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Darren Chau
Darren & Brose are Darren Chau and Brose Avard, two Australia-based comedy writers and performers who first met while studying media at La Trobe University. Chau had been working with the comedy ensemble Chop-Socky, while Avard had been producing and broadcasting on several Melbourne radio stations. They co-founded the Latrobe Media Group and produced comedy shows for the Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Channel 31 and Network Ten's ONE. Television programs Their first television project together was the comedy variety program, ''The Rumpus Room with Darren and Brose'', which featured sketches, music video parodies, animations animations and special guests including Kerry Armstrong, Wil Anderson, Dave Hughes, John Safran, Lawrence Mooney, Dave O'Neil, Jo Stanley, Adam Richard, Damian Callinan, Andrew Gaze and Santo Cilauro. The show concluded after five seasons with an outside broadcast at the Athenaeum theatre as part of the Melbourne In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing '' agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Safran
, citizenship = , education = , occupation = DocumentarianJournalistRadio presenterAuthor , years_active = 1997 – present , known_for = ''John Safran's Music Jamboree'' ''John Safran vs God'' ''Race Around the World'' Sunday Night Safran , notable_works = ''Murder in Mississippi'' , style = , spouse = , partner = , children = , parents = , mother = Gitl Obronzka , father = Alex Safran , relatives = Margaret (sister) , family = , callsign = , awards = , website = , signature = , signature_size = , signature_alt = , footnotes = John Michael Safran (; born 13 August 1972) is an Australian radio personality, satirist, documentary maker and author, known for combining humour with religious, political and ethnic issues. First gaining fame appearing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Bites God
Man Bites God is a three-piece band from Melbourne; founded in 2000 by James Hazelden (guitar/vocals) and Chris Tomkins (drums/vocals) after the demise of Hazelden's previous band, The Drowning Hitlers. Mark Woodward (bass guitar/recorder/vocals) was soon recruited and the group were spotted playing in an unassuming Fitzroy bar (Mayfields) by Dan Brodie who insisted the band support him at St Kilda's Esplanade Hotel (the 'Espy'). The band has a catalogue of six releases: ''Happy Songs'' ( EP, 2002), ''Ultrasounds'' ( EP, 2002), ''Man Bites God'' ( LP, 2003), ''Boob Job for Sweetie Pie'' ( EP, 2005) ''The Popular Alternative'' ( LP, 2005) and ''Peppermint Superfrog'' ( LP, 2007); and is notorious for twisted, dark and often blasphemous sense of humour. Consequently, religious groups have been known to deface or tear down posters advertising the band's performances. Man Bites God tours regularly throughout Australia and performed at the 2004 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Parks
Amy Parks (born 10 June 1982 ) is an Australian journalist and broadcaster. She is a reporter for ''Seven News Melbourne'' from Melbourne. Parks was one of the original hosts of Nine Network's late night interactive quiz show, ''Quizmania'' (2006–2007). She was a reporter on ''Nine News Melbourne'' in 2008, before switching to rival network, Seven. Early years Parks was born on 10 June 1982. She was raised in Horsham, Victoria until 13 and then moved to the Bellarine Peninsula. She joined a junior Geelong theatre society and Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College' jazz group. Parks was a singer in the school-based band, Sweethearts of Swing, and toured overseas. Television After being accepted to RMIT's Bachelor of Journalism course, Parks became very involved in community television, taking on the hosting role for three seasons of ''Raucous'' (a live-to-air music show), was the TV reporter on Darren & Brose, and also became both producer and presenter of ''Newsline'' and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Wilson (Radio Presenter)
Tony Wilson is a Melbourne-based Australian radio and television personality, writer and public speaker. He gained notoriety as the winner of the second series of the ABC television show, ''Race Around the World'' in 1998, and has since become somewhat of a cult figure in Melbourne radio, television and print media. Early life Prior to gaining attention in Australian media, he attended Camberwell Grammar School, and was drafted as a tall forward by the Hawthorn Football Club and intended embarking on a career as an AFL footballer, but was cut after less than one season partly due to chronic injury. Media career Some time after becoming the second (and final) winner of ''Race Around the World'', he joined the 3RRR ''Breakfasters'', a radio panel show which had formerly featured personalities John Safran, Dave O'Neil and Kate Langbroek. He remained on the panel for six years before finishing to pursue his writing. Since 'Race Around the World', he has had television stints on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McCarthy (Australian Actor)
Paul McCarthy (born 13 January 1967 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian comedy actor. He is best known for sketch comedy television series ''Comedy Inc''. Career He began performing professionally while attending Melbourne University, touring Australia with revue show ''Laminex on the Rocks'' which also starred Mick Molloy, Jason Stephens and Andrew Maj. McCarthy appeared on stand-up comedy stages in Melbourne during the late eighties and through the nineties and was a regular participant in the annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival before finding his way onto television. He also starred in ''Totally Full Frontal'', a late 1990s television sketch comedy show, as well as in the hit Mick Molloy comedy '' Crackerjack''. He has received two Green Room Awards for his contributions to live cabaret and his (co-devised) work ''Cliff Hanger in Catch A Falling Star'' was awarded Best Cabaret Show at Melbourne Fringe 2002. He is best known for starring in the highly suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat Magazine
