Henry Stone is an Australian comedian, writer, and director.

Career

Originating from

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, Stone began performing live comedy in his home town in 2009, the same year he also formed sketch comedy group, Skills in Time, with friends Greg Larsen and Sam Campbell. In 2015 Skills in Time produced a pilot for

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, titled ''Looking Back''. In 2011, as a stand-up comedian Stone performed as part of the

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's "Comedy Zone", alongside

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, Jennifer Wong,

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and Daniel Connell. In 2014 Stone and his new sketch group, Fancy Boy, wrote and performed ''Variety Show'' which went on to win the Golden Gibbo award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In 2016, Fancy Boy were commissioned to create a TV sketch show for ABC TV and

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. Stone commenced work as a screenwriter and director for his online-produced material, including the

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''Dirty Bird'', and moved into

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and television work for various programs on the ABC, SBS, Comedy Central, Seeso, Channel 10 &

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Awards and nominations

*2014: Winner,

Golden Gibbo Award – ''Fancy Boy Variety Show'' *2017: Winner, AWG Award for Best Sketch Comedy 2017 – Fancy Boy *2019: Nominated, Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Online Comedy Direction – ''Be Your Own Boss''

Filmography

*Dirty Bird (Series) – 2014 *Fully Furnished (Series) – 2014 *Ad Nauseam (Feature Film)- 2014 *Crazy Bastards (Series) – 2014 *Heidi Fires Everyone (Short) – 2014 *Looking Back (Series) – 2015 *The Tail Job (Feature Film) – 2015 *

Fancy Boy ''Fancy Boy'' is an Australian six-part sketch comedy television series which screened on ABC2 from 8 December 2016 to 12 January 2017. Fancy Boy stars John Campbell, Stuart Daulman, Henry Stone, Jonathan Schuster, Greg Larsen, and Anne Edmon ...

(TV Series) – 2016 *

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(TV Series) – 2016 *The Letdown (TV Series) – 2016 *1800 Success (Series) - 2017 *No Experience Necessary (Series) - 2017 *The Checkout (Series) *Tonightly With Tom Ballard (Series) - 2018 * Celebrity Name Game (TV series) – 2019 *At Home Alone Together (TV Series) - 2020 *''A Life In Questions: Wisdom School'', with

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(special) - 2020

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Henry Living people 1988 births Australian sketch comedians Australian stand-up comedians People from Queensland Male actors from Queensland