Performers are listed alphabetically by their personal names (or nom de gig) for solo efforts and by group name for joint efforts.
Each profile has a brief bio and details of where you can find more information about the performer online.
Fans please note
- Most performers with myspace pages tend to use that as their primary gig calendar if you want to find out where they are currently performing. Update: Facebook seems to be taking over!
- Some prefer to use mailing lists that you can subscribe to via their official websites
- Others appear to prefer to let venues handle all the publicity for any gigs.
The directory is far from complete. If you’re having trouble finding details for any particular performer email me and I’ll see what I can track down.
Comics
Please use the form [here] to submit a bio. I’m particularly keen to add details for up and coming comedians who don’t have a big online presence as yet.
Adam Hills (SYD/UK)
Adrian Saunders (SYD)
Akmal Saleh (SYD)
Alan Glover (NSW)
Amelia Jane Hunter (SYD)
Anh Do (SYD)
Anne Howe (QLD)
Austen Tayshus (SYD)
The Axis of Awesome (SYD)
Adam Hills (SYD/UK)
Best known as the host of the fun music quiz show Spicks and Specks on ABC TV. Adam’s playful personality, which has taken him to the top of the international comedy circuit, has translated seamlessly to his hosting role on the small screen, making him one of the most recognisable faces on Australian TV.
When he is not on Spicks, Adam is one of Australia’s most talented and well-travelled comedians. His positive, energetic comedy and rampant spontaneity have won him universal acclaim, rave reviews and a swag of awards throughout Australia, Great Britain, Ireland and Europe.
Adam’s solo shows are established highlights at the Edinburgh Fringe, Adelaide Fringe and the Melbourne Comedy Festivals, receiving five-star reviews and sold-out houses. His 2001, 2002 & 2003 shows were all nominated for the prestigious Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival. The 2002 show, Happy Feet, took out the inaugural Best Of The Fest Peoples Choice Award in Edinburgh. Adam is also a regular at the Montreal “Just For Laughs” Comedy Festival, having been invited to perform there the last three years.
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Adrian Saunders (SYD)
Adrian has been venting publicly since 2004. A graduate of the Actors Centre Stand-up Comedy, he packs a potent punch – poking and prodding at parents, partners and progeny.
He takes an irreverent slant on himself and the world of commerce and shares his unalterably dismal perspective regularly with his comedy colleagues, business partners and unwitting audiences. He was a NSW Raw state finalist in 2005, and is co-founder of Sydney’s ‘Comedy on the Rox’ room at the Roxbury Hotel in Glebe.
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Akmal Saleh (SYD)
Akmal has toured nationally with Jimeon, Ben Elton, Steady Eddy, The Amazing Jonathon, the Umbilical Brothers and has supported Steven Wright on two of his Australian tours. Being of Arab heritage, his comedy touches on the issues such as Jesus, September 11 and hysterical looks at modern day life in Australia. Akmal has a history of successful festival shows in Melbourne, Sydney and the Edinburgh Fringe.
Akmal has written and performed sketches for SBS ("Insight") which culminated in his own TV series ‘The 50 Foot Show", which aired on the comedy channel in Australia and New Zealand. He has appeared as a comic actor in Channel Nine’s "Just Kidding" and was the lead role in the cult film ‘You Can’t Stop the Murders’ released in 2002 and has performed as a main character in the Murray Whelan TV movie series for the Seven Network. He co-presents the Drive session with Cal Wilson on Nova Radio in Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth & Sydney.
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Alan Glover (NSW)
Alan Glover is without doubt one of Australia’s tallest comedians. Recently referred to as an elder statesman of Aussie comedy, he’s been standing up since 1983 and shows no sign of tiring. Alan’s varied act includes sound effects, silly voices, funny physicality and clever one-liners.
Alan’s first standup comedy appearance was in June 1983 at Sydney’s Comedy Store. Since then he’s performed all around Australia and many times in the UK, USA, Canada, Netherlands, Singapore, and New Zealand.
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Amelia Jane Hunter (SYD)
Originally from Darwin, Amelia is now a Sydney based comedian/performer.
Her unique brand of energy filled character comedy provides hilarious insights into the wicked and wily workings of a well bred, lateral thinking mind.
Her humour is both confronting, sensitive and intelligent, a hearty grain fed, well rounded, full bodied flavour with lashings of laughter and a generous side of political profanity.
Amelia’s brand of individual comedy has earned her top accolades and comedy awards.
- In 2006 Amelia’s first solo show ‘Roadhouse’ was nominated for a “Golden Gibbo Award” [for independent and innovative,new shows].
- In 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival awarded her the prestigious “Moosehead Award” for her second solo show ‘Amelia Jane Hunter is Keith Flipp’. Amelia was invited to perform at the ‘2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival’ and was nominated for a ‘Total Theatre Award’ for ‘Best Actress’. She also garnered much acclaim at the 2008 Adelaide Fringe Festival and was nominated for a “Fringe Award” for her solo show.
- In 2008 Amelia once again impressed the panel of Comedy selectors in Melbourne securing her second “Moosehead Award” to perform ‘Meat the Musical’ with fellow comedian Hannah Gadsby. ‘Meat the Musical’ also won the 2008 Sydney ‘Cracker Comedy Festival Directors Award’.
A trained actor and a contributing comedy writer to ABC’s ‘The Glasshouse’, Amelia has performed on the Comedy Channels ‘ Stand up Australia’ and Channel 31’s ‘The Couch’. Currently the host of a weekly community radio program and a contributing writer to Triple J and Channel Nine.
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Anh Do (SYD)
Anh is one of Sydney’s favourite actor and stand-up comedians. This guy’s bagged all the comedy awards around town, including the Sydney Comedian of the Year, and appeared multiple times on “Rove Live” and “The Footy Show”.
Winner – Sydney Comedian of the Year, National Green Faces Comedy Competition, NSW Triple J Raw Comedy Competition. He is also an actor, writer and film-maker. Anh is still one of the most sought after stand-up comedians still on the circuit today and has performed every major comedy venue in Australia and New Zealand, recently entertaining sell-out audiences at The Sydney Opera house. He is a favourite also with corporate clients such as The Commonwealth Bank, and Hallmark Cards, amongst many others.
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Anne Howe (QLD)
Anne made it to the Queensland final of Raw Comedy 2008, and has performed at the Chalk Hotel, The Sit down Comedy Club, Dockside Comedy CLub, Treasury Casino, Conrad Jupitors, and the Gold Coast Arts Centre.
She is known for her non sugar coated style of telling it like it is in the beauty industry and has been called “deliciously Rude!!” Fred Lang says “She’s brutal”.
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Austen Tayshus (SYD)
Since 1981, Austen Tayshus has performed over 10 000 shows in nightclubs, universities, comedy clubs, pubs and theatres throughout Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, the United States, and Asia.
In 1983 he released the highest selling Australian single of all time, ‘Australiana’, selling over 200,000 units and going double platinum. Austen wrote and starred in the film Intolerance which received the Best Film Award at the 1998 Tropicana Film Festival, and for which he won the Best Actor Award.
The provocative and improvisational style of Austen Tayshus tends to polarise audiences, ensuring you never know quite what you’ll see when he’s on stage.
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The Axis of Awesome (SYD)
The Axis of Awesome are Sydney’s greatest musical comedy rock band. They sing songs, tell jokes and receive awards. They’re also incredibly humble.
Jordan, Benny & Lee are stalwarts of the Sydney impro scene as well as Australia’s newest comedy music act sensation. They won the Moosehead award at the Melbourne Comedy Festival for “The Axis of Awesome Comeback Spectacular” and are heading to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008.
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Barry Hamilton
Ben Ellwood
Bev Killick (MELB)
Brad Oakes (MELB)
Brendan Lovechild (NSW)
Brett Nichols
Barry Hamilton (SYD)
Barry finally responded to calls (his own) of "one day I’ll do stand up comedy, it’s got to be easier than this!"
Quickly finding out it wasn’t, but being too stupid to quit, he continued to annoy people at open mic rooms in Sydney. With 40 years of life’s disasters to refer to, he asks you to examine the contradictions of what life asks us to accept. That and a bunch of one liners which are obviously thinly disguised cries for help.
Barry started in 2003 and made the Grand Final of the Green Faces comedy competition in 2005. Barry has performed all over Sydney. He appeared recently on the "Sydney Underground Comedy" DVD. He regularly appears at The Laugh Garage and at many comedy rooms in Sydney.
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Ben Ellwood (SYD)
Ben’s act, a healthy mix of haughty self righteousness and self deprecation has been described as – “A lungful of air from a desperate gasp, after drowning in a sea full of derivative comedy. Ellwood’s honesty behind the mic stand and willingness to test the expectations of any audience has earned him a place as a must see for, if nothing else, a new angle”.
After being fired from his twelfth consecutive retail job, Ben Ellwood realised that his belligerent attitude behind the counter might be better suited to behind a microphone. His stand up career began in Sydney’s open mic rooms in 2005, however, cowardice soon got the better of him and he took a nine month hiatus.
Returning in 2006 with a vastly improved act, his success as a RAW state finalist fuelled him with renewed confidence and gave rise to his first non substance based addiction, comedy. In 2007 he was selected by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival as one of the four best up and coming stand ups from around Australia for their annual season of Comedy Zone, a showcase of new talent.
Since then he has appeared on the Comedy Channel’s Stand up Australia and has supported the likes of Brendon Burns, Greg Fleet and Gary Eck. When not on stage, Ben writes for children’s television (sorry parents, this is actually true) and can be heard ranting and raving once a week on Triple J radio.
Ben Ellwood doesn’t just wear his heart on his sleeve; he tears it out of his chest and makes you wear it as a hat.
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Bev Killick (MELB)
After 10 years in the biz, Bev is hitting her stride playing at major theatres around Australia to capacity crowds.
