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Dave O'Neil

Dave O'Neil

Australian comedian and actor

Oct 6, 2026

40:24
slogan for your podcast festival.
40:29
So what would happen, Mum would get a ruler and rip off the title and send that back to the publisher, Janice nodding her head, like, yep, and then they would keep that they're meant to burn or burn the magazines in the incinerator in the backyard.
40:42
But Mum would bring them home and say, she'd go, there's your Australia Post, Mechanics Australia.
40:48
And then she would bring home Penthouse and Playboy for us.
40:51
Because there were four boys in the house between the ages of about
42:08
Dave's not allowed to see it going in, but Trevor is.
42:11
Yeah, and I think...
42:14
No, there was no actual sex in the magazines.
25:53
funny sorry to go back i just am fascinated so like how did you get onto scar like how do people in australia get into scar that's really interesting you know what i mean yeah well was it on the radio
26:04
It was on RRR actually and PBS, so the alternative stations.
26:08
And we listened to – I had older brothers.
26:10
And so we all loved music and we loved slightly alternative music.
26:13
And Scar was just part of that.
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And then we just – we went on a scout camp and there were a few kids that had like Madness records.
26:20
That's so funny.

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Engineering
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Yep.
11:32
So that's my biggest issue is y- y- my legs, um, 'cause I've had a broken leg and because, uh, I've had a sore knee.
11:41
Yeah, and it's just being fat.
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If, you know ...
11:44
There was a great m- my physio rang up with the results of my knee scan and, and my partner was in the car and she just interrupted him and said, "J- if he lost 10 kilos, would this be a lot better?" And the physio's like, "Um, uh, uh, yes." [laughs]

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Yeah
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... with kids.
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And there was a few things, um, uh, uh, interact- uh, interacting, so, uh, I was, I went to do a football club gig, which is all based on true, and I insulted, uh, an AFL legend who'd been to that club, which was based on a true story when, when I went to Lalor Footy Club and I did jokes about Lance Whitnell, and his mum was there cooking the dim sims, and I was making fat jokes about him.
25:19
Well,
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yeah, that's me.
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He loves it.
25:20
So anyway, this journalist is like, do you want to talk about Husey? I'm saying, no, no.
25:26
You can ring him.
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I said, here's his number.
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Ring him.

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so yeah so they're moving so it's a big brutal today i had to there was a skip there i had to chuck out uh lots of furniture and stuff like that because it's like i was working it out um today they have been there for 40 years i have moved house 15 times in that time so you get rid of a lot of stuff like my mum's going gee there's a lot of stuff around I'm like yeah you just fucking tried to palm off this golf fucking thing to me yeah there's a lot of stuff hanging around but when you move 15 times you get rid of all your stuff and they just have not done that they've got an entire shed full of stuff where they're pulling it out going did you still want this this big bird doll I had when I was three no that can go in the bin as well mum that's fine
59:16
Right.
59:16
The Wiggles were on after us.
59:17
No, we shared a green room with...
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They're lovely guys.
59:19
But, no, it was a comedy edition with me, Denise Scott, Hughesy, Bronwyn Lewis, Geri Hilicky.

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What?
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And he, he was an off-duty cop called Colin.
64:29
And he goes, he's opening gambit is, "I am a off-duty highway patrolman.
49:51
Yes.
49:51
You could just read everything about it.
49:52
And I always was interested anyway.
49:55
And then we get in there, and they're like...
49:57
Oh, it was Sandra Sully was the host.
49:58
It was me, Hellia, Cal Wilson, Hughsey, oh, can't remember, a few other people.
50:03
And then, and then, and then, and the host go, Sandra goes, "All right.

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Yeah.
25:21
... let's skew it, let's skew
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skewYeah, they put Elizabeth up against you, you're fucked.

34 MINS LATER

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Don't kill yourself on the way home
59:49
... started talking during the Black Dog guy, and then, and the guy goes, "Go tell them to be quiet," 'cause I was MC.
59:54
That guy, "Shh.
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Come on.
59:54
Come on." Anyway, then I did some crowd work later on.
59:56
The guy...

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