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Balls Of Steel (Australia)
''Balls of Steel Australia'' is an Australian reality comedy television series (based upon the UK series of the same name) which is hosted by The Chaser's Craig Reucassel. The show revolves around comedians who appear and present individual skits where they would perform stunts and hold their nerve during hidden camera set-ups in the presence of the Australian public. The format was acquired, commissioned and developed by The Comedy Channel Group Programming Director Darren Chau who selected Endemol Southern Star to produce it. Balls of Steel Australia premiered on the Australian subscription television channel The Comedy Channel on 19 April 2011. Ten episodes were produced for the inaugural season. Due to the success of series one, which became The Comedy Channel's highest ever rating series, a second series was commissioned, and premiered on 31 January 2012. The show won an Astra Award. Overview During the course of each episode, four acts are presented by their correspondin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reality Television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with shows such as ''The Real World'', then achieved prominence in the early 2000s with the success of the series '' Survivor'', '' Idols'', and '' Big Brother'', all of which became global franchises. Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen; this is most commonly seen in American reality television. Competition-based reality shows typically feature gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges, by the viewership of the show, or by the contestants themselves. Documentaries, television news, sports television, talk shows, and traditional game shows are generally not clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Awards
The ASTRA Awards were the annual awards for the Australian subscription television industry. According to the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA), the awards "recognise the wealth of talent that drives the Australian subscription television industry and highlight the creativity, commitment and investment in production and broadcasting.". The ASTRA Awards were instituted in 2003, but where discontinued after November 2015, when ASTRA announced the awards would be folded into the annual AACTA Awards. 2003 Best Program Event – AUSTAR's Switched on schools program (AUSTAR) Best Integrated Subscription TV Campaign – Net MD Walkman (IKON Communications) Best Integrated Subscription TV Campaign – The Office (UKTV) Best Consumer Advertising for a Platform or Channel – Take Your Sports Seriously (AUSTAR & FOX SPORTS) Most Outstanding Local Production (Kids & Youth) – Foul Facts (Nickelodeon) Most Outstanding Local Production (Sport) – From the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhys Nicholson
Rhys Nicholson (born 22 April 1990) is an Australian comedian and known for being a judge on ''RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under'' from 2021 onwards. Career In 2014, Nicholson featured in the ABC documentary ''GayCrashers'', alongside Joel Creasey, in which the duo travel to the small town of Colac and perform a stand-up show. Creasey had been the subject of a homophobic attack on an earlier visit to the town. In 2016, to highlight the importance of marriage equality in Australia, Nicholson publicly married lesbian and fellow comedian Zoe Coombs Marr at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. That year Nicholson and Coombs Marr were also both nominated for the Barry Award for Best Show, which Coombs Marr won. In 2021, Nicholson served as a judge on ''RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under'', alongside RuPaul and Michelle Visage. Since 2022, they have played Doctor Sarkov in Netflix's ''The Imperfects''. Live solo shows *''Social Liability'' (2011) *''Almost a Person'' (2012) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Came Out
Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity. Framed and debated as a privacy issue, coming out of the closet is experienced variously as a psychological process or journey; decision-making or risk-taking; a strategy or plan; a mass or public event; a speech act and a matter of personal identity; a rite of passage; liberation or emancipation from oppression; an ordeal; a means toward feeling gay pride instead of shame and social stigma; or even a career-threatening act. Author Steven Seidman writes that "it is the power of the closet to shape the core of an individual's life that has made homosexuality into a significant personal, social, and political drama in twentieth-century America". ''Coming out of the closet'' is the source of other gay slang expressions related to voluntary disclosure or lack thereof. LGBT people who have alrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cash Cab (Australian Game Show)
''Cash Cab'' is an Australian music trivia game show hosted by James Kerley, except for the third season, where he was replaced by Charlie Pickering while Kerley hosted Network 10 dating show Taken Out. It is part of the global Cash Cab franchise that originated in the United Kingdom. The first two seasons of the series were filmed in Melbourne, with the third being based in Perth and the fourth based in the Gold Coast. The programme airs on the Australian subscription television music channel, Channel V. A parody of this show has appeared on ''Balls of Steel Australia ''Balls of Steel Australia'' is an Australian reality comedy television series (based upon the UK series of the same name) which is hosted by The Chaser's Craig Reucassel. The show revolves around comedians who appear and present individual skit ...'' which is also hosted by Kerley. Format Contestants are asked several trivia questions (mainly music questions) in various verbal, audio and video based question ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachael Coopes
