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Moosehead Benefit
The Moosehead Awards, formerly The Brian McCarthy Memorial Moosehead Awards and commonly known as The Mooseheads, are awards given to performers at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, although it is not an official part of the festival. Background The award is named after Brian McCarthy, a young comedian, actor, and fringe comedy producer killed in a car accident in 1987 aged 23. He had previously studied drama at Rusden College, was one of the early practitioners of improv in Melbourne, and ran fringe comedy events at a pub in Collingwood to provide a platform for young comedians. He was a performer at the inaugural Melbourne Comedy Festival in 1987. The Brian McCarthy Memorial Trust was established in 1987 by friends of McCarthy, and is the source of the Moosehead grant, which is issued to Australian comedians wishing to premiere new works as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF). Description The Trust aims to support working comedians, whose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) is the largest stand-alone comedy festival and the largest international comedy festival in the world. First held in 1987, it takes place annually in Melbourne over four weeks, typically starting in March and running through to April. The Melbourne Town Hall has served as the festival hub, but performances are held in many venues throughout the city. MICF also produces three flagship development programs: Raw Comedy, Australia's biggest open mic competition; Class Clowns, a national comedy competition for high school students; and Deadly Funny, an Indigenous comedy competition that celebrates the unique humour of Indigenous Australians. Awards are given for the best acts of the development programs as well as other categories of performances. The festival also undertakes an annual national roadshow, showcasing festival highlights in regional towns across Australia. History The festival was founded in 1986 by John Pinder (comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Morgan (comedian)
Anthony Morgan is an Australian actor, writer and stand-up comedian. Morgan has performed his conversational stand-up style comedy across Australia as well as London, Manchester and twice at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Morgan began working in television in 1991 as a regular on '' The Big Gig'' and guest appearances on ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' and ''Tonight Live with Steve Vizard''. In 1994-1995 he made guest appearances on '' Denton'' as the roving Melbourne correspondent. Career Morgan started his career as a comedian in 1982. After a hiatus from 1998 to 2015, Morgan has appeared in the TV shows '' Randling'', ''Problems'', '' Ronny Chieng: International Student'', and '' Rosehaven''. Television * '' Randling'' * ''Problems A problem is a difficulty which may be resolved by problem solving. Problem(s) or The Problem may also refer to: People * Problem (rapper), (born 1985) American rapper Books * ''Problems'' (Aristotle), an Aristotelian (or pseudo-Aristotelian) co ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Knowles
John Knowles (; September 16, 1926November 29, 2001) was an American novelist best known for ''A Separate Peace'' (1959). Biography Knowles was born on September 16, 1926, in Fairmont, West Virginia, the son of James M. Knowles, a purchasing agent from Lowell, Massachusetts, and Mary Beatrice Shea Knowles from Concord, New Hampshire. His father was a coal company executive, which earned an income that afforded the family a comfortable living. As a youth, Knowles would remark that he could write just as well as the stories from ''The Saturday Evening Post''. Knowles attended St. Peter's High School in Fairmont from 1938 to 1940, before he continued at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and graduated in 1945. Following his time at Phillips Exeter, Knowles spent eight months serving in the US Army Air Forces at the end of World War II. Knowles graduated from Yale University as a member of the class of 1949. At Yale, Knowles contributed stories to campus humor magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Simmons (comedian)
Sam Simmons (born ) is an Australian comedian, actor, and radio and TV presenter. He has toured extensively with his stand-up shows, as well as many appearances on TV in Australia, the US, and the UK. He has won and been nominated for many awards, and won the Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer in 2014. Early life and education Sam Simmons was born in in Adelaide, South Australia. He was raised in Adelaide by a single working mother, and has hinted in his shows that he was somewhat neglected as a child. His best friend described his childhood as "troubled". Going through a tough time as a 13-year-old, he attempted suicide. He watched a lot of The Goodies, ''Monkey'', and Benny Hill as a child, and says was also very influenced by John Cleese's character in ''Fawlty Towers'', Basil Fawlty: "Rage and silliness combined. What a mix!". Career Live Simmons' first performed comedy in 2001, at a benefit show for a friend whose handbag had been stolen. Performing as a duo wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Brennan (comedian)
Scott Brennan is an Australian actor and comedian. He is best known for his work on the Australian television program ''skitHOUSE''. Early life and education Scott Brennan was born in Australia. In 1990, he went to University of Melbourne to complete a B.Ed. Career Live Brennan has been a regular performer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival since 1999. Past shows include ''Spontaneous Broadway'', ''Life - Get it up ya'' (which was also performed at the Edinburgh Fringe), ''Code Beige'','' Glen Bush; Teenage Superstar'' (for which he received a Moosehead grant) and ''Very Very Scary''. He is or was a member of the cult comedy trio "Granny Bingo", who performed monthly sellout shows, as well as touring festivals. In 2017, their Melbourne Comedy Festival show ''A visit with Nan in a caravan'' won the Golden Gibbo Award. Television In 2006, he joined the cast of the popular late-night sketch comedy show '' Comedy Inc - The Late Shift'', airing in Australia on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Ward (comedian)
