Sarah Konoski

You know, isolation has all kinds of consequences for places and it can create different kinds of humour, I think.

What kind of humour flourished in Burnie when you were growing up there and what was unique about the way people made each other laugh in Burnie?

With that edge and the inspiration of your theatre teacher and not being stopped by your family, you headed off to Canberra to university.

What were you like as a first-year student?

Fonz, because you were so cool, how did you land Fonz?

You threw yourself into writing and performing at university in Canberra and you won the ABC competition Haywire, which led to you having a regular gig as the bedroom philosopher on the Triple J Breakfast Show.

How big a deal was that to you?

At 21.

Describing when you were a little kid recording cassettes, you'd imagine this audience, this huge audience that you wanted and wanted to connect with.

Did that happen once you had this role with Triple J?

Were you able to kind of find your people and then find you?

What about, you know, you described as a kid feeling so lonely.

Did having an audience change that feeling?

Is that because at home that would be considered big noting yourself or something or what's that voice in your head about?

I mean, you were then performing live shows, started performing at comedy festivals.

What would audiences get, Justin, if they came to one of your shows?

What would they have experienced?

You kept a pretty frantic pace over those years of performing and writing and it seems like you were doing a million projects at once.

How did that kind of all fall in a heap?

So when you crashed through a wall that you couldn't crash through anymore, what did that look like for you?