October 2, 2025 • 7 mins
We were lucky enough to chat to the one and only Carrie Fisher.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
James and Amanda jam.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Nation pum above the jam twenty years of Jojie Amanda's
Onte now through Bootopia.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Details are on our website just in time for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
We've lost lots of big celebrities through the years, one
of whom Carrie Fisher, a much loved person. We know
her from Star Wars, but she is one of the funniest,
most caustic and hilarious women you could hope to meet.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Help me, You'll be one, Canobi. You're my only hope.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Good morning, Carrie Fisher, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh, good morning. I'm so excited about seeing your show.
I just can't wait. So welcome in advance to Australia.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well, thank you, it's good to be here in advance.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Your show Wishful Drinking.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Would you call it an autobiography that you haven't quite
got around to writing down.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Oh no, I've written it down. It's yet. I would
call it like anecdote memoir.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
A lot of people might not know this about you,
carry but you are a writer. I remember reading you
were writing speeches for something Different in the Academy Awards.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, I've written the Academy Awards three years, and I
probably will do it this year because my friend's producing it.
But it used to be a good job, because they
used to give you, pay you in those baskets where
they have all sorts of cool things in the basket. Yeah,
but there's no more baskets now come. I think it
(01:34):
was Edward Norton complained that it was something like, why
give rich people more rich things or something? These are
high class problems.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And I bet he wants an iPod as much as anyone.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Oh, it was like they would give you, give you
mattresses and watches and stuff, and for those of us
that were writing it, we deserved it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Of course she did.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Of course, I'd like to ask you why you haven't
gone completely bonkers.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That's what I admire about you. But you're staying power.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Because you're you're the product, I guess, in the way
of the world's most famous divorce. You've survived the incredible
fame of Star Wars and you've come out the other
side as a writer and a comedian.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
How come you? How have you managed to mutate into
interesting things?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Mutate being the proper word. I you know, I think
I watched my mother get through a bunch of stuff.
I mean, what are the choices? I think, But you know,
the point is it just to sort of survive. It's
too have fun. I mean, for me, I look at
(02:58):
it as soon as I possibly can it with humor,
you know, because if it's if my life wasn't funny,
it would just be true, and that's frequently unacceptable. So
I I, you know, take things that aren't funny at
the time, and eventually they're funny.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I enjoyed one of your recent entries in the Twitter
verse that you know, there's a whole lot of young
guys who are discovering you through Star Wars, and I
think that you're still going to be a twenty year
old girl, and they're shocked to discover, like all of us,
you're mad, you're a middle aged woman, and you fought back.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Tell me how you fought back. I loved what you said.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I said that I didn't realize that when I donned
the metal bikini back when I was twenty three, that
I had made an invisible contract to stay looking the
exact same way from the next thirty to forty years.
So obviously I've betrayed made the contract. I've had a child,
(04:03):
I've taken pounds of medication to stay sane for the child.
And sanity comes at a heavy price, you.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Know, car you a marriage to pull someone for eleven months.
But he managed, no way, He managed to write nine
songs about you. That was quite anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
But we were we were We could say we were
engaged or not or we catd for I don't know,
like nine years before that.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
What's it like having someone write a song about you
with the all nice?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
No, not at all. There's one called allergies, which is
my heart is allergic to the woman I love and
it's changing the shape of my face. Is that nice?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Really?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
No? I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Is there any other ones? Is there a good one?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah? Yeah, there's a bunch of good ones. Hearts and
Bones one and one half wandering Jews, I'm the half
Jew and Graceland the lyric of I can never something
of Let's see, was it something about waking up with
(05:22):
oh I can't remember I you know, I had just
had electric convulsive therapy and my memory shot to hell.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Ah fun, just for fun, just for the singing.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
For diversion, you know why? Now I've been to Disneyland,
Disney World. You know, I've been traveled a lot of
places and one of the things I hadn't done was
ect So I just thought, why not.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Did it drive you crazy with the Star Wars and
let's just put this delicately, freaks come up and harass.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You with the Star Wars trivia?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Does that drive you crazy?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
No? Nothing drives me crazy. Sometimes if I'm in like
a airport, someone will we shout out, hey, print this law,
Like I'm going to turn around the yes and get
confused for a moment.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
That would be. But what do you do because they're
yelling at so clearly you know they're talking to you.
Do you turn around or do you just ignore it?
What do you do?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
It depends on the airport. Oh, you know, I generally
don't really respond. If it's a child, I'll respond. What
if it's a so called adult, probably you don't want
to encourage that.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And they're dressed like Boba fette. Yeah, I could say.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
That, Well, that would be that's when you're.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Right for the hills. Well, Carrie Fisher, it's so great
to talk to you. Wishful drinking is that the state
thieves on the nineteenth of the twentieth of October. You
can get tickets right now. In fact, I would imagine
they're all sold out because this will be a great show.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We can't wait to see you.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Well, I can't wait to be there. And it's on
my almost My birthdays are the twenty first, so it'll
be my birthday even Sydney.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Why don't we all have electric shock therapy together?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yes, together, and pour out the candles in our hair.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Thank you carry for shocking.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Aye. Good to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Bye.
