The Editor of The Chaser: John Delmenico

🎧 PODCAST GUESTS: Lewis Hobba, Dan Ilic, John Delmenico

G’day Fearmongers —

Here is a taster of an episode that we have put on our Patreon as an exclusive — until we find a new sponsor we’ll be putting out a few new podcasts exclusively for our Patreon subscribers

John Delmenico, the editor of The Chaser, joins the podcast to discuss his role and the future of the publication. John shares his journey from dropping out of university to becoming a writer for The Chaser and eventually the editor. He talks about the process of writing satire, the challenges of covering politics, and the need for a fresh approach in 2024. John also discusses the revenue model of The Chaser and his experience as a young leader in the media industry.

John has been writing jokes for The Chaser for ages, and if you're one of those people who are terminally online you certainly would have come across his work on Twitter, as well as his fine headlines and articles.

If you like conversations about media, comedy and the craft of making jokes and business of making money from them, this is a great podcast.

Also John shares his unlikely journey from youth stoke victim to Gen-Z punchline king.

MELBOUNRNE — we’re coming in 2 weeks!

I’ve booked my train ticket — and have started packing my undies in anticipation of our 1,000,000th download show.

It’s at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre and the line up is stacked with ARF favourites including Charlie Pickering, Kirsty Webeck, Sami Shah, Dj Andrew McClelland and the man with the most downloads in Australia Richard Fidler.

🎟️ Buy a ticket now before they’re all sold out.

Enough with the plugs — where’s the podcast?

It’s here….relax:

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Thanks to everyone who came to gigs, downloaded the show, told their friends about the show, shared on social media, to our Patreon supporters who pay for the show, and to all the comedians, guests and experts who join us, Jacob Round on the teppanyaki timeline — and a special thanks to my love, Kate Holdsworth, who relentlessly writes some of the best jokes for the show when I’m in a panic, and happily endorses this stupid hobby even if it means writing emails in the holidays.

Happy New Fear everyone!

Cheers,

Dan Ilic

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Thanks:

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