{"id":891,"date":"2012-06-04T07:21:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T07:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/?p=891"},"modified":"2019-12-15T01:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T01:43:15","slug":"dishes-up-advice-as-an-agony-uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"Dishes up advice as an Agony Uncle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence sat in a chair to reveal, confess, squirm and laugh at the awkward rites of passage that make up the modern Australian male in the new 6-part ABC1 series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/tv\/agonyuncles\/webextras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AGONY UNCLES<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/agony-uncles2-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-895 size-medium\" title=\"agony uncles2\" src=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/agony-uncles2-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/agony-uncles2-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/agony-uncles2-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Described as &#8220;Wrong. Inappropriate. Confessional. Illuminating&#8221;, the embarrassingly honest talking-head series invited\u00a0some of Australia&#8217;s wittiest and wisest (?) celebrity gents to &#8220;put their reputations on the line to tell you what it&#8217;s really like to be single, cohabitate, marry, divorce and then be single again in the 21st century&#8221;. The result is a fun program that might help clueless guys out (and help women avoid such guys).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ww6dRGQF2kk&amp;feature=relmfu<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>A year and a half ago, series creator Adam Zwar (Wilfred, Lowdown) grilled Lawrence on his thoughts on the\u00a0do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts of picking-up, falling in love and getting his heart broken. Lawrence considers his advice to be more in the &#8220;this is what you should NOT do&#8221; camp and regrets recalling some of the embarrassing anecdotes he bared to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The other AGONY UNCLES include\u00a0Waleed Aly (broadcaster, academic),\u00a0Adam Elliot (Academy Award winning animator),\u00a0father &amp; son John\/Tom Elliott,\u00a0Kick Gurry,\u00a0Ed Kavalee (actor, TV host),\u00a0Andrew Knight (screenwriter, producer),\u00a0Josh Lawson (actor, screenwriter) and Lawrence Mooney (comedian) who many think stole the show with his infectious laughter and self-deprecation.<\/p>\n<p>It was screened Wednesdays on 9:30 ABC1 in Australia during March\/April, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence sat in a chair to reveal, confess, squirm and laugh at the awkward rites of passage that make up the modern Australian male in the new 6-part ABC1 series AGONY UNCLES. Described as &#8220;Wrong. Inappropriate. Confessional. Illuminating&#8221;, the embarrassingly honest talking-head series invited\u00a0some of Australia&#8217;s wittiest and wisest (?) celebrity gents to &#8220;put their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}