Mick Molloy
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Michael "Mick" Molloy (born 11 July 1966 in Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

) is an Australian comedian, writer and producer who has been active in the fields of radio, television, stand-up
Stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television...

 and film.

Biography

Molloy grew up in the Australian Capital Territory before moving to Melbourne in the mid 1980s to study performing arts at the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

 where he wrote his and performed in his first live act in 1987. He also attended Maroondah Secondary College
Maroondah Secondary College
Maroondah Secondary College is located on Brentnall Road, off Maroondah Highway, in Croydon, Victoria. The first principal was Harry Fletcher, and the school was originally known as Croydon West high school until 1973 when the name was changed Maroondah High school...

. It was also during this time that he met the Australian comedy troupe The D-Generation
The D-Generation
The D-Generation was a popular and influential Australian TV sketch comedy show, produced and broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for two series, between 1986 and 1987...

 (the future cast of The Late Show
The Late Show (Australian TV series)
The Late Show was a popular Australian comedy show, which ran for two seasons on ABC from 18 July 1992 to 30 October 1993.-Cast:The Late Show has its roots in the 1980s comedy group, The D-Generation...

, members of which would later form Working Dog Productions
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...

 and with whom Mick would collaborate on several projects).

Molloy worked with the D-Generation as a writer-performer on their 1988 Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

 specials (he had auditioned for the D-Gen in 1986, but it wasn’t until the troupe saw him in the 1987 Melbourne University revue, Laminex on the Rocks, that they signed him up). He also worked as a writer on the ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

's The Gerry Connolly Show (1988) and Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

 series, The Comedy Company
The Comedy Company
The Comedy Company was an Australian comedy television series first aired from 16 February 1988 until about 11 November 1990 on Network Ten, Sunday night and was created and directed by Ian McFadyen, and co directed and produced by Jo Lane...

in its 1989 season. After writing and performing on The D-Generation Breakfast Show on Triple M radio from 1990 to 1992, teaming up with 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 :...

 for Triple M’s Bulltwang (1990) and working on the (unscreened) pilots for The Late Show for the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

 (1990), Molloy was on board ABC TV’s The Late Show (1992–1993) as a writer/performer. As well as pairing up with Tony Martin for each episode’s introduction and the Street Interviews segment, Mick co-hosted the segments Muckrakers with Jason Stephens and Commercial Crimestoppers with 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...

, played the thick-witted assistant of stuntman Rob Sitch
Rob Sitch
Robert Ian Sitch , is an Australian director, producer, screenwriter, actor and comedian.-Early life:Sitch attended St Kevin's College and graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Trinity College. He worked at the Royal Womans Hospital...

 in Shitscared, and performed in countless sketches (he provided the voices of Sergeant Olden in The Olden Days and Chief Chromedome in Bargearse). Molloy also delivered a series of volatile rants in the Mick’s Serve part of Late Show News.

After the programme finished, Mick developed, with Tony Martin, the successful Austereo radio programme Martin/Molloy (1995–98), which produced three ARIA
Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

 award winning compilation albums, The Brown Album
The Brown Album (Martin/Molloy)
The Brown Album is the first compilation double-album of material taken from the Australian radio program Martin/Molloy, with comedians Tony Martin and Mick Molloy...

(1995), Poop Chute
Poop Chute
Poop Chute is the second compilation double-album of material taken from Australia's Martin/Molloy radio program, with comedians Tony Martin and Mick Molloy. As with the two other Martin/Molloy albums, Poop Chute won the Best Comedy Release at the ARIA Music Awards, taking the award in 1997.-Disc...

(1996) and Eat Your Peas
Eat Your Peas
Eat Your Peas is the third and final compilation double-album of material taken from the popular Australian radio show Martin/Molloy, with comedians Tony Martin and Mick Molloy...

(1998). Mick occasionally appeared with his former D-Gen cohorts on Network Ten’s The Panel
The Panel
The Panel was an Australian television talk show broadcast by Network Ten and its affiliates; it was also simulcast on the Triple M radio network...

(1998–2004).

Molloy landed his own late-night TV show, The Mick Molloy Show, which premiered on the Nine Network in 1999. Planned to run for twenty episodes, it was slated by the critics and cancelled after only eight, but Molloy bounced back with a video release entitled Shonky Golf with Mick Molloy and he directed the feature-length documentary Tackle Happy (2000). He played Kim's dad Gary Poole on Kath & Kim
Kath & Kim
Kath & Kim is a Logie Award-winning character-driven Australian television situation comedy series. The series was created by, and is written by Jane Turner and Gina Riley who play the title characters: a suburban mother and daughter with a dysfunctional relationship...

