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List Of Australian Comedians
This is a list of comedians who were born in Australia, or have spent part of their careers performing in Australia. Some of these are known by stage names; these alter egos are listed in brackets. A B C * Steve Abbott * Anthony Ackroyd Anthony Michael Ackroyd (born 30 June) is an Australian comedian, writer, musician, actor, speaker, and teacher. He is currently the CEO (Chief Enjoyment Officer) of his company The Laughter Advantage. Biography Ackroyd was born in Hobart, Tasma ... * Craig Anderson (actor), Craig Anderson * Wil Anderson * Pam Ann * Anyone For Tennis? * David Argue * Aunty Donna * Joe Avati * Axis of Awesome * Tom Ballard * Eric Bana * Carl Barron * Tracy Bartram * The Bedroom Philosopher * Dick Bentley * Rachel Berger * Peter Berner * Carrie Bickmore * Big Al (Australian comedian), Big Al * Jonathan Biggins * Tahir Bilgiç * Mark Bin Bakar * Billy Birmingham * Hamish Blake * Dave Bloustien * Grahame Bond (The Aunty Jack Show, Aunty Jack) * Shane Bourne * F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alter Ego
An alter ego (Latin for "other I", " doppelgänger") means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality. Finding one's alter ego will require finding one's other self, one with a different personality. The altered states of the ego may themselves be referred to as ''alterations''. A distinct meaning of ''alter ego'' is found in the literary analysis used when referring to fictional literature and other narrative forms, describing a key character in a story who is perceived to be intentionally representative of the work's author (or creator), by oblique similarities, in terms of psychology, behavior, speech, or thoughts, often used to convey the author's thoughts. The term is also sometimes, but less frequently, used to designate a hypothetical "twin" or "best friend" to a character in a story. Similarly, the term ''alter ego'' may be applied to the role or persona taken on by an actor or by other types of performers. Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Berger
Rachel Berger is an Australian comedian, actress, and writer. Berger was born in Israel to Polish Jewish parents and emigrated to Melbourne at the age of five.Wilmoth, Peter, "Sticking to the script", The Weekly Review, 2 June 2010, She is a "performer who delivers rapid-fire lines with assertive and acerbic virtuosity," who has made her name as a stand-up comedian, staging "confronting and politically incorrect" productions including ''Perfect'', ''Clenched Buttocks'', ''Loose Cannon'', ''The She Comic'', ''Comedy Siren'', and ''Berger Republic''. In 2008, Berger wrote and performed ''Hold the Pickle''. A major departure from her previous work, ''Hold the Pickle'' is a monologue that traces her parents' flight from Nazi-occupied Poland to Israel during the Second World War, to running a delicatessen in Acland Street, St Kilda, a Melbourne suburb. In 2008, ''Hold the Pickle'' was nominated for three Green Room Awards: Best Female Performer in an Independent Theatre Product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifi Box
Fiona Box is an Australian radio broadcaster, television presenter and actress. Career Box's early career was spent in regional Australia working at stations 2MC/ROXFM Port Macquarie, 3TR Traralgon and 3GG Warragul. In 2000, Box co-hosted a late-night show on TTFM Melbourne and within months, was picked up by the Triple M network to co-host a national night show based on relationships. When the show came to an end, she moved to the breakfast timeslot to produce Amanda Keller, Mikey Robins and Peter Berner. In 2003, Box joined '' The Shebang'' on Triple M and stayed with the station until 2008. Box is known on television for her "standout" performance on '' Dancing with the Stars'' on the Seven Network in 2007 and guest appearances on ''Sunrise'', '' The Project'', ''Thank God You're Here'' and ''Have You Been Paying Attention?'' In January 2009, Box joined ''Sunrise'' as weather presenter where she replaced David Brown and stayed in this position until December 2009. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Bourne
Shane Bourne (born 24 November 1949 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian stand-up comedian, actor, musician, and television host. Career 1970s Co-founded Australian band Bandicoot with Mick Fettes (formerly of the band Madder Lake). They released a self-titled album in 1976 with a top-100 single "Living off the Radio". 1980s–1999 Bourne was a well-known comedic face throughout the 1980s and 1990s, with an acting role on the Australian version of the British sitcom, ''Are You Being Served?'' (in 1980 and 1981). He had regular appearances on the variety program ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' (1988–1994) in various sketches, but mainly appeared on the ''Great Aussie Joke'' segment. He starred in the short-lived sitcom '' Bingles'' in 1992 and 1993. In 1996, Bourne hosted a revived '' Blankety Blanks'', which lasted only two seasons. He also had dramatic roles; he was in 3 episodes of the drama series ''Prisoner'' in the early 1980s as 3 different guest roles. He had a guest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Aunty Jack Show
''The Aunty Jack Show'' was a Logie Award-winning Australian television comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1973. Produced by and broadcast on ABC-TV, the series attained an instant cult status that persists to the present day. The lead character, Aunty Jack was a unique comic creation — obese, moustachioed and gravel-voiced, part trucker and part pantomime dame — who habitually solved any problem by knocking people unconscious or threatening to "rip yer bloody arms off". Visually, she was unmistakable, dressed in a huge, tent-like blue velvet dress, football socks, workboots, and a golden boxing glove on her right hand. She rode a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and referred to everyone as "me little lovelies" — when she was not uttering her familiar threat: "I'll rip yer bloody arms off!", a phrase which immediately passed into the vernacular. The character was devised and played by Grahame Bond and was partly inspired by his overbearing Uncle Jack, whom he had d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grahame Bond
