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Jess McGuire

@jessmcguire.bsky.social
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ABC NSW Drive host 📻🎙️

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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
@emilynussbaum.bsky.social hello! My name’s Jess, about 8 years ago I babysat your kids in Melb while you were in town for the writers festival (they were delightful!). Anyway now that I’ve HOPEFULLY established I’m not crazed & you’ve relied on me before (😂) just wanted to recommend a show in NYC?
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Once again I am reminded of this fact.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“A rollicking read” is how I would describe this
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This anti Haaland missive might be Peter Fitzsimons worst take. Oh you’ve been watching the World Cup and your view is that Erling Haaland is your standard arrogant soccer player? YIKES MY DUDE www.smh.com.au/sport/in-a-w...
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In a World Cup of poseurs, this trio would fill the podium
Are elite soccer players, as a breed, up themselves? The evidence of the last week in the USA would suggest so.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Not to be a dick about it but it is BAFFLING to me that a news org would bother with a live blog of a sporting match & not have the current score RIGHT AT THE VERY TOP My hatred for news site live blogs - be they on footy games or awards ceremonies or a day in parliament - remains as strong as ever
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hearing the unholy screams from my neighbours house as I relax quietly in a hot bath tells me the Blues have scored again?
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Bonds needs to front senate estimates & account for their lack of political balance! It’s time we demanded fair representation across the political spectrum when it comes to underwear models. Wangs should be positioned in the direction of their allegiances (they can use Vote Compass for accuracy)
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I can tell my wife is away & I’m bored cos a) I’ve made an impassioned post against littering on the local community fb page and it’s going OFF, and b) on a different FB page someone asked for a bird ID and I correctly said red rumped parrot aloud to myself & fist pumped when I was correct
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
HEY HEY big show on ABC NSW Drive this afternoon and did you know you can listen from wherever you damn well like with the ABC Listen App? Listen live on any regional NSW station (like THIS www.abc.net.au/listen/live/...) We are on 3-5pm today and guess what is on the schedule?
abc.net.au
ABC Mid North Coast Live Audio - ABC listen
Listen live, whenever you want, wherever you are with ABC Mid North Coast.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I know Joe Bogan is a lock in but I’ve also enjoyed seeing Temu Tucker floating around if we need a back up
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Gosh a skeptic might think, wow did Karl create this podcast knowing that his time and paychecks at Nine were coming to an end because commercial media doesn't have the budget it once did? www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-a...
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Today show host Karl Stefanovic to leave Nine after Tommy Robinson podcast fallout
The decision clears the way for a major shake-up of breakfast television, but also risks attracting the ire of the presenter’s new army of conservative backers.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Disappointed that very little (ie zero) biography of 26 year old was provided in this piece.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
As someone who makes daily radio, I’ve found that the two worst professions to try and get interviews from are: - travel writers: always away or if they’re back, still awful to try & nail down. I respect that they don’t care about media, and why would they? They live the dream! - peptides experts
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Wow I guess I’d better go grab some things from House before their clearance sale finally winds up
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Ahh yes, the left, famous for its lack of infighting - never ever known to criticise itself into submission because it would rather let perfect be the enemy of good www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
The Democrats don't get it the way Republicans do, he tells me. The right understands that authenticity means
giving unvarnished opinions, even if it means laying the boot into those on your own team.
"Republicans have infighting - you don't see that among the Democrat influencers. And if you speak to most Democrat influencers, and you try to get them to say what they really think about each other, they won't do it.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It’s so funny to me when commercial broadcasters on tv or radio make announcements they’re launching a side hustle podcasts cos they’re passionately craving having deep, curiosity driven conversations with interesting people & it’s like… have you considered bringing this energy to your actual job?
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
An extraordinary memorial to James Valentine today, but I think I’ve been fully undone by Roy Valentine’s hilarity, tenderness, and perfect expression of what it’s like to lose a parent - to cancer, especially. Weeping.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I don’t reckon I trust a single legacy media entertainment reviewer these days 😂 in fact there are some I only trust to be wrong about things. “Oh, five stars from X? Steaming pile of crap then. Two stars? We should give it a go!”