Support Act -Wierd Al Yankovic at the Palais/Hamer Hall Support Act Puppetry of the Penis
Featured Act -Show us your Roots Featured Act-Best of Green Faces
Regular at -Sydney’s Original Comedy Store -The Comedy Club -The Comic’s Lounge -ICBM Canberra -Sit Down Comedy Brisbane -Dockside Comedy Brisbane -Gold Coast Arts Centre -Comedy Knockout -A-List comedy rooms -Star 100 Comedy rooms – Melbourne Int Comedy festival – Adelaide Fringe -Comedy All Stars -Spikefest -Funny Girls
Currently performing in “Busting Out” with Emma Powell
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Brad Oakes (MELB)
Brad Oakes decision to take up professional stand-up comedy in 1989 has since seen him evolve into a popular and versatile performer, a veteran of thousands of shows, television appearances and other media. Despite this recognised status and list of achievements he constantly strives to continue perfecting his performances, adding to his extensive repertoire as he goes.
He is dry, cynical and funny… extremely proficient stand-up comic. Melbourne Age
His take on comedy is that it will be best for the audience if they can “see jokes through his eyes” and accordingly takes time to craft his material. His technique incorporates adapting his speaking to match whichever audience he is working to entertain.
His relaxed manner… makes you feel like you’re listening to a funny friend. The Adelaide Advertiser
Highly respected amongst his peers throughout the country he is often called to consult on or direct them in their shows. He has acted as a mentor on behalf of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and various Performing Arts Bodies. Selected career highlights:
* ‘Cheap Seats’ show, Gold FM Melb with Chris Bennett (and 2000 Xmas Show)
* Lecturing on Comedy Writing, Victoria University. “COMEDY WORKSHOPS” RMIT
* Freelance contributor – ‘The Age’ and ‘The Herald-Sun’
* Multiple TV Stand-Up spots on ‘Hey Hey’, ‘GMA’, ‘Tonight Live’, ABC, “Stand-up Australia” Foxtel
* ‘Labour Pains’ – a one-man show on ABC-TV series ‘Smallest Room in the House’
* TV writer for ‘Comedy Company’, ‘Jimeoin’, ‘Full-Frontal’, ‘Hey Hey It’s Saturday’, ‘Back-Berner’
* House Director and Scriptwriter for ‘Medieval Madness’ – Theatre Restaurant 2997 – 2001
* Solo Festival Shows ‘Doug’ – Adelaide 1998 and ‘Don’t Look Down’, Melb, 1998
* Moosehead Award – ‘Small-top Tent Show’ – Melb Comedy Festival, 1995 (& ’93)
* Performer “Who’s that Guy with the Axe? – Bob Franklin & Glenn Robbins
* Director for Damian Clark “Bandit” Com Fest 2004 & “Lays it on Thick 2005”
* Mentor – Melbourne International Comedy Festival – Comedy Zone show, 2005
* The Comedy Laugh Boat. 2004 Comedy Festival. Monthly Series 2003
* Rove Live, September, 2003. “Stand-Up” ABC 2004. GMA – guest Sept 2004
* Comedy Trainer, St Michaels Collegiate School, Hobart – Jan 2005 and 2006
* Director of MICF 2006 shows of Corinne Grant, Lehmo, Geraldine Hickey and Harley Breen.
* Director – “Celebrity Is The New Bleak” SHORT & SWEET FESTIVAL, Melb Arts Centre 2006
* Writer, Director, Performer ‘DECEITFUL’ 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
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Brendan Lovechild (SYD)
Brendan grew up in suburban Sydney. In 2000 Brendan made his stand-up comedy debut, which in his own words was "absolutely perfect….everything went wrong!" It could only get better from there & it certainly has. These days Brendan has quite a string of credits as both a stand-up comic & cartoonist. He performed at Splendour In The Grass 2006, JJJ Cockatoo Island Fest 2005, Woodford Folk Fest 2002-2006, Sydney Comedy Store, The Last Laugh Comedy Club, Melbourne, and just about every comedy club around.
Brendan has appeared on "Stand Up Australia", and his stand up work has been aired nationally on JJJ radio. He has worked with some of the best including Akmal Saleh, Arj Barker, Greg Fleet, Gary Who, Steddy Eddy, Wil Anderson, Kitty Flannagan, Puppetry Of The Penis & loads more. Brendan has also been MC for rock bands such as the Hoodoo Gurus, Rose Tattoo & Jimmy Barnes & even dressed up as a priest & worked a ‘confession booth’ for 300 people (who were on ecstacy & vodka so they told him everything) at a corporate Christmas party on a floating pontoon on Sydney Harbour
His cartoons have been published nationally in newspapers & magazines such as The Big Issue, Nova, The Byron Echo, The Nthn Star, Insight, Wingspan, Nimbin Goodtimes, Arena, Rabalais & more.
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Brett Nichols (SYD)
Brett Nichols won the Green Faces comedy competition in 2003, one of the largest open mic competitions in Australia that includes Anh Do, Dave Williams and Tom Gleeson in its winners and runners-up hall of fame.
A comedian, writer, director and actor, Brett has appeared in Water Rats and All Saints, and is a writer/director of an upcoming Australian surf comedy film called Hodads.
He works his comedy magic regularly at The Laugh Garage Comedy Club in Parramatta and the Sydney Comedy Store.
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Cal Wilson
Calvin DeGrey
Carl Barron
Carnovale & Culp
Ciel (NSW)
Claire Hooper (WA)
Clint Paddison
Christina Davis
Corinne Grant
Cal Wilson
Cal Wilson started her comedy career in NZ, where she rapidly became a regularly booked headliner, staged festival shows, won awards and made regular radio and TV appearances.
She’s since moved to Australia, where she has rapidly became a regularly booked headliner, staged festival shows, won awards and made regular radio and TV appearances.
Cal won acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004 and has been invited to Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival twice. She can now be heard every weekday from 4 – 6pm on Nova, on “The Akmal Show with Cal Wilson.”
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Calvin DeGrey
Calvin DeGrey won the Mo Award in 2004 for the Best Male Comedy Performer of the Year. A popular veteran beloved by audiences and performers alike, Calvin passed away in 2008.
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Carl Barron
He grew up in Longreach in Central Queensland the son of a sheep shearer. Moved to the Gold Coast where he became a roof-tiler, moved to Sydney and decided to walk on stage at the Harold Park Hotel one night, told everyone how a bird had poo-ed on him that day and the rest is history. Carl’s non-threatening observational style of comedy appeals to everyone. He has touched the hearts of thousands of people with his gentle, awkward, self-conscious, relaxed and original approach to comedy.
Since winning Comic of the year and Best Up and Coming Talent in 1993, Carl has established himself as one of the most accomplished comedy performers in Australia and around the world. This extremely popular and gifted comedian has tread the boards throughout Australia, New York, L.A, London, Auckland, Ireland, Singapore and Edinburgh.
Having headlined at every major comedy venue and Festival worldwide, no wonder that Carl Barron is one of the most sought after Australian comedians. There are very few Australian comedians on the live scene who have received the same kudos as Carl.
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Carnovale & Culp
Jennifer Carnovale & Madeleine Culp (aka The Cloud Girls) are a “Two Women Comedy Duo – characters and the absurd!”
* 2009- ‘The Cloud Girls’ Sydney Comedy Festival, Presenters on Triple J
* 2008 – Presenters on Triple J Mid-Dawn, Regular Guests on Sam Simmons Weekend Breakfast show (Triple J), Melbourne Fringe Festival ‘Mink and Rage’, appear in ‘Urban Monkey with Murray Foote’ (Sam Simmons ABC TV), Various Stand Up Rooms Sydney, Adelaide Fringe Festival ‘Gypsy Pants’.
* 2007 – Melbourne Comedy Festival ‘Smile at the Snowball’, Adelaide Fringe Festival ‘ How to be a Cloud and other Life Lessons’.
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Ciel
Ciel is recognised as one of the brightest female comics to emerge from Sydney’s comedy scene and has shown her versatility in writing, presenting and performing.
Ciel has taken a huge career step in recent times, taking up a key Hosting position on Sea FM Central Coast Radio’s Breakfast Show. This market leading show is the perfect place for Ciel to grow her radio career after the time she’s spent guesting on radio over the last 3 years. (You can get up to date info on her radio show at www.myseafm.com)
As one of Sydney’s finest comedian’s Ciel has worked extensively in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane Comedy rooms and Universities as well as various group and solo Festival and Theatre Seasons. Ciel has performed in SE Asia and works extensively as a corporate comedian.
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Claire Hooper (WA)
Bright new comic Claire Hooper already has a glowing CV, with The Sideshow and Rove Live appearances, and a stint as a presenter on ABCTV and Perth’s Nova937 under her belt.
Her comedy career began in 2004 when she won the Western Australian finals of Triple J’s Raw Comedy. In 2005, she was selected to perform in ‘The Comedy Zone’, Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s new acts line-up and won ‘Best and Fairest’ at the National Improvisation Championships in Sydney. She has also written several comic plays and directed ‘Hamlet’ in a co-production with Perth Theatre Company.
In her first year on the comedy festival circuit, Claire scored a Best Newcomer nomination at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and a place in Scotland on Sunday’s top five comedy picks of the Edinburgh Fringe.
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Clint Paddison (SYD)
Clint Paddison is one of Australia’s finest stand-up comedians. Winner of the 2001 Comedy Cup and the 2004 Australia Day Comedy Competition, Clint is a unique and engaging comedian who has performed all over the world; including the acclaimed Comedy Café in Amsterdam, Anthony Robbins Seminars in Fiji, tours across Australia with Puppetry of the Penis and even entertaining the troops throughout the Middle East.
