List of Australian comedians
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Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

 who were born in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, or have spent part of their careers performing in Australia. Some of these are known by stage names
Stage name
A stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...

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Alter egos are listed in brackets after the relevant artist.

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  • Steve Abbott
  • Anthony Ackroyd
    Anthony Ackroyd
    Anthony Ackroyd is an Australian comedian, speaker and writer. He is currently a cast member of the ABC radio comedy show "Thank God It's Friday!"...

  • Tanveer Ahmed
    Tanveer Ahmed (comedian)
    Tanveer Ahmed is an Bangladeshi-Australian comedian, journalist, television personality and a doctor working as a psychiatrist.-Biography:Ahmed was born in Bangladesh but was raised in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia...

  • Wil Anderson
    Wil Anderson
    William James "Wil" Anderson is an Australian comedian, writer, performing stand-up, and television and radio presenter and personality.- Early life :...

  • Pam Ann
    Pam Ann
    Pam Ann is the air hostess alter-ego of Australian comedienne Caroline Reid. Performances focus on the nuances of air travel, identifying the individual quirks of some of the biggest international airlines and their media stereotypes. Her style leans towards camp humour, in the vein of Dame Edna...

  • Anyone For Tennis?
    Anyone For Tennis?
    Anyone for Tennis? is a two man Australian musical comedy band, writing team and performance duo. The two produce edgy musical comedy, video sketch and parody in a variety of formats such as internet viral, print media and stand-up comedy.-History:...

  • David Argue
    David Argue
    David Argue is an Australian actor. He is most known for his role in the 1993 film Hercules Returns.-Television:*The Restless Years *Winners *Raw Silk *Pirates Island *Cluedo...

  • Joe Avati
    Joe Avati
    Joe Avati is an Italian-Australian comedian who is popular among Italian and descendant of Italians from his native Australia, as well as in Canada, United Kingdom and the United States, where he has performed on several occasions.- Comedic style :...

  • Axis of Awesome
  • Tom Ballard
    Tom Ballard
    Tom Ballard is a tall, blond, fast-talking, openly gay, Australian radio presenter and comedian.-Early life:Thomas Colin Ballard grew up in Warrnambool, Victoria and attended Brauer College Warrnambool, graduating in 2007 where he was dux with an ENTER of 99.80, and was consequently named as the...

  • Eric Bana
    Eric Bana
    Eric Bana is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal before gaining critical recognition in the biopic Chopper...

  • Jacques Barrett
  • Carl Barron
    Carl Barron
    Carl Barron is an Australian comedian. His style is based on observational humour. He was born in Longreach, Queensland, the son of a sheep shearer, and formerly worked as an apprentice roof tiler. Barron has released three DVDs, entitled Carl Barron LIVE!, Carl Barron: Whatever Comes Next and...

  • Corey White
  • Tracy Bartram
    Tracy Bartram
    Tracy Bartram is an Australian comedian, radio personality and jazz singer. Although born in the UK, she grew up and resides in Melbourne, Australia.She began performing stand-up comedy in 1989 while working in sales and marketing...

  • Gavin Baskerville
  • The Bedroom Philosopher
    The Bedroom Philosopher
    The Bedroom Philosopher is the performance persona of Australian comedian, author, actor and songwriter Justin Heazlewood. Most known for his musical comedy works, The Bedroom Philosopher has released several albums, performed at many arts festivals, been nominated for an ARIA Award and is a...

  • Steve Bedwell
    Steve Bedwell
    Steve Bedwell is a comedian and comedy writer from Melbourne, Australia. He has appeared on Triple M, Russell Gilbert Live and Tonight Live With Steve Vizard. He is also a fill in host on Melbourne radio station 3AW....

  • Dick Bentley
    Dick Bentley
    Charles Walter "Dick" Bentley , born in Melbourne, Australia, was a comedian and actor. He starred with Jimmy Edwards in Take It From Here for BBC Radio....

  • Peter Berner
    Peter Berner
    Peter Berner is an Australian comedian, radio and television presenter, probably best known as host of television's The Einstein Factor.-Comedy:He has been involved in the Australian comedy scene since the 1990s...

  • Rachel Berger
    Rachel Berger
    Rachel Berger is an Australian comedian, actor, and writer. Berger was born in Israel to Polish Jewish parents and emigrated to Melbourne at the age of five....

  • Michele Betts
  • Carrie Bickmore
    Carrie Bickmore
    Carrie Bickmore is an Australian radio news presenter and television presenter. Currently she is a presenter on The Project which airs on weeknights on Network Ten.-Personal life:...

  • Alison Bice
  • Big Al
    Big Al (Australian comedian)
    Big Al is a stand-up comedian who lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He starred alongside fellow Adelaide comedian Mark Trenwith in the comedy show Give Us A Hug in the 2006 Adelaide Fringe Festival....

  • Jonathan Biggins
    Jonathan Biggins
    Jonathan Biggins , is an Australian actor, singer, writer and comedian. He has appeared on film, stage and television, as well as in satirical sketch comedy television programs...

  • Tahir Bilgiç
    Tahir Bilgiç
    Tahir Bilgiç is an Australian comedian, film and television actor, of Turkish descent. He is best known for his role in the sitcom Pizza.-Career:...

  • Mark Bin Bakar
    Mark Bin Bakar
    Mark Bin Bakar is an Indigenous Australian, a musician, comedian and radio announcer based in Broome, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and is best known for his television character Mary Geddarrdyu or Mary G who hosted a variety show broadcast nationally on SBS Television.The son of a...

  • Billy Birmingham
    Billy Birmingham
    Billy Birmingham is an Australian humourist and sometime sports journalist, most noted for his parodies of Australian cricket commentary in recordings under The Twelfth Man name. He was the writer of the comedy hit Australiana which was made famous by performer Austen Tayshus...

  • Hamish Blake
    Hamish Blake
    Hamish Donald Blake is an Australian comedian, actor, author and bodybuilder from Melbourne, Australia. Since 2003, he has worked with Andy Lee as part of the comedy duo Hamish and Andy. The pair have performed live and on television and radio, most notably with their drive-time radio program...

  • Dave Bloustien
    Dave Bloustien
    Dave Bloustien is an Australian comedian, improviser and comedy writer.Living and working in Sydney, New South Wales, Bloustien has written for many Australian television comedies, including ABC's The Glass House and The Sideshow, and currently writes for Channel Ten's Good News Week.As a stand-up...

  • Grahame Bond
    Grahame Bond (actor)
    Grahame Bond is an Australian actor, writer, director, musician and composer who began his career in entertainment at University of Sydney in the 1960s as a founding student member of the Sydney University Architecture Revue, which included his university friends Geoffrey Atherden , Peter Weir...

     (Aunty Jack
    The Aunty Jack Show
    The Aunty Jack Show was a Logie Award–winning Australian television comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1973. Produced by and broadcast on ABC-TV, the series attained an instant cult status that persists to the present day....

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  • Shane Bourne
    Shane Bourne
    Shane Bourne is an Australian stand-up comedian, actor and a television host.-1980's / 1990's:...

  • Sam Bowring
  • Boymongoose
  • Fifi Box
    Fifi Box
    Fifi Box is an Australian radio broadcaster and television personality, formerly hosting The Shebang with Marty Sheargold on Triple M, and presenter on the Seven Network's Sunrise program....

  • Tyson Boyce
    Tyson Boyce
    Tyson Boyce is a British/Australian stand-up comedian best known for his dark and quirky material which fuses themes of sex, sexuality, family, social deconstruction, and life in London....

  • Dan Brader
  • Paul Brasch
    Paul Brasch
    Paul Brasch is a stand-up comedian from Brisbane, Australia. He has appeared on The Midday Show, Hey Hey It's Saturday, The Comedy Channel's Headliners and Stand Up Australia, and various other television shows, as well as a stint on radio in The Paul Brasch Comedy Hour on Triple M.He collaborates...

  • Chrissy Bray
    Chrissy Bray
    Chrissy Bray is a songstress, presenter, and comedian. She is a classically trained musician and singer who performs electro styled music within Sydney's clubland. She performed at the opening of and has performed at , Plan B and as well as at corporate functions, including the launch of the...