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Olivia Ralph @oliviaralph.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
My very talented better half wrote a tribute to James Valentine. He set the bar for what public broadcasting could be. A place for fun, for silliness, for joy, for ‘nothing’ as one of his many beloved segments proved. @jessmcguire.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
James Valentine showed us what public broadcasting could be at its very best. It’s a legacy I hope to live up to | Jess McGuire
The public grief is enormous but it keeps giving way to joy, to moments of hilarity that have stayed with listeners for years
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So deeply sad about this. James Valentine was just such a top class broadcaster, but more importantly, a wonderful human. ❤️
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
FINAL SHOW TONIGHT! 7pm! Speakeasy Theatre on Flinders St, tickets on the door and then this particular circus is packing up and leaving town - so if you’re at a loss for how to spend Easter Sunday, join me for an hour of storytelling and laughs and it will be VERY NICE INDEED.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
First proper review for my show - and it’s a BELTER. Read the whole thing here: www.keithgow.com/2026/03/review-jess-maguire-so-its-come-to-this.html And buy tix to check it out yourself! www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows...
Theatre First
REVIEW: Jess McGuire, So It's Come To This - Melbourne International Comedy Festival on March 29, 2026
Jess McGuire is not a comedian, she keeps reminding us. She's been a lot of things - writer, presenter, trivia host, wedding DJ and removalist. But now, after years of trying her hand at all manner of jobs, she's reinventing herself yet again. This is her first stand-up comedy show. And she's a natural.So It's Come To This is hilarious, even if you wander into her show having never heard of her. The night I went, there were two couples whose weddings she'd DJ'd and a few of her trivia faithful. She's so entertaining in
everything she does, you'll follow her from trivia to weddings to her new standup gig and laugh all the way.
- Keith Gow, Theatre First
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Also country music SENSATION Beccy Cole came to the show and I consider her Australia’s sweetheart so be like Beccy, have a nice night out in Melbourne AND get behind an independent entertainer DOING HER BEST TO GET BY in a world of professional comics in order to have job security in radio!!!
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Previews done & dusted - everything from this point on is PROPER SHOW (legally) & tonight’ll be a cracker. C’mon down to the Speakeasy Theatre - v cute room AND table service throughout the show! - let me entertain you! TIX: www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows... Ps how great is this review?
For a self-described non-comedian, Jess McGuire made me laugh so hard my smudge-proof mascara smudged. Go check her out!
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Thank you!!! 🙏🏻
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Opening night of my comedy festival show - a career retrospective, among other things - is this evening! And a great way to start my day was seeing my love letter to being a removalist published in @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
theguardian.com
As a furniture removalist I learned all mattresses are stained, and that’s fine
You’ll never catch me owning a glass dining table now I’ve moved so many. But it was the people I worked alongside who made the job what it was
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Venue check today: SWORDS ✅ RESIDENT GHOST ✅ COMFY SEATING ✅ TABLE SERVICE ✅ GOOD LIGHTING ✅ And no shows after mine this Thurs, Fri, Sun, and Mon night so come along and stick around, I’ll make a playlist, it’ll be a nice time! 🎟️: www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows...
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
On my way BACK to my old stomping ground of Triple R to be interviewed on Uncommon Sense with @nickfeik.bsky.social… Wish me luck!
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Two things. 1 Just realised how much my brain has been damaged by screens/my poor attention span cos I just tried to pause the Matildas match 2 Also I know more names of Matildas players than I ever did Socceroos and… I sort of love that. Couldn’t have imagined this future as a little girl
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Ok we’ve found him, the radio exec responsible for the lowest common denominator radio that’s dominated Sydney airwaves for two decades. I remember that pairing when it kicked off and “superb” is not the adjective I’d have selected 😂 www.smh.com.au/national/i-g...
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I gave Kyle and Jackie O their big break. They were superb, but I know why they imploded
Craig Bruce discovered the now-warring duo in 2004 and put them on the air. The rest is history.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
$3m+??????? Go home Brunswick East, you’re off chops www.realestate.com.au/property-hou...