Clint has featured on the Comedy Channel (Foxtel), the Qantas and Jetstar in-flight entertainment program and is a regular live performer at the Sydney Comedy Store and most of the major venues across the country. Clint also performs at popular events such as the Sydney Royal Easter Show, Sydney on Sale and The Great Escape.
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Christina Davis
Christina Davis has had a long and varied career in the entertainment industry as a stand-up comedienne, dancer, choreographer, actress, voiceover artist and television presenter.
She attended the McDonald College School of Performing Arts and is a graduate of the Australian Ballet School. Christina was a member of the West Australian Ballet and Les Ballets De Monte Carlo before she quit ballet to become a comedienne, and is still best known outside comedy as Christina Ballerina from Big Brother.
In 2004 she supported Jimmie JJ Walker at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and in 2006, did her first solo show at the festival to sell out audiences. In 2007 her solo show SEX was performed at both the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Corinne Grant
After several years on the stand-up circuit with successful festival shows under her belt, Corinne got her TV kick-start as a regular Good News Week panellist back in 1999, and in no time became one of the most familiar faces on Australian primetime television.
In 2006 she returned to live comedy: in two years, she has produced no less than three outstanding solo shows, headlined on the Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow, sold out at the Adelaide Fringe, wowed audiences at the Big Laugh Comedy Festival in Sydney, reached critical acclaim at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and won a new legion of fans at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Corinne is currently touring her new stand-up show, Out Of Order and working on a book for Allen and Unwin called “Have My Stuff”, based on her 2007 show of the same name.
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Daniel Townes
Darren Casey
Dave Bloustien (SYD)
Dave Eastgate (QLD)
Dave Hughes (MELB)
Dave Jory
David Smiedt
Davo (QLD)
Desh (QLD)
Daniel Townes
Daniel Townes began his comedy career in 2002 and in a hectic five years has starred in comedy festivals in Montreal, Edinburgh, Melbourne and Adelaide. He has performed in a variety of venues from the Sydney Opera House to Comedy on the Rox and everything in between. He has toured Spain, Germany and the UK and made numerous radio and television appearances including the Footy Show. You can also hear him on CDs and see him on DVDs.
Daniel has his own brand of dry, Australian humour, guaranteed to make anyone laugh.
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Darren Casey
Darren Casey is an Australian comedy legend as a headliner, writer and actor. Along with Eddie McGuire, he was on the Triple M Grill Team and he was also lead actor in the award-winning SBS short film Roy Hollsdotter Live. Darren has worked with some of the best.
Darren has also been featured on legendary ABC comedy series Frontline, as himself on Rove Live, and has been involved in iconic comedy tonight shows including Russell Gilbert Live and In Melbourne Tonight.
His theatre ventures have included Two Bums Go Vegas (1995) with Matt King at Budinski’s Theatre, Melbourne, and He’s a Little Bit Mental (2001) at the Victoria Hotel, Melbourne. Darren’s eagerly anticipated return to Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2007 culminated in the solo show Poo Ring Sting.
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Dave Bloustien
You might not have heard of Dave Bloustien, but you’ve probably heard one of his jokes. Dave was part of the award-winning writing team on ABCTV’s The Glass House, as well as The Side Show, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Great Debates, the new Good News Week and more.
As a stand-up comedian and improvisor, he’s performed in comedy festivals in five out of six states, as well as in London, San Francisco, Zambia and beyond. Most recently Dave played in the NSW Theatresports Grand Final (the Cranston Cup) at the Enmore Theatre and at the closing night gala of the Hobart Comedy Festival at the iconic Theatre Royal.
Interesting facts about Dave: he has a PhD in Jewish Punk from the University of Sydney, and thanks to his appearance in a documentary about the lost Jews of China (narrated by Leonard Nimoy), he also has a Kevin Bacon rating of ‘three’, which is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stiletto.
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Dave Eastgate (QLD)
Dave Eastgate is truly versatile, with 10 years of professional experience in film, theatre, television, stand-up comedy, live stunt shows, bands, musical theatre, Shakespeare, street performance, education, improvisation and even theme-park characters. As well as a four-year stint performing at Universal Studios Japan in Japanese, David has performed his unique brand of musical-comedy around the world in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh. He returned from five years overseas in Jan 2006 and is currently residing in Brisbane writing the scripts for Big Brother’s Friday Night Live and performing the audience warm up for Nominations, Evictions and FNL.
As a stand-up comedian, David placed 2nd in the 2006 National Green Faces Competition in Canberra, was featured at the 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Showcase. David has since begun
headlining shows in Brisbane but his personal highlights would be supporting international acts Arj Barker, Stephen K Amos and Ed Byrne, sharing the stage and his guitar with Lano and Woodley on a live broadcast for ABC radio and making the third round in Japan’s biggest comedy competition, the M-1 Grand Prix.
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Dave Hughes (MELB)
It was at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 1999 that Hughesy was forced to move from a tiny upstairs city bar into a 300-seat room at the Melbourne Town Hall. Word had started to spread about this impossibly laid back guy from Warrnambool.
Since 1999 the word has spread even further and Hughesy has become one of the biggest and most loved names in Australian stand up comedy. Honest and imperfect is how Australians like their comedy and Dave Hughes delivers exactly that in spades.
Hughesy hosts breakfast radio on Nova in Melbourne with Kate Langbroek
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Dave Jory (SYD)
Dave Jory began his comedy career with a 5 minute open mic spot at The Sydney Comedy Store, way back in 2003. From humble beginnings, Jory has quickly become one of Sydney’s hardest working and most in demand comedians. He has performed with some of the biggest names in comedy and in 2006 Jory opened for both Arj Barker & Pauly Shore, before capacity crowds at the Enmore Theatre.
Jory will also be familiar to people who listen to Triple J radio, but only if they listen at 8.40am every Saturday. That’s when he appears on Scott Dooley’s breakfast show, to present the hilarious segment ‘Dave Jory Lifts the Lid on Tinseltown’. Jory is also author of the 2001 comedy book ‘I know everything’, which Hustler Magazine said ‘has the edge over Woody Allen’.
Jory appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2005 and was a national finalist in Raw Comedy in that same year. He has also appeared Channel 10’s Joker Poker and performed twice on The Comedy Channel’s highly rated series Stand-Up Australia.
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David Smiedt (SYD)
David Smiedt was born in South Africa in 1968 and migrated to Australia at the age of 18. He spent the next three years at Macquarie University in Sydney, where he frequently used the word ‘postmodern’ erroneously and out of context. He went on to betray his sex in magazines such as Cleo, New Woman, marie claire, Cosmopolitan and ELLE.
His first book, Boom Boom: 100 Years of Australian Comedy, co-written with Rob Johnson, was published in 1999. Smiedt maintains a shallow illusion of quasi-bohemianism by consuming too many things he shouldn’t and too few of the things he should in the inner-city Sydney suburb where he lives with his wife and a poodle.
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Davo (QLD)
Host of "Deputy Davo’s Pig-Squeezing Country & Western Comedy Show", showcasing some of Australia’s finest comedy talents as you’ve never seen them before! A long-time Brisbane favourite who regularly performs in Sydney as well.
Appeared on worldwide television in season 6 of the NBC show ‘Last Comic Standing’. Season 1 of ‘Standup Australia‘. Won $10,000 in 2000 at the age of 19 on channel 9’s ‘So You Want to be a Comedian‘ programme.
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Desh (QLD)
Desh, South Africa born, Queensland raised and of Indian decent brings together his unique experiences in his award winning stand up comedy. In 2002 his comic timing, smooth delivery proved an irresistible mix as he was judged the clear winner for the Raw Comedy Queensland State Final and flew to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to compete in the National Final. The following year, Desh was also a finalist in the 2003 National Green Faces comedy competition. Desh the comedian had arrived. Desh has quickly become a fixture on the Sydney and Brisbane comedy circuit and has been developing a variety of skills as a stand up comedian, writer and actor.
In 2003 Desh was a regular and popular guest performer on Channel 9’s ‘Footy Show’ and featured with the Footy Show Comedian Tours through QLD and NZ. In 2004 Desh also appeared on ‘Rove Live’. Desh was a guest panellist on Channel 7’s ‘110% Tony Squires’ and SBS’s ‘Countdown to Eurovision’ as well as featuring on thecomedychannel’s ‘Show Us Your Roots’. In addition to his work on television, Desh has regularly contributed to radio, as a guest on Triple M’s ‘Tom and Subby Show’ and SBS’s ‘Radio Alchemy’ Show.
Desh satirises the experiences and myths that continue to shaped and influenced his world: Globalisation, Rugby League, Multiculturalism, Cricket, the Environment, Urban Design, Pornography, Love, Relationships, Funk Music and Eating.
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Elissa Hawke
Evin Donohoe
Fiona O’Loughlin (NT)
Fred Lang (QLD)
Elissa Hawke
Elissa Hawke pours her heart and soul into her comedy, charming the socks and jocks off audiences everywhere with her lightning wit and remarkable gift for improvisation. Elissa is a comedy veteran, with more than 10 years’ experience performing across Australia and on ABC TV and Radio.
She has created and performed shows for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which were described as “a charming show-off’”.(The Age). She was seen on the 2000 JJJ Raw Comedy national grand final, known as the Australian Idol for comics.
She delivers a unique Australian cultural perspective after growing up in Canberra and living in Queensland, Melbourne and Sydney.
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Evin Donohoe
Evin’s standup mixes an innocent, wide-eyed view of the world with occasional lapses of aggressive cynicism to create orginal, surreal “what if?” scenarios. He also nurses a healthy obsession with Harry Potter.
Biggest Gigs: JJJ Raw Comedy 2008, NSW State Finalist; Parramatta Comedy Store Opening Gala, 2008.
