| Josh Zepps | |
|---|---|
| Residence | New York City, United States |
| Nationality | Australia |
| Other names | Josh Szeps |
| Television | Brink |
Josh Zepps (formerly Josh Szeps)[1] is an Australian-born media personality, political satirist, and TV show host. Zepps, the son of actor Henri Szeps, changed his last name from "Szeps" to avoid pronunciation confusion.[1] Josh Zepps attended Fort Street High School and the University of Technology, Sydney.[2][3] His work has included satirical writing and presenting for Australian radio, as well as the hosting of Brink, an American TV series.
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Zepps was cast as the voice of "Olly the Kookaburra", one of three mascots in the Sydney Summer Olympics.[2] After leaving the university in 2000, Zepps was hired as a script assistant on BackBerner, a comedy television series.[2] He also worked in the production of 2SM and 2GB, two Australian radio stations.[2] In 2003, Zepps was hired by Mike Carlton of 2UE, a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia. Zepps developed a radio soliloquy for 2UE called "John Howard's Diary", in which he made a weekly impersonation of the Australian Prime Minister's thoughts on the past week's events.[2] Zepps said to The Sydney Morning Herald in 2003 that "if John Howard wasn't in power, it's entirely possible my life would be going in a completely different direction".[2] After John Howard was defeated in the 2007 Australian federal election, Zepp's radio spoof became "Kevin Rudd's Diary", a satire of the new Prime Minister in the same format.[1] Zepps was the creator of Never Never Newsreel, a weekly syndicated satirical radio sketch that ran until June 2008.
Beginning in 2008, Zepps was the host of the Science Channel's Brink, a news-style TV series which examined breakthroughs in technology and discovery.[4][5] The series ended the following year.