(2003–04) and co-starred, with David Wenham
David Wenham
David Wenham is an Australian actor who has appeared in movies, television series and theatre productions. He is known in Hollywood for his roles as Faramir in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Carl in Van Helsing and Dilios in 300 and Neil Fletcher in Australia...

, in two Murray Whelan telemovies, Stiff and The Brush-Off (both 2004). He hosted another radio show, Tough Love with Mick Molloy
Tough Love with Mick Molloy
ToughLove was an Australian comedic radio talk program broadcast from Melbourne through the Triple M network from 12:00PM - 1:00PM AEST in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide....

(2004–06) on Triple M
Triple M
The Triple M Network is an active rock radio network in Australia owned by media company Austereo, who also own the Today Network.- History :...

 alongside Robyn Butler
Robyn Butler
Robyn Butler is an Australian writer, actor and producer who is best known for her starring role in the television comedy series The Librarians. Butler hosted a radio program called Tough Love on the Triple M network...

 and Richard Molloy
Richard Molloy
Richard 'Roo' Molloy is the younger brother of Mick Molloy and was the co-host of Tough Love with Mick Molloy radio show on Triple M.Molloy also co-wrote the Australian films Crackerjack and BoyTown with his brother.-References:...

, and a TV show, Any Given Sunday
Any Given Sunday (TV series)
Any Given Sunday was an Australian television program that aired on the Nine Network between 2005 to 2006. The show was not broadcast in NSW, the ACT or QLD, where The Sunday Roast screened instead.-Season 1:...

with Nicole Livingstone
Nicole Livingstone
Nicole Dawn Livingstone OAM is a retired Australian Olympic swimmer and a television sports commentator and radio presenter. Livingstone competed for Australia in three summer Olympics - 1988, 1992, and 1996 - winning both individual and team medals...

 on the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

 in 2006. He was involved in the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....

 coverage on the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

, as a commentator for the lawn bowls events.

He has starred in three movies, Crackerjack (2002) (which he also co-wrote, receiving an AFI nomination), Tony Martin's Bad Eggs
Bad Eggs
Bad Eggs is a 2003 Australian comedy movie, written and directed by Tony Martin. It stars Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin and Judith Lucy, with Alan Brough, Bill Hunter, Marshall Napier, Nicholas Bell, Steven Vidler, Shaun Micallef, Robyn Nevin, Brett Swain, Denis Moore and Pete Smith having supporting...

(2003), and BoyTown
BoyTown
BoyTown is a 2006 Australian comedy film, directed by Kevin Carlin and starring an ensemble cast of prominent Australian comedians, including Glenn Robbins, Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin, Wayne Hope and Gary Eck. It was filmed in Melbourne, Victoria....

(2006), which, like Crackerjack, he co-wrote with his brother Richard Molloy
Richard Molloy
Richard 'Roo' Molloy is the younger brother of Mick Molloy and was the co-host of Tough Love with Mick Molloy radio show on Triple M.Molloy also co-wrote the Australian films Crackerjack and BoyTown with his brother.-References:...

. In the 2006 Australian feature film Macbeth
Macbeth (2006 film)
Macbeth is an Australian 2006 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. It was directed by Geoffrey Wright and features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill and Lachy Hulme...

, Molloy played Brown; it was the second time he has appeared in a production of Macbeth.

In 2007, Molloy filmed a pilot of The Nation
The Nation (TV series)
The Nation was an Australian satirical sketch comedy and discussion series covering the week's events across political and social spectrums, premiering on Tuesday 5 June 2007 at on the Nine Network....

, a weekly late-night news-based comedy hour on the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

. The show debuted on 5 June, but struggled for ratings, attracting only 575,000 viewers nationally for its fourth show. Originally it was on Tuesdays at 9:30 pm, but was moved to Wednesdays at 10:30 pm and has been off air since the end of August 2007.

In 2008 it was announced that Molloy would replace 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...

 on the panel of Channel 10's Before the Game
Before the Game
Before The Game is an Australian rules football/comedy television show in Australia on Network Ten. The show is hosted by Andrew Maher, with regular panelists including Mick Molloy, Dave Hughes, Sam Lane, and Lehmo. The format of the show is a light-hearted discussion of issues relating to the...

, an AFL themed show, after Helliar had discontinued his position post-2007. On the show, his views as a keen supporter of the Richmond Football Club
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...

 (Tigers) are often made clear. Molloy is one of the club's more prominent supporters and as well as appearing on the Before the Game, he has in the past appeared in a club membership advertising campaigns. In June 2008, Molloy made comments on the show regarding Nicole Cornes, the wife of former Adelaide coach Graham Cornes
Graham Cornes
Graham Studley Cornes OAM is a former Australian rules football player and coach, as well as a media personality with a weekday drivetime sports program that he hosts on Adelaide 5AA with Stephen Rowe....

