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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] |
Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody
''Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody'' is an unauthorized musical satire of E.L. James' ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' created by Mills Entertainment. The show is currently touring Canada, United States, and Australia. The production was directed by Jim Millan and stars three different casts consisting of three actors per cast (see actors below). The story follows an author, EBJ, as she writes a sex fantasy about a younger version of herself named Natasha Woode and a handsome billionaire, Hugh Hansen. Synopsis With a weekend free from her husband and children, fledgling writer, E.B. Janet, decides to write a sex fantasy. Her story centers around a younger version of herself, Natasha Woode. Woode, a 22-year-old virgin, finds herself the object of an affection for a young billionaire Hugh Hansen, who introduces her to BDSM and erotic spanking. Productions ''Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody'' opened in Springfield, Massachusetts in October 2012. A national US tour began touring in Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Glass House (2001 TV Series)
''The Glass House'' was a half-hour Australian comedy talk show which screened on the ABC from 2001 to 2006. It was hosted by stand-up comedian Wil Anderson, and co-hosted by fellow television and radio comedians Corinne Grant and Dave Hughes. Two additional guests joined the regular cast each week, including musicians, politicians, actors, radio personalities and other celebrities of varying calibre, such as Young Australian of the Year winners and Olympic athletes. Regular guests included comedians Adam Spencer and Akmal Saleh, netballer Liz Ellis, '' Play School'' host Rhys Muldoon, musician Pinky Beecroft, and music critic Molly Meldrum. The show thrived on taking regular shots at, among others, Shannon Noll, Amanda Vanstone, Naomi Robson, Shane Warne and Peter Costello. The format of the programme is similar to that of the BBC series, '' Have I Got News for You''. The show was pre-recorded in front of a live audience in the ABC's Sydney studio on Tuesday evenings. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bite
''Big Bite'' was an Australian sketch comedy television series which ran on the Seven Network from 8 May 2003 to 4 March 2004 in a prime time timeslot on Thursdays. Since the end of the series, episodes have been repeated on the Foxtel cable channel, The Comedy Channel and 7Two. Overview Only moderately successful on its initial broadcast and despite an initially mixed reception, the show has gradually developed something of a cult following, due to having begun the careers of a number of now prominent performers, directors and writers. Andrew O'Keefe started his television career on the show and went on to host ''Deal or No Deal'', ''Dragons' Den'', '' The Rich List'', ''Weekend Sunrise'' and ''The Chase Australia''. Chris Lilley's character Mr G first appeared here; he subsequently appeared in ''Summer Heights High'' and released a novelty single. Other performers on the show included improvisational comedian Rebecca De Unamuno, experimental theatre star Melissa Madden Gray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamish & Andy
Hamish & Andy are an Australian comedy duo formed in 2003 by Hamish Blake and Andy Lee. Best known for their various drive time radio programmes on the Hit Network, which aired in multiple formats until 2017, their shows gained consistently high market share and became the highest rated radio show in Australian history. Retiring after 14 years of broadcasting, the duo now produce a weekly self-titled podcast and occasionally publish a secondary programme, the ''Remembering Project'', to revisit their old radio segments. The duo have also worked extensively in television, known as correspondents on ''Rove'' and for their various seasons of '' Hamish & Andy's Gap Year'' which won multiple Logie Awards including Most Popular Light Entertainment Program in 2012, 2014 and 2015. They have made numerous appearances hosting events, competing on game shows and in celebrity sporting events. In 2014, the pair were the highest-paid commercial radio hosts in Australia, with individual s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kath & Kim (Australian TV Series)
''Kath & Kim,'' (also written as ''Kath and Kim'') is an Australian sitcom created by Jane Turner and Gina Riley, who portray the title characters of Kath Day-Knight, a cheery, middle-aged suburban mother, and Kim, her self-indulgent daughter. The cast also includes Glenn Robbins, Peter Rowsthorn and Magda Szubanski as, respectively, Kath's metrosexual boyfriend (later husband) Kel Knight, Kim's henpecked husband Brett Craig, and her lonely "second-best friend" Sharon Strzelecki. The series is set in Fountain Lakes, a fictional suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Footage inside and in the street of Kath's house was primarily filmed in Patterson Lakes. Other footage was filmed around Cheltenham and Moorabbin; scenes set at Fountain Gate were actually filmed at Westfield Southland. Aside from the television series, which ran from 2002 to 2007 and comprises four seasons, the franchise also includes a television film, ''Da Kath & Kim Code'' (2005), and a feature film, ''Kath & Kimderel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Inc
