Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 18 September
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Stop Everything! is the ABC pop-culture podcast that's become a phenomenon in its own right. In addictive weekly episodes, co-hosts Beverley Wang and Benjamin Law press pause on the zipping zeitgeist to turn a critical eye on the big moments in culture and entertainment: from Get Krack!n to the Met Gala to the Game of Thrones finale.
In September, they’ll join us for a live recording of the show devoted especially to the theme of pop-culture confessions. With guests Joel Creasey and Lawrence Leung, Beverley and Benjamin will divulge their surprising and possibly disgusting guilty pop-culture pleasures.
You’re invited to share yours, too. Blind Date? Father Brown? Top Gear? Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club? It’s a safe space (you absolute monster) so disclose your true trash entertainment loves and enjoy the greasy collective embrace of your fellow filthbags.
Divulge your pop-culture guilty pleasures (anonymously or not) via our online form here – or arrive early to disclose your disgrace in our dedicated confession booth on the night.
Drinks available for purchase at the event.
Featuring
Benjamin Law
Benjamin Law is the author of The Family Law (2010), Gaysia (2012), the Quarterly Essay Moral Panic (2017) and editor of Growing Up Queer in Australia (2019). He's also an AWGIE Award-winning screenwriter who created and co-wrote three seasons of the award-winning TV series The Family Law (SBS/Hulu/Comedy Central Asia), wrote the sold-out mainstage play Torch the Place (Melbourne Theatre Company, 2020), and is co-executive producer, co-creator and co-writer on the forthcoming Netflix comedy-drama Wellmania. Every week, Benjamin co-hosts ABC Radio National's weekly national pop culture show Stop Everything! and interviews public figures for Good Weekend magazine (the Age/Sydney Morning Herald). He is a literary scout for Hachette Australia, board member of Story Factory, committee member of the Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship and ambassador for Plan Australia, the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation, Victorian Pride Centre, Bridge for Asylum Seekers and the Pinnacle Foundation.
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Beverley Wang
Beverley Wang is the ABC’s National Culture Correspondent. As culture correspondent, Beverley merges years of experience in journalism and media with a deep knowledge of pop culture to share analysis across multiple ...
Lawrence Leung
Lawrence is an award winning stand-up comedian, screenwriter and documentary-maker. He created the ABC1 comedy shows Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable and the AFI Award-nominated Choose Your Own Adventure and co-wrote and starred in ABC2's action/comedy series Maximum Choppage. Recently, he wrote an episode of The Family Law (SBS2) and played a sleazy nerd in Jane Campion's Top of the Lake.
Lawrence has performed his one man shows in festivals and theatres around the world including London's Soho Theatre and the Sydney Opera House. His award-winning theatre show, Sucker, was adapted into the AWGIE-nominated feature film starring Timothy Spall. The screenplay was shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier's Literary Award.
As a hardcore geek, Lawrence once jumped out of a plane with a Rubik’s Cube and solved it during freefall – just in time to release the parachute.
Joel Creasey
Joel Creasey is one of Australia’s most-popular, acclaimed and charmingly controversial stand-up comedians.
Joel has appeared as a team captain on Show Me the Movie! and a guest quiz master on Have You Been Paying Attention?, and has been a panellist on Studio 10, Talkin' Bout Your Generation, All Star Family Feud, Have You Been Paying Attention?, Hughesy, We Have a Problem, Dirty Laundry, The Big Music Quiz, Tractor Monkeys, The Project, 20 to 1 and A League of Their Own. He has also been a contestant on I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! and has appeared on Neighbours, Sisters and It's a Date.
He has hosted dating game show Take Me Out, ABC documentary Gaycrashers and multiple Just for Laughs specials. With Myf Warhurst, he has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest and the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for SBS.
His stand up specials have appeared on Channel Ten and ABC2, with his most recent, Thirsty, filmed for Netflix and released globally. His memoir, Thirsty: Confessions of a Fame Whore, was released in 2017.