From The Australian
By Caroline Overington
13 July 2010
CATHERINE Deveny is a stand-up comedian and writer and the mother of three young boys.
What was your first job in media?
Full-time gag writer for Tonight Live With Steve Vizard when I was 23, after only a few months of doing stand-up. I would love to say I was headhunted but I was vagina hunted. They wanted a female. I was the closest thing. And the cheapest.