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Statesmen Of Comedy
Statesmen of Comedy was a half-hour comedy panel show hosted by Trevor Marmalade. Trevor talks with Australia’s finest comedians, not only about the skills of their trade, but also provides a range of off-the-wall topics inviting them to flex their comedy muscles. Episodes Season 1 (2010-2011) * Episode 1 - Features: Shane Bourne, Jane Kennedy, Tim Smith * Episode 2 - Features: Glenn Robbins, Greg Fleet, Jason Stevens * Episode 3 - Features: Peter Rowsthorn, Jeff Stilson, Greg Fleet * Episode 4 - Features: Red Symons, Wilbur Wilde, Brian Nankervis * Episode 5 - Features: Jeff Green, Colin Lane, Russell Gilbert * Episode 6 - Features: Steve Vizard, Andrew Goodone, Tim Smith * Episode 7 - Features: Vince Sorrenti, Elliot Goblet, Tim Smith * Episode 8 - Features: Russell Gilbert, Matthew Quartermaine, Jimeoin * Episode 9 - Features: Shane Bourne, Jeff Stilson, Glenn Robbins * Episode 10 - Features: Matt Parkinson, Anthony Morgan, Greg Fleet * Episode 11 - Features: Paul Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Marmalade
Trevor Marmalade (born Jason van de Velde, 26 April 1962) is an Australian comedian and radio and television presenter. Marmalade is of Dutch people, Dutch descent and grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Surrey Hills, Victoria, Surrey Hills. Career During the 1980s, Marmalade was a member of the alternative comedy show ''Punter to Punter'' with Tracy Harvey as Tammy Whittle, Tony Rickards as Con Marasco, Mitchell Faircloth as Slim Whittle and John Rothfield as Dr Turf. The show was broadcast on 3RRR on Saturday mornings after the Coodabeen Champions. Marmalade is also a successful standup comedy, standup comic going back to his appearances in the early 1980s at The Last Laugh (comedy venue), "Le Joke" and "The Last Laugh". He also appeared on the long-running television show, ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'', from 1991 to 1999. Marmalade appeared on the Nine Network, Nine television network's ''The AFL Footy Show'' from 1994 to 2008, as a comedian based ''behind the bar''. At the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Lane
Colin Stuart Lane (born 25 March 1965) is an Australian comedian, actor and TV host, best known for being one-half of comedy duo Lano and Woodley. Lano and Woodley Lane performed with fellow comedian Frank Woodley as part of the duo Lano and Woodley for a period of almost 20 years. The two met through theatresports in the mid-1980s and first performed together at an open mike night at the Prince Patrick Hotel in Collingwood, Victoria, in 1987 along with their friend Scott Casley, calling themselves the Found Objects. Over the next six years, the trio performed in venues throughout Australia and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They became semi-regulars on ABC Television (Australian TV network), ABC TV's ''The Big Gig'', a show known for boosting the careers of new comedy acts, had their own commercial radio show for six months and were part of the short-lived Seven Network sketch show ''The Comedy Sale''. When in 1992 Casley moved away to Alice Springs, Woodley and Lane decided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Footnotes
A note is a string of text placed at the bottom of a page in a book or document or at the end of a chapter, volume, or the whole text. The note can provide an author's comments on the main text or citations of a reference work in support of the text. Footnotes are notes at the foot of the page while endnotes are collected under a separate heading at the end of a chapter, volume, or entire work. Unlike footnotes, endnotes have the advantage of not affecting the layout of the main text, but may cause inconvenience to readers who have to move back and forth between the main text and the endnotes. In some editions of the Bible, notes are placed in a narrow column in the middle of each page between two columns of biblical text. Numbering and symbols In English, a footnote or endnote is normally flagged by a superscripted number immediately following that portion of the text the note references, each such footnote being numbered sequentially. Occasionally, a number between brack ... [...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] |
Dave O'Neil
David O'Neil (born 8 May 1965) is an Australian stand-up comedian, actor, bass guitarist, writer, television and radio presenter with unusually large thumbs. Early career Dave was a Cub, Scout, Venturer and Rover. His late father Kevin was the Group Leader at the 1st/3rd Mitcham Scout Group. After finishing high school, O'Neil completed a course in primary school teaching; however, he never taught. He became a field officer for the Red Cross, giving talks and training sessions, where he first enjoyed public speaking and the opportunity to tell jokes. In the late 1980s, he was a member of Melbourne band Captain Cocoa, in which he played bass. His identical twin brother, Glenn, was the lead vocalist. Radio career O'Neil ventured into radio in the early 1990s, appearing on the Osso Booko Show on Melbourne community station 3RRR from 1992 to 1997. He co-hosted the one-hour sketch comedy show on Sundays with Vic Plume and Alan Parkes. He also spent some time on the RRR Breakfas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cal Wilson
