Andrew Denton
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Andrew Christopher Denton (born May 4 1960) is an Australian comedian and television presenter, and is the host of the ABC's weekly interview program Enough Rope. He is considered one of Australia's most quick-witted comedians and his talents have won him nation-wide fame.
Education
Andrew Denton studied [Media/Communication] at Charles Sturt University. There is a rumour circulating around the Bathurst campus that the words "Towers Power", which were written on one of the roofs of the John Oxley Village dormitory area, was his doing. Denton is reported to have lived in the Towers dormitory buildings (JOV are Towers' rivals in many CSU Bathurst battles) during his time on campus.The personality started his career as Napoleon in Shaw's Man of Destiny at Guildford Grammar School in Perth. He was directed by prominent educator Colin Black.
Career highlights
Andrew Denton worked on a few Australian national radio stations early in his media career, beginning as a writer for popular radio personality Doug Mulray before he began writing and hosting his own show.During the 1990s, he worked on and hosted many TV shows, including Blah Blah Blah, The Money or the Gun, Live and Sweaty, and his own show, Denton. Each week on The Money or the Gun, Andrew had a musical guest play a cover version of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. The only guests who were exempted from this were Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, musicians from Led Zeppelin.
Andrew Denton launched a public subscription scheme to hire a bounty hunter in order to capture Christopher Skase, who was attempting to avoid extradition to Australia at the time. When told that his repeated statements against Skase could expose him to legal action, Denton said, "If he's got a problem, he can come here and sue me." His notoriety earned him a cameo appearance in the Australian film Let's Get Skase.
In 2004 Denton was named by respondents to a survey conducted by Audience Development Australia Pty Ltd as the "most liked and recognisable" personality on Australian television.
Denton's first feature length documentary, God On My Side, documents his visit to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, and was first shown at the Sydney Film Festival in June 2006 with plans to show it as a TV Special on ABC's Enough Rope
Denton's production company is named Zapruder's Other Films Pty Ltd a reference to Abraham Zapruder who filmed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Personal life
Denton's long-time partner and now wife is prominent television journalist Jennifer Byrne; their son, Connor, was born in 1995.Andrew Denton's father was author Kit Denton.
He is an avid supporter of the South Sydney Rabbitohs, and is alleged to have had a very heated argument with the former chairman of the club.
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