(ABC), the "2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala" (Network Ten), "@Seven", "The Project", "Celebrity Name Game", "Show Me the Movie!" and "Hughesy, We Have a Problem". 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. Pickering published his first book, "Impractical Jokes" (), in 2010. 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. 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, to speak out against the detention of asylum seekers, and to criticize the Catholic Church for refusing to report confessions of child abuse to police.