Comedian and breakfast radio host demands the right to be offensive but concedes some lines shouldn’t be crossed
On his summer holidays from his job as co-host of the ABC’s breakfast radio show in Melbourne, Sami Shah got to work. He’s making a Radio National series on freedom of speech in Australia, called Shut Up, for which he has interviewed everyone from conservative journalist Andrew Bolt to lawyer Nyadol Nyuon. He’s finishing off a Melbourne Comedy festival show. He writes micro stories on Medium. He’s chipping away at a novel.
“I’ve never done one thing at one time,” he says over coffee in his inner-city home. “I get bored quickly otherwise.
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