  • Harley Breen
  • Scott Brennan
  • Noeline Brown
    Noeline Brown
    Noeline Brown is an Australian actor and comedian. She has appeared in many films, television shows, plays and radio programs....

  • John Burgos
  • Brendon Burns
  • Dave Bushell
  • Dave Callan
    Dave Callan
    Dave Callan is a comedian based in Perth, Australia. He currently works as a Triple J disc jockey.- Biography :Callan was born in Dundalk, Ireland, and arrived in Australia in 1990, aged 15...

  • David Callan
  • Damian Callinan
    Damian Callinan
    Damian Callinan is a comedian from Melbourne Australia. He was formerly a secondary teacher, and taught Drama and English at Penola Catholic College.-Entertainment career:...

  • Jenny L Campbell
  • Michael Chamberlin
    Michael Chamberlin (comedian)
    Michael Chamberlin is a Melbourne-based stand up comedian. Along with fellow comedian Charlie Pickering, Michael was a co-creator of influential Melbourne comedy room Stagetime....

  • Doug Chappel
    Doug Chappel
    Doug Chappel is an Australian comedian who grew up in the working class suburb of Footscray in Melbourne's Western Suburbs. Chappel is also known for his work in the community with homeless youth & troubled teenagers...

  • The Chaser
    The Chaser
    The Chaser are an Australian satirical comedian group, known for their television programmes on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation channel. The group take their name from their production of satirical newspaper, a publication known to challenge conventions of taste...

    • Charles Firth
    • Andrew Hansen
      Andrew Hansen
      Andrew John Hansen is an Australian comedian and musician, best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...

    • Dominic Knight
      Dominic Knight
      Dominic Sebastian Knight is an Australian comedy writer, best known as a member of the Australian political satire comedy group The Chaser, as well as being an independent writer and former blogger for the Sydney Morning Herald...

    • Chas Licciardello
      Chas Licciardello
      Chas John Licciardello is a comedian from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...

    • Julian Morrow
      Julian Morrow
      Julian Francis Xavier Morrow is an Australian comedian and television producer from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is best known for being a member of the satirical team The Chaser...

    • Craig Reucassel
      Craig Reucassel
      Craig Bruce Reucassel is a television and radio comedian from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...

    • Chris Taylor
      Chris Taylor (comedian)
      Christopher Thornton "Chris" Taylor is an Australian comedian, writer and former radio host from Sydney. As a member of The Chaser, he is best known for co-writing and appearing on satirical ABC Television shows CNNNN and The Chaser's War on Everything...

  • Gary Chook
  • Santo Cilauro
    Santo Cilauro
    Santo Cilauro is an Australian television and feature film producer, screenwriter, actor, author, comedian and cameraman, a co-founder of The D-Generation...

  • Oliver Clark
  • John Clarke
    John Clarke (satirist)
    John Morrison Clarke is a New Zealand-born Australian comedian, writer, and satirist. He was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and has lived in Australia since the late 1970s...

  • The Cloud Girls
    The Cloud Girls
    The Cloud Girls are comedians Jennifer Carnovale and Madeleine Culp also known as carnovale & culp. They regularly perform at comedy festivals such as the Melbourne Fringe Festival and at stand-up rooms in Sydney and Melbourne...

  • Club Veg
    Club Veg
    Club Veg was a popular Australian radio show and comedic partnership consisting of Mal Lees and Vic Davies on Triple M.-Career:...

  • Como String Quartet
    Como String Quartet
    The Como String Quartet was a comedy/classical music outfit from the 80s-90s which featured notable Australian/Vietnamese comedian Hung Le.The quartet recorded on Hunters & Collectors' album Human Frailty, Big Pig's Bonk, and appeared twice on Australia's "Hey Hey it's Saturday'...

  • Gerry Connolly
    Gerry Connolly (comedian)
    Gerard William "Gerry" Connolly is an Australian comedian, actor, impressionist and pianist. He is best known for his satirical caricatures of public figures such as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher, Joh Bjelke-Peterson, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, Bill Collins and Dame Joan...

  • Jan Cornall
    Jan Cornall
    Jan Cornall is an Australian singer, comedian and writer. Known for her contributions to queer music through the group Baba Yaga during the 1970s and the hit musical Failing in Love Again , Jan Cornall was a leader in the women’s comedy and cabaret resurgence of early 1980s...

  • Mary Coustas
    Mary Coustas
    Mary Coustas is an Australian television personality. Originally from Melbourne, Coustas often performs as the character "Effie": a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian...

  • Raymond Crowe
    Raymond Crowe
    Raymond Crowe is an Australian mime artist, magician and cabaret performer. Originally from Adelaide, Raymond Crowe describes himself as Australia's only Unusualist....

  • Andrew Curry
    Andrew Curry
    Andrew Curry is an Australian comedian and actor who has appeared in many television drama and comedy series, and in feature films....

  • Stephen Curry
  • Lance Curtis
    Lance Curtis
    Lance Curtis was a popular Australian actor, writer and comedian who became well known in Australia in the early 1980s through his many radio, TV and film appearances...


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  • Mickey D
  • Ross Daniels
    Ross Daniels (actor)
    Ross Daniels is an Australian actor and comedian. He has been a prominent entertainment industry figure, as a performer and behind the scenes, from the late 1980s to present.-Career:...

  • Darren & Brose
    Darren & Brose
    Darren & Brose are Darren Chau and Brose Avard, two Australian based comedy writers and performers who first met whilst studying media at Latrobe University. Chau had previously been working with the comedy ensemble Chop-Socky, whilst Avard had been producing and broadcasting on several Melbourne...

  • Tommy Dassalo
  • Cameron Davis
  • Christina Davis
    Christina Davis
    Christina Davis was a contestant on the first season of Big Brother Australia .-Early life:Christina Davis was born in North Sydney, NSW Australia. She went to High School at The McDonald College of Performing Arts in Strathfield...

  • Steve Davis
    Steve Davis
    Steve Davis, OBE is an English professional snooker player. He has won more professional titles in the sport than any other player, including six World Championships during the 1980s, when he was the world number one for seven years and became the sport's first millionaire...

  • Davo
  • Bryan Dawe
    Bryan Dawe
    Bryan John Dawe is best known as an Australian writer, comedian and political satirist, but is also known for his work as a songwriter, photographer and social activist....

  • Tommy Dean
  • The Delusionists
  • Andrew Denton
    Andrew Denton
    Andrew Christopher Denton is an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie-nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program Enough Rope. He is known for his comedy and interviewing technique...

  • Desh
  • Catherine Deveny
    Catherine Deveny
    Catherine Deveny is a comedy writer and stand-up comedian, and was a regular columnist in The Age newspaper between 2001 and 2010...

  • Anh Do
    Anh Do
    Anh Do is a Vietnamese Australian author, actor and stand-up comedian.He has appeared on many Australian TV shows such as Thank God You're Here and Good News Week, and was runner-up on Dancing With The Stars in 2007. He studied a combined Business Law degree at the University of Technology, Sydney...

  • George Dodd
    George Dodd (writer)
    George Dodd is an Australian comedy writer. His list of credits as co-writer includes many popular Australian comedy TV shows from the 1990s up until today....

  • Scott Dooley
    Scott Dooley
    Scott "Dools" Dooley is an Australian comedian and radio announcer best known for his tenure with state-owned national youth network, Triple J...

  • Doug Anthony All Stars
    Doug Anthony All Stars
    The Doug Anthony All Stars were an Australian musical comedy group who performed together between 1984 and 1994. The band was an acoustic trio comprising Paul McDermott and Tim Ferguson on main vocals and Richard Fidler on guitar and backing vocals...

  • Jon Doust
    Jon Doust
    Jon Doust is a comedian, writer and professional speaker from Western Australia.Doust was born in Bridgetown, he worked in farming, retailing and journalism before pursuing a career in comedy and writing....

  • Marg Downey
    Marg Downey
    -Career:Downey first rose to prominence in the sketch comedy program The D-Generation on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the late 1980s. She subsequently appeared in later sketch comedy series with other members of The D-Generation, including Fast Forward, Full Frontal and Something Stupid...

  • John Doyle
    John Doyle (comedian)
    John Partick Doyle AM is an award-winning Australian actor, writer, radio presenter and comedian.-Early life:Doyle was born in Lithgow, New South Wales in 1953 into a music-loving, Catholic household with three sisters and a brother. His mother was a business woman and father a railway fettler...

  • Jack Druce
    Jack Druce
    Jack Druce ' is an Australian standup comedian, and comedy writer-Comedy career:Jack Druce began his comedy career in the Melbourne Comedy Festival's Schools program Class Clowns in 2006...

  • Denise Drysdale
    Denise Drysdale
    Denise Anne Christina Drysdale, is an Australian television personality and comedian. She is often affectionately called Ding-Dong.-Childhood:...

  • Duff
  • Jamie Dunn
    Jamie Dunn
    Jamie Dunn is an Australian comedian.Starting his entertainment career as a singer, Jamie Dunn moved into television, working the puppet Agro on Agro's Cartoon Connection.- Radio :Up until 2005, Dunn was a member of a radio breakfast show in Brisbane...

  • Matthew Dyktynski
    Matthew Dyktynski
    Matthew Dyktynski is an Australian actor and comedian, graduating from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992.Dyktinski has played lead roles on television series Shock Jock and Raw FM, and has appeared on The Man from Snowy River, Stingers, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Halifax f.p.,...

  • Josh Earl
  • Dave Eastgate
  • Kieran Eaton
  • Gary Eck
    Gary Eck
    -Career:Eck has starred in several Australian movies, including 2003's You Can't Stop The Murders and The Night We Called It A Day, and also in 2006's BoyTown...

  • Craig Egan
    Craig Egan
    Craig Egan is a stand-up comedian who lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He has appeared in numerous shows in the Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival and also on Stand Up Australia.Egan currently runs the scene.-Live shows:...

  • Joff Ellen
    Joff Ellen
    Joff Ellen was an Australian entertainer, actor and comedian.During World War II he performed vaudeville acts to the troops and after the war did comedy shows on Melbourne radio station 3XY...

  • Col Elliott
    Col Elliott
    Col Elliott is an Australian stand-up comedian who has since been active since the early 1970s, based mainly on character based comedy. He has released more than 20 albums, 6 DVDs and many performed in thousands of live shows.-External links:*...

  • Ben Elton
    Ben Elton
    Benjamin Charles "Ben" Elton is an English comedian, author, playwright and director. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, as a writer on such cult series as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as also a successful stand-up comedian on stage and TV....

  • Jon English
    Jon English
    Jonathan James "Jon" English is an Australian rock singer, musician, actor and writer. English emigrated to Australia with his parents in 1961...

  • Mary-Anne Fahey
    Mary-Anne Fahey
    Mary-Anne Fahey is an Australian actor, comedian and writer.-Biography:Fahey has starred in and written for comedy programs including The Comedy Company, Kittson, Fahey , Get a Life and One Size Fits All...

  • The Fantastic Leslie
    The Fantastic Leslie
    The Fantastic Leslie were a four-piece band from Sydney, Australia and was the starting point for three of Australia's popular and successful comedians and musicians.-Biography:...

  • Tim Ferguson
    Tim Ferguson
    Timothy Dorcen Langbene "Tim" Ferguson is an Australian comedian and television presenter.- Background :...

  • Noel Ferrier
    Noel Ferrier
    Noel Ferrier AM was an Australian television personality, stage and film actor, raconteur and theatrical producer. He had an extensive theatre career which spanned over fifty years.-Biography:...

  • Buster Fidess
  • Richard Fidler
    Richard Fidler
    Richard Fidler is a well-known Australian Republican and Australian ABC TV and radio presenter. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as a member of the Doug Anthony All Stars , an Australian musical comedy group also comprising Tim Ferguson and Paul McDermott...

  • Marty Fields
    Marty Fields
    Marty Fields is an Australian award-winning stand up comedian, host/mc, actor, writer, musician and radio presenter from Melbourne.The son of Australian comedy legends Maurie Fields and Val Jellay, Fields has had long running roles on Hey Hey It's Saturday, Blue Heelers, Blankety Blanks and various...

  • Maurie Fields
    Maurie Fields
    Maurie Fields was an Australian actor, vaudeville performer and stand-up comedian. He became a well-known face on television thanks to his dramatic roles in Bellbird, The Box, Prisoner and The Flying Doctors...

  • Kitty Flanagan
    Kitty Flanagan
    Kitty Flanagan is an Australian comedian.She is best known in Australia for her work on the television series Full Frontal and in the United Kingdom for her work on The Sketch Show. Before getting a job at Full Frontal, Kitty spent 5 years masquerading as a copywriter before moving into stand-ups...

  • Greg Fleet
    Greg Fleet
    -Early life:Greg was born in Michigan, United States. His father moved the family to Australia when Greg was four. He grew up in Geelong and as a teenager boarded at Geelong Grammar School...

  • Barnaby Flowers
  • Drew Forsythe
    Drew Forsythe
    Drew Forsythe is an Australian actor, singer, writer, and comedian.He attended Atherton Primary School, far north Queensland....

  • Fox K
    Fox K
    Fox Klein is an Australian comedian from Melbourne.Fox's big break came in 2002 when he won second place in FHM's "Joke Off" competition held at the M-1 rock festival. Since then Fox has become a regular on the Melbourne Comedy Circuit, and has toured through Australia extensively.Several shows in...

  • Chris Franklin
    Chris Franklin
    Chris Franklin is an Australian stand up comedian and former sailor for the Royal Australian Navy. He is most famous for writing the song "Bloke" , which reached #1 on the ARIA Charts in 2000...

  • Heath Franklin
    Heath Franklin
    -Career:He is most recognized for his characters from The Ronnie Johns Half Hour sketch comedy TV show; and for his appearances as himself on ABC TV's Spicks and Specks, Working Dog's Thank God You're Here and in New Zealand, as regular guest panellist on 7 Days....

  • Ron Frazer
  • Bart Freebairn

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  • Hannah Gadsby
    Hannah Gadsby
    Hannah Gadsby is an award-winning Australian comedian. She quickly rose to prominence after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006...

  • Sandy Gandhi
    Sandy Gandhi
    Sandy Gandhi is an Indian-Australian comedian and columnist based in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.Byron Bay is Australia's eastern-most point, and accordingly Sandy proclaims herself to be "Australia's Most Easterly Indian".-Stand up comedy:Sandy regularly performs stand-up shows around...

  • Benny Gavis
  • Jim Gerald
    Jim Gerald
    James Gerald was an Australian comedian, was born on 2 January 1891 at Darlington, Sydney, seventh son of Stephen Australia Fitzgerald, a cutter who became an actor, and his wife Mary Ann, née Ingram. A nephew of J. D...

  • Naim "THE FONZ" Ghanbari
  • Nick Giannopoulos
    Nick Giannopoulos
    Nick Giannopoulos is a Australian stand-up comedian, film and TV actor. He is best known for his comedy stage show Wogs Out of Work alongside George Kapiniaris and the television sitcom Acropolis Now and is an exponent of wog comedy.-Early life:Nick is an actor/writer/producer/director...

  • Andrea Gibbs
    Andrea Gibbs
    Andrea Lauren Gibbs is an Australian comedienne, actress and radio presenter.- Early life :...

  • Lynda Gibson
  • Russell Gilbert
    Russell Gilbert
    Russell Gilbert , is an Australian comedian and actor from Footscray, Victoria.-Television:He has appeared in several Australian TV comedies, first attracting notice as 'Russ the Postie' on The Comedy Company , which led to a nine year stint on Hey Hey It's Saturday...

  • Tom Gleeson
  • Tom Gleisner
    Tom Gleisner
    Tom Gleisner is an Australian director, producer, writer, comedian, occasional actor and author. He was educated at Xavier College in Melbourne, Australia.-Television, radio and film:...

  • Elliot Goblet
    Elliot Goblet
    Elliot Goblet is a character created by the Australian comedian Jack Levi.The character is renowned for his deadpan delivery of quirky one-liners - his style can draw comparisons with that of the American comic Steven Wright...

  • Reg Gorman
    Reg Gorman
    Reg Gorman is an Australian actor and comedian who shot to fame playing the role of Jack the barman in popular Crawfords' soap, The Sullivans. He stayed with the series for its entire six year run.-External links:...

  • Libbi Gorr
    Libbi Gorr
    Lisbeth Joanne "Libbi" Gorr is an Australian broadcaster, writer, voice artist and journalist. She is also known for the satirical character that she created called "Elle McFeast"....

  • The Gorskys
    The Gorskys
    The Gorskys are an Australian comedy team. They have performed on stage, radio, television and the internet. They are also the creators of GORSKYS.COMedy, one of the world's longest-running comedy websites .- Lineup :...

  • Corinne Grant
    Corinne Grant
    Corinne Grant is an Australian comedian and television presenter.-Career:After briefly studying as a nurse in Wodonga, she embarked upon a career as an actor in Melbourne, obtaining a degree in drama. After graduating, Grant started doing stand-up comedy to overcome her stage-fright. Her first...

  • Ugly Dave Gray
    Ugly Dave Gray
    Ugly Dave Gray is an Australian television personality.-Career:Gray was a regular panellist on Graham Kennedy's Blankety Blanks in 1977-1978. He had earlier taken a straight dramatic role as publican Bunny Howard in the early episodes of soap opera The Young Doctors in 1976...

  • Leo Grills
    Leo Grills
    Leo "Lucky" Grills was an Australian actor and comedian.Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Grills was best known for portraying the unconventional detective "Bluey" Hills in the television series Bluey in 1976....

  • GUD
    GUD (band)
    GUD is an Australian comedic music-based trio composed of Paul McDermott, previously of the Doug Anthony All Stars, former Gadflys guitarist Mick Moriarty, and Club Luna Band keyboard player Cameron Bruce...

  • Kym Gyngell
    Kym Gyngell
    Kym Gyngell is an Australian AFI award winning comedian and film, television and stage actor...

  • Jane Hall
    Jane Hall (actress)
    Jane Hall is an Australian actress and comedian.-Biography:Born in Melbourne, Hall grew up in the Dandenong Ranges....

  • Justin Hamilton
    Justin Hamilton (comedian)
    Justin Hamilton is an Australian comedian, writer and radio host.-Early life:Hamilton grew up in Adelaide, South Australia.-Career:...

  • Hamish & Andy
    Hamish & Andy
    Hamish & Andy are an Australian comedy duo formed in 2003 by Hamish Blake and Andy Lee. They currently host the radio program The Hamish & Andy Show which airs in Australia on the Today Network....

    • Hamish Blake
      Hamish Blake
      Hamish Donald Blake is an Australian comedian, actor, author and bodybuilder from Melbourne, Australia. Since 2003, he has worked with Andy Lee as part of the comedy duo Hamish and Andy. The pair have performed live and on television and radio, most notably with their drive-time radio program...

    • Andy Lee
      Andy Lee (comedian)
      Andrew Thomas "Andy" Lee is an Australian comedian. He usually works alongside Hamish Blake as part of the comedy duo Hamish & Andy.-Personal background:...

  • Tommy Hanlon, Jr.
  • Andrew Hansen
    Andrew Hansen
    Andrew John Hansen is an Australian comedian and musician, best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...

  • Happy Hammond
    Happy Hammond
    Harry "Happy" Hammond was an Australian comedian and children's show host.Happy was famous for his bright personality and wearing a tartan suit and hat, sometimes referred to as his "test pattern" outfit, that clashed awfully in real life but worked well on black and white TV...

  • Mary Hardy
  • Matthew Hardy
    Matthew Hardy
    Matthew Hardy is a Melbourne-based comedian and comedy writer who was the first Australian to cement himself full-time on the UK live circuit, spending eight years there in the 1990s, including regular appearances at Jongleurs and The Comedy Store in Leicester Square.A regular at many international...

  • Wendy Harmer
    Wendy Harmer
    Wendy Harmer is an Australian author, writer, radio show host, and comedienne.-Early life and career:...

  • Tracy Harvey
    Tracy Harvey
    Tracy Harvey is a comedian, TV presenter, actor and writer from Melbourne, Australia.Tracy was a member of the alternative comedy breakfast panel radio show Punter to Punter with Trevor Marmalade and Dr Turf...

  • Guido Hatzis
    Guido Hatzis
    Guido Hatzis is a Greek-Australian comic character created by Australian comedians Tony Moclair and Julian Schiller and voiced by Moclair. Guido appeared originally on Schiller and Moclair's radio program "Crud" on the Australian Radio Network Triple M....

  • Peter Helliar
    Peter Helliar
    Peter Jason Matthew Helliar is an Australian comedian, actor and writer. Most famous for his work on television as Rove McManus' sidekick on The Loft Live from 1997 to 1998 and on Rove from 1999 and 2009...

  • Jeff Hewitt
  • Geraldine Hickey
  • Adam Hills
    Adam Hills
    Adam Hills is an Australian comedian and television presenter. He has appeared on Australian and British television and is best known for his role hosting the Australian ABC music trivia show Spicks and Specks...

  • Tegan Higginbotham
  • Courteney Hocking
  • Paul Hogan
    Paul Hogan
    Paul Hogan, AM is an Australian actor best known for his role as Michael "Crocodile" Dundee from the Crocodile Dundee film series, for which he won a Golden Globe award.-Early life and career:...

  • Claire Hooper
    Claire Hooper
    Claire Hooper is an Australian stand-up comedian and writer. She appeared as a team captain on the 2008 revival of Good News Week on Network Ten and previously was a regular on The Sideshow, appearing with Paul McDermott...

  • Dave Hughes
    Dave Hughes
    David William "Hughesy" Hughes is an Australian stand-up comedian, radio and television presenter. He is currently co-host on the Network Ten's The Project and Before the Game as well as the breakfast radio show Hughesy and Kate.-Television:Hughes co-hosted the ABC comedy talk show The Glass House...

  • Steve Hughes
    Steve Hughes
    Steve Hughes is an Australian musician and stand-up comedian.-Music career:In the early 1980s he formed the Sydney thrash metal band Slaughter Lord, who recorded some demos before disbanding. Hughes then joined Mortal Sin in 1989 and stayed with them until 1991...

  • Barry Humphries
    Barry Humphries
    John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE is an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the...

  • Shayne Hunter
  • Dan Ilic
    Dan Ilic
    Dan Ilic is an Australian presenter, comedian and filmmaker. Ilic has been known for his parody work, including videos and Beaconsfield: The Musical, which he authored, and more recently for his work on the show Hungry Beast....


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  • Sammy J
    Sammy J
    Sam McMillan is an Australian musical comedian and writer who performs under the stage name Sammy J. He embraces a variety of media in his comedy, including the use of video and self-composed music. He has released three CD compilations of his comic songs, "The Burden of Popularity", "Sammy J -...

  • Steven Jacobs
    Steven Jacobs
    Steven Jacobs is an Australian television presenter and actor.Jacobs is currently weather presenter on the Nine Network's breakfast program Today.-Career:...

  • Jim Jeffries
    Jim Jeffries (comedian)
    Geoffery James Nugent, aka Jim Jeffries is an Australian stand-up comedian .-Early life:...

  • Jimeoin
    Jimeoin
    Jimeoin McKeown, who performs under the name Jimeoin , is a stand-up comedian and actor from Northern Ireland. He came to public attention between 2005 and 2008 while performing an "over the top" comedy tour Australia's outback and major cities, which was filmed for the BBC Northern Ireland...

  • Matthew Johns
    Matthew Johns
    Matthew Johns is an Australian rugby league football commentator and former professional player...

  • Pommy Johnson
    Pommy Johnson
    Pommy Johnson is a comedian from Australia.He was voted Australian comedian of the Year 2002 at the Maurie Awards, held at the Comic Lounge.His real name is Colin and he's rather tall....

  • Jono KT
  • Dave Jory
  • Ed Kavalee
    Ed Kavalee
    Edward Robert Kavalee is an Australian actor and radio host. He is currently co-host of a comedy program on the Nine Network, The Joy of Sets, with Tony Martin....

  • Peter Kelamis
    Peter Kelamis
    Peter Kelamis is an Australian-born Canadian actor and comedian.-Life and career:Kelamis was born in Sydney, Australia of Greek origin. In 1985, Kelamis enrolled in the University of British Columbia...

  • Sarah Kendall
    Sarah Kendall
    Sarah Kendall is an Australian comedian from Newcastle, New South Wales, now based in London, England. She attained much success on the Australian comedy circuit since winning the Raw Comedy competition in 1998, regularly appearing on Australian television, before moving to the United Kingdom in...

  • Graham Kennedy
    Graham Kennedy
    Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called Gra Gra and The King of Australian television.-Childhood:...

  • Jane Kennedy
    Jane Kennedy (actor)
    Jane Kennedy is an Australian actress, comedian, radio presenter, and television producer best known for her work with the Working Dog Productions – a tight-knit group of performers responsible for a variety of television and films....

  • Justin Kennedy
    Justin Kennedy
    Justin Kennedy is an actor, writer, voice-over artist and comedian from Melbourne, Australia.-Career:Kennedy started his performing career in March 2002, after making his first stand-up appearance in the national Raw Comedy competition....

  • Gretel Killeen
    Gretel Killeen
    Gretel Killeen is an Australian journalist and author. Killeen is well known for being the primary host of Big Brother Australia from its inception in 2001 until the 2007 season ....

  • Bev Killick
  • King Billy Cokebottle
    King Billy Cokebottle
    King Billy Coke bottle is an Australian comedian. He is controversial because he is a white person who puts on blackface to make jokes about Aboriginal Australians. The origin of the 'Coke bottle' in his stage name dates back to when he played football with a mostly Aboriginal team...

  • Jean Kittson
    Jean Kittson
    Jean Kittson is an Australian performer, writer and comedian in theatre and print, on radio and television. She made her comedy debut at Melbourne’s comedy venue Le Joke in a series of solo performances, and then in the stage version of Let The Blood Run Free.- Television :Kittson is best known...

  • Cameron Knight
    Cameron Knight
    Cameron "Cam" Knight is an Australian comedian and television personality, born 1976 in Cummins, South Australia.-Career:He studied at the South Australian Centre for the Performing Arts before making his break into television as a member of the Big Bite sketch comedy show...

  • Dominic Knight
    Dominic Knight
    Dominic Sebastian Knight is an Australian comedy writer, best known as a member of the Australian political satire comedy group The Chaser, as well as being an independent writer and former blogger for the Sydney Morning Herald...

  • The Kransky Sisters
    The Kransky Sisters
    The Kransky Sisters are an Australian musical comedy trio created, written and performed by Annie Lee and Christine Johnston in collaboration with Michele Watt and Carolyn Johns ....

  • Tania Lacy
    Tania lacy
    Tania Jane Lacy is an Australian comedian. She currently lives in Melbourne, Victoria with her spouse Ole Sturm, whom she married in Los Angeles in 2000. They have a son Per, who was born in December 2005....

  • Dawn Lake
    Dawn Lake
    Dawn Lake was an Australian television comedian, singer, entertainer and actor, whose career spanned more than four decades. Bert Newton described her as "our greatest comedienne - Australia's Lucille Ball"...

  • Colin Lane
    Colin Lane
    Colin Stuart Lane is a comedian and actor, best known for being one-half of former comedy duo, Lano and Woodley.-Lano and Woodley:...

  • Don Lane
    Don Lane
    Don Lane , born Morton Donald Isaacson, was an American-born talk show host and singer. Don Lane is best known for hosting The Don Lane Show, which was aired on The Nine Network in Australia from 1975 to 1983....

  • Lano and Woodley
    Lano and Woodley
    Lano and Woodley were one of Australia's most successful Australian comedy duos of the 1990s and 2000s. They are perhaps most famous for their stand-up comedy and slapstick theatre, as well as their television show The Adventures of Lano and Woodley, which aired on the ABC network in 1997 and...

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  • Meshel Laurie
    Meshel Laurie
    Meshel Laurie is an Australian comedian and radio-television personality. She was born in Toowoomba, Queensland.Laurie moved to Melbourne early in her career as a stand-up comic to take advantage of its strong comedy industry/community. Her first Melbourne International Comedy Festival show was...

  • Dave Lawson
    Dave Lawson
    Dave Lawson is an Australian comedian and TV and radio personality. He is currently participating in a talk back radio segment on the Nova 100 Australian commercial radio station, and is also a regular performer on the stand up comedy circuit...

  • Josh Lawson
    Josh Lawson
    Joshua Lawson is an Australian actor. He grew up in Brisbane and attended St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2001. He also spent one year studying improvisation techniques in Los Angeles at The Second City, The Groundlings, ACME...

  • Andy Lee
    Andy Lee (comedian)
    Andrew Thomas "Andy" Lee is an Australian comedian. He usually works alongside Hamish Blake as part of the comedy duo Hamish & Andy.-Personal background:...

  • Lehmo
    Lehmo
    Anthony Lehmann, better known by his nickname Lehmo, is an Australian comedian, radio personality, television personality and movie actor. He is probably best known as co-hosting Before the Game for Channel Ten, and co-hosting Triple M's drive time show with Wil Anderson...

  • Lawrence Leung
    Lawrence Leung
    Lawrence Leung is an Australian comedian, writer and director from Melbourne, Victoria. He is best known for his television series Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure based on his one man shows that tell stories around his obsessions such as breakdancing, ghosts, the Rubik's Cube and his...

  • Chas Licciardello
    Chas Licciardello
    Chas John Licciardello is a comedian from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...

  • Chris Lilley
    Chris Lilley (comedian)
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  • Mark Little
    Mark Little (Australian actor)
    Mark Little , is an Australian actor, television presenter and comedian, born in Brisbane, Queensland.-Career:Little appeared in a string of Australian films and TV series during the 1980s. He also performed his own comedy/performance in Melbourne's burgeoning comedy clubs throughout the eighties...

  • Paul Livingston
    Paul Livingston
    Paul Livingston, popularly known as his alter ego Flacco, is an Australian comedian who has regularly appeared on many television shows, predominantly on ABC TV and Network Ten, including Good News Week, The Sandman and Flacco Special, The Big Gig, DAAS Kapital, The Money or the Gun, The Fat and...

     (Flacco
    Flacco
    Flacco is a fictional character played by Australian author and political cartoonist Paul Livingston.Livingston created the character in 1985, when he got up on stage as part of a bet, and the audience mistook his nervousness for a comedic character...

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  • Los Trios Ringbarkus
    Los Trios Ringbarkus
    Los Trios Ringbarkus were an Australian stand up comedy duo prominent in the late 1980s. Despite the name there were only two performers, Neill Gladwin and Steve Kearney, formed in 1979 when they were drama school students at Rusden State College, Victoria, Australia.Their crumpled suits and...

  • Bruno Lucia
    Bruno Lucia
    Bruno Lucia is an Australian stand-up comedian, actor and performer.With his bald, clean-shaven head, and Italian descent, Lucia became popular in the early 1990s with his role as Wayne on television sitcom All Together Now , memorable in part due to his character's catchphrase...

  • Judith Lucy
    Judith Lucy
    Judith Mary Lucy is an Australian comedian, known primarily for her stand-up comedy. She has toured Australia with several highly successful one-woman shows, including No Waiter I Ordered the Avocado , King Of The Road , An Impossible Dream , The Show , The Show 2 , Colour Me Judith...

  • Luke & Wyatt

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  • Paul McCarthy
    Paul McCarthy (Australian actor)
    Paul McCarthy is an Australian comedy actor. He is best known for sketch comedy television series Comedy Inc.-Career:...

  • Lulu McClatchy
    Lulu McClatchy
    Lulu McClatchy is an Australian actress and comedian. She started to write and perform her own shows at the Edinburgh Festival. She created the comedy show Supergirly and went on to present a slot on Live & Kicking. She also performed in her own sitcom, as well as performing with Elton John in the...

  • Andrew McClelland
  • Campbell McComas
    Campbell McComas
    Geoffrey Campbell McComas AM was an Australian comedian, writer and actor.McComas attended Caulfield Grammar School and Scotch College in Hawthorn, Melbourne, and studied law and arts at Monash University...

  • Paul McDermott
    Paul McDermott (comedian)
    Paul McDermott is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, director, singer, artist and television host. He currently hosts the satirical news-based 'Good News World' a follow up to quiz show Good News Week which airs in Australia on Network Ten...

  • Garry McDonald
    Garry McDonald
    Garry George McDonald, AO is an Australian stage and screen actor.-Early life and career:McDonald was born in Sydney and was educated at Cranbrook School and National Institute of Dramatic Art....

     (Norman Gunston
    Norman Gunston
    Norman Gunston was a satirical TV character performed by Australian actor and comedian Garry McDonald. Norman Gunston was primarily well known in his native Australia, and to a lesser extent, the United States during the mid to late 1970s.- Early years :...

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  • Danny McGinlay
  • Adam McKenzie
  • Richard McKenzie
  • Janet A McLeod
  • Rove McManus
    Rove McManus
    John Henry Michael "Rove" McManus is an Australian comedian, television presenter, producer and media personality. He was the host of the self-titled variety show Rove, and is the owner of the production company Roving Enterprises...

  • Josh Makinda
  • Rodney Marks
    Rodney Marks
    Rodney Marks , is an Australian comedian. Marks satirises bureaucracy by impersonating experts of either sex and varied ethnicity and occupation. He has professionally performed for hundreds of corporations, government departments, universities and other organisations in Australasia and the USA...

  • Trevor Marmalade
    Trevor Marmalade
    Trevor Marmalade is the stage name of a comedian from Melbourne, Australia of Dutch descent. Jason grew up in Surrey Hills in Melbourne....

  • Richard Marsland
    Richard Marsland
    Richard Kemble Marsland was an Australian comedy writer, actor, comedian and radio personality.-Radio:...

  • Tony Martin
    Tony Martin (comedian)
    Tony Francis Martin is a comedian and writer from Te Kuiti, New Zealand who has had a successful TV, radio, stand-up and film career in Australia.- Career :...

  • Garth Meade
    Garth Meade
    Garth Meade was a comedian and actor active in Australia from 1970. He had studied classical guitar at the Guildhall, London....

  • Merrick and Rosso
    Merrick and Rosso
    Merrick and Rosso are an Australian comedy duo, Merrick Watts and Tim Ross. The duo began in stand up comedy and first came together when they teamed up for a one off comedy show in 1996...

  • Shaun Micallef
    Shaun Micallef
    Shaun Patrick Micallef is an Australian actor, comedian and writer. After ten years of working in insurance law as a solicitor in Adelaide, Micallef moved to Melbourne to pursue a full-time comedy career in 1993...

  • Mikey Mileos
    Mikey Mileos
    Mikey Mileos is a stand up comedian and comedy writer from Sydney, Australia.In April 2009, Mileos was a national finalist in Triple J radio's Raw Comedy competition, a nationally televised event. Since then he has played at almost every major comedy club in Australia...

  • Tim Minchin
    Tim Minchin
    Timothy David "Tim" Minchin is a British-Australian comedian, actor, and musician.Tim Minchin is best known for his musical comedy, which has featured in six CDs, three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows which he has performed internationally. He has also appeared on television in Australia,...

  • Tony Moclair
    Tony Moclair
    Tony Moclair is an Australian actor, writer and comedian. He has worked on various Australian radio networks, often appearing in character rather than as himself.-3RRR Breakfasters:...

  • Mick Molloy
    Mick Molloy
    Michael "Mick" Molloy is an Australian comedian, writer and producer who has been active in the fields of radio, television, stand-up and film.-Biography:...

  • Peter Moon
    Peter Moon (comedian)
    Peter Moon is an Australian comedian, best known for writing and performing in the sketch comedy Fast Forward....

  • Anthony Morgan
  • Julia Morris
    Julia Morris
    Julia Morris is an Australian writer, comedian, actress, television presenter and television producer who has worked extensively in Australian and British television and radio. She has toured widely with her solo stand-up comedy shows. In Australia, she is best known as one of the stars of the...

  • Julian Morrow
    Julian Morrow
    Julian Francis Xavier Morrow is an Australian comedian and television producer from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is best known for being a member of the satirical team The Chaser...

  • Mr. Flotsam and Mr. Jetsam
    Mr. Flotsam and Mr. Jetsam
    Mr. Flotsam and Mr. Jetsam were an Anglo-Australian musical comedy duo of the 1920s and 1930s. Mr. Flotsam's real name was Bentley Collingwood Hilliam and Mr. Jetsam's real name was Malcolm McEachern . Hilliam wrote most of their songs, played the piano and sang in a light, high tenor voice. By...

  • Andy Muirhead
    Andy Muirhead
    Andrew Robert "Andy" Muirhead is an Australian radio and television presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has been the presenter of ABC Radio's breakfast program in Tasmania and also the presenter of the Collectors TV program since 2005.-Career:Muirhead has worked in TV and...

  • Maureen Murphy
    Maureen Murphy (comedian)
    Maureen Murphy is an Australian comedian, actress, and celebrity who was popular in the United States during the 1980s. She appeared on HBO, the Tonight Show and on Dom DeLuise's television show. She is working on a film project titled Caravaggio: The Search in 2009.-References:...

  • Paul Nakad
    Paul Nakad
    Paul Nakad is an Australian hip-hop artist and actor. He is best known by his stage name Sleek the Elite, which he used as a character name for the Pizza TV show and Fat Pizza movie....

  • Brian Nankervis
    Brian Nankervis
    Brian Nankervis is an Australian comedian. He was originally best known for his character of Raymond J. Bartholomeuz, an eccentric beat poet. The character was popular during the 1980s and 1990s in regular appearances on Hey Hey It's Saturday...

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  • Glynn Nicholas
    Glynn Nicholas
    Glynn Nicholas is an Australian comedy performer, writer and producer. He works as a stand-up comedian, mime artist, character actor and musician.-Busking:Glynn Nicholas began as a busker while touring Europe in 1977...

  • Joy Nichols
    Joy Nichols
    Joy Eileen Nichols born in Sydney, Australia was a comedienne and actress who worked in Australia, Britain and the United States. She is best known as a star of Take It From Here on BBC Radio....

  • Chris North
  • Stefan Nowak
  • Matt Okine
  • Fiona O'Loughlin
    Fiona O'Loughlin
    Fiona O'Loughlin is an Australian comedian, known primarily for her stand-up comedy; for her television performances, on ABC TV's Spicks and Specks, and Channel Ten's Rove Live and GNW; and a series of advertisements for Heinz soups...

  • Dave O'Neil
    Dave O'Neil
    Dave O'Neil is a Melbourne-based stand-up comedian, actor, writer and radio personality.-Early career:Dave was a Cub, Scout, Venturer and Rover. His father Kevin is still the Group Leader at the 1st/3rd Mitcham Scout Group....

  • Ben Oxenbould
    Ben Oxenbould
    Ben Oxenbould is an Australian actor and comedian, best known for his work in the Australian film and television industry....

  • Joel Ozborn

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  • Celia Pacquola
  • Clint Paddison
  • Matt Parkinson
    Matt Parkinson
    Matthew "Matt" Parkinson is an Australian comedian, actor and radio presenter. He began acting at school and studied Theatre Arts at W.A.I.T....

  • Penny Pedersen
  • Eddie Perfect
    Eddie Perfect
    Eddie Perfect is an Australian actor, comedian and musician who currently plays Mick Holland in Channel Ten's Offspring series. He won the 2009 Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work, the Victorian Premier's Literacy Award and the Green Room Award for his musical, Shane Warne The...

  • Charlie Pickering
    Charlie Pickering
    Charlie Pickering he grew up in Melbourne, Australia and attended an Independent Anglican Boys' School; Brighton Grammar...

  • Greig Pickhaver
    Greig Pickhaver
    alt=Greig Pickhaver|thumb|In May 2010Greig Pickhaver AM is an actor, comedian and writer, who forms one half of the Australian sports comedy duo Roy and HG...

  • Ben Pobjie
    Ben Pobjie
    Ben Pobjie is a writer, comedian, and poet. He is best known for his weekly satirical articles on Australian current-affairs site New Matilda....

  • Sue-Ann Post
    Sue-Ann Post
    Sue-Ann Post is an Australian comedienne and writer.Self described as "Australia’s favourite six foot, lesbian, ex-Mormon, diabetic, comedian and writer", Post has performed as a stand up comedian internationally and throughout Australia since 1991.She has written an autobiography A Bit of a...

  • Terri Psiakis
    Terri Psiakis
    Terri Psiakis is an Australian comedienne and a presenter on radio and television.-Radio:Psiakis is a Saturday morning presenter on Melbourne radio station Triple M. Previously she was a casual presenter on Triple J, and her appearances most notably included co-presenting the Ross and Terri show...

  • Puppetry of the Penis
    Puppetry of the Penis
    Puppetry of the Penis is a performance show. The show was initially conceived by Australian Simon Morley as the title of an art calendar, showcasing 12 of his favourite penis installations...

  • Rod Quantock
    Rod Quantock
    Rod Quantock is an Australian stand-up comedian and writer. He is known for his peculiar style of stand-up comedy, which is often politically driven, as well as being the face of bed retailer Capt'n Snooze for many years...

  • Geraldine Quinn
    Geraldine Quinn
    Geraldine Quinn is a songwriter, guitarist, singer, comedian and actor based in Melbourne, Australia. She won the 2006 Green Room Award for Best Emerging Cabaret Artiste and was nominated for Original Songs. - Personal and early life :...

  • Jordan Raskopoulos
    Jordan Raskopoulos
    Jordan Raskopoulos is an Australian comedian, actor and singer best known for his role as a writer and performer on the Network Ten sketch comedy show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour as lead singer for the comedy rock group, The Axis of Awesome and as a team captain on the SBS sports panel show The...

  • Carol Raye
    Carol Raye
    Carol Raye is an Australian-based theatre and television actress and comedienne.Trained as a ballet dancer, Raye was discovered by choreographer Freddie Carpenter at age 16. She played lead roles in many musicals and television programs in the UK...

  • Roy Rene
    Roy Rene
    Roy Rene , born Harry van der Sluys, was an Australian comedian and vaudevillian. As the bawdy character Mo McCackie, Rene was one of the most well-known and successful Australian comedians of the 20th century. Roy Rene was born in Adelaide in the 15 of February 1892 with the name Harry van der...

     ("Mo")
  • Craig Reucassel
    Craig Reucassel
    Craig Bruce Reucassel is a television and radio comedian from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...

  • Harry Rickards
    Harry Rickards
    Harry Rickards , born Henry Benjamin Leete, was an English-born comedian and theatre owner, active in Australia.-Early life:...

  • Gina Riley
    Gina Riley
    Gina Riley is an Australian actress, writer, singer and comedian.Riley became a popular television performer in the sketch shows Fast Forward, its successor Full Frontal, Big Girl's Blouse and Something Stupid. In the latter she was also a producer and writer...

  • John Robertson
    John Robertson
    -United Kingdom politicians:* John Robertson , MP for Bothwell, Lanarkshire 1919–1926* John Robertson , British Labour Party MP 1961–1979 for Berwick and Haddington, then Berwick and East Lothian...

  • Glenn Robbins
    Glenn Robbins
    Glenn Maxwell Robbins is an Australian comedian, writer and actor.Robbins attended Strathmore Secondary College and graduated in 1975...

  • Mikey Robins
    Mikey Robins
    Mikel Mason "Mikey" Robins is an Australian media personality, comedian and writer. He is best-known for the satirical game show Good News Week, which ran on the ABC and Network Ten between 1996 and 2000, and returned again when the series was resurrected in February 2008.-Personal life/health...

  • James Rochford
  • Drew Rokos
    Drew Rokos
    Drew Rokos is an Australian comedian who won both the 2000 Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Raw Comedy competition and the Edinburgh Comedy Festival's So You Think You're Funny competition.-References:...

  • Alex Romano
    Alex Romano
    Alex Romano is an Argentine-Australian actor who plays the role of DJ BJ in the television series Pizza and the role of "Alex" in Swift and Shift Couriers. He grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, after he migrated there with his family in 1981.DJ BJ was a new character in the 2005...

  • Dom Romeo
  • Gabriel Rossi
    Gabriel Rossi
    Gabriel Rossi is an Italian Australian comedian living in Melbourne.His comedy focuses on stereotypes of ethnicities and various Melbourne suburbs...

  • Peter Rowsthorn
  • Roy and HG
    Roy and HG
    Roy & HG is an Australian comedy duo, comprising Greig Pickhaver in the role of "H [Harry] G Nelson" and John Doyle as "'Rampaging' Roy Slaven". Their act is an affectionate but irreverent parody of Australia's obsession with sport. Their characters based on archetypes in sports journalism: Nelson...

  • Adam Rozenbachs
  • Rodney Rude
    Rodney Rude
    Rodney Rude is an Australian 'blue' stand-up comedian, poet and writer. He is infamous for his bawdy humour. He has released 12 albums and 5 videos throughout his long career, all of which are distributed by EMI Music Australia. To date, Rodney has sold well in excess of 3 million CDs videos and...

  • Jim Russell
    Jim Russell (actor)
    Jim Russell is best known for starring in Comedy Inc. He has featured in numerous Australian films, sitcoms and dramas. Russell toured throughout Europe and North America during 2007 and 2008 with the award winning production of 'Soft'. In 2009 he played the title role in the highly acclaimed...

  • Marcus Ryan

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  • John Safran
    John Safran
    John Safran is an Australian documentary maker and radio broadcaster, known for combining humour with explorations into religion and other issues...

  • Akmal Saleh
    Akmal Saleh
    Akmal Saleh is an Australian comedian and actor. He was born in Egypt and arrived in Sydney, Australia with his family in 1975 at the age of 11. He has been performing stand-up comedy since the early 1990s and his live shows have toured comedy festivals both within Australia and internationally...

  • Terry Scanlon
    Terry Scanlon
    Terry Scanlon was an Australian comedian and pantomime artist. He was one of Australia’s top comedians; he worked with some of the early greats of Australian comedy, including Sid Beck, Roy Rene and George Wallace...

  • Scared Weird Little Guys
    Scared Weird Little Guys
    Scared Weird Little Guys were an Australian comedy music duo formed in July 1990, comprising John Chaplin-Fleming and Rusty Berther...

  • Denise Scott
    Denise Scott
    Denise Margaret Adelaide Scott is a Melbourne-based stand-up comedian, actor and radio personality.-Career:She has appeared frequently on Australian television since her regular slot on ABC TV's The Big Gig in 1990, and a weekly segment on Tonight Live with Steve Vizard...

  • Phillip Scott
    Phillip Scott
    Phillip Scott , is an Australian actor, singer, pianist, writer and comedian.He has appeared on film as well as in sketch comedy television programs...

  • Nish Selvadurai
    Nish Selvadurai
    Nishan Selvadurai is an Australian comedian of Sri Lankan descent, living in Brisbane.-Career:Only after two years in stand up Nish won the Queensland State Final of the FHM Cougar Rum Search for Australia's Funniest Man competition.In 2006 he had his television debut on Network 10 and the Comedy...

  • Yahoo Serious
    Yahoo Serious
    Yahoo Serious , born Greg Pead , is an Australian film actor, director and score composer. He is best known for his 1988 comedy Young Einstein. He also created Reckless Kelly in 1993 and Mr. Accident in 2000...

  • Marty Sheargold
    Marty Sheargold
    Martin "Marty" Sheargold is an Australian stand-up comedian and radio broadcaster. He is best known for his role on the Triple M radio show The Shebang with Fifi Box...

  • Ryan Shelton
    Ryan Shelton
    Ryan Shelton is an Australian comedian, actor, radio presenter, television personality, host and writer.- Biography :He attended St Leonards College for some of his schooling, where he met Hamish Blake...

  • Sam Simmons
  • Sketchmen
    Sketchmen
    Sketchmen is an Australian comedy troupe formed in 2005. The troupe's members are Michael, James, Jay and Casey.-Sketchmen :...

  • George Smilovici
    George Smilovici
    George Smilovici is a Cuban-born Australian comedian, the son of Romanian Jewish immigrant parents his father, Dan Sima, left Romania and went to Israel where he met his wife...

  • Tim Smith
    Tim Smith (comedian)
    Tim Smith is an Australian comedian, actor and writer.Tim rose to prominence as part of The Comedy Company, sketch comedy television series. He has also written for many other comedy series including Eagle & Evans....

  • S Sorenson
  • Vince Sorrenti
    Vince Sorrenti
    Vince Sorrenti is one of Australia’s best known and leading comic entertainers, a respected and successful Australian stand-up comedian from Punchbowl, New South Wales. He is of Italian heritage. Sorrenti performs at many functions and events, such as the AFL Grand Final Breakfast...

