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  Andrew Denton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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.
Denton's long-time partner and now wife is prominent television journalist Jennifer Byrne; their son, Connor, was born in 1995.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Denton   (426 words)

  
 Andrew Denton - Simple English Wikipedia
Andrew Denton used to have a show about sport in Australia called "Live and Sweaty", and now has a show called "Enough Rope" where he interviews people about politics.
Andrew Denton is a very smart man and the Australian media use him in many news stories.
One of Andrew Denton's interviews was with Rene Rivkin, who police said had cheated in the stockmarket to make money.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Denton   (165 words)

  
 John vs. God
Andrew Denton: Shane Paxton, who had, of course…His family had been kind of displayed in front of the country by 'A Current Affair', he was your offsider.
Andrew Denton: Music is, of course, one of your great passions — 'Music Jamboree' was all about music, and, in fact, you devoted one entire episode pretty much to the failure of your band Raspberry Cordial to break through to the next level.
Andrew Denton: Now, you had a religious upbringing — you're about to do a series on religion — but here you were at the centre of religious dissent in the world and you did a story about your football team, St Kilda.
www.geocities.com /johnspicegirl/johndenton.htm   (2324 words)

  
 Bono interview - U2 - tribe.net
ANDREW DENTON: From your point of view of course this is the end of an almost year-long world tour and now you're going to have to crank it up in November hopefully.
ANDREW DENTON: Talking once to Ron Wood from the Rolling Stones, he said the funniest thing he had seen happen on stage was Keith Richards slipping on a frankfurter in Frankfurt.
ANDREW DENTON: The easy dismissal of you and Bob Geldof and others is that you're celebrity activists or whatever it is. I don't think a lot of people understand the hard yards you've had to do to learn your subject and to sell the argument.
u2fans.tribe.net /thread/3dd9ef1b-6f9d-4e32-8f5b-45c255d9edfa   (6492 words)

  
 Bio, Denton, Jeremiah A.
Denton, a retired Navy rear admiral, former Alabama senator and ex-prisoner of war, was in Fayetteville this week, where he met with an international humanitarian aid advisory group that bears his name.
Denton is a stately man, with prominent eyebrows and a ready smile.
During his captivity, Denton stayed in prisons and prison camps nicknamed the "The Hanoi Hilton" and "The Zoo." The worst place Denton stayed was a prison named "Alcatraz." It was reserved for American captives who were considered rebels and instigators, dangerous because of their strong will and ability to influence others.
www.pownetwork.org /bios/d/d053.htm   (1398 words)

  
 Denton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Denton was a fictional town in the British television series, A Touch Of Frost
Denton is the surname of J.C, Paul and Alex in Deus Ex
Denton is the surname of Armitage Denton, former Chief Librarian of *Chelsea, London
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denton   (140 words)

  
 Welcome to the Elvis Information Network
Andrew Denton: Ah, as you were growing up, as you were a teenager though, I can only imagine with the name Presley, that a whole bunch of producers came to you and said come on, let's do an album.
Andrew Denton: What I'm hearing here, but what you keep tap-dancing around, is somebody that's had a hell of a fight to be herself in the eyes of the world.
Andrew Denton: But, I got the sense, cause I know that this is a tender area, but I got the sense that you had become a part of Michael Jackson Incorporated.
www.elvisinfonet.com /elvis_interview_enoughrope.html   (4270 words)

  
 sweetnessfollows.co.uk - Andrew Denton Interview
ANDREW DENTON: Your dad was in the air force and you travelled around a lot with your family.
ANDREW DENTON: Interestingly, on your new album the song I Wanted to be Wrong probably has the most direct lyrics you have written, talking about the state of the US post 9-11, "Everybody is humming a song I don't understand".
ANDREW DENTON: You talk about the unusualness of the job you are in and the pressure that brings the adrenaline.
www.sweetnessfollows.co.uk /content/view/27/2   (3008 words)

  
 Enough Rope interview with JRH
ANDREW DENTON: Jose, it's an honour to have you here, and they say that the personal is political, so I'd like to explore your country through your story, if we may. And I want to take you back to December 1975.
ANDREW DENTON: For 24 years, you travelled to something like 100 countries, and you were knocking on doors, going to dinners, going on what's called the rubber chicken circuit, where you're...just these endless meals.
ANDREW DENTON: I assume, on the scale of diplomacy, unless you're a Russian ambassador, that that is an absolute no-no for a diplomat to fall asleep.
www.etan.org /et2004/may/15-21/10enuf.htm   (4080 words)

  
 Textuary | Andrew Denton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Andrew Denton started out in Theatresports and went on to become head-writer for Sydney radio comedian Doug Mulray, but first came to national attention in a 1980s Saturday morning television show on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the government channel) called Beatbox, which quickly gave way to the more ambitious Blah Blah Blah.
Denton bore an uncanny resemblance to Woody Allen in more ways than one: not just because of his glasses, but in the sharp intelligence behind his jokes.
Denton and fellow-announcer Amanda Keller selected a handful of people, carefully chosen to be as incompatible as possible, and locked them into an ordinary house for three months under television surveillance to see who could last the longest.
speedysnail.com /textuary/denton.html   (1027 words)

