‘A couple who’s been divorced who get on very well’: Jane Kennedy on working with Mick Molloy and sticking with talent for the ‘long haul’

2020 marks Triple M’s 40th anniversary. Comedian, actor and radio host Jane Kennedy has become ‘part of the furniture’ over those years, most recently returning in 2017 as co-host of drive-time show, Kennedy Molloy. Here, she tells Mumbrella’s Brittney Rigby why working with ‘stirrer’ Mick Molloy is like ‘going into combat’, how Have You Been Paying Attention? works because it doesn’t cave into ‘PC world’, and why she could be friends with the women who listen to male-skewed Triple M.

“Two good mates shit stirring each other.” That’s how Jane Kennedy thinks Triple M listeners would describe her drive show with comedian and long-time friend, Mick Molloy.

Molloy is the “number one stirrer”, but she thinks that’s a good thing; it’s improved her own “stirring chops”. But it does mean going to work feels “like going into combat sometimes, every day, in a funny way”. And it also means she has to be careful – very careful – about what she tells him, and when. She learned that the hard way.

“[It was maybe] the first time we were on-air and I said something off-air that I didn’t want him to say on-air and he did say it on-air,” Kennedy recalls.

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