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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 comedy producer killed in a car accident in 1987. Each year benefit performances are held in Melbourne (as part of the Comedy Festival{{cite web, url=http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2010/season/shows/the-24th-brian-mccarthy-memorial-moosehead-awards-benefit, title=The 24th Brian McCarthy Memorial Moosehead Awards Benefit, accessdate=2010-02-11, url-status=dead, archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100302203628/http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2010/season/shows/the-24th-brian-mccarthy-memorial-moosehead-awards-benefit/, archivedate=2010-03-02) and Sydney, and the money raised is used to produce new shows by successful applicants, who are thus free to try out a new and exciting idea without worrying whether it will be "commercially viable". The Award is su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Ward (comedian)
Michael John Ward (born September 14, 1973) is a Canadian comedian. He performs comedy in both French and English. Career Ward has appeared on television doing stand-up in 20 countries; airing throughout Europe, Africa, Australia and North America. He is a frequent guest of the Anthony Cumia Show podcast. Ward hosts two podcasts: ''2 Drink Minimum'' with comedian Pantelis on Compound Media and ''Mike Ward sous écoute''. Controversies Ward has been the subject of controversy. At Jean-Marc Parent's 2008 Just for Laughs French gala, he made a joke about Revenu Québec, in which he mentioned Cédrika Provencher, a young girl who had been abducted in 2007 in Quebec and whose remains were found in December 2015. Mocking of Jérémy Gabriel Between 2010 and 2013, Ward performed a comedy routine about Jérémy Gabriel, a young disabled singer with Treacher Collins syndrome. Ward mocked Gabriel's appearance, his illness and his abilities as a singer and joked about trying to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Quirk
David Quirk (born 15 February 1981) is an actor and stand-up comedian based in Melbourne, Australia. Career Quirk has been performing stand-up comedy since 2002. In 2006, he was a state finalist in Triple J’s ‘Raw Comedy’ competition, and in 2007 he made his Melbourne International Comedy Festival debut. He appears regularly on the comedy circuit in Australia and has performed internationally, including at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Quirk also has a background in acting. In 2012 he appeared in the comedy series ''Problems'', on Australia's ABC1, and in 2015 he was a guest on ''Please Like Me ''Please Like Me'' is an Australian television comedy-drama series created by and starring Josh Thomas. Thomas also serves as a writer for most episodes. The series premiered on 28 February 2013 on ABC2 in Australia and is now available on Ne ...''. In 2017 he also played the role of Damien in ABC's comedy Rosehaven. Awards *Piece of Wood (Comedians' choice), Melbourne ... [...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 The Adelaide Fringe, formerly Adelaide Fringe Festival, is the world's second-largest annual arts festival (after the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), held in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Between mid-February and mid-March each year, i ..., Cracker Comedy Festival and New Zealand Comedy Festival. In 2009 he was a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Gadsby
Hannah Gadsby (born 1978) is an Australian comedian, writer, and actress. She began her career in Australia after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006. In 2018, her show '' Nanette'' on Netflix won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and a Peabody Award. Starting in 2019, she toured internationally with her show '' Douglas'' and the recorded special was released on Netflix in 2020. In 2021, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Tasmania. In March 2022, she published ''Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation''. Early life Hannah Gadsby was born in Smithton, a small town on the remote north-west coast of Tasmania. She was the youngest of five children. She attended Smithton High School from 1990 to 1995. In year 12, she attended Launceston College, where she had a nervous breakdown. She began studying at the University of Tasmania in Hobart but later transferred to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Axis Of Awesome
The Axis of Awesome was an Australian comedy music act with members Jordan Raskopoulos, Lee Naimo and Benny Davis, that performed from 2006 to 2018. The trio covered a wide variety of performance styles, and perform a combination of original material and pop parodies. History The Axis of Awesome formed in 2006, their name being a play on the phrase " axis of evil" used by United States President George W. Bush. The trio were heavily involved in improv theatre at the University of Sydney and decided to try something different. The band played at a few stand-up comedy nights and improv events in Sydney and performed a fortnightly segment on FBi Radio, but got their first big break when they released a number of rap parodies lampooning the 2007 Australian Federal Election. The band gained further success performing in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and making television and radio appearances. Their 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival show, titled "The Ax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heath McIvor