, in which he suggested she had slept with footballer Stuart Dew
Stuart Dew
Stuart Dew is a former Australian rules footballer and dual premiership-player for Port Adelaide and Hawthorn in the Australian Football League. Dew was a student at Enfield High School prior to his AFL career....

. Nicole Cornes sued the Ten Network for defamation, and was awarded AUD
Australian dollar
The Australian dollar is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu...

$85,000 in July 2011.

Molloy was the long-term partner of actress Sophie Lee
Sophie Lee
Sophie Lee is an Australian film, stage and television actress and author.-Career:Early in her career, Sophie Lee worked as a model, both in Australia and Japan appearing in print and on TV...

 during the 1990s (Lee regularly appeared on Molloy's nationally syndicated radio show, as well as playing Tracey Kerrigan in the film The Castle, which was made by Molloy's former D-Gen cohorts).

In February 2010 it was announced that Molloy and Eddie McGuire
Eddie McGuire
Edward Joseph "Eddie" McGuire AM is an Australian television presenter and businessman known for his long association with Australian rules football and the Channel 9 television network....

 would be investigated by the NSW Anti-discrimination board following complaints that their on air coverage of the Vancouver Winter Olympics men's figure skating contained homophobic remarks.

In 2011, Molloy returned to radio and to Melbourne's Triple M, as a permanent member of The Hot Breakfast
The Hot Breakfast
The Hot Breakfast is an Australian breakfast radio show that broadcasts weekday mornings from 6 am to 9 am AEST on Triple M Melbourne. It commenced broadcasting on Monday, 7 September 2009....

.
He is also appearing after 8am (due to day light savings time differences) on Triple M Brisbane's The Grill Team.

Television

  • The D-Generation Goes Commercial (1988) – Various – (also writer)
  • The Gerry Connolly Show (1988) – (writer only)
  • The Comedy Company
    The Comedy Company
    The Comedy Company was an Australian comedy television series first aired from 16 February 1988 until about 11 November 1990 on Network Ten, Sunday night and was created and directed by Ian McFadyen, and co directed and produced by Jo Lane...

    (1989) – Various – (also writer)
  • The Late Show
    The Late Show (Australian TV series)
    The Late Show was a popular Australian comedy show, which ran for two seasons on ABC from 18 July 1992 to 30 October 1993.-Cast:The Late Show has its roots in the 1980s comedy group, The D-Generation...

    (1992–93) – Himself/Various – (also writer)
  • The Mick Molloy Show
    The Mick Molloy Show
    The Mick Molloy Show was a television program that appeared on the Nine Network in Australia for just eight weeks during 1999. The host, Mick Molloy, was a widely acclaimed comedian from The Late Show and Martin/Molloy...

    (1999) – Himself – (also writer/producer)
  • Kath & Kim
    Kath & Kim
    Kath & Kim is a Logie Award-winning character-driven Australian television situation comedy series. The series was created by, and is written by Jane Turner and Gina Riley who play the title characters: a suburban mother and daughter with a dysfunctional relationship...

    (2003) – Gary Poole (2 eps)
  • Stiff (2004) – Angelo Agnelli
  • The Brush-Off (1996) – Angelo Agnelli
  • Any Given Sunday
    Any Given Sunday (TV series)
    Any Given Sunday was an Australian television program that aired on the Nine Network between 2005 to 2006. The show was not broadcast in NSW, the ACT or QLD, where The Sunday Roast screened instead.-Season 1:...

    (2006) – Himself
  • The Nation
    The Nation (TV series)
    The Nation was an Australian satirical sketch comedy and discussion series covering the week's events across political and social spectrums, premiering on Tuesday 5 June 2007 at on the Nine Network....

    (2007) – Himself – (also writer/producer)
  • "Before The Game" (2008–) – Himself
  • The Jesters
    The Jesters (TV series)
    The Jesters is an Australian comedy series produced for Movie Extra subscription television channel. The series is a satire about the day-to-day battles of a sketch comedy veteran turned producer.-Cast:* Mick Molloy as Dave Davies...

    (2009–) – Dave Davies

Movies

  • Tackle Happy
    Tackle Happy
    Tackle Happy is an Australian documentary film released in 2000 about the live performance show Puppetry of the Penis starring Simon Morley and David Friend. It was produced and directed by comedian Mick Molloy, whose radio show Martin/Molloy had chronicled the chaotic 1998 tour captured in the film...