  
 Pinsent Masons - People - Andrew Denton
Andrew specialises in advising the construction and engineering industry sectors primarily in relation to contentious matters.
Andrew is also experienced in handling substantial international disputes having spent two years at Pinsent Masons' office in Hong Kong.
Andrew has spoken widely on matters relating to construction law and is a regular speaker at Pinsent Masons Annual Construction & Engineering Law Conference.
www.pinsentmasons.com /partners/andrewdenton.aspx   (378 words)

  
 "Enough Rope with Andrew Denton" (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Denton's interviews don't just skim the surface: they dig down and tug at the heartstrings and the humour at the same time.
He uses his wit to allow his guests to make fun of themselves and in doing so, reveal their stories in a way and with a depth that is rarely seen.
It is said that the fact that Denton's interviews are broadcast after editing allows for a greater variety of questions to be asked and answered, with the guest secure in the knowledge that they can request the removal of any section.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0358316   (342 words)

  
 Andrew Denton Interview
ANDREW DENTON: It took a number of years for you, once you made the decision to be a performer as well, to actually get a chart hit, and you had to play gigs in all sorts of places.
ANDREW DENTON: You've toured extensively and you've stated openly that this cost you two families which is a very high price to pay.
ANDREW DENTON: Just going back to Rae for a minute, I know that when you met her, I believe she was selling your merchandise on the last tour of Australia.
home.planet.nl /~fond.mh/3AndrewDenton2005.htm   (2768 words)

  
 Bishop John S. Spong - THE VOICE - April 1995
Andrew Denton is not a household name in the United States.
On late-night television Andrew Denton entertains the people of his country with comedy routines, monologues, pungent comments on politicians and political issues, and interviews with various personalities across the Australian social spectrum.
I had my agent seek Denton's assurance that this was to be a serious interview, that I was not supposed to be funny and that he really wanted to explore the issues that my tour of Australia had been raising.
www.dioceseofnewark.org /vox30495.html   (1731 words)

  
 Andrew Denton interviews Mark Latham - National - theage.com.au
Andrew Denton:Let’s talk about the the Labor party, you said it was… because in the press conference you talked about the government stirred you, but in your diaries, it’s actually the Labor party that you you finger for a lot of this.
Andrew Denton:Dating back over the 11 years of your diary though, you paint a picture of a party that is is morally and ethically and intellectually bankrupt.
Andrew Denton:The country wasn’t asleep though, the country was very much awake and exercised by what had happened with the tsunami was front of mind for everyone.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2005/09/16/1126750112053.html   (4037 words)

  
 No more Mr Funny Guy - TV & Radio - www.theage.com.au
When the diminutive Andrew Denton started at a new high school, he encountered a thuggish student who entertained himself by stabbing the weaker children through the back of their hands with a pair of compass points.
This curious beast of a show, in which Andrew Denton interviews ordinary people as well as celebrities, is one of the ABC's top-rating programs and begins its third year on Monday night with an exclusive interview with Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark.
Denton worked at Triple M until 2001 and, spotting talent, propelled the Chaser comedy team from print to screen in their first television gig, The Election Chaser.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2005/02/23/1109046969871.html   (1103 words)

  
 tonicollette.org | Career | Blah Blah Blah
Andrew Denton: So you left, and by age 16 you had appeared before an enormous national audience in a show which was just watched across the land on the ABC.
Andrew Denton: At least you didn't have a mullet that could be seen from the moon.
Andrew Denton: But what an amazing set of pipes, as they say in the trade, at age 16.
www.tonicollette.org /films/1988creditstvblahblahblah.htm   (271 words)

  
 Crikey Website - Andrew Denton vs Stephen Feneley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Andrew Denton's successful lobbying of Russell Balding to air Enough Rope in place of Lateline is a disturbing watershed moment in the life of the national broadcaster.
Denton is telling us he managed to get the acting head of television to bump a news and current affairs program from its regular time-slot when Lester is not supposed to be in charge of News and Current Affairs.
Anyone who watched both the Denton and Tony Jones interviews with Latham (both of which were very good, incidentally) would have to admit that Denton's interview was big on emotional content while Jones's effort was a forensic probing of the political power-plays plaguing the ALP.
www.crikey.com.au /articles/2005/09/22-1151-5231.html   (1462 words)

  
 cosmetic surgery
Dr. Denton is a Board Certified facial plastic surgeon in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Denton is fully trained in all aspects of facial plastic and cosmetic surgery including facelift, browlift, blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery), rhinoplasty (nose reshaping surgery), liposuction (facial and body), facial implant surgery, laser skin resurfacing and hair restoration surgery.
Denton is also a recognized expert in the non-surgical treatment of the aging face, having performed over two thousand Botox and Restylane treatments since 2001 and being one of the only facial plastic surgeons in Vancouver trained to perform the non-surgical Contour Threadlift™ for the treatment of brow, mid-face and neck sagging.
www.doctordenton.com   (121 words)