Fiona O’Loughlin
Fiona O’Loughlin is the funniest working mother in Australia today. Based in Alice Springs, Fiona has spent the past ten years working as a stand-up comedian and a columnist as well a writer and presenter for ABC Radio. She has performed many television comedy spots including popular guest appearances on ABC TV’s Spicks and Specks, produced her own shows for Australian and UK comedy festivals and earned acclaim at Montreal’s invitation-only Just For Laughs Comedy Festival.
She appears across Australia every Friday morning as a social commentator on Channel 7’s Sunrise program.
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Fred Lang (QLD)
Freddo is one of the big hitters of the Aussie comedy scene. There have been too many years, venues and audiences to remember them all – but he does seem to remember cutting his comedy teeth around the club circuit in Sydney before making Brisbane home in 1999. Appearances on ‘Headliners’ (The Comedy Channel), and various radio spots (Sea FM, MMM) have served only to increase his profile.
Fred has performed for Aussie Troops in East Timor, and The Solomon Islands, and Iraq. He’s performed in front of our Prime Minister… Fred was very restrained that night! Also hosted the opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics National Games of 2006.
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Gary Eck (MELB)
Garry Who (SYD)
George Smilovici (SYD)
Geraldine Quinn (VIC)
Greg Fleet (MELB/SYD)
Gary Eck (MELB)
Gary Eck has been entertaining Australian and international audiences with his sharp wit for over fourteen years. If he also looks familiar to you in a black leather kind of way, perhaps you’ve seen his work alongside Mick Molloy and Glenn Robbins in the greatest boy band from the 1980s, Boytown.
Acting (and musical) talents aside, Gary has performed at comedy festivals in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney, and toured internationally in London, Singapore and New York.
He has toured with the Umbilical Brothers, Jimeoin and supported US comedy legend Steven Wright, performed his stand-up accompanied by a live orchestra, and appeared on numerous television shows including Rove, The Footy Show, Spicks and Specks, and Stand-up Australia.
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Garry Who (SYD)
One of the original pioneers of the infamous Australian Sydney Comedy store, Garry Who quickly slipped into television and was the resident comedian on The Midday Show with Ray Martin for two years.
He hosted and wrote his own segments in the light-hearted national magazine show Just For The Record on Channel Ten, and starred alongside Jon English and Rebecca Gibney in the hit national sitcom Altogether Now for Channel Nine. Garry wrote and performed his own segments for the award-winning ABC adult literacy series The Reading Writing Road Show, and was nominated for an ARIA Award for best comedy album in 1987.
Garry is consistently touring and is in high demand for corporate work and live comedy venues around the country and abroad. He also stars with Darren Sanders in The Dazz and Gazz Radio Show on TV, soon to be on Foxtel.
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George Smilovici
George has not stood still since he topped the Australian and New Zealand music charts, and US comedy charts with his hilarious hit monologue, ‘I’m Tuff’. An internationally renowned comedian and musician, George has performed in every arena possible, from his own shows in giant sporting stadiums to intimate clubs as headliner. He has worked alongside the likes of Joe Cocker, Talking Heads, Neil Sedaka, Joan Rivers, Ricky May, Michael Winslow, INXS, Tiny Tim, Midnight Oil.
George is currently one of Australia’s most sought after corporate entertainers and is an inspirational speaker on a multitude of topics. His passion for making people laugh and feel at ease has ironically provided him with a platform to confront social issues with hysterical abandon.
He has performed for the coalition troops in Iraq, and he has recently performed with Michael Jacobson’s ‘One Night Stand’ productions. He has had his own TV show on Fox Sports called The G-Files, and has appeared on The Comedy Channel’s Stand Up Australia.
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Geraldine Quinn
Rock-cabaret star Geraldine Quinn is a rare blend of songwriter, guitarist, singer, comedian, actor and destined to be “catapulted to international superstardom” (The Age). Her work is brutal, original, intelligent, musically cunning, lyrically nimble and very, very funny. She is blazing a trail internationally, breaking rules, hearts and guitar strings across the globe – catch her while you can.
Uber-pop songwriter, singer and satirist Quinn’s “beautiful, haunting, gutsy voice” combined with original “dark and vulgar material” make her one of the new musical comedy artists to watch for. She is funny, sexy, dark and original – as rock as you can get with a piano and a chick in three-inch heels. Quinn is a great musician, a supremely wrong sense of humour and oh-so-catchy tunes about such varied universal themes as why Bowie is God, bunnies are evil and everything sounds better in French.
Geraldine’s performed around Australia and the UK and swiftly has made a name for herself as a mighty singer with dark thoughts whose material is quarenteed to offend almost everyone. She was twice selected in Edinburgh in Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe and performed in the David Letterman Showcase in the UK in 2006. In 2007 she toured Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania and Edinburgh.
She’s a misanthropist with a twisted sense of humour and vocal chords that pierce who has gained a reputation as Australia’s most inappropriate songstress.
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Greg Fleet (MELB/SYD)
Greg Fleet is one of Australia’s most experienced and popular stand up comics. As a NIDA trained actor Fleety made the plunge in 1987, starting out as a sit down comic (he was too nervous to stand) at the Prince Patrick Hotel in Melbourne. Since then he has made a name for himself as a consummate performer and writer who merges theatricality and comedy in a way that has put him at the forefront of his craft internationally.
Most recently, Greg displayed his acting talents, as Boxy in the Seven drama series Last Man Standing. If you don’t know Fleety’s face you will know his voice. As one of Australia’s leading voice over performers his voice has sold you everything from beer to hardware (which are two things that don’t mix very well).
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Jack Druce (NSW)
Jackie Loeb (SYD)
Jacques Barrett(SYD)
Jason ‘Rash’ Ryder
Jennifer Wong (SYD)
Jimmy James Eaton (WA)
Jody Ekert
Joel Ozborn
Jonas Holt (SYD)
Judith Lucy
Julia Clark
Julia Wilson
Justin D Lodge
Jack Druce (NSW)
Jack is one of our most exciting young comics, originally from Canada and living on the NSW South coast, Jack has achieved success in Standup Comedy and Comedy Film – beginning stand up as winner of the NSW Kick Start comedy competition at the ripe old age of 15.
Jack was Melbourne International Comedy Festival Raw Recruit winner for Best Newcomer in the 2007 Raw Comedy after winning the NSW State finals. In 2008 Jack was chosen to be part of the MICF’s showcase of rising stars The Comedy Zone with fellow comedians, Jaques Barrett, Lila Tillman, and Tom Ballard. Jack brings a fresh young perspective, with surprising observations that give his comedy a wide appeal.
Jack is a regular at the Comedy Store, Mic in Hand, Comedy on the Rox. Jack has also performed at the Local Laughs Comedy Club in St Kilda, and has appeared on “The Footy Show”.
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Jackie Loeb (SYD)
Jackie began her comedy career in the early 1990’s at the Sydney Comedy Store and the Harold Park Hotel, an Australian comedy institution and the training ground for many of today’s most loved and respected comedians. Since then, Jackie’s career and reputation as one of Australia’s finest working comics has gone from strength to strength.
Jackie’s style is fast-paced commentary on personal and cultural quirks interspersed with surreal tangents and punctuated by her marvellous (and hugely popular) musical impressions and original comedy songs.
A seasoned performer, in the last year alone Jackie has appeared on Stand-Up Australia, The World Stands Up for Paramount Television (UK), Joker Poker and appearances at local and international Comedy Festivals. Jackie is a regular on both the local and international Comedy Festival circuit. Jackie was also the Comedy Channel’s resident female voice-over artist for two years.
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Jacques Barrett (SYD)
Jacques has been working the Sydney scene with steady progress over the past 5 years but he’s hit his stride since 2008 and is now one of Sydney’s most sought-after MC and feature acts.
His combination of social satire and sharp original impressionistic style has put him at the forefront of the new breed of Australia’s rising stars.
He was selected for Melbourne Comedy Festival’s “Comedy Zone” in ‘08 and The Festival Roadshow in ‘09. He made the Semi Finals of Raw Comedy in 2006, the Grand Final of the Australian Comedy God Competition in 2005, and the final five in Rove’s Golden Nut Comedy Awards ‘09. Jacques was picked for a co-hosting role on Channel 9’s late night gem Ralph TV in 2007. He also organises several comedy rooms around town with his company Wagon Productions.
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Jason ‘Rash’ Ryder
Jason ‘Rash’ Ryder is one of Australia’s most experienced performers as both a feature act and MC/host. He’s featured in all of Australia’s top live comedy venues, at universities and in festivals such as the prestigious Edinburgh Festival. He has also toured extensively through regional Australia and New Zealand, and performed in London and New York.
Nominated twice for a ‘Mo Comic of the Year Award’, Jason ‘Rash’ Ryder is also a familiar face on Australian television, with appearances on The Russell Gilbert Show, and Home & Away (as a bikie punk/ mafia dude) to name but two.
You may have also seen him as the presenter on Foxtel’s Nude Surfing and Desperate & Dateless – those are two separate shows by the way – and in his Comedy Channel series, Rash’s A-Z of Lying.
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Jennifer Wong
Writer and self-described comedy tadpole Jennifer Wong is happily swimming the waters of her comic apprenticeship.
Her first gig was at the Sydney Comedy Store in 2005 as part of Triple J’s national Raw Comedy competition. With a background in journalism and publishing, she decided to take comedy seriously after attending the spirit-buoying Jeez Louise women’s comedy workshop as part of the 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Since July 2006, she has performed at almost 50 open mic nights and new comic showcase events in twelve months, showing signs of a decidedly amphibious streak.
Today she’s a regular at Comedy on the Rox and the Sydney Comedy Store’s new comics nights. She is currently writing for the 2008 series return of Good News Week on Channel 10, and has written and performed at corporate and fundraising events. Her work is played on Australia’s longest running comedy program ‘Home Grown Humour’, which is broadcast to 60 stations across the country.