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
<me this morning, slowly blinking awake & coming to my senses, then with eyes bulging, reaching to grab my phone> oh god i hope there’s some more in depth analysis available about the Kyle & Jackie O split today in the news even as WWIII develops… pls <checks notifications> YESSSSSS THANK U GOD 🙏🏻
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Imagine being totally okay with all the *gestures toward decades of lowest common denominator broadcasting* but then waiting til a point in your career when you’ve got a $100m contract to decide that you know what? Actually there IS a hill upon which you will die, and that hill is astrology.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Frustrated by headlines on the frontpage of news websites that say something, oh I don’t know, like “Iranians told US they were close to making 11 nuclear bombs” And you’re like, really? I wanna know more details about THAT! So you click & land on rolling blog coverage with NO sign of that story
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Looking forward to the day I donate the hottest pic of me I can find to the National Portrait Gallery then try to enforce strict stipulations as to how it is to be displayed (no homophobic overhead lighting, ‘Smooth Operator’ to be played on repeat softly in room) www.smh.com.au/culture/art-...
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Rinehart portrait saga ends with painting returned to billionaire
The flattering portrait of Gina Rinehart has been returned to its donor after a five-year stand-off over display conditions.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Pinpoint?
Trump says 'heavy and pinpoint bombing' to continue
'uninterrupted' through the week or longer
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Self-proclaimed ‘Peace President’ Donald Trump has launched a bomb attack on Iran.
trib.al
‘Peace President’ Trump Bombs Iran to Start Another New War
The United States launched a pre-emptive attack on the Iranian capital of Tehran on Saturday.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
From June, but still some timely points: “What's the strategy here? And what comes next? Can you bomb a nuclear program out of existence? To help us make sense of what's unfolding, we're joined by Dr Matthew Sussex from ANU's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre” on.soundcloud.com/0Iej0Iw3TwLs...
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The US strikes against Iran
Over the weekend, the US and Israel launched coordinated strikes against Iranian nuclear and military sites prompting mass evacuations from Tehran and skyrocketing regional tensions. Australia has n
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Timing huh
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Well, all I know is that the US getting involved in an Iranian coup to install royalty more friendly to its interests feels like a totally fresh new approach to diplomacy and it’s unfortunate there is simply no historical precedent to indicate how this might end.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Good to see the NYT not running with the “pre-emptive strikes” phrasing in the headline.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A belter of a start to the show with a talkback caller telling the story of not only surviving after a gate he was closing was struck by lightning while he was on horseback but… HE *AND* THE HORSE ENDED UP ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CLOSED FENCE, his family witnessed, MY MIND IS BLOWN cracking story
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
ITS TRUE! Today’s we start with a Lightning FAQ session with an expert (he goes by the name Lightning Man so, QUALIFIED), we’ll talk sport with Ned Hall, look at the new car safety rating system with @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social, subtitles with @laurenrosewarne.bsky.social and YES, robots with Alex! 😅
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Amanda! Let’s grab a coffee I am FULL OF IDEAS www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-a...
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‘It’s local audiences first’: Australia’s new Netflix content boss unveils vision for the streamer
In her first interview since taking the reins, Amanda Duthie declared she’s ready for fresh ideas.
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
It is sad that this Winter Olympics has so ruined me, I immediately assumed one of the dudes had done the dirty on his missus
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
ME TO AIRPORT CAFE: May I just please order just a piece of toast AIRPORT CAFE: No sorry that is impossible. You will have to have scrambled eggs on the toast. ME: Is that because… the eggs come pre attached to the toast? Or a payment thing?
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Stoked with my MICF show poster made for me by a local Melbourne artist, the excellent Hana Katya. As a great philosopher once said, let me entertain you! TIX: www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows...
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
ME FIRST READING ABOUT THAT ‘SALLY’ THING THE KIDS ARE DOING: this is stupid, memefication of the arts bores me senseless, I hate it ME, AFTER HEARING SALLY WHEN THE WINE RUNS OUT A FEW TIMES: what a nice little bop, I can’t be mad at people enjoying it, cute they bring a new ‘Sally’ out each gig
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I’ve been so sick for days, there’s something kind of nice about being reminded that there are plenty of viruses out there that can knock you for six, doesn’t have to be Covid, can just be an old school indie vintage virus that sure, isn’t so glamorous since the pandemic, but still packs a punch 🦠
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