1. Wendy Gai Harmer was born on Wendy Brown, 10 October 1955 and is an Australian author, children's writer, journalist, playwright, dramatist, radio show host, comedian, and television personality.
36 Facts About Wendy Harmer
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Wendy Harmer left The Sun News-Pictorial and worked part-time at the Melbourne Times, while performing as a stand-up comedian in her days off.
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Wendy Harmer is acknowledged as the first Australian woman to enter the all-male domain of stand-up comedy in the 2015 ABC TV series Stop Laughing.
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Not long afterwards, Wendy Harmer was headlining her own shows at the Last Laugh theatre restaurant, owned by entrepreneur John Pinder, and later by Rick McKenna.
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Wendy Harmer was on the board of the first Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 1987, which featured Barry Humphries and Peter Cook.
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Wendy Harmer has served on the boards of the Belvoir Theatre and the Malthouse Theatre.
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Wendy Harmer first appeared on television in the ABC children's show Trap, Winkle and Box.
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Wendy Harmer then joined the satirical political TV series The Gillies Report, along with John Clarke, Phillip Scott, Tracy Harvey, Patrick Cook and Jean Kittson.
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Wendy Harmer went on to host ABC TV's, The Big Gig, including, among others, performers Glynn Nicholas, Rod Quantock, Greg Fleet, Jean Kittson and the Doug Anthony All Stars.
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Wendy Harmer hosted her own ABC TV talk series In Harmer's Way, with comedians Greg Fleet, Andrew Goodone, Simon Rogers and Tim Smith.
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Wendy Harmer wrote, performed and sang in two one-woman shows with musicians - Love Gone Wrong and Please Send More Money, which was directed by Nigel Triffitt.
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Wendy Harmer appeared on the Ben Elton show Friday Night Live with Dame Edna Everage and the Doug Anthony All Stars.
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Wendy Harmer's episode was advertised as a "moving account of her life".
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Wendy Harmer's performed her one-woman stand-up show Up Late and Loving It at Sydney's Wharf Theatre in 2001.
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Wendy Harmer performed at the 2016,30th anniversary of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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In 1993, Wendy Harmer joined 2Day FM, co-hosting the highly rated breakfast radio show The Morning Crew for 11 years.
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In 2016, Wendy Harmer returned to radio, presenting the morning program on ABC Radio Sydney alongside Robbie Buck.
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Wendy Harmer's fourth was Friends Like These, published in 2011.
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Wendy Harmer's books have been described as being in the genre of chick lit or hen lit.
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Wendy Harmer wrote that the genres were misunderstood for The Age newspaper.
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Wendy Harmer has written a series of children's books called the Pearlie the Park Fairy.
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The animated series Pearlie has been shown on Australian, Canadian, and American television, and Wendy Harmer adapted the first book in the series, Pearlie in the Park, for the stage.
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Wendy Harmer has written for numerous Australian magazines, and has been a contributing columnist for The Australian Women's Weekly, New Weekly, The Good Weekend, HQ, Sunday Telegraph and Yours magazine.
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Wendy Harmer contributed to Marie Claires What Women Want in 2002, My Sporting Hero, edited by Greg Gowden and published by Random House Australia, and a volume of The Best Ever Sports Writing.
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Wendy Harmer wrote a chapter on "Women talk back", for Destroying The Joint: Why Women Have To Change The World, edited by Jane Caro.
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Wendy Harmer founded the website The Hoopla, a news and opinion site for Australian women, in 2011.
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Wendy Harmer was the host of the TV series The Big Gig, had her own TV chat show in 1990, In Wendy Harmer's Way, and co-starred in the World Series Debate with Andrew Denton from 1993 to 1994.
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Wendy Harmer hosted the Logie Awards of 2002, and was caught up in widespread media criticism of the event, with some focusing on her personal performance.
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In 2005, Wendy Harmer was the subject of an ABC Australian Story episode.
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Stuff, a four-part television documentary series which Wendy Harmer produced, wrote, and presented, premiered on ABC TV in 2008.
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Wendy Harmer wrote many of the episodes, acted as a creative producer on the series, and even made a cameo appearance as Astrid the Dream Fairy.
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In October 2015, Wendy Harmer tweeted that she is a member of the Australian Republican Movement, and encouraged others to join.
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Wendy Harmer was one of 28 members of the National People with Disabilities and Careers Council, created to advise the Australian Government on the development of the National Disability Strategy.
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Wendy Harmer wrote in 2016 that her father was "a steadfastly non-religious man, a self-described humanist".
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Wendy Harmer is married to Brendan Donohoe and has two children.
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Wendy Harmer is a co-founder, of the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles's Angels, the women supporters' group for the local rugby league club.