''Beat'' is a free monthly tabloid-sized music magazine (street press) published and distributed in Melbourne, Australia. It was Melbourne's longest running street press, and one of the earliest street press after TAGG. ''Beat'' paused its print edition between March 2020-May 2022. History The magazine changes its name from ''Beat'' to ''Beat Magazine'' in 1989, reverted to ''Beat'' in 2000, and continues to refer to itself as ''Beat Magazine'' on their website. The magazine was founded as a weekly street press by Rob Furst and was printed by his company Furst Media. Between 1994 and 1998 a Sydney edition was printed, known as ''Beat : Sydney listings bible''. The magazines and their online component were published each Wednesday, with the printed magazines distributed to nearly 1,000 locations in 1997. By 2020 the Melbourne edition was distributed to over 3,200 locations. ''Beat'''s main competitor was ''Inpress'', a Melbourne-based street press which was co-created by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Athenaeum
The Athenaeum or Melbourne Athenaeum is an art and cultural hub in the Melbourne city centre, central business district of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1839, it is the city's oldest cultural institution. Its building on Collins Street, Melbourne, Collins Street in the East End Theatre District sits opposite the Regent Theatre, Melbourne, Regent Theatre, and currently consists of a main theatre, a smaller studio theatre, a restaurant and a subscription library. It has also served as a mechanics' institute, an art exhibition space, and a cinema. The building was added to the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), National Trust's Register of Historic Buildings in 1981 and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. History Early history The first President was William Lonsdale (colonist), Captain William Lonsdale, the first Patron was the Superintendent of Port Phillip, Charles La Trobe and the first books were donated by Vice-President He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santo Cilauro
Santo Luigi Cilauro (born 25 November 1961) is an Australian comedian, television and feature film producer, screenwriter, actor, author and cameraman who is also a co-founder of ''The D-Generation''. Known as the weatherman in ''Frontline'', he is also an author and former radio presenter on the Triple M Network, and achieved worldwide fame with the viral video ''Elektronik Supersonik''. Early life Cilauro was born in 1961 in Melbourne, Australia to parents of Italian descent. Cilauro attended the University of Melbourne in the 1980s and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws in 1987. In 1984, while walking to his aunt's house in Melbourne, he stumbled across a Juventus press conference during their tour of Australia, and after seeing coach Giovanni Trapattoni struggle to answer questions in English, used his Italian skills to translate, which resulted in Cilauro becoming the team translator for the rest of the tour. Acting and production work Cilauro sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gaze
Andrew Barry Casson Gaze (born 24 July 1965) is an Australian former professional basketball player and coach. He played 22 seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL) with the Melbourne Tigers from 1984 to 2005, winning the league's MVP award seven times and winning the scoring title 14 times. He also guided the Tigers to two NBL championships, in 1993 and 1997, and was named an All-NBL First Team member for a record 15 consecutive years. Gaze has been described as one of the greatest players Australia has ever produced. Gaze led the senior Australian national team, the Boomers, to five Summer Olympic Games – including as the flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and he was also the Australian Team Captain. He was inducted into the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004, and the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2005, after being appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2002. In 2013, he joined his father, Lindsay, in the FIBA Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damian Callinan
Damian Callinan is an actor/comedian from Melbourne, Australia. Entertainment career Callinan has performed in many mediums, including TV, film, radio and live stand-up. He came to national prominence in 2003 as an actor in the Australian sketch comedy television series ''skitHOUSE'' as well as making regular appearances on ''Before the Game''. In 2006, Callinan presented a live comedy show as part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival about his fertility problems entitled ''Damian Callinan has Spaznuts''. That year he also debuted ''Babysitting'', casting himself as a babysitter caring for a giant baby. In his show ''Sportsman's Night'', Callinan, with no props, performed every role in a story about a football club gathering. He's also performed several other solo comedy shows: ''Damian Callinan Calls "Last Drinks"'', ''Eureka Stocktake'','' The Cave To The Rave: The Story of Dance'' and ''Speech Night''. In 2007, he appeared in a stage show called ''The Complete Works of William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Richard
Adam Richard (born Adam Richard Dellamarta, 1 January 1971 in Carlton, Victoria) is an Australian comedian, actor, radio presenter, writer and media personality, best known co-writing and starring in '' Outland,'' an ABC1 comedy series about a group of LGBT sci-fi geeks. Richard was also a team captain on the 2014 revival of music quiz and live music performance show'' Spicks and Specks'', and a permanent panel member on the Doctor Who-themed 2017 show '' Whovians''. Career After a variety of part-time jobs including working as a State Bank teller, a fast-food seller and a cleaner, Richard had his first stand-up gig in 1996. During the late 1990s Richard was a regular on RMITV shows including ''The Loft Live'' with Rove McManus, ''Under Melbourne Tonight'', '' What's Goin' On There?'' (1998) and ''Whose Shout'' (1999). He had a regular gossip segment on Triple J radio in 2002–2003, where he was known as Mister Bitch. He has presented a similar segment on '' The Matt and Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
