on the ABC with Annabel Crabb. Other television appearances include Rove Live, The Glass House, Today, Stand Up! (ABC), The 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala (Network Ten), @Seven, The Project, Hughesy, We Have a Problem, Show Me the Movie!, Celebrity Name Game and Would I Lie to You? Australia. Radio Pickering has also worked in Australian radio, including youth radio station Triple J from 2001 to 2003. He has been a pundit on Fighting Talk on BBC Radio 5 Live in 2006 and 2007. In December 2022, ABC announced that Pickering will host Breakfast on ABC Radio Melbourne on Friday from 2023. Literature Pickering published his first book, Impractical Jokes (), in 2010. Personal life Pickering was born in Melbourne and educated at St Leonard's College, Brighton Grammar School and Monash University where he graduated with Bachelor of Arts (American History) and Bachelor of Laws degrees. Pickering is married to Sarah Krasnostein and they have one child. He converted to Judaism in 2013. Political views As co-host of Channel Ten's The Project, Pickering claimed to have voted Liberal "once". Pickering has hosted the ABC political and cultural commentary program The Weekly with Charlie Pickering since 2015. New Matilda describes the program as "a satirical news program with a progressive bent". On the program, Pickering has used his editorials to support halal certification and gay marriage, and to speak out against the detention of asylum seekers. He has been a strong critic of the Catholic Church. In June 2018 he angrily denounced the Catholic seal of the confessional. In March 2019, he denounced and ridiculed people who questioned the guilt of Cardinal George Pell in a segment of his program he called "The Pedo Files". Pell was subsequently found not guilty by a unanimous finding of the High Court of Australia. Bibliography Pickering, Charlie. Impractical Jokes, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2010 References External links 1977 births People educated at Brighton Grammar School Australian Jews Australian stand-up comedians Converts to Judaism Living people Triple J announcers Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation Australian television talk show hosts Monash Law School alumni