Kaz Cooke


Comedy, Media, Hosts/MC's

Kaz Cooke is best known as a successful columnist, author and cartoonist. In 2004 Kaz has taken on a new challenge, working on the 2 DAY FM Breakfast Show in Sydney with Judith Lucy and Peter Helliar. She also is currently writing the 'Memo' column for Who Magazine.

Kaz's Books include:
 
Most recently Kidwrangling (Caring for Kids aged 0-5),The Baby Book - A Fun Scrapbook for the First 5 Years; Up The Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy; also Real Gorgeous - The Truth About Body and Beauty, Get a Grip, Get Another Grip and Living With Crazy Buttocks (newspaper column collections), and the mega-selling send-ups in the 'Little Book' series: from the Little Book of Stress (a send up of The Little Book of Calm), through The Little Book of Dumb Feng Shuito and the Little Book of Diet and Exercise ("why not kayak to work?).
Kaz also co-authored a sensible women's health book on everything from the first period to menopause: Women's Trouble (herbal and medical solutions) by Ruth Trickey and Kaz Cooke.

The Terrible Underpants, Kaz's first book for children was released in Australia and the UK in 2001 and Up The Duff was published in the UK by the Rough Guide Group under the title of A Rough Guide To Pregnancy was released in the same year.

Newspapers / Magazines
Currently writing the "Memo" column for Who Weekly.
Regular columns at various times, have included: The Age, The Sunday Age, The Sydney Morning Herald & The Australian.
Providing regular cartoons for The Australian Women's Weekly. Humorous articles contributed to far too many magazines to mention.

Film
Gorgeous featuring cartoon character Hermoine the Modern Girl, produced by Film Australia. Winner of the 1994 AFI award for best short animated film.

CD-ROM
Totally Gorgeous, featuring the text of Real Gorgeous and the animated film, Gorgeous. Co-directed by Rob Wellington of Tantamount Productions, Melbourne. Produced by Film Australia and used extensively in Australian schools to help kids explore issues of body image, self-esteem and marketing hype.

Television
Pilot of animated TV series, Hermoine The Modern Girl, produced by Southern Star.
Extensive experience being interviewed on publicity tours, chat shows etc, in Australia, New Zealand, the UK & the USA.

Radio
2004 2 DAY FM (Syd) - Breakfast with Judith Lucy, Kaz Cooke & Peter Hellier
2002 MIX-FM (Melb) - Richard Stubbs Breakfast Show (Regular chat)
1998 Austereo Network - Foxy Ladies (Sunday mornings with Judith Lucy) 

** Also Kaz has extensive radio interview experience.

Public Speaking
Kaz has appeared as a speaker at a number of functions and events for organizations from the NSW Midwives Association through to Nokia.