James and Amanda jam.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Nation pum above the jam twenty years of Jojie Amanda's
Onte now through Bootopia.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Details are on our website just in time for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
We've lost lots of big celebrities through the years, one
of whom Carrie Fisher, a much loved person. We know
her from Star Wars, but she is one of the funniest,
most caustic and hilarious women you could hope to meet.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Help me, You'll be one, Canobi. You're my only hope.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Good morning, Carrie Fisher, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh, good morning. I'm so excited about seeing your show.
I just can't wait. So welcome in advance to Australia.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well, thank you, it's good to be here in advance.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Your show Wishful Drinking.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Would you call it an autobiography that you haven't quite
got around to writing down.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Oh no, I've written it down. It's yet. I would
call it like anecdote memoir.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
A lot of people might not know this about you,
carry but you are a writer. I remember reading you
were writing speeches for something Different in the Academy Awards.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, I've written the Academy Awards three years, and I
probably will do it this year because my friend's producing it.
But it used to be a good job, because they
used to give you, pay you in those baskets where
they have all sorts of cool things in the basket. Yeah,
but there's no more baskets now come. I think it
(01:34):
was Edward Norton complained that it was something like, why
give rich people more rich things or something? These are
high class problems.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And I bet he wants an iPod as much as anyone.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Oh, it was like they would give you, give you
mattresses and watches and stuff, and for those of us
that were writing it, we deserved it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Of course she did.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Of course, I'd like to ask you why you haven't
gone completely bonkers.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That's what I admire about you. But you're staying power.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Because you're you're the product, I guess, in the way
of the world's most famous divorce. You've survived the incredible
fame of Star Wars and you've come out the other
side as a writer and a comedian.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
How come you? How have you managed to mutate into
interesting things?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Mutate being the proper word. I you know, I think
I watched my mother get through a bunch of stuff.
I mean, what are the choices? I think, But you know,
the point is it just to sort of survive. It's
too have fun. I mean, for me, I look at
(02:58):
it as soon as I possibly can it with humor,
you know, because if it's if my life wasn't funny,
it would just be true, and that's frequently unacceptable. So
I I, you know, take things that aren't funny at
the time, and eventually they're funny.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I enjoyed one of your recent entries in the Twitter
verse that you know, there's a whole lot of young
guys who are discovering you through Star Wars, and I
think that you're still going to be a twenty year
old girl, and they're shocked to discover, like all of us,
you're mad, you're a middle aged woman, and you fought back.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Tell me how you fought back. I loved what you said.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I said that I didn't realize that when I donned
the metal bikini back when I was twenty three, that
I had made an invisible contract to stay looking the
exact same way from the next thirty to forty years.
So obviously I've betrayed made the contract. I've had a child,
(04:03):
I've taken pounds of medication to stay sane for the child.
And sanity comes at a heavy price, you.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Know, car you a marriage to pull someone for eleven months.
But he managed, no way, He managed to write nine
songs about you. That was quite anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
But we were we were We could say we were
engaged or not or we catd for I don't know,
like nine years before that.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
What's it like having someone write a song about you
with the all nice?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
No, not at all. There's one called allergies, which is
my heart is allergic to the woman I love and
it's changing the shape of my face. Is that nice?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Really?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
No? I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Is there any other ones? Is there a good one?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah? Yeah, there's a bunch of good ones. Hearts and
Bones one and one half wandering Jews, I'm the half
Jew and Graceland the lyric of I can never something
of Let's see, was it something about waking up with
(05:22):
oh I can't remember I you know, I had just
had electric convulsive therapy and my memory shot to hell.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Ah fun, just for fun, just for the singing.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
For diversion, you know why? Now I've been to Disneyland,
Disney World. You know, I've been traveled a lot of
places and one of the things I hadn't done was
ect So I just thought, why not.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Did it drive you crazy with the Star Wars and
let's just put this delicately, freaks come up and harass.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You with the Star Wars trivia?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Does that drive you crazy?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
No? Nothing drives me crazy. Sometimes if I'm in like
a airport, someone will we shout out, hey, print this law,
Like I'm going to turn around the yes and get
confused for a moment.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
That would be. But what do you do because they're
yelling at so clearly you know they're talking to you.
Do you turn around or do you just ignore it?
What do you do?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
It depends on the airport. Oh, you know, I generally
don't really respond. If it's a child, I'll respond. What
if it's a so called adult, probably you don't want
to encourage that.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And they're dressed like Boba fette. Yeah, I could say.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
That, Well, that would be that's when you're.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Right for the hills. Well, Carrie Fisher, it's so great
to talk to you. Wishful drinking is that the state
thieves on the nineteenth of the twentieth of October. You
can get tickets right now. In fact, I would imagine
they're all sold out because this will be a great show.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We can't wait to see you.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Well, I can't wait to be there. And it's on
my almost My birthdays are the twenty first, so it'll
be my birthday even Sydney.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Why don't we all have electric shock therapy together?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yes, together, and pour out the candles in our hair.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Thank you carry for shocking.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Aye. Good to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Bye.
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