looked
33:38around you go oh my god this is amazing what is this what are we doing here what is life
33:45and it was like it would be it's awesome well those are very wise words but I do
33:51think you have a lot to be proud of so thank you thank you thank you ciao oh is it
33:56okay um
33:57I speak for everyone here um we all have big dreams and not all of us will succeed um what
34:07advice
34:08would you give to those of us who don't make it thank you I'd say there's there is no making
34:14it
34:14there is no making it the new world order which is um taking the power minutes it's taking the power
34:21away but I mean I've done tv and radio in this country for many years and um but having a
34:28job
34:28on radio and tv involves executives uh saying that you're on but the podcasting and all that sort of
34:36social media now means that we all have an opportunity to do it and no one you don't need anyone
34:41to tell you
34:42that you've got a job you can do it yourself and so and you never know who's going to pop
34:48it could
34:49be anyone in this room could you know obviously you're already popping you're on bloody this show
34:52which is amazing but you never know it's so in a way it's very egalitarian as in anyone can get
34:59famous
35:00so if you've got something to say say it silas hello i'm silas hey mate uh how much money would
35:10it
35:11take for you to permanently walk away from comedy uh none i would never walk away from comedy for me
35:17the money is very secondary it's not it didn't used to be obviously i'd want to make a living as
35:23a
35:23comedian but it's the comedy itself is the it's the joy of laughter the joy of creating laughter
35:34is everything to me hand on heart give me 10 billion dollars i would say no if i had to
35:40stop
35:40comedy in my last day of life i'll be lying in probably a hospital room i'm hopefully my bedroom
35:46at home whatever wherever i am i'll know i'm about to die and i'll grab my phone so i've got
35:51one more
35:52funny bit to do because everything that goes wrong in my life is where i get my best material so
36:00on my dying day that's a good day for material
36:07pat hello hughesie i'm pat nice to meet you you too so you have made a living out of solving
36:13other
36:13people's problems would this make you a good world leader yeah look um yeah i i don't have
36:20all the answers i'm used to getting criticized so that would that would get me into politics i would
36:24be able to survive probably with my attitude of dealing with criticism so dave hughes for pm
36:30dave hughes for pm yeah i don't look it's um yeah i don't think i i've never won a logie
36:35so it's pretty
36:36hard for me to i don't think i get enough votes to be honest funny actually there was one my
36:41son
36:42that is a funny thing my son um a little while back um we were in the car and he
36:46got a text
36:47message and he started laughing really hard and i'm like what is it he said my mate sent me a
36:52message
36:53there's a tick tock i've done a poll about the apparently about the five australian men with the
36:58lowest auras which i didn't know what that meant at the time for people who don't know having a low
37:04aura is bad it means you're uncool and i'm like what's that got to do with me he said you're
37:12on
37:12the list i'm like what i said that's that's confronting i said he said don't worry you're
37:18not number one i said where am i he said number two exactly wait then who is number one well
37:27exactly
37:27i said who's number one he said peter dutton so um so what i'm saying is i don't think i
37:36should go
37:36into politics well at least in politics you'd have more people laughing at you than ever well you'd hope
37:42so thank you thank you pat so thank you for the interview now uh before we go we have a
37:48little
37:49game we'd like to play with you so you had this show hughesie we have a problem so you must
37:55be very
37:55good at solving problems and uh we actually have some problems uh any chance you could help us with
38:02them i look yes there is there's a chance i'd love to help you with your problem i'll go first
38:08i can't stop farting which is very embarrassing how should i stop it from happening look i look i
38:15also have that problem better an empty house than a bad tenant so that's what they say so so um
38:21my wife
38:23is not happy with it she i our house that we built we should have put more walls in i
38:29can be at one
38:29corner of the house and she's at the other corner upstairs like she's like 50 meters from me and i
38:35fart and she goes hurt it i'm like it's not my fault this house has terrible acoustics we should
38:43have put in more walls just concrete floors are bad you need carpet for your farting
38:49hughesie i have a problem my my mom has a best fashion in her wardrobe and she i keep seeing
38:55her
38:55clothes but but then she's taking them back how can i save them without her knowing well i think you're
39:02you don't need to change your mother needs to change her attitude
39:15it's a compliment she should be happy that you you admire her fashion this is a what you're doing is
39:23complimenting her every time you wear her outfits you know you're like mom i believe in your fashion
39:29choices i believe in your taste come on mom i think i think we've helped both of you then
39:39hughesie i have a problem i mistakenly told my mom my vegan friends were vegetarian not vegan
39:44and she cooked a dinner with eggs and honey in it do i tell them or do i take my
39:49that secret to my grave
39:51i think i look as a vegan you take it to your grave and um because i'm sure they enjoyed
39:56that food
40:01every now and again i just don't want to know you know i don't want to know eggs are great
40:05i miss eggs
40:07hughesie i have a problem people are always walking into me and my wheelchair while looking at their
40:14mobile phones when they're walking down the street and they think it's my fault what should i do um
40:22could you electrify your like well i do have i know it's electric it's got electric can you put some
40:29some electric fence around well i do have a horn which goes i love that that sounds like a they're
40:36very oblivious i would say run them over also don't worry i've run many people good and i think
40:43that yeah i don't know people are crazy like they don't care no because they're hooked on their phone
40:49all right thanks so much for coming later massive fan we all are it's been great having you thanks for
40:56coming to the assembly i have i'm hand on heart being honest here i've been on tv since uh since
41:09before the turn of the century which is like 25 six years this is the most fun i've ever had
41:21um is it okay if we all get a photo with you yeah great all right good we'll reset
41:26thank you so much it was great good questions loved it are you good with selfies yeah absolutely
41:34nice meeting you hughesie i had a good laugh
41:38big fan good on you man appreciate it it's a double n double n savannah no worries thank you
41:45i loved you on do not watch the show you were amazing oh thank you yeah that's um that's got
41:49some good feedback it's a really good interview it was a very good interview yeah let's go hughesie
42:00always wondered how much do you get paid to do a show like this well nothing today
42:08oh okay our next guest is a beloved australian singer she's been in eurovision jessica marboy jessica
42:18oh my god so keen today to find out all about the ins and outs of recording we are the
42:28assembly
42:29and she's very excited to meet her here she is acts normal what makes you anxious
42:35do you prefer life now or before fame where's the worst excuse they have ever made up just to stay
42:41home in your pajamas well that's a really good question
42:48so
43:01so
43:03so
43:03so
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