Michael John Ward (born September 14, 1973) is a Canadian comedian. He performs stand-up comedy, comedy in both French and English. Career Ward has appeared on television doing stand-up in 20 countries; airing throughout Europe, Africa, Australia and North America. He has been a frequent guest of the Anthony Cumia Show podcast. Ward hosts two podcasts: ''2 Drink Minimum'' with comedian Pantelis on Compound Media and ''Mike Ward sous écoute''. Controversies Ward has been the subject of controversy. At Jean-Marc Parent's 2008 Just for Laughs French gala, he made a joke about Revenu Québec, in which he mentioned Disappearance of Cédrika Provencher, Cédrika Provencher, a young girl who had been abducted in 2007 in Quebec and whose remains were found in December 2015. Mocking of Jérémy Gabriel Between 2010 and 2013, Ward performed a comedy routine about Jérémy Gabriel, a young disabled singer with Treacher Collins syndrome. Ward mocked Gabriel's appearance, his illne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Hall (actor)
Stephen Hall (born 17 May 1969) is an Australian actor, writer and producer. Career Television Hall's career in television includes acting, writing and production duties. He was the host of Under Melbourne Tonight, a weekly live variety hour television program produced by RMITV that broadcast on C31 Melbourne from 1993 to 1998. He has appeared in the long-running television series ''Neighbours'', and in 2008 he performed the role of Warren in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television comedy series ''The Hollowmen'' "Warren: ''Departmental Under-Secretary''" in "Who's Who" at '''' Official Website. |
Lawrence Mooney
Lawrence Mooney (born 22 April 1965) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, and former television and radio presenter. Radio career Mooney has held various jobs including a customs officer, cleaner, salesman, furniture polisher and collecting golf balls at a driving range, before becoming a stand-up comic. He hosted the drive time show on Melbourne Talk Radio. He has also been a fill-in host and guest on MTR's Steve Vizard Show and ABC Radio Melbourne and 3AW. In 2016, he regularly appeared on the Triple M impersonating Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with weekly spots on the Sydney and Melbourne breakfast shows, and as a guest co-host on ''Merrick & Australia''. He was part of the morning drive show on Triple M Brisbane from December 2017 to December 2018. On 15 January 2019, Lawrence replaced ''The Grill Team'' for Sydney Breakfast on Triple M with ''Moonman in the Morning,'' alongside Gus Worland, Chris Page and Jess Eva. In October 2019, Mooney won an Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damian Callinan
Damian Callinan is an actor/comedian from Melbourne, Australia. Entertainment career Callinan has performed in many mediums, including TV, film, radio and live stand-up. He acted in the Australian sketch comedy television series ''skitHOUSE'' and made regular appearances on ''Before the Game''. He has been a member of the cast of ''The Newsreader.'' In 2006, Callinan presented a live comedy show as part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival about his fertility problems entitled ''Damian Callinan has Spaznuts''. That year he also debuted ''Babysitting'', casting himself as a babysitter caring for a giant baby. In his show ''Sportsman's Night'', Callinan, with no props, performed every role in a story about a football club gathering. He's also performed several other solo comedy shows: ''Damian Callinan Calls "Last Drinks"'', ''Eureka Stocktake'','' The Cave to the Rave: The Story of Dance'' and ''Speech Night''. In 2007, he appeared in a stage show called '' The Complete Works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meshel Laurie
Meshel Laurie (born Michelle Laurie 29 May 1973) is an Australian podcaster and author. Comedy career Laurie's first Melbourne International Comedy Festival show was ''Dairy Belles'' which she performed with Corinne Grant. In 1998 she was granted the Brian McCarthy Memorial Moosehead Award to produce ''The Virgin Mary 2 - This Time It's Personal''. Her success began to skyrocket when, in 2000, she debuted ''The Whore Whisperer: Confessions of a Madam'' at the Melbourne Fringe Festival - a show all about her experiences working in brothels. A sell-out in its first season, ''The Whore Whisperer'' went on to sell out seasons at the Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe and the Sydney Opera House. Broadcasting career In 2000, Laurie co-hosted ''Enough Rope'' on 3RRR with Josh Kinal. This was a weekly programme about comedy that included the comedy tracks, a look at the comedy industry and interviews with numerous guests including: Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Richard
Adam Richard (born Adam Richard Dellamarta, 1 January 1971 in Carlton, Victoria) is an Australian comedian, actor, radio presenter, writer and media personality, best known co-writing and starring in '' Outland,'' an ABC1 comedy series about a group of LGBT sci-fi geeks. Richard was also a team captain on the 2014 revival of music quiz and live music performance show'' Spicks and Specks'', and he was a permanent panel member on the ''Doctor Who''–themed 2017 show '' Whovians''. Career After a variety of part-time jobs, including working as a State Bank teller, a fast-food worker, and a cleaner, Richard had his first stand-up gig in 1996. During the late 1990s, Richard was a regular on various RMITV shows, including ''The Loft Live'' with Rove McManus, ''Under Melbourne Tonight'', ''What's Goin' On There?'' (1998) and '' Whose Shout'' (1999). He had a regular gossip segment on Triple J radio in 2002–2003, where he was known as Mister Bitch. He presented a similar segment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Scott
Denise Margaret Scott (born 24 April 1955) is an Australian stand-up comedian, actor, television and radio presenter. Career Scott 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''. Scott was one of the most frequent guests on musical quiz show '' Spicks and Specks'', and appeared several times on '' The Glass House'' and '' Good News Week''. In 1993 she performed the live show, ''Women Stand Up!'' with Sue Ingleton and Lynda Gibson. She also co-starred with Judith Lucy and Lynda Gibson in stage spectaculars ''Comedy Is Not Pretty'' (1999) and ''Comedy Is Still Not Pretty'' (2003). She was a member of the Vega 91.5 FM breakfast radio show; '' Dave and Denise with Shaun Micallef'' (formerly called ''Shaun, Beverley and Denise''), until she finished up with Vega on 23 November 2007. Scott has made appearances on Network 10 shows '' Can of Worms'', '' The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