Grahame John Bond AM (born 21 November 1943) is an Australian actor, writer, director, musician and composer, known primarily for his role as Aunty Jack. Early career Bond began his career in entertainment at University of Sydney in the 1960s as a founding student member of the Sydney University Architecture Revue, which included his university friends, then architect Geoffrey Atherden (writer ''Mother and Son''); director Peter Weir; composer Peter Best; and Rory O'Donoghue. Bond graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1967 and began tutoring in design at Sydney University in the late 1960s, although his performing career soon took over and he spent much of the next two decades writing and performing on TV, radio and the stage. Following the success of the 1967 Sydney University Architecture Revue "The Great Wall of Porridge", Bond and others (including Atherden and Weir) were invited to stage a professional revue for Producers Authors Composers and Talent (now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Bloustien
Dave Bloustien (born 7 December 1975, in Adelaide) is an Australian comedian, improviser and comedy writer. Living and working in Sydney, New South Wales, Bloustien has written for many Australian television comedies, including ABC's '' The Glass House'', '' The Sideshow'' and ''Randling'', and Channel Ten's ''Good News Week''. He has won five Australian Writers Guild awards, or AWGIES, for his work on ''Good News Week''. As a stand-up comedian and improviser Bloustien has performed across Australia and internationally, including many shows as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Cracker Comedy Festival and New Zealand Comedy Festival. In 2009 he was a recipient of a Moosehead Award The Brian McCarthy Memorial Moosehead Award is a grant issued to Australian comedians wishing to premiere new works as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It is named after Brian McCarthy, a young comedian and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamish Blake
Hamish Donald Blake (born 11 December 1981) is an Australian comedian, television and radio presenter, actor and author. Since 2003, he has worked with Andy Lee as part of the comedy duo Hamish and Andy. The pair have performed live and on television and radio, most notably with their drive-time radio program ''Hamish & Andy''. As a solo performer, Blake has appeared on various Australian television programs, including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's televised 2008 Great Debate, and has been a regular guest on '' Spicks and Specks'', ''Rove'' and ''Thank God You're Here''. In April 2012, Blake and Lee won a Logie Award for their television program ''Hamish and Andy's Gap Year''. Individually, Blake also won the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. In 2022, Blake was the recipient of the TV Week Bert Newton Award for most outstanding presenter. Early life Blake grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley. He is a middle chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Birmingham
Billy Birmingham (born 1953) is an Australian humourist and sometime sports journalist, most noted for his parodies of Australian cricket commentary in recordings under The Twelfth Man name. Early career He wrote the pun-laden comedy hit "Australiana", which was made famous by performer Austen Tayshus and reached No. 1, ultimately becoming the most successful single on the Australian charts in 1983. ''The Twelfth Man'' In 1984 he released his first record as The Twelfth Man, titled "It's Just Not Cricket". This went on to become his most successful series of recordings, with eight albums being released between 1987 and 2006. The premise involved Birmingham impersonating and satirising the Channel Nine cricket commentary team, particularly Richie Benaud, Bill Lawry and Tony Greig. During the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Birmingham also recorded a series of mock-commentaries on Olympic events as the ''Wired World of Sports'', featuring such characters as the American track-and-field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Bin Bakar
Mark Bin Bakar is an Indigenous Australian musician, comedian and radio announcer, writer, director/producer as well as an indigenous rights campaigner based in Broome, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. He is best known for his radio and television character, the acid-tongued Mary Geddarrdyu or Mary G, who has gained a national cult following and has been described as a Dame Edna Everage in thongs. In character Mary G has hosted a radio program and hosted a variety show broadcast nationally on SBS Television. Career Mary G The son of a Catholic Indigenous mother and a Malay Muslim father from Singapore, Bakar created the character Mary G as a Stolen Generations woman like his mother. She first featured on Bin Bakar's radio show in Broome at Radio Goolarri in 1993 where she tackled issues of domestic violence, sexual health and reconciliation, and was particularly popular with aboriginal women. The Mary G show has played at the Sydney Opera House and at festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahir Bilgiç
Tahir Bilgiç (born 12 December 1968) is an Australian comedian, film and television actor, of Turkish people, Turkish descent. He is primarily an actor and comedian. He has written, directed and starred in some of the most successful live stage shows Australia has ever seen, including "Lord of The Kebabs", "From Lebanon With Love" and "Straight Outta Compo" to name a few. He has appeared in 5 different Australian sit-coms and 3 feature films. He co-created and starred in "StreetSmart" (ch10) as well as coming with the initial idea and then co-creating "Here Come The Habibs" (ch9). Career Tahir has a huge body of work and is enjoying a highly successful career as a comedian / writer / director and actor. He features as the Lebanese character Habib in the hit series ''Pizza (TV series), Pizza'' and the motion pictures ''Fat Pizza'' and ''Fat Pizza vs. Housos''. Habib became of Australia's most popular and loved tv- sitcom characters. In 2011, he appeared in ''Swift and Shif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Biggins
Jonathan Martin Biggins (born 14 September 1960) is an Australian actor, singer, writer, director and comedian. He has appeared on film, stage and television as well as in satirical sketch comedy television programmes. He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, and attended Newcastle Boys' High School in the mid-1970s. He said that it was "a fairly intimidating place to be if you weren't great at sports or maths. However once joined the debating team, and went on to win the state finals, things started looking up." Biography Stage appearances include ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (as John Worthing, replacing Geoffrey Rush), ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'', ''Orpheus in the Underworld'' and the Gilbert and Sullivan operas ''Ruddigore and The Mikado''. His television appearances include ''The Dingo Principle'' and ''Three Men and a Baby Grand'', satirical sketch television comedy programmes for which he was a writer/performer with Phillip Scott and D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
