Rowan Dean returns to co-front controversial Outsiders programme this Sunday on Sky News

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ROWAN-DEAN-book.jpgAfter one week off the air following the sacking of Mark Latham, CB hears Outsiders is set to return to Sky News this Sunday at 10am, still co-fronted by former ad agency creative director Rowan Dean, now editor of the Spectator and a regular AFR satirical columnist.

The only unanswered question is, who, if anyone, will replace Latham?

Dean began his career as an ex-pat copywriter in the UK, where he created the multi-award winning Fosters Lager campaign featuring Paul Hogan. He went on to co-write with art director Garry Horner “the world’s greatest ad” for Hamlet cigars, “Photobooth”, before returning to Australia as a film director and finally executive creative director of Euro (now Havas).

Dean’s career has certainly blossomed since leaving the ad industry, with his latest book Way Beyond Satire doing very nicely indeed.

In this hilarious selection from his weekly Australian Financial Review satirical columns, Dean chronicles Australia’s recent political mayhem, sorry, we mean history, in his unique tongue-in-cheek, ruthlessly subversive style. From the mysterious Granola virus to an outbreak of Todgers in the Lodge; from performing the Same Sex Kama Sutra and resisting the pull of Gravitational Waffle; from Sharia Law in Tassie to enjoying All the Gonski you can eat, Dean’s biting humour is an irresistible comic pleasure to savour.