Cal Wilson (born 5 October 1970) is a New Zealand stand-up comedian, author, radio and television presenter. Early life After attending high school in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wilson completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Canterbury. Comedy career She co-founded the Court Jesters improv group in 1990 and was part of the New Zealand team that won the World Theatresports title in Los Angeles in 1994. She moved to stand-up comedy full-time and in 1997 was the inaugural winner (with Ewen Gilmour) of New Zealand's most prestigious comedy award, the Billy T. She also regularly appeared on TV3's ''Pulp Comedy''. In recent years she has been working from Melbourne, Australia. In 2001, Wilson won the ''Best Newcomer'' Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. She has appeared to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Her 2006 show ''Up There, Cal Wilson'' sold out at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Television Wilson has appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Morgan (comedian)
Anthony Morgan is an Australian actor, writer and stand-up comedian. Morgan has performed his conversational stand-up style comedy across Australia as well as London, Manchester and twice at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Morgan began working in television in 1991 as a regular on ''The Big Gig'' and guest appearances on ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' and ''Tonight Live with Steve Vizard''. In 1994-1995 he made guest appearances on '' Denton'' as the roving Melbourne correspondent. Career Morgan started his career as a comedian in 1982. After a hiatus from 1998 to 2015, Morgan has appeared in the TV shows '' Randling'', ''Problems'', '' Ronny Chieng: International Student'', and ''Rosehaven''. Television * '' Randling'' * ''Problems'' * ''Rosehaven ''Rosehaven'' is an Australian television comedy series created and written by Celia Pacquola and Luke McGregor, who also star in the lead roles. Its name derives from the fictional small town in rural Tasmania in which it is se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Parkinson (comedian)
Matthew Parkinson is an Australian comedian, actor, radio presenter and quiz show personality. Life and career Parkinson was born in Perth, Western Australia. He began acting at school and studied theatre arts at the Western Australian Institute of Technology. His professional career began in Perth at the Hole in the Wall Theatre where he appeared in ''Hamlet'', ''The Cherry Orchard'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and the title role in Ben Johnson's ''The Alchemist''. Parkinson was formerly a member of the comedy duo the Empty Pockets, along with Matthew Quartermaine, who featured regularly on the television comedy shows ''The Big Gig'' and '' Full Frontal''. Parkinson was also a champion winner of television game show ''Sale of the Century'' in the 1990s. Parkinson was one of the hosts of the Triple M breakfast program '' The Cage'' in Melbourne. After the axing of ''The Cage'' in the Sydney market at the end of 2006, he moved to Melbourne to continue to co-host the show. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimeoin
James Eoin Stephen Paul McKeown (born 24 January 1966), better known as Jimeoin (pronounced "Jim Owen"), is an English-born Irish comedian and actor. Jimeoin rose to prominence in the early 1990s in Australia, where he had his own TV show and where he still resides. He came to public attention in the UK between 2005 and 2008 while performing a tour of Australia's outback and major cities, which was filmed for the BBC Northern Ireland documentary ''Jimeoin Down Under''. He has also gained international recognition and is a frequent performer at comedy festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe, where he made his debut in 1993 and where he has since appeared every year. Early life James Eoin Stephen Paul McKeown was born in Leamington Spa on 24 January 1966, the son of Irish parents. He grew up in the Northern Irish town of Portstewart, where he attended Dominican College. After working on building sites in London for four years, he moved to Australia at the age of 22 and found w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Goblet
Elliot Goblet is a comedy character created by the Australian comedian Jack Levi. The character is known for the deadpan delivery of one-line jokes. The style compares with the American comedian Steven Wright but developed independently. At first Goblet appeared with round glasses and a goatee beard, but the beard was later removed. Created with assistance from Australian comedy teacher Pete Crofts, the Goblet character was launched onto the comedy scene with numerous TV performances on ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'', ''The Midday Show'', '' The Eleventh Hour'', '' The Footy Show'', ''Neighbours'' and other Australian TV variety and sketch shows. As Goblet, Levi recorded the ARIA award-nominated CD ''Internally Berserk'', wrote the book ''Business According To Goblet'' and has appeared in short films as well as the feature film ''Fat Pizza''. He has also hosted the Qantas comedy audio program on all of their flights worldwide. Levi has performed as Goblet around Australia as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vince Sorrenti
Vince Sorrenti (born 21 March 1961) is an Australian stand-up comedian, writer and television presenter from Punchbowl, New South Wales. He is of Italian descent. Sorrenti performs nationally and internationally. He performs at sports hospitality, charity events, corporate events, club venues and private parties. He performs, MCs, and facilitates at around 200 events per year. Career Whilst studying Architecture at Sydney University, he played rugby union and featured heavily in the acclaimed Architecture Revues over many years. It was here and at the newly opened Sydney Comedy Store that Sorrenti cut his teeth as a performer. In the late 1980s, Sorrenti lived and worked as a stand-up comic in New York City. Spotted by MTV, he became the host of the national ''Big Blank Show'', a live variety/video show which aired nightly from Monday to Thursday. Vince Sorrenti has appeared on numerous talk shows on Australian TV over the last three decades, including ''Tonight Live with Steve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |