Ryan Shelton is an

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comedian, actor, radio presenter, television personality, host and writer.

Biography

He attended St Leonards College for some of his schooling, where he met

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. He started his media career in

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's community access media scene, hosting and producing shows for

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's student television company

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, for Channel 31, and its

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station SYN. Shelton plays mixed netball.

Television

With

and Andy Lee, he wrote and co-starred in ''

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'' (2004) and ''

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'' (2006). He was also a co-writer of Chris Lilley's award-winning '' We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year'' (2005).Stephen Downie and Marcus Casey, 20 September 2007
"Meet Chris Lilley – the man behind the comic creations"
Retrieved on 12 August 2009 In 2007, he became a regular cast member on television programme ''

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''. His signature segment in 2007 was called ''Rydeas'' (pronounced "rye-deers" a portmanteau of "Ryan" & "ideas"). In 2008 he started a new segment called ''Investigationing'' (a

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) and in 2009 introduced a segment called "Philosophisationing". Shelton has also appeared on the improvisational comedy ''

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'' produced by the award-winning

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. He has also appeared on Hamish and Andy's Gap Year and has his own segment "100 second New York lesson'd". He appeared from the second episode onwards. Shelton also appeared briefly on ''TwentySomething''. In 2017, Shelton co-produced ''

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''. He starred in the fourth episode, playing the part of storyteller Emidio, a teacher in his first year of the job.

Radio

He was an occasional co-host on the radio show ''

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''. He also appeared on ''Red Hot Go'', a late night radio show on FOX FM in

on Monday nights. In December 2007, Shelton presented the ''Summer Fling'' breakfast show across the Austereo

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with

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and Tamsyn Lewis. In February 2008, he joined Nova FM to present a Saturday morning breakfast program ''Ryan & Monty'' with Katie Dimond ('Monty'). It aired from 10 am to 12 pm. From January 2009 to 2010 he hosted the Nova FM drive time slot on ''Ryan, Monty & Wippa'' between 4-6pm weekdays with Katie Dimond (aka ''Monty'') and Michael "Wippa" Wipfli.

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is doing many of the voiceovers for the show.

Podcasts

In 2011, Shelton released a series of one-minute episodes for a podcast called ''For One Minute Only'', in which he sardonically and ironically lays waste to the rumour that he would not be releasing a series of weekly podcasts. In addition to this tongue-in-cheek and short-lived podcast, Shelton has made guest appearances on several other podcasts, including ''

The Hamish & Andy Show From 2006 to 2017, Australian comedy duo Hamish & Andy hosted a number of radio shows. Their first programme, ''Hamish & Andy'', began on Fox FM in 2006 and was broadcast nationwide on the Hit Network from 2007 to 2010 in the weekday drive ...

'', ''Little Dum Dum Club'', ''Josh Speaking'', and ''The Binge Podcast.'' He co-hosts ''The Imperfects'' podcast as part of The Resilience Project with Hugh van Cuylenburg.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shelton, Ryan Living people Australian radio personalities Comedians from Melbourne Australian male comedians RMITV alumni Year of birth missing (living people)