Randy Feltface, mostly referred to merely as Randy, or, on occasion, Randy the Purple Puppet, is an Australian puppet comedian. Randy is a fixture on the international stand-up circuit, and makes regular guest appearances on Australian television. He also performs as one half of the musical comedy duo "Sammy J and Randy", who made their television sitcom debut in 2015 with '' Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane'' on ABC in Australia, for which Randy is credited as co-writer and lead actor. In 2019, Randy competed in the American reality television comedy competition series ''Bring the Funny'', making it to the second round (the "Comedy Clash"). Fictography Randy notes that he has an unusually elaborate life story for a puppet comedian, though McIvor has stated that it has changed over time and that Randy sometimes makes new claims about his life in an improvisational manner. Early stand-up career Randy's first acting gig was in a presentation on workplace bullying. Having gained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammy J
Samuel Jonathan McMillan (born 2 July 1983) is an Australian musical comedy, musical comedian, satirist, writer and radio presenter who performs under the stage name Sammy J. He embraces a variety of media in his comedy, including the use of video and self-composed music, and frequently collaborates with fellow Australian puppet comedian Randy Feltface. He has released several CDs and DVD compilations of his work; most recently the album ''Symphony in J Minor'' which was nominated for Best Comedy Release at the 2019 ARIA Awards. He has performed at comedy festivals in Australia, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh and Just for Laughs, Montreal, and has appeared on various Australian television shows, including ''Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane'', a sitcom based on the duo's touring show of the same name. He currently produces a weekly political sketch for ABC Television (Australian TV network), ABC Television, satirising the news through various characters, and is the Breakfast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Hamilton (comedian)
Justin Hamilton (a.k.a. "Hammo") is an Australian comedian, writer and radio host. Early life Hamilton grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. Career He is a standup performer who started his comedy career in Adelaide in 1994 as part of a duo called The Bunta Boys with school mate Damien. They wrote and performed songs such as "Red Necked Boy" and "I Wanna Be Hip". The latter an inspired tribute to Rick Astley. Justin would regularly end up gyrating in an (often male) audience member's lap, or running across the stage without trousers. Both would attract much laughter. Justin appeared in the 1995 Adelaide Fringe parade as the second half of 'Buttman and Throbbin': a comedy crime fighter, wearing red fishnets and a yellow cape. He has performed at the 'Sit'n'Spin' in Seattle and the prestigious 'Gershwin Room' in New York. Hamilton has been involved in shows at the Adelaide Fringe Festival since 1994. He has also been a regular at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca De Unamuno
Rebecca De Unamuno is an Australian actress and comedian. She has written and performed for a number of television comedy series, short films and stand up comedy shows. In 2013 she starred in '' Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody''. Career In 2001, she started her career on the popular '' The Glass House''. She was part of the team that won the Improv World Cup at the Just For Laughs Festival in 2001 and was named Player of the Tournament. Between 2003 and 2004, she played various characters in ''Big Bite'', before its cancellation. She appeared in and wrote for the '' Hamish & Andy Show'' and ''Kath & Kim''. During 2003 to 2006, she guest appeared in '' Comedy Inc.'' and in 2007, the show's final season, she became a main cast member. In 2009, she played as a teacher in '' Thick as Thieves''. She appeared on '' The Chaser's War on Everything'' during 2009. She is a regular guest on Richard Glover's weekly comedy wrap-up Thank God It's Friday on 702 ABC Sydney ABC Radio Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Knowles
John Knowles (; September 16, 1926November 29, 2001) was an American novelist best known for ''A Separate Peace'' (1959). Biography Knowles was born on September 17, 1926, in Fairmont, West Virginia, the son of James M. Knowles, a purchasing agent from Lowell, Massachusetts, and Mary Beatrice Shea Knowles from Concord, New Hampshire. His father was a coal company executive, which earned an income that afforded the family a comfortable living. As a youth, Knowles would remark that he could write just as well as the stories from ''The Saturday Evening Post''. Knowles attended St. Peter's High School in Fairmont from 1938 to 1940, before he continued at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and graduated in 1945. Following his time at Phillips Exeter, Knowles spent eight months serving in the US Army Air Forces at the end of World War II. Knowles graduated from Yale University as a member of the class of 1949. At Yale, Knowles contributed stories to campus humor magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Simmons (comedian)
Sam Simmons (born 19 March 1976) is an Australian comedian and radio and TV presenter. Career Simmons has appeared on '' Conan'', ''8 Out of 10 Cats'', ''Room 101'', '' Adam DeVine's House Party'' and is currently developing his own sitcom in the UK. Network appearances include NBC, BBC, Channel 4, ABC, and all other Australian networks. Previously, he was a regular host on Triple J as well as jtv interviewing bands, he developed his style of non-sequitur and surrealist non-humour. This led to his first television show, ''The Urban Monkey with Murray Foote'', in 2009. In 2012, Simmons followed up with a sketch-style TV series ''Problems'', with a tone more similar to that of his surrealist stand-up shows. He performed at TEDxSydney in 2014 and is now on a new a US pilot filmed in Albuquerque with David Quirk. Simmons described it as "a reality show about animals". Simmons regularly appears on the comedy quiz show ''Dirty Laundry Live''. In 2015, he won the Edinburgh Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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