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Comedy Inc. may refer to: *Comedy Inc. (Australian TV series) *Comedy Inc. (Canadian TV series) ''Comedy Inc.'' is a Canadian sketch comedy television series.Brendan Kelly, "Sketch-comedy chemistry". ''Montreal Gazette'', June 13, 2005. It aired on CTV Television Network, CTV, A (TV system), A-Channel and The Comedy Network from 2003 until 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thick As Thieves (2009 Film)
''Thick as Thieves'' (also known as ''The Code'') is a 2009 American/German heist action thriller film directed by Mimi Leder, starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, and Radha Mitchell. The film was released direct-to-DVD on April 17, 2009 in the United States and on October 18, 2010 in Germany. Plot In New York, veteran thief Keith Ripley recruits younger crook Gabriel Martin to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to the Russian mafia, who had killed his previous partner, Victor Korolenko, before they could complete the plan. Martin is unsure of Ripley, but Ripley's goddaughter, Alexandra Korolenko, who is Victor's daughter, convinces him otherwise, although Ripley does not like that the two are getting close. Ripley tells Martin the plan, that they are going to steal from a Russian museum that has been smuggling Russian treasures into the country and bribing the NYPD with large donations and expensive equipment. The two infiltrate a party at the muse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chaser's War On Everything
''The Chaser's War on Everything'' is an Australian television satirical comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television station ABC1. It has won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Television Comedy Series. The cast perform sketches mocking social and political issues, and often feature comedic publicity stunts. The series is produced by The Chaser, an Australian satirical group consisting of Chris Taylor, Julian Morrow, Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen, and Chas Licciardello. Fellow Chaser members Dominic Knight and Charles Firth are not part of the regular on-screen cast. However, Knight is a writer, and Firth compiled roving reports for the show from the United States, until he left the group to start a satirical newspaper in mid-2007. The show premiered on 17 February 2006 and has since produced 58 episodes, broadcast over three seasons between 2006 and 2007 as well as during 2009. The first season was broadcast at an unstable la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Glover (radio Presenter)
Richard Glover is an Australian talk radio presenter, journalist and author. He is best known as presenter of the drive program on 702 ABC Sydney. His book ''Flesh Wounds'' was voted one of the top five books of 2015 by viewers of ABC television's ''The Book Club'' and was Readers Choice Award winner as Biography of the Year in the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards. Life and career Glover was born in Australia but spent some of his early life in Papua New Guinea. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts degree with first class honours. He has written 13 books, including the humour book ''Desperate Husbands'', which was a best-seller in Australia and has been published in translation in Italy and Poland. Glover presents the radio show ''Drive'' from Monday to Friday, 3pm to 6.30 pm on 702 ABC Sydney ABC Radio Sydney (official call sign: 2BL, formerly 2SB) is an ABC radio station in Sydney, Australia. It is the flagship station in the ABC Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
702 ABC Sydney
ABC Radio Sydney (official call sign: 2BL, formerly 2SB) is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC radio station in Sydney, Australia. It is the flagship station in the ABC Local Radio network and broadcasts on 702 hertz, kHz on the AM broadcasting, AM dial. The station transmits with a power (Effective radiated power#CMF, CMF) of 3,110V, which is equivalent to 50 kW (the maximum permissible in Australia) from a site west of the Sydney central business district, Sydney CBD. History ABC Radio Sydney is the first public broadcasting, public radio station in Australia opened in Sydney at 8:00pm on 23 November 1923. Its first callsign was ''2SB'' where ''2'' denotes the States and territories of Australia, State of New South Wales and ''SB'' stood for Sydney Broadcasters Limited. However, the callsign was soon altered to ''2BL'' for Sydney Broadcasters Limited. The change was due to the audio similarity of the sounds FC and SB. In May 1928 the Sydney Broadcasting Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Television Actresses
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Australian Women Comedians
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatew ...'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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