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Jimmy James Eaton (WA)
Jimmy was a 2003 Triple J Raw comedy national finalist and performed at the 2003 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He is one of WA..s most recognizable and talented improv comedians, he is a star of The Big HOO-HAA, WA’s premier live improv comedy show that has been running every Saturday night for the last four years.
He has supported the likes of Greg Fleet, Dave Callan, Akmal Sali, and Pommy Johnston just to name a few, and has also collaborated with comedians such as Tim Minchin, Jimeoin, Red Simons, Tim Ferguson and WA’s Xavier Michelides, Andrea Gibbs, Claire Hooper and Andrew Horrabin.
Jimmy was the 2006 WA Media Guild’s People’s Choice Award winner for his comedy interview segment ‘Eaton Alive’ on ABC TV’s program ‘How The Quest Was Won’ and aired every Friday at 6:30PM in 2005. In 2004 he was as a presenter on Foxtel’s Channel V as Mystery Jimmy. He was an announcer on Perth’s NOVA937 and he is a regular guest on ‘The Dead Set’, a weekly comedy-based variety show on RTRFM (RRR’s equivalent) in Perth.
He also runs and manages Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den, Perth’s best selling comedy theatre venue, above the Brisbane Hotel, in Northbridge WA.
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Jody Ekert
Jody is a Sydney based comedian, writer and events organiser. She has been performing her comedy for three years and has appeared at numerous festivals throughout Australia. She has toured her first solo comedy show, White Trash Lesbian, to Feast in Adelaide, Mardi Gras in Sydney and Brisbane Pride (where opening night was a sell-out).
Apart from her comedy she also organises and MCs the very successful Green Kitten Open Mic, which showcases community comedians, poets and writers. Her comedic opinion pieces appear in the street press, and her stand-up comedy course for beginners has been included in the program of several Sydney community colleges.
Jody has been heard on 2Day FM as a semi finalist in their Comedy God Contest, and also on RadioWise’s “Home Grown Humour”, syndicated Australia-wide. She has appeared on QueerTV on Foxtel and on various community radio programs. She was also resident comedian at Turtle Cove’s Womyn’s Week last October, as well as one of a bunch of great women at the Armidale Women’s Comedy Festival.
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Joel Ozborn
Joel Ozborn began performing comedy as street theatre, in the tradition of Robin Williams and Eddie Izzard. Joel’s performances in Circular Quay led him to win the Street Performer of the Year competition at Sydney Opera House in 1998. Since then he’s taken his stand-up comedy throughout Australia, South East Asia and America.
After winning the competition, Joel moved to America and toured extensively with comedian/magician The Amazing Jonathan, where he introduced his ‘off the wall’ comedy all over the country. ‘Off the wall’ included having a slingshot fired at his face, and squeezing his body through a tennis racket (among other things).
Upon his return to Australia in 2002, Joel was a regular in comedy clubs across the country. He performed at Sydney Opera House in 2004 and did a national theatre tour with Akmal Saleh in 2005, as well as a sellout theatre tour with American comedian Arj Barker. Joel has performed at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Sydney Cracker Comedy Festival and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Jonas Holt
Jonas Holt has been entertaining professionally since 1996. As a theme actor he has played most of the world’s favourite children’s characters – everyone from Peter Pan, Men in Black and Dracula to Superb-man, Batt-man. But big kids love him too. This talented all-rounder, described by one critic as having ‘the voice of an angel’, has regular gigs at various Sydney comedy venues, including Sydney’s Original Comedy Store.
He has the knowledge, experience, energy and instincts to entertain people.
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Judith Lucy
Judith Lucy first appeared at Le Joke in early 1989, immediately attracting great interest and acclaim for her brilliantly funny ability to take everyday experiences and boldly expose their idiosyncrasies with deliciously extravagant irony.
Her formidable reputation as a compere and her sharp as-libs and considerable improvisation skills have quickly elevated Judith to the forefront of a new generation of Australian comics. Her work in radio, television, film and her sell out national tours have made Judith Lucy a household name.
Judith regularly comperes and performs at all the major comedy venues throughout Australia and is frequently invited to perform overseas. She had her own segment on radio MMM – FM as part of the D-Generation’s Breakfast Show and is in great demand for corporate performances. In 2004 Judith Lucy was announced as the host of the 2DAY-FM Breakfast Show in Sydney, and was famously demoted and sacked the following year, which became the subject of Judith’s biggest tour yet, I Failed, which toured Australia in 2006. She plans to tour again in 2009.
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Julia Clark
Native Briton and occasional Australian, Julia Clark regards her two favourite nations through loving, amused eyes. Julia’s wry observations on the darker and sillier sides of life took her from tentative pub gigs to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Comedy Zone in less than a year, her unflinching comic style leaving many in her irreverent wake wondering, ‘did she just say that?’ She has recently moved back to London to give comedy a crack in the homeland, but plans to keep on visiting Oz regularly as long as they keep letting her back in.
- “One of the best warm ups we have seen – the tiny British bundle of nasty hilariousness that calls itself Julia Clark”
Daily Telegraph – July 28, 2009 - “Perky yet bitchy and cynical material which had the audience cackling throughout.”
The Groggy Squirrel – 3 April 2010 - “With the energy of a devilish pixie, her well-timed lonely hearts routine had the audience groaning with each raunchy punchline.”
The Australian Stage – 30 March 2010
Julia Wilson
Described by many as the toughest woman in comedy, Julia Wilson tours the world with her dubious morals, having plenty of seriously dangerous fun along the way!
This convent school girl, bouncer, accountant, stand-up comedian, whose humour refuses to be pigeonholed and personality can’t be ignored would rather live her life with bruises and scars instead of being too scared to do anything!
Whether it’s being bitten by a lion, stalked by a hippo, getting burnt by a burning hot gun cartridge, or being accosted by an armed hold up convict, Julia has aquired plenty of scars, and certainly isn’t afraid to share them with you!
Julia doesn’t just take to the stage, she owns it. Her unique style of storytelling is delivered with such honesty and at a blisteringly energising pace that a shirt full of sore ribs is guaranteed!
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Justin D Lodge
Justin D Lodge is a comedian who delves into the magical, the surreal and the fantastical. While most other comedians might occasionally dip their fingers into the realm of the imagination he literally dives in head first and almost drowns in it.
His material touches topics such as gingerbread houses, a eulogy for Humpty Dumpty, dragons, and a conversation with the man in the moon. This imaginative style has endeared him to audiences at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2005 Justin was runner-up in Triple J’s National RAW Comedy Final, and since then he has toured the UK and been featured on ‘Stand Up Australia’ on the Comedy Channel.
Justin has done MC, support and feature spots all around Australia and has supported several fine comedians including Akmal, Wil Anderson, Tom Rhodes and Andrew O’Keefe.
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Karen Russell (QLD)
Kathryn Bendall (SYD)
Lach Ryan (SYD)
Lawrence Leung (MELB)
Lila Tillman (SYD)
Linda Grasso (SYD)
Lindsay Webb (QLD)
Lou Pollard (SYD)
Karen Russell (QLD)
Karen is a Perth-born Brisbane-based comedian currently soaring to great heights, although, admittedly not as high as her much beloved West Coast Eagles.
Karen’s Experience includes:
Australian Comedy Network (Writer), Green Faces Contestant 2008, Raw Comedy 2008 Qld State Finalist, Velocity Festival 2008 (MC), Woodford Folk Festival 2007/08 (Stand-up & Poetry), Raw Comedy in 2007 Qld Wild Card Finalist, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2007, Annual Mensa Conference 2007 (Stand-up), Woodford Folk Festival 2006/06 (Poetry), Scooby Doo (Movie), Shakin’ (Short Film), Blink (Short Film), Man of Steel (Stage), ABC 7.30 Report – Woodford Folk Festival 2007/08 (TV)
Karen regularly performs her individual brand of quirky humour where she has shared the stage with some super comedy legends including: Fiona O’Laughlin, Mickey D, Fred Lang, Lindsay Webb, Mark Watson and Gordon Southern.
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Kathryn Bendall (SYD)
Kathryn Bendall is a woman who has spent her life staring down fears: a fear of marriage (she’s had two), a fear of children (she’s had three) and now a fear of being funny (she’s had four).
Kathryn started on the open mic circuit in February 2004. Her fear of being funny kicked off when she was selected as a finalist in 2Day FM’s Search for a Comedy God. Kathryn’s funniness became deep-rooted as a recurring condition when she made it to the NSW state finals of Raw Comedy in the same year.
After her corporate career collapsed she naturally sought the financial rewards of stand up comedy – and she hasn’t been disappointed. Today, Kathryn performs on the lucrative open mic cirrcuit, and runs Comedy on the Rox on Wednesdays, one of Sydney’s favourite comedy rooms and a breeding ground for new comics.
In 2008, Kathryn performed at The Big Joke Comedy Festival in Bangalow, and also appeared in Meat – The Musical as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2008. She’s over the moon – she hasn’t earned a penny!
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Lach Ryan
After a trying comedy in 2003 whilst at University, Lach has gone on to perform hundreds of gigs in Australia and the US. With quirky and energetic concept based humour, he’s been described by critics as “….charismatic and genuinely funny” Lach’s material is clean, clever and contemporary
As well as multiple Melbourne International Comedy Festival Shows, Lach has also appeared on Channel 31 sketch comedy show “Barnaby Flowers Bumper Bonanza”. Lach’s comedy writings extend to The Age, BEAT Magazine and The Groggy Squirrel, as well as a short film, and an animated feature script.
Lach also developed and delivers Comedic Communication workshops, aimed at Secondary Students and Corporates.