  • Adam Spencer
    Adam Spencer
    Adam Barrington Spencer is an Australian radio presenter, comedian, and media personality. He first came to fame when he won his round of the comedic talent search Raw Comedy in the mid-1990s...

  • Andrew Startin
    Andrew Startin
    Andrew Startin is an Australian performer, impersonator and television personality.Startin first came to prominence in 1997 as a result of a video tape of him impersonating Sam Newman being sent into The AFL Footy Show in an attempt to win a trip to London...

  • Steady Eddy
    Steady Eddy
    Steady Eddy is the stage name of Christopher Widdows, an Australian comedian and actor with Cerebral palsy. Initially, Widdows used his disability as the basis for his comedy...

  • Jason Stephens
  • Gregor Stronach
    Gregor Stronach
    Gregor Stronach is an Australian writer, satirist and comedian. He is best known for his work as a founding member of The Chaser.Stronach's work with The Chaser has moved with the group from the original newspaper in 1999 through a brief stint on Sydney's MMM Radio to the current status of online...

  • Richard Stubbs
    Richard Stubbs
    Richard Stubbs is an Australian comedian who was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne.Stubbs started his career in radio in the early 1980s on 3XY as part of the XYZoo team. He appeared on Eon/MMM Fm with Tim Smith, Bridgette Duclos and Brad Mckenzie...

  • Toby Sullivan
  • Nick Sun
    Nick Sun
    Nick Sun is an Australian stand-up comedian. He is of Nepalese extraction, but chooses to eschew obvious cultural stereotyping in his act, favouring a style that has been described as "unhinged", "offensive" "nihilistic" and "self-destructive."...

  • Xavier Susai
  • Magda Szubanski
    Magda Szubanski
    Magda Szubanski is a British-born Australian actress, comedian, television presenter, radio host and author.Szubanski's career began while she was studying at university and she progressed to television sketch comedy, as both a writer and performer...

  • Jenny Talia
    Jenny Talia
    Jenny Talia is an Australian female comedy singer/songwriter. Her real name is Tammy-Jo. Tammy is the daughter of Kevin Bloody Wilson, for whom she is occasionally a support act...

  • Chris Taylor
    Chris Taylor (comedian)
    Christopher Thornton "Chris" Taylor is an Australian comedian, writer and former radio host from Sydney. As a member of The Chaser, he is best known for co-writing and appearing on satirical ABC Television shows CNNNN and The Chaser's War on Everything...

  • Austen Tayshus
    Austen Tayshus
    Austen Tayshus is the stage name of Jewish Australian comedian Alexander Jacob Gutman. He is best known for the comedy single "Australiana", a spoken word piece filled with Australian puns.-Biography:...

  • Josh Thomas
    Josh Thomas (comedian)
    Joshua Michael "Josh" Thomas is an Australian comedian. In 2005, at the age of 17, he became the youngest ever winner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Raw Comedy Competition...

  • Thomas Thomson
    Thomas Thomson
    Thomas Thomson FRS FRSE FLS FFPSG MWS was a Scottish chemist and mineralogist whose writings contributed to the early spread of Dalton's atomic theory.He was the inventor of the saccharometer.- Life and work :...

  • Dave Thornton
    Dave Thornton
    Dave Thornton is a stand-up comedian, actor and radio and TV presenter. He has performed Stand-up comedy throughout Australia, in Edinburgh, Singapore and New York. He has also appeared on Australian Television and Radio....

  • Kai Tier
    Kai Tier
    Kai Tier is a Melbourne-based standup comic/actor. After starting comedy in Brisbane in 2001, Kai moved to Perth and became the WA winner of Triple J's RAW Comedy in 2002. After graduating from WAAPA's Acting course in 2004 and moved to Melbourne at the end of that year...

  • Matt Tilley
    Matt Tilley
    Matthew "Matt" "Old Mate" Vernon Thompson Tilley is an Australian radio presenter and comedian who has worked for Melbourne radio station FOX FM since 1990.-Biography:...

  • Lila Tillman
  • Emma Tom
    Emma Tom
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  • Daniel Townes
  • Mark Trenwith
    Mark Trenwith
    Mark Trenwith is an Adelaide-based Australian comedian and actor. He played "Bounce Back Man" in the ABC television series "Being Me" and starred alongside fellow Adelaide comedian Big Al in comedy show "Give Us A Hug" in the 2006 Adelaide Fringe Festival...

  • Asher Treleaven
  • Mark Trevorrow
    Mark Trevorrow
    Mark Trevorrow , is an Australian comedian, television host and media personality.He has developed the flamboyant alter ego "Bob Downe" - a cheesy, safari-suit-wearing lounge singer with dazzling teeth, and host of the fictional regional daytime TV show Good Morning Murwillumbah...

  • Tripod
    Tripod (band)
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  • Jane Turner
    Jane Turner
    Jane Turner is an Australian actress, comedian and Logie Award winning comedy writer.Turner has appeared in many popular Australian TV programs, namely Prisoner in a straight dramatic role, with comedy roles in sketch comedy programs The D-Generation, Fast Forward, Full Frontal, Big Girl's Blouse...

  • The Twelfth Man
    The Twelfth Man
    The Twelfth Man is the name for a series of comedy productions by Australian satirist Billy Birmingham. Birmingham, a skilled impersonator, is generally known for parodying Australian sports commentators' voices...

  • The Ugly Stick
  • The Umbilical Brothers
    The Umbilical Brothers
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  • Kent Valentine
  • Subby Valentine
    Subby Valentine
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  • Michael Veitch
    Michael Veitch
    Michael Veitch is an Australian comedian, author and broadcaster, best known for his roles on the sketch comedy television shows The D-Generation, Fast Forward and Full Frontal, as well as for his books on Second World War aviation and the Bass Strait Islands.Veitch emerged from the tradition of...

  • Steve Vizard
    Steve Vizard
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  • Stuart Wagstaff
    Stuart Wagstaff
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  • John Walker
    John Walker (Australian actor)
    John Walker is an Australian actor noted for his role in the sketch comedy show Full Frontal and its successor Totally Full Frontal . His most notable characters in the series was sleazy news presenter Ian Goodings, as well as impersonating John Howard, the Prime Minister of Australia at the time...

  • George Wallace
    George Wallace (Australian comedian)
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  • Dan Walmsley
    Dan Walmsley
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  • Felicity Ward
    Felicity Ward
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  • Angela Webber
    Angela Webber
    Angela Webber was an Australian author, TV writer, producer and comedian.-Early life:Webber was born in 1954 to Bruce Webber, the head of light entertainment for ABC radio, and Nan, a journalist...

  • Dave Williams
  • Kevin Bloody Wilson
    Kevin Bloody Wilson
    Kevin Bloody Wilson is a comedy singer/songwriter who uses his heavy Australian accent/style with great success...

  • Rebel Wilson
    Rebel Wilson
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  • Frank Woodley
    Frank Woodley
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  • Working Dog
    Working Dog Productions
    Working Dog Productions is a small film and television production company based in Melbourne, Australia. It was originally known as Frontline Television Productions Pty Ltd...

    • Rob Sitch
      Rob Sitch
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    • Santo Cilauro
      Santo Cilauro
      Santo Cilauro is an Australian television and feature film producer, screenwriter, actor, author, comedian and cameraman, a co-founder of The D-Generation...

    • Tom Gleisner
      Tom Gleisner
      Tom Gleisner is an Australian director, producer, writer, comedian, occasional actor and author. He was educated at Xavier College in Melbourne, Australia.-Television, radio and film:...

    • Jane Kennedy
      Jane Kennedy (actor)
      Jane Kennedy is an Australian actress, comedian, radio presenter, and television producer best known for her work with the Working Dog Productions – a tight-knit group of performers responsible for a variety of television and films....

  • Michael Workman
  • John Xintavelonis
    John Xintavelonis
    John Xintavelonis is a Tasmanian actor and comedian, known in Australia for his performance as Pumbaa the warthog in the Australian production of the stage musical, The Lion King.-Career:...

  • Julia Zemiro
    Julia Zemiro
    Julia Zemiro is an Australian television presenter, radio host, actor, singer and comedian.- Early life :...


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