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Paul McDermott (born 13 May 1962 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, director, singer, artist and television host. As a comedian, he is best known both for ''Good News Week'' and for his role as a member of the musical comedy group the Doug Anthony All Stars, which disbanded in 1994 but reformed in 2014; he has also performed individually and as a part of GUD. He has frequently appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and taken part in its two major televised productions, the Comedy Festival Gala and the Great Debate. He has also hosted two other ABC programs and briefly featured on Triple J as a morning radio presenter between 1996 and 1997. He hosted ''Good News Week'' until 2012, and has since pursued his painting career, and given a series of concerts featuring self-penned songs of a more serious nature.〔Locke, Anna: (Paul McDermott in Paul Sings ), ''Australian Stage'', 20 August 2012.〕 McDermott is a published author, having released several books both in collaboration with the Doug Anthony All Stars and individually. He has written as a columnist for a number of Australian newspapers and a selection of his columns have been compiled into a book, ''The Forgetting of Wisdom''. He has also written and illustrated two storybooks, both of which have been adapted into short films with McDermott scripting, directing, performing and painting all of the animations. ==Personal life== McDermott was born in Adelaide, a fraternal twin and one of six children in a Catholic family. His father, John, was a senior public servant and his mother, Betty, a home manager. The family moved to Canberra when McDermott was three. He attended Marist College Canberra, where he describes himself as having been painfully shy and a "bit of a loner", and later the Canberra School of Art at the Australian National University for four years with the intention of becoming an artist. He describes painting as his first love, and still considers his final year piece at art school to be his finest work. Indeed, he only started performing at the age of 25 because he needed money to buy canvases. "It was either that or waiting on tables and I thought I'd soon get pissed off with people doing that," he says.〔 Privately, McDermott maintains his interest in art through painting, drawing and hand-crafting books.〔 He works under the alias of artist 'Young Master Paul'. Despite his family being Catholic, McDermott is a self-described atheist who says that his political leanings lie somewhere between ultra-conservative and the radical left "depending on the time of day". He has criticised the war on drugs and society's tendency to ignore the large drug subculture that involves people of all ages. "It's out there and it happens, but there's still a fear of talking about it," he says. "In cities like Manchester, with unemployment problems, there are no-alcohol venues where five thousand people under the age of sixteen are eccy'd off their heads every Saturday night."〔 He has one son, Xavier, with his partner Melissa Lyne. He is also the first cousin of retired Adelaide Crows AFL footballer and current Adelaide media personality Chris McDermott. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul McDermott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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