Rachael Coopes (sometimes credited as Rachel Coopes) is an Australian actress, best known for her character ''Sigourney'' in the SBS cult parody series ''Life Support''. After starring in her first acting role as Max Cullen's daughter in the Australian film ''Billy's Holiday'' for which she received positive reviews despite the film getting a mixed response, she went on to complete a Bachelor of Economics at the University of Sydney. Biography Coopes has appeared as a guest actor in various television series including ''White Collar Blue'' and ''The Secret Life of Us''. She was a series regular in the ABC comedy ''Dog's Head Bay'' and a semi-regular in ''All Saints''. After completing the third series of ''Life Support'' in 2004, she was awarded the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust to study in Paris with Philippe Gaulier, the mentor and teacher of Sacha Baron Cohen. She returned in 2007 and appeared in the final series of ''McLeod's D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janis McGavin
Janis McGavin is an Australian actress and comedy performer, best known for her roles in the popular television series ''Comedy Inc'' and ''Balls of Steel Australia''. Career McGavin trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. After graduation she joined the cast of Channel Nine's Comedy Inc. This Logie-nominated, AFI award-winning television series screens internationally and is currently airing on The Comedy Channel in Australia. In 2009, McGavin played Leanne, the lead love interest in the kooky 80s-inspired comedy series The Urban Monkey with Murray Foote. It aired on ABC2 and has built a cult following. She has also had roles in feature films such as '' Scooby Doo'', ''Walk the Talk'' and most recently a guest appearance in the latest ABC series ''Laid''. In 2010, McGavin was a co-host on the television show Cybershack for Channel Nine. She has also appeared in national campaigns for Nestle and Ajax. In 2011, McGavin appeared in the Australian remake of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombshell (sex Symbol)
The term bombshell is a forerunner to the term "sex symbol" and originally used to describe popular women regarded as very attractive. The '' Online Etymology Dictionary'' by Douglas Harper attests the usage of the term in this meaning since 1942. Bombshell has a longer history in its other, more general figurative meaning of a "shattering or devastating thing or event" since 1860. History The first woman to be known as a bombshell was Jean Harlow, who was nicknamed the "blonde bombshell" for her film '' Platinum Blonde'' (1931). Two years later, she starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film '' Bombshell'' (1933). One of the blurbs on posters was "Lovely, luscious, exotic Jean Harlow as the Blonde Bombshell of filmdom." Hollywood soon took up the blonde bombshell, and then, during the late 1940s through the early 1960s, brunette, exotic, and ethnic versions (e.g., Jane Russell, Dorothy Dandridge and Sophia Loren) were also cultivated as complements to, or as satellites of, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Burgos
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imaan Hadchiti
Imaan Hadchiti is an Australian comedian and actor of Lebanese descent. Born in Mylor, South Australia, Hadchiti and his sister Rima Hadchiti are the only two known cases of "Rima Syndrome", a genetic condition causing small stature yet retaining normal proportions. Hadchiti stands tall, and many of his comedy routines focus on the way people of normal stature react to him. Starting his stand-up career at the age of 15, he won Triple J's ''Class Clown'' comedy contest in 2005, and has since performed on ''The NRL Footy Show'', the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Hadchiti's first television role was a possum in the cult SBS series '' Wilfred''. Hadchiti has his name in Guinness Book of World Records for being the shortest full-time stand-up comedian. In 2019 he has participated in "Battute?" an italian comedy show created by RAI In January 2012, he joined the cast of series 2 of ''Balls of Steel Australia ''Balls of Steel Australia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Lee
Olivia Lee is a British comedian, actress and writer. Early life Lee is from a Jewish family. She studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Career Lee landed a presenting job alongside Simon Amstell on Channel 4's ''T4''. She later appeared on comedy show ''Balls of Steel'', where she pulled pranks such as interviewing celebrities with a penis-shaped microphone. She was later given her own show on Channel 4, ''Naughty Bits'', and performed hidden camera pranks on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno''. Lee appeared in an episode of ''The Basil Brush Show'' in 2004. In 2006, she was interviewed and featured in a photoshoot for ''FHM''. In March 2009, she appeared as a guest on internet talk show ''Tom Green's House Tonight''. ''Dirty Sexy Funny'', a hidden camera show, which originally piloted on Channel 4 in 2008, began airing on Comedy Central in March 2010 and ran for two season. Lee was the host of the Fox Reality Channel game show ''Battle of the Bods'' before F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kerley
James (Kash Kab) Kerley is an Australian TV presenter and radio presenter. Career Kerley was a co-host on the Nickelodeon kids’ show '' Sarvo'' between 2004 and February 2007, alongside Tony Brockman and in his first year won the Sarvote kids’ choice award for favourite new host. During his time with Nickelodeon, Kerley co-hosted the 2004, 2005 and 2006 '' Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards'' alongside Tony Brockman, Dave Lawson, Jesse McCartney and Sophie Monk. He also presented the award for the ''Biggest Greenie'' at the '' Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards 2007''. Kerley moved to Australian subscription TV music channel, Channel in 2007 where he co-hosted the video request show ''whatUwant'' and hosted music trivia show ''Cash Cab'' for two seasons. Kerley also created and co-hosted '' The Dave & Kerley Show'' alongside former '' Sarvo'' co-host Dave Lawson as well as naming and co-creating travel format '' B430''. In 2008, Kerley hosted ''Taken Out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