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Lawrence Leung
Lawrence Leung is a Melbourne-based storyteller, comedian, filmmaker and director. Between touring and performing shows, he is also regular guest on breakfast radio (3RRR), Tony Martin & Ed Kavalee’s “Get This” (3MMM).
Lawrence also wrote and presented regular off-beat mini-documentaries for Steve “The Sandman” Abbott’s variety show “In Siberia Tonight” (SBS TV, 2004) and co-hosted a Sunday morning breakfast show on FOX Fm (2005-2006). On stage, Lawrence is best known for his acclaimed solo shows Sucker, Skeptic, the Somewhat Secret Secret Society Show (a comedy lecture performed with Andrew McClelland), The Marvellous Misadventures of Puzzle Boy and Lawrence Leung Learns To Breakdance. He has performed all around Australia as well as seasons in New Zealand, Edinburgh, Dublin and London.
Recently, his screen adaptation for Sucker received a script development grant from the Australian Film Commision. “Howard Flu”, a short film he wrote and directed, won the Audience Choice Award at the 2007 Comedy Channel Short Film festival.
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Lila Tillman (SYD)
Lila Tillman is a Sydney-based comedian. She was born and raised in Detroit just off of 7 Mile, which was one mile less gritty and urban than 8 Mile. Lila immigrated to Sydney in 2004 and grows more Australian by the hour.
She has been a regular on the Sydney comedy scene since 2006 when she first performed at Comedy on the Rox. Dealing with topics ranging from race to psychology to an unnatural love of MacGyver, Lila has been called sardonic, embittered, and intelligent.
In her first few months of performing, she was featured in episode 36 of Radio Ha Ha, and invited to perform on TVS’ “The Couch”. In late 2006 she was a semi-finalist in Comedy on the Rox’s Quest for the Best, and in early 2007 she was a NSW state finalist in Raw Comedy. She has been a crowd favourite at the Comedy on the Rox’s Wicked Women’s Nights, and in 2007 started MC-ing at various venues around Sydney.
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Linda Grasso (SYD)
Linda can usually be identified by her big hair, animated expressions and wacky, characterisations. An Aussie-born girl with an Italian background, Linda is occasionally prone to deliver her ethnic perspective of Australian culture. She is a regular with A-List Entertainment and can be seen performing around the Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne comedy scene.
Her most recent accolades are First Place for A-List’s ‘Make Us Laugh’ Comedy Competition at Blacktown RSL and Cougar ‘New Comic of The Year’ Finalist in 2005. Her comedy has been heard on national FM radio stations’ ‘Home Grown Humour’ and 2Day FM in 2007.
A comedian, writer, director and actor, her short film ‘Wishful Thinking’ won First Prize Award at Penrith Panthers Video Festival in 2003. She has written a ten-minute play ‘Stand Up And Be Counted’ which was chosen from 1200 entries to be performed in the Short and Sweet Festival in 2006. Her most recent acting role in a sitcom called ‘Rock Chikz’ was recently screened at New York’s ‘Mamapalooza’ Festival in 2007.
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Lindsay Webb
Lindsay has been successfully working the Australian Comedy Circuit since he won the Queensland finals of the MICF JJJ Raw Comedy Competition in 1998. In 1999 he made the finals of the “Comic of the Year” competition at the Sydney Comedy Festival. In October 2002 he was awarded a Radio RAWARD as Best Radio Newcomer. In 2007 Lindsay was voted “Best Comedy Host” as part of the QLD Comedy Awards.
Lindsay’s style features observational comedy mixed with character voices and audience interaction. Lindsay show consist of a healthy mix of material and spattering of off the cuff fast paced improvisations, making each and every show that bit unique for everyone.
As well as being a regular on the Australian Circuit, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide. Lindsay has also toured throughout Australia, NZ & UK attending the Edinburgh Festival for the past five years. Lindsay had a great success with his first Festival show “Foolosophy” in 2006 scoring among others a four star review, not bad in debut. Lindsay returns to the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 with his new show “Lad to Dad”. He has appeared with many of Australia’s best including Adam Hills, Lano and Woodley, Mickey D, Scared Weird Little Guys, Chris Franklin & Dave Hughes.
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Lou Pollard (SYD)
Lou is an actor, MC, presenter, stand up comedian and comedy writer, character actor, clown and stilt-walker. As a stand up comic Lou has performed hundreds of solo stand up comedy shows at The Basement, The Comedy Store, The Harold Park Hotel, Woodford, Byron Bay, Sydney and Adelaide Fringe festivals. She also wrote and performed with Ciel and Sarah Levett in Show Us Ya Wits at the Melbourne Comedy Festival & Sydney’s Big Laugh Festival. Show Us Ya Wits sold-out three seasons at Sydney’s Tilbury Hotel, so popular even Sydney’s Lord Mayor was turned away when he tried to buy a ticket.
Other career highlights include: Starring in the short film ‘Final Cut’ – Official Selection Cannes Film Festival – Winner Best Film, Toronto Film Festival Audience warm-up comedian Cool Room TV show Channel 9. Performing in Sydney Olympic Games Opening Ceremony 2000. Munsters Scary Little Christmas – featured in US made-for-TV film. Heyy Babyy Bollywood movie Improvised Comedy performances and co-hosting Theatresports Gong Show at Sydney Comedy Store and Belvoir St. Theatre. Featured in Jackie Loeb’s hilarious film ’Drought’. Lou also works as a Clown Doctor at three Sydney hospitals.
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Marie Helou (SYD)
Mark Mywords
Mark Williamson
Matt Okine (QLD)
Mel Buttle (QLD via WA)
Michael Workman (WA)
Mick Meredith (SYD)
Nick Sun (SYD)
Oliver Phommavanh (SYD)
Marie Helou (SYD)
Comedian and mischief starter, Marie has worked the Sydney comedy circuit for over four years. She has a relaxed style, which creates a friendly atmosphere amongst her audience. Her comedy is based on her life experiences and the ironies of life both as a woman and as a woman of ethnic decent, in other words a “wog”.
Her TV credits include a role in “Toulas’ gang” in the SBS Hit series Fat Pizza and a role in Aussie hip hop artists Figg Kidd’s film clip, “My, oh my”.
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Mark Mywords (SYD)
Mark Mywords began his comedy career at Glebe’s infamous Harold Park Hotel in 1993. That same year, he was runner-up to Carl Barron in its career-launching competition, ‘Comic of the Year’.
Since then, Mark has continued to be a fresh material-churning comedian. He has performed at every comedy venue in Australia, hundreds of pubs and clubs, many theatres and universities, lots of mining camps and sporting functions, and countless of those wanky corporate functions that pay really well.
He has written and performed for radio and television, and is the most-played comedian on Austereo’s ‘Homegrown Humour’ radio series. He’s up himself because last year he was one of only three acts chosen to represent Australia for The Comedy Channel’s The World Stands Up production, which was filmed at London’s Clapham Theatre.
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Mark Williamson (TAS/SYD)
Tasmanian-born – but not (in) bred – and now Sydney-based comedian Mark Williamson decided to have a go at comedy when he woke up in the middle of a quarter-life crisis a few years after finishing university and finding nothing but disillusionment in the corporate world. After a year or so of fun and games, he found himself in Melbourne for his first Melbourne International Comedy Festival show (The MW OH Show (2007)), and since then he has been a mainstay of the Sydney comedy scene as a performer and MC. Mark runs the Comedy on the Edge show on the edge of the city centre at the Hotel William (on William Street, funnily enough).
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Matt Okine (BRIS)
As a black man growing up in Brisbanes notorious westsiiiiiide suburb of Indooroopilly, Matthew Okine (aka Disco-Matt MC) has seen it all. Surrounded by gang-warfare, drug-dealers, drive-bys, hookers with needles in their arms, and even worse, mothers picking their sons up from private schools in a four-wheel drive that’s never touched a speck of dirt, Matt took on board all the mayhem of his environment and set sail to conquer a world more terrifying and painful than any law-society dinner – the entertainment industry.
Backed by the support of nobody and with little to no experience, Matt entered the Triple J Raw Comedy Competition where he was blessed with an opportunity to perform in the National final in front of 1500 people. The blessing was short-lived, however, after Matt BOMBED SO BADLY in his performance, that the International Comedy Board declared it an act of terrorism against all things funny.
He then spent the next two years hiding and performing in the back alleys of Brisbane, and sometimes Sydney, refining his act, and attempting to change his ghetto ways. The Sit-Down Comedy Club finally found Matt this year, hiding in a dirt hole, in only his underwear and madly clutching his newly attained QUT Acting Degree.
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Mel Buttle
Mel was a national finalist in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Raw Comedy Competition sponsored by Triple J in 2008.
Mel has impressed audiences with her sassy, comedy, lady stories at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival (Debate), The Wild West Comedy Festival in Perth, and the Armidale Women’s Comedy Festival in NSW. Mel was very excited to be invited to perform at the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Industry Showcase.
Mel performs regularly all around Brisbane, she can be seen in the “Josh Thomas Variety Hour” shows at the Brisbane Powerhouse Theatre. Mel is pushing ahead with this comedy caper and sometimes on a Friday afternoon, she can be heard debating on ABC Radio 612AM QLD, on Richard Fidler’s program.
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Michael Workman (WA)
“I’m a hackneyed frankenstein of various fictional characters, thrown together by a frustrated novelist to cover gambling debts, that somehow came to life.”
Michael Workman won the RAW Comedy contest in 2009 with his distinctive absurdo-anarchist philosophical musings and self-deprecating goth aesthetic. In 2010 he has performed in the MICF Comedy Zone new talent showcase and at various festivals in his debut Festival show The Ogre
“Equal parts brilliant and bizarre, Michael is one of the most original voices on the scene in years. If Nick Cave did stand-up it would look a bit like this.” –Wil Anderson.