  
 Enough Rope - Interview Transcript   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Andrew Denton: Shouldn't you be in LA tonight, pressing the flesh, kissing the ring, as it were?
Andrew Denton: You owe a little bit to him, in that case.
Andrew Denton: There are those…and they've written over the weekend to suggest that you've been duped, that you're grandstanding.
www.heathledger.net /Media/Interviews/2003/enoughrope.htm   (2240 words)

  
 Roping in the quizmaster - TV & Radio - www.smh.com.au
When the diminutive Andrew Denton started at a new high school, he encountered a thuggish student who entertained himself by stabbing the weaker kids through the back of their hands with a pair of compass points.
It's as if Andrew Denton has an alter-ego, DENTON, who dwells in the public cosmos, and that cosmos was the place the lower-case Denton "went away" from.
Andrew Denton 2005 seems, at least on the surface, a more affable figure than the "dark, paranoid, mad, angry person" an ABC colleague last year told him he appeared to be back in the Blah Blah Blah days.
www.smh.com.au /news/TV--Radio/Roping-in-the-quizmaster/2005/02/25/1109180092048.html   (1678 words)

  
 DVD.net : Enough Rope With Andrew Denton - DVD Review
Instead Denton, ever razor sharp and using his unique gift of relating to anyone he speaks to and immediately putting them at ease, draws forth information and tales that his guests may not have had any intention of telling anyone in any format.
Denton, the new friend, helps extract the gems from their lives and, rather than destroying them like so many women’s magazines or current affairs programs, holds them reverentially for all of us to see and understand.
Denton’s 21st century take on the interview format brings us a better sort of interview; one that crosses genres as easily as crossing a street.
www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=4245   (871 words)

  
 Andrew Denton Enough Rope Interview with Johnny
ANDREW DENTON: In '79, I think you would have been about 22, you went to a radio debate with the Reverend Wade Watts...Reverend Wade Watts...who was the state leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People who'd worked with Martin Luther King.
ANDREW DENTON: You might have been there to change the image but as leader, you still knew of the behaviour of the people underneath you.
ANDREW DENTON: I'd be guessing that you have, over the years, kept an ear to the ground about Klan activities, because you know who these people are.
www.johnnyleeclary.com /enoughrope.htm   (4558 words)

  
 ENOUGH ROPE with Andrew Denton - About Andrew
Andrew Denton first came to public attention in 1988 as the writer/presenter of the ABC TV series 'BLAH BLAH BLAH' and since then has written, presented and produced numerous comedy shows.
In 2001, Andrew moved behind the camera to work as Executive Producer and Script Editor on 'THE ELECTION CHASER', a 4-part satirical series for ABC TV covering the 2001 Federal Election, and featuring the talents of Australia's newest, and hottest, satirical team, The Chaser.
Andrew has also written for newspapers, acted in the theatre, and misbehaved at social functions.
abc.net.au /tv/enoughrope/about/andrew.htm   (762 words)

  
 Bulletin - Andrew Denton Compere Enough Rope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It was Denton’s assault on the Packer table at the 1999 Logies presentation that produced a memorable double act.
Denton walked away as host of the successful Triple M breakfast show at the end of 2001 and talks of having spent a year immersed in literature about “the war”.
Denton couldn’t agree more and puts this down in part to “the metronomic soul-less style of the show.
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 Media Man
Andrew Denton is one of Australia's most successful TV and radio announcers.
Denton certainly does give his wide array of guests enough rope to hang themselves.
On a personal note, Andrew, thank you for your hospitality on the previous occasion I was in the audience, and see you again tonight.
www.mediaman.com.au /profiles/denton.html   (290 words)

  
 Denton gears up | TV | Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au (24-03-2006)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Denton says he treats the show as an "on-air university" as he tries to bring the audience a fresh angle and interesting story.
Denton says there are no boundaries on his interviews and if someone places "no go question zones" before the interview, they would be shown the door.
Denton doesn't know what the future holds, but that's the way he likes to live his life.
www.entertainment.news.com.au /story/0,10221,18586091-10229,00.html?from=rss   (908 words)

  
 Elect Andy Eads Denton County Commissioner, Precinct 4
Andrew went on to attend Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, where he received a Bachelors degree in Business Administration and minored in Real Estate.
Andrew has routinely been a top producer and was awarded the 100% Club for RE/MAX International.
Andrew was voted one of “The Best Agents in Dallas” by D Magazine in July 2005.
www.andyeads.com   (513 words)

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