    (2000) – Himself – (also director/producer)
  • Crackerjack (2002) – Jack Simpson – (also writer/producer)
  • Bad Eggs
    Bad Eggs
    Bad Eggs is a 2003 Australian comedy movie, written and directed by Tony Martin. It stars Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin and Judith Lucy, with Alan Brough, Bill Hunter, Marshall Napier, Nicholas Bell, Steven Vidler, Shaun Micallef, Robyn Nevin, Brett Swain, Denis Moore and Pete Smith having supporting...

    (2003) – Ben Kinnear
  • Macbeth
    Macbeth (2006 film)
    Macbeth is an Australian 2006 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. It was directed by Geoffrey Wright and features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill and Lachy Hulme...

    (2006) – Brown
  • BoyTown
    BoyTown
    BoyTown is a 2006 Australian comedy film, directed by Kevin Carlin and starring an ensemble cast of prominent Australian comedians, including Glenn Robbins, Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin, Wayne Hope and Gary Eck. It was filmed in Melbourne, Victoria....

    (2006) – Tommy – (also writer/producer)
  • BoyTown
    BoyTown
    BoyTown is a 2006 Australian comedy film, directed by Kevin Carlin and starring an ensemble cast of prominent Australian comedians, including Glenn Robbins, Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin, Wayne Hope and Gary Eck. It was filmed in Melbourne, Victoria....

    Confidential (2007) – Tommy Boy – (also writer/producer)

Radio

  • The D-Generation Breakfast Show (Triple M
    Triple M
    The Triple M Network is an active rock radio network in Australia owned by media company Austereo, who also own the Today Network.- History :...

     Melbourne 1990–92)
  • Bulltwang (Triple M
    Triple M
    The Triple M Network is an active rock radio network in Australia owned by media company Austereo, who also own the Today Network.- History :...

     Melbourne 1990)
  • Martin/Molloy
    Martin/Molloy
    Martin/Molloy was an Australian radio program starring Tony Martin and Mick Molloy, both formerly of The D-Generation and The Late Show. It was broadcast nationwide on 54 radio stations for two hours on weekday evenings between 1995 and 1998....

    (Austereo network 1995–98)
  • Tough Love with Mick Molloy
    Tough Love with Mick Molloy
    ToughLove was an Australian comedic radio talk program broadcast from Melbourne through the Triple M network from 12:00PM - 1:00PM AEST in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide....

    (Triple M
    Triple M
    The Triple M Network is an active rock radio network in Australia owned by media company Austereo, who also own the Today Network.- History :...

     network 2004–06)
  • "The Hot Breakfast
    The Hot Breakfast
    The Hot Breakfast is an Australian breakfast radio show that broadcasts weekday mornings from 6 am to 9 am AEST on Triple M Melbourne. It commenced broadcasting on Monday, 7 September 2009....

    " (Triple M Melbourne 2011– )
  • "The Grill Team" (Triple M Sydney 2011– )

Albums

  • Martin/Molloy
    Martin/Molloy
    Martin/Molloy was an Australian radio program starring Tony Martin and Mick Molloy, both formerly of The D-Generation and The Late Show. It was broadcast nationwide on 54 radio stations for two hours on weekday evenings between 1995 and 1998....

    : The Brown Album
    The Brown Album (Martin/Molloy)
    The Brown Album is the first compilation double-album of material taken from the Australian radio program Martin/Molloy, with comedians Tony Martin and Mick Molloy...

    (1995) 2CD
  • Martin/Molloy
    Martin/Molloy
    Martin/Molloy was an Australian radio program starring Tony Martin and Mick Molloy, both formerly of The D-Generation and The Late Show. It was broadcast nationwide on 54 radio stations for two hours on weekday evenings between 1995 and 1998....

    : Poop Chute
    Poop Chute
    Poop Chute is the second compilation double-album of material taken from Australia's Martin/Molloy radio program, with comedians Tony Martin and Mick Molloy. As with the two other Martin/Molloy albums, Poop Chute won the Best Comedy Release at the ARIA Music Awards, taking the award in 1997.-Disc...

    (1996) 2CD
  • Martin/Molloy
    Martin/Molloy
    Martin/Molloy was an Australian radio program starring Tony Martin and Mick Molloy, both formerly of The D-Generation and The Late Show. It was broadcast nationwide on 54 radio stations for two hours on weekday evenings between 1995 and 1998....

    : Eat Your Peas
    Eat Your Peas
    Eat Your Peas is the third and final compilation double-album of material taken from the popular Australian radio show Martin/Molloy, with comedians Tony Martin and Mick Molloy...

    (1998) 2CD

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