Mick Meredith (SYD)
With appearances on national TV including The Footy Show, Mornings with Kerri Anne, Joker Poker and The Channel Nine New Year’s Eve Spectacular, Mick Meredith has certainly made his mark or indentation on the comedy world. Mick has had the punters laughing since 1998 from humble beginnings at open mic nites in Parramatta and Harold Park, to the rest of the globe.
In Mick’s youth he has confessed to being the class clown who always dreamed of becoming a rock star or comedian, so with not much thought he combined the both into the Mick Meredith rockin’ comedy buffet we see today. Mick’s years of playing in garage/metal/pop and alternative bands like the Plug Uglies, The Moles, Muscletongue and The Hillarys gave him the vocal and guitar skills to pull off a sweet-but-funny ballad to a ballsy, rock-god pisstake.
Either playing guitar, singing or just holding a microphone, Mick’s razor sharp but loveable wit will have you laughing from start to finish with a bit of headbanging and toe-tapping in between.
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Nick Sun (SYD)
I am a 25 year old human man. I was born and raised in Sydney by a pair of people. When I was 5 years old, I hatched from an egg. I did my first standup gig at the age of 20. It was mediocre and I was drunk. Since then i have gotten better.
I have won some prestigious awards (JJJ RAW Comedy, UK’s ‘So You think You’re Funny’, Director’s Choice Award Melbourne International Comedy Festival’) and have performed in some prestigious festivals (Adelaide Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne international Comedy festival, Montreal Comedy festival, Hong Kong Fringe), making me very prestigious. Wow I guess that means i must be headed for big things. Right? Right?
Here are some adjectives that have been used in the past to describe my act: dark, twisted, satirical, edgy, cerebral, absurd, weird, great, shit, funny and unfunny. These may or may not apply depending on the night so please, leave your expectations at the door along with your money. Every gig is a surprise birthday party for someone who’s already dead. But hey don’t trust my opinion, just ask the choir of dead orphans who sing to me as i fall asleep every night and remember: I accept you all unconditionally with or without your reciprocation.
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Oliver Phommavanh
Oliver is a rising zany comic, zinging Sydney crowds with his punchy, witty humour. No subject is safe as he fires out jokes like a machine gun on steroids.
Fresh from his debut at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy festival with ‘The Zinger Machine’, Oliver’s had a stellar 2007, coming runner up in the national Green Faces final and winning the Quest of the Best competition. He was also a RAW comedy State finalist in 2005 and 2006. Oliver has supported UK comic of the year Mark Watson.
Oliver is a regular favourite at The Laugh Garage and Sydney’s Comedy Store. He can be seen on Stand Up Australia (The Comedy Channel) and heard on Home Grown Humour (Austereo).
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Peter Green
Peter Meisel
Phil Andrews
Rachel Berger
Ray Badran
Rebecca De Unamuno
Rob McHugh
Peter Green (SYD)
Peter is a writer for Australia’s Funniest Home Videos and until June 2007, he owned the world’s second largest ball of used clingwrap. (Now the third largest: a small American boy rolled out a 127.7kg effort, clearly becoming the fresh new record holder.)
No comedy lightweight, Peter performed his first gigs at the Harold Park hotel in 1988, and was the winner of the NSW Raw Comedy Finals in 1997. In 2004, Peter and three friends did the Last Legs Around Australia Comedy Tour, where they cycled 20 000 kilometres around Australia, performed 200 live shows, and raised $40,000 for the Cancer Council.
He has written extensively for TV, with credits on Dawn and Barry, the 2005 TV Week Logie Awards, Strictly Dancing, The Fifty Foot Show, Akmal and Friends, Austen Tayshus Australia Day Special 2006, Stand Up Australia, and O’Loghlin On Saturday Night.
Peter is currently awaiting results of a PhD submission on the DNA sequence of an immune system gene in Sea Squirts.
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Peter Meisel (SYD)
Peter makes people laugh either through his unique sense of humour or by appearing naked in his bedroom.
Peter can be seen regularly at the Laugh Garage. He has also made several appearances as a feature and/or emcee at the legendary Harold Park Hotel, Sydney’s Comedy Store, Double Bay Comedy Club, the Comedy Cellar, the Basement, the Hakoah Club, the Manly Boat Shed, the Harbourside Brassiere, the Oatley Pub, Hawkesbury Sporting Club, the Novotel in Wollongong, the Crown Hotel in Terrigal, and SJ’s and Raymond Terrace and Sydney’s Comedy Cruise in Newcastle just to name a few.
He has also performed at many corporate functions including Hitachi, Roche, the Hurstville City Council, Capital Trust, Iscar, the Australian Navy, Balmain Police, Cronulla Caringbah Football Club, the NRMA, the Erina Football Club and the Bankstown Soccer Club.
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Phil Andrews (Vic)
Residing in Frankston, Phil has a unique outlook on life as only he can see it. Taking humor from the strange things people do and the interesting questions his friends ask, Phil has been heard on Triple J as well as seen at Melbourne’s Premier venues with the likes of Tom Gleeson, Jimeon, Stephen K Amos, Justin Hamilton, Dave Thornton and many more.
After making a start in stand up comedy in 2005’s RAW comedy Phil continued on to enter in Raw 2006 as well as Search For a Funny Bone 2005 & 2006 as well as Green Faces 2006 held in Canberra as well as performing regularly in many Melbourne venues ranging from The Vault to The Comics Lounge to Young & Jacksons and making his debut in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with Lach Ryan in 2007.
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Rachel Berger
Rachel Berger is one of Australia’s most highly regarded, adept, and adaptive comedic talents, working variously as a comedian, broadcaster, novelist, columnist, agitator and television entertainer.
Political, passionate and armed only with her material, Rachel has been prowling the stand-up circuit like a tigress for 21 years. She’s taken four solo shows to the Edinburgh Festival and her dynamic presence and engagingly sharp observations have made her an extremely popular performer both live and on television, across Australia and overseas.
Her debut novel for Penguin, Whaddya Mean You’re Allergic To Rubber?, sold out faster than Santo Santoro.
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Ray Badran
Ray Badran is one of Sydney’s youngest, talented and fastest rising comics. Just after starting, he placed in the grand final of almost every comedy competition in Australia. He started getting booked and paid work very shortly after and now works for Templar Entertainment – A TV and Film production company.
With a love of fun and having a good time, Ray is a regular performer at The Laugh Garage, The Comedy Store, and many other venues.
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Rebecca De Unamuno
Rebecca is a regular on Australian television and radio. Her television credits include Comedy Inc – The Late Shift, The Election Chaser , The Glass House, Big Bite, CNNNN, Hamish and Andy, Joker Poker, Australia’s Next Top Model, Comedy Channel Promos, David Tench Tonight, You May Be Right, The Chaser’s War on Everything, Stand Up Australia and Kath and Kim.
On radio Rebecca has been the voice-over artist for the Triple J Breakfast Show and Triple M Chaser. She has been co-host of Late Night Chaser, Triple M Breakfast Show, Tom and Subby, The Shebang and is a regular guest on Thank God It’s Friday (ABC 702). Film roles include the feature film Dags and short films Muffled Love (2001 Tropfest Finalist), Tragic Love (2nd place, 2002 Tropfest) and Garbage Man (2005 Tropfest Finalist).
Rebecca has many stage credits and has been an improviser for ten years, performing regularly at Belvoir St Theatre and Enmore Theatre. She is a two-time Cranston Cup champion and was a member of the Australian team which won the Improv World Cup at the 2001 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. Rebecca was the first woman in the history of the competition to be named Player of the Tournament. In 2003 Rebecca was nominated for Most Outstanding Newcomer to Television at the inaugural Australian Comedy Awards and in 2005 was a Moosehead Award recipient for her solo improvisation show Open To Suggestion at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Rob McHugh
Rob McHugh started doing stand up comedy at age 18 and has been a regular performer on the Australian comedy scene for the last 25 years.
He was the resident MC at the Sydney Comedy store for a number of years and has had many television appearances as well as numerous writing credits including the Doug Mulray breakfast radio show and for television on Candid Camera, The Don Lane Show and You’ve Got to be Joking.
He most recently appeared on the popular Stand Up Australia programme in October 2006 for the Comedy Channel and currently teaches comedy at Sydney Community College and Eastern Suburbs Community College in between wowing audiences all over the country.
Rob is not married, nor does he have three children or live at Crookwell.
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Sally Kimpton
Sam Bowring
Sam Simmons
Sarah Levett
Scared Weird Little Guys
Shane Matheson
Shaun Flagg
Simon Palomares (VIC)
Subby Valentine
Sally Kimpton
Sally Kimpton delights with stand up that is clever, fun and hilarious!
2008 has been huge for this popular performer. She starred in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s ‘Extreme Blonde’, then ‘Sally Kimpton MyStar’ at the Sydney Cracker Comedy Festival. Sally was recently selected and jetted to Miami where she made the quarter finals of NBC’s ‘Last Comic Standing’.
Catch her live, and on the 4th of July in the ‘Mother of All Galas’ special on the Comedy Channel.
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Sam Bowring
Sam began performing standup comedy at the famous Harold Park Hotel in 1996 when he was 16, getting his first paid work there at 17. A finalist in the 1997 Comic of the Year Awards, he then moved to Bathurst to study. Here he ran ‘Comics Out West’, a comedy club playing throughout the central west of NSW, and also had a community radio station spot on 2MCE.
Back in Sydney he became a state finalist and then a national finalist (finishing second) in the Raw Comedy competition ‘03/’04. He has been heard on TGI Fridays with Richard Glover (ABC 702) and on Triple J with Wil Anderson and Adam Spencer. Currently he is a regular on Home Grown Humour, syndicated to radio stations across Australia.
