Nick Sun is an Australian

stand-up comedian Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...

. He is of

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ese extraction, but chooses to eschew obvious cultural stereotyping in his act, favouring a style that has been described as "unhinged", "

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." In 2004, Nick won

Raw Comedy Raw Comedy is an Australian annual competition for emerging stand-up comedians held by Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It was established in 1996 and is supported by national youth radio station Triple J. In 2011, there were 1,100 conte ...

, a national competition for new comic talent run by the

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. That same year, he also went on to win the

So You Think You're Funny So You Think You're Funny? (SYTYF) is an annual stand-up comedy competition for new acts. The competition began in 1988 in the United Kingdom. The finals are held every August at The Gilded Balloon during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Past wi ...

competition grand final, held at the

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as part of the

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. Alongside his appearances at Australia's major comedy venues, Sun regularly appears at the Cracker Comedy Festival,

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, and

. In 2006, he performed at the invitation-only Just For Laughs Festival in

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. Nick's 2006

show "Blood on the Yolks in the Key of Owls" was awarded the Director's Choice award by festival director

Susan Provan Susan Mary Provan is an Australian performing arts producer, who has been director of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival since 1994. Provan studied a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne. She was the manager of the Last Laug ...

. In 2009 Nick Sun Won the Sly Comedy Comedy Comedy Comedy Competition. Nick's favourite walk on song is "Here comes the Sun" by The Beatles. He usually takes the length of the song to get on stage. Nick stars in the Sci-fi feature film Astro Loco.

External links

http://www.nicksun.com.au - Official Websitehttp://www.andrewtaylormanagement.com - Nick Sun's managementInterview with The Humourdor

References

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