COMEDIANS
by jkgrieve | created - 01 Jan 2018 | updated - 08 Dec 2018 | Public
1. Tom Gleeson
Writer | Hard Quiz
Tom Gleeson is one of Australia's favourite comedians. Besides his many TV appearances, he's been nominated for a Helpmann Award three times and won the Piece of Wood Comedian's Choice Award in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He has performed several times at the two major comedy ...
2. Joel Creasey
Actor | Neighbours
Joel Creasey is known for Neighbours (1985), Warehouse Comedy Festival (2011) and Metro Sexual (2019).
3. Ronny Chieng
Actor | M3GAN
Ronny Chieng is a Chinese comedian and actor born in Malaysia and raised in New Hampshire and Singapore. He started performing stand-up in 2009 after graduating with a dual degree in Law and Commerce from The University of Melbourne, Australia. His act caught the attention of the esteemed Montreal ...
4. Karl Chandler
Writer | This Is Littleton
Karl Chandler is known for This Is Littleton (2014), Squinters (2018) and Kinne Tonight (2019).
5. Tommy Dassalo
Writer | You're Skitting Me
Tommy Dassalo is a Melbourne, Australia based comedian who co-hosts the popular and well regarded comedy podcast 'Little Dum Dum Club' with Karl Chandler. She has performed one-woman shows at a number of major Australian comedy festivals, such as the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. A ...
6. Dilruk Jayasinha
Self | Cram!
Dilruk Jayasinha is known for Cram! (2017), The Assenders (2016) and No Appointment Necessary (2017).
7. Xavier Michelides
Actor | Hug the Sun
Xavier Michelides is known for Hug the Sun (2021), Good News Week (1996) and Dafuq? (2016).
8. Dave Thornton
Actor | Bed of Roses
Dave Thornton is known for Bed of Roses (2008), Kinne Tonight (2019) and Five Bedrooms (2019).
9. Chrissie Swan
Self | The Circle
Chrissie Swan is known for The Circle (2010), Childish Deano (2022) and I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! (2015).
10. Yumi Stynes
Actress | The Other Guy
Yumi Stynes was born on June 2, 1975 in Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia. She is a podcaster and actress, known for The Other Guy (2017), Bra Boys (2007) and Spicks and Specks (2005). She was previously married to Martin Bendeler.
11. Tina Fey
Actress | Date Night
Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born in 1970 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia, to Xenobia "Jeanne" (Xenakes), a brokerage employee, and Donald Henry Fey, who wrote grant proposals for universities. Her mother is Greek, born in Piraeus, while her father had German, Northern Irish,...
12. Amy Poehler
Actress | Inside Out
Amy Meredith Poehler was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to high school teachers Eileen Frances (Milmore) and William Grinstead Poehler. Her brother is comedian Greg Poehler. She is of Irish (from her mother) and English, Irish, German, and Portuguese (from her father) descent. Amy was first ...
13. Amy Schumer
Writer | Trainwreck
Amy Beth Schumer is an American comedian, writer and actress from Manhattan who is known for Trainwreck, Last Comic Standing, Snatched, Expecting Amy, Price Check, I Feel Pretty, The Humans and Inside Amy Schumer. She is married to chef Chris Fischer and had a son. Slated to appear as the iconic ...
14. Celeste Barber
Actress | Wellmania
Celeste Barber is an Australian actor, writer and comedian who is best known for her roles on How Not to Behave (2015), The Letdown (2017) and as Paramedic Bree Matthews on award winning Australian Medical Drama All Saints (1998), Barber also had recurring roles on The Matty Johns Show as a writer ...
15. Shaun Micallef
Writer | Full Frontal
First appeared on ABC TV's Theatre Sports (1987) in the team "Get Her" with Francis Greenslade. Other teams featured Andrew Denton, George Kapiniaris and Ross Williams.
16. Ellen DeGeneres
Producer | Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Emmy-winning talk show host Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana, a New Orleans suburb. She is the daughter of Betty DeGeneres (née Elizabeth Jane Pfeffer), a speech therapist, and Elliott Everett DeGeneres, Jr., an insurance agent. Her brother is musician and producer Vance DeGeneres...
17. David Mitchell
Writer | That Mitchell and Webb Look
David Mitchell was born on 14th July 1974 in Salisbury, England. His parents, Ian and Kathy Mitchell, worked as hotel managers in Salisbury. David also has a brother. In 1977 the family moved to Oxford, where his parents taught a course in hotel management at Oxford Brookes University. David was ...
18. Sam Pang
Writer | Kane & Disabled
Sam Pang is known for Kane & Disabled (2012), Alone, Together (2008) and The Match Committee (2011).
19. Kitty Flanagan
Actress | Fisk
Kitty Flanagan is known for Fisk (2021), Dating Ray Fenwick (2005) and The Sketch Show (2001).
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