Sam has written for The Big Bite (channel 7) and Newsworld (channel 7, pilot). His published books are “Sir Joshua and the Unprofessional Dragon” (Koala Books, 97), and “In Sarah’s Dreams” (ILTS Publishing, 05). His plays include the sell out “Great Library of Earth” (01, 02) which he also directed, and “Death’s Waiting Room” (02, 03, 05).
In 2005 he produced and performed in the MICF Show Mic in Transit, the Big Laugh Festival (Sydney), the Sydney Comedy Underground DVD (commercial release) and was selected for a showcase Letterman audition at The Comedy Store. In 2006 Sam enjoyed critically acclaimed shows in both the Adelaide Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festivals (nominated for Best Emerging Comic in Adelaide, and for Best Newcomer and The Piece of Wood Award in Melbourne) and also appeared in the Moosehead Benefit Night, in front of a 1500 strong crowd in the Melbourne Town Hall.
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Sam Simmons
Sam is a multi award winning cult figure within the Australian comedy scene He has collected awards and glowing reviews, and played to sell out houses with his solo Melbourne Comedy Festival shows Tales of the Erotic Cat in 2006, and The Sex & Science of Boredom in 2007. Tales of the Erotic Cat picked up a prestigious nomination for the Barry Award for Most Outstanding Show.
Joyous on the radiowaves, Sam has made Triple J his own. 2008 sees him take over the helm of the Weekend Breakfast Show as well as popping up on the weekday Breakfast and Drive Shows with his mischievous antics.
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Sarah Levett
Sarah Levett is a comedian, actor and radio/TV presenter.
Sarah has performed regularly at Sydney’s major stand-up venues since 1998. For the last few years Sarah was working for Nova 969 as part of the “street team” (Casanovas) where she would write and deliver crosses that went to air, drawing on her improvisation, writing, comedy writing and of course performance skills. She was also a regular MC for Nova events.
Sarah made the move down south in early 2008 and is now the Co-Host of the new K-ROCK Breakfast show in Geelong – “The Sarah and Matt Show” – 6-9am weekdays.
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Scared Weird Little Guys
The Scared Weird Little Guys are John Chaplin-Fleming and Rusty Berther. They burst on to the vibrant Melbourne comedy scene in a frenzy of harmony, hilarity and broken guitar strings in July 1990.
Since then the Scaredies have been consistently touring, recording, doing radio and television appearances and playing at Festival programs, corporate and private functions, public seasons, comedy clubs, childrens festivals and public humiliations.
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Seizure Kaiser
Slighty psychotic demon comedian – Seizure performs around Sydney and MCs the International House of Comedy show at Newtown’s Town Hall Hotel. He is the creator of the “60 in 60″ concept, where 60 comedians get up and each throw just exactly one minute’s worth of one-liners at the audience.
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Shane Matheson
A regular on the Sydney scene and state finalist in Raw comedy twice, Shane comes from a background in radio and theatre.
As part of the 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival show “The Zinger Machine”, Shane was described as a “comedy genius” and a “comedic loose cannon” in a review by the Groggy Squirrel.
Shane has a surreal yet approachable style, involving a huge array of topics, quirky songs and a cheeky manner that, although amazingly odd, doesn’t serve to alienate the audience but to invite them on a rather silly journey.
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Shaun Flagg
As heard on Sydney’s Triple M, Shaun Flagg is a former Sydney Comic of the Year, Legends of Laughter champion and National Green Faces Finalist. Shaun comes highly awarded, and after seeing his honest act and laidback style, this will be of no surprise.
A bush boy through and through, Shaun keeps it simple, straight and honest. Works by the slogan, ‘telling people the other way it is’.
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Simon Palomares (VIC)
Simon Palomares is one of the most influential performers in Australian comedy as one of the creators and stars of Wogs Out of Work and Acropolis Now, as well as being one of the most sought after stand up comedians and corporate speakers in the country.
He has performed comedy shows in the United States and Canada, including Gangster Apparel in New York with George Kapiniaris. More recently, Palomares has toured Australia in a combination cooking program and stand-up comedy show called Palomares Cooks Calamares.
Simon also has an extensive list of acting credits.
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Subby Valentine
Subby Valentine is one of Sydney’s most experienced, versatile and successful comedians. Working in all areas of comedy, Subby’s abilities extend beyond stand-up comedy into the areas of television and radio writing, sketch comedy acting and writing, radio program presentation and as a television host and guest panelist.
Subby has been with 2DAYFM as the writer for the Morning Crew with Wendy Harmer and Greg Fleet, then onto the Triple M Network on-air firstly with a weekend show and then onto the Tom and Subby Show. The show is an incarnation of the ‘Tom and Subby’ show which aired on Triple J Nationally throughout 2002 and 2003. Subby has also contributed successfully as a writer to the cult hit Network 10 sketch comedy program ‘SkitHouse’, as well as being a contributing writer for Music Max and Channel V.
Subby emerged in the late 90’s and has worked in almost all genres of comedy. Not only a very successful stand-up comedian who has toured throughout Australia extensively, Subby has also worked extensively on television, appearing as a guest on ABC’s ‘The Fat’ and ‘The Glasshouse’, he was also the Host of SBS’s ‘The Mens Room’, the Cartoon Networks ‘ Electoon’ campaign and Antonia Kidman’s ‘The Little Things’ series on Fox 8.
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The Bedroom Philosopher (VIC)
Toby Coleman
Toby Sullivan
Tom Oakley
Tommy Dean
Tony D’Amore
The Bedroom Philosopher (aka Justin Heazlewood)
Justin is fast growing to be one of the most innovative and original muso-comedians on the scene today.
At just 22, the gutsy Tasmanian burst through the ranks to become the resident Bedroom Philosopher on Triple J’s Morning Show in 2002. A self proclaimed ‘Folkstar,’ he rose to fame with a six month songwriting blitz on Triple J as the original ‘doona crooner’. He soon scissor-kicked his way into television, writing and starring in two pilot episodes of “The Bedroom Philosopher Show” for ABC’s Fly TV.
Born in 1980 in Burnie, Tasmania, he recorded his first CD in 1999 and moved to Canberra. He recorded his first album the following year and in 2001 made the ACT finals of Raw Comedy. Heazlewood took on the Bedroom Philospher persona in 2002 and moved to Melbourne in 2004 where he attracted favourable reviews in the Melbourne International Comedy Fesitval.
In 2005 his hit single I’m So Post Modern raced up the charts and for the last few years he has been in constant demand to perform nationally.
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Toby Coleman
Toby has been working the comedy rooms of Sydney for the last few years. Appearing around the inner city and inner-west at rooms like the Roxbury and East Village Hotel, he delights with tales of local council, stupidity, Salvador Dali and some other shit he made up . The material is high brow meets low brow with some general observations on life (coined ‘medium brow’ by the MWO Show).
Mainly covering the everyday wonders, such as the creation of the mermaid, and how the fashion cross-over of tight black leather between bikies and gay men is an accident waiting to happen . He enjoys Judo, submission wrestling and comedy DVD’s from the early eighties when Peruvian marching powder was flowing like water, confidence was high and Eddie Murphy thought hate crimes where funny. You can catch Toby on agiggle.com.
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Toby Sullivan
From such kitschy nonsense as the long running comedy trivia night Quiz Internationale to the lofty heights of a red carpet reporter for the ABC TV arts show Vulture, and of course numerous appearances in Melbourne’s many festivals, Toby Sullivan has been one of Melbourne’s best kept comedy secrets for nearly ten years.
Toby performs a trademark brand of strikingly hilarious comedy; intelligent, insightful and highly writerly. Sometimes he unravels complex economic headlines, and sometimes he makes a pretty good Kelly Osbourne joke.
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Tom Oakley
Tom Oakley is a stand up comic who has been throwing his comedic offerings around the Brisbane comedy circuit since late October 2005. He muses on life love and the trials of being a podiatrist in a brutal modern world.
A QUT Acting graduate in 2006 his comedy highlights include being a Queensland Finalist in Raw Comedy 2006 and once having a witty comeback for a heckler at the Carlingsford Bowls Club. His life highlights included puking in Zac Braff’s garden after a big night on the piss, spilling a drink on Ben Affleck, sharing a Pimms and Ginger Ale with the Prince of Wales and once being called “Mate” by Bill Clinton at a youth volunteer presentation in Chicago to which he was not invited.
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Tommy Dean
An American born and bred, Tommy Dean has the unique edge of being an American who understands Australia, its audiences and above all what makes us laugh. He has proved to be incredibly popular with audiences across the nation and is firmly established as one of Australia’s most sought after comic performers and writers.
In much demand on the live circuit, Tommy is a regular headline act in comedy venues around Australia and has performed in many of the leading comedy clubs in the USA. His vast experience encompasses New Zealand, North America, Europe and South East Asia.
Tommy has appeared on just about everything going (Sunrise (Network 7), Joker Poker (Network Ten), Rove Live (Network Ten and Roving Enterprises), The Glasshouse (ABCTV), The Sideshow (ABC), Hit n’ Run (The Comedy Channel), Stand Up Australia (The Comedy Channel), O’Loghlin on Saturday Night (ABC) (regular guest and writer), BackBerner (ABC) (writer), The Fat (ABC) (guest and writer), Good News Week (ABC), Thank God it’s Friday (702ABC), The Today Show (Nine Network), Mouthing Off (Foxtel), Take No Prisoners Amnesty International Comedy Festival (Foxtel), Headliners (Foxtel), Recovery (ABC), Dilemma (Foxtel))
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Tony D’Amore
Up and Coming Stand-Up Comedian and Primary School Teacher Tony D’Amore is sure to have you laughing with his stories about his Italian family, mishaps from the classroom and more.
Credits include: “GRAND FINALIST Quest for the Best 2007… Fame or Flame Winner …Comedy Court 3rd Place Winner 2008″ and more
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