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Daniel Townes
Darren Casey
Dave Bloustien (SYD)
Dave Eastgate (QLD)
Dave Hughes (MELB)
Dave Jory
David Smiedt
Davo (QLD)
Desh (QLD)

Daniel Townes

Daniel Townes began his comedy career in 2002 and in a hectic five years has starred in comedy festivals in Montreal, Edinburgh, Melbourne and Adelaide. He has performed in a variety of venues from the Sydney Opera House to Comedy on the Rox and everything in between. He has toured Spain, Germany and the UK and made numerous radio and television appearances including the Footy Show. You can also hear him on CDs and see him on DVDs.

Daniel has his own brand of dry, Australian humour, guaranteed to make anyone laugh.
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Darren Casey

Darren Casey is an Australian comedy legend as a headliner, writer and actor. Along with Eddie McGuire, he was on the Triple M Grill Team and he was also lead actor in the award-winning SBS short film Roy Hollsdotter Live. Darren has worked with some of the best.

Darren has also been featured on legendary ABC comedy series Frontline, as himself on Rove Live, and has been involved in iconic comedy tonight shows including Russell Gilbert Live and In Melbourne Tonight.

His theatre ventures have included Two Bums Go Vegas (1995) with Matt King at Budinski’s Theatre, Melbourne, and He’s a Little Bit Mental (2001) at the Victoria Hotel, Melbourne. Darren’s eagerly anticipated return to Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2007 culminated in the solo show Poo Ring Sting.
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Dave Bloustien

You might not have heard of Dave Bloustien, but you’ve probably heard one of his jokes. Dave was part of the award-winning writing team on ABCTV’s The Glass House, as well as The Side Show, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Great Debates, the new Good News Week and more.

As a stand-up comedian and improvisor, he’s performed in comedy festivals in five out of six states, as well as in London, San Francisco, Zambia and beyond. Most recently Dave played in the NSW Theatresports Grand Final (the Cranston Cup) at the Enmore Theatre and at the closing night gala of the Hobart Comedy Festival at the iconic Theatre Royal.

Interesting facts about Dave: he has a PhD in Jewish Punk from the University of Sydney, and thanks to his appearance in a documentary about the lost Jews of China (narrated by Leonard Nimoy), he also has a Kevin Bacon rating of ‘three’, which is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stiletto.
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Dave Eastgate (QLD)

Dave Eastgate is truly versatile, with 10 years of professional experience in film, theatre, television, stand-up comedy, live stunt shows, bands, musical theatre, Shakespeare, street performance, education, improvisation and even theme-park characters. As well as a four-year stint performing at Universal Studios Japan in Japanese, David has performed his unique brand of musical-comedy around the world in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh. He returned from five years overseas in Jan 2006 and is currently residing in Brisbane writing the scripts for Big Brother’s Friday Night Live and performing the audience warm up for Nominations, Evictions and FNL.

As a stand-up comedian, David placed 2nd in the 2006 National Green Faces Competition in Canberra, was featured at the 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Showcase. David has since begun
headlining shows in Brisbane but his personal highlights would be supporting international acts Arj Barker, Stephen K Amos and Ed Byrne, sharing the stage and his guitar with Lano and Woodley on a live broadcast for ABC radio and making the third round in Japan’s biggest comedy competition, the M-1 Grand Prix.
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Dave Hughes (MELB)

It was at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 1999 that Hughesy was forced to move from a tiny upstairs city bar into a 300-seat room at the Melbourne Town Hall. Word had started to spread about this impossibly laid back guy from Warrnambool.

Since 1999 the word has spread even further and Hughesy has become one of the biggest and most loved names in Australian stand up comedy. Honest and imperfect is how Australians like their comedy and Dave Hughes delivers exactly that in spades.

Hughesy hosts breakfast radio on Nova in Melbourne with Kate Langbroek
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Dave Jory (SYD)

Dave Jory began his comedy career with a 5 minute open mic spot at The Sydney Comedy Store, way back in 2003. From humble beginnings, Jory has quickly become one of Sydney’s hardest working and most in demand comedians. He has performed with some of the biggest names in comedy and in 2006 Jory opened for both Arj Barker & Pauly Shore, before capacity crowds at the Enmore Theatre.

Jory will also be familiar to people who listen to Triple J radio, but only if they listen at 8.40am every Saturday. That’s when he appears on Scott Dooley’s breakfast show, to present the hilarious segment ‘Dave Jory Lifts the Lid on Tinseltown’. Jory is also author of the 2001 comedy book ‘I know everything’, which Hustler Magazine said ‘has the edge over Woody Allen’.

Jory appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2005 and was a national finalist in Raw Comedy in that same year. He has also appeared Channel 10?s Joker Poker and performed twice on The Comedy Channel’s highly rated series Stand-Up Australia.
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David Smiedt (SYD)

David Smiedt was born in South Africa in 1968 and migrated to Australia at the age of 18. He spent the next three years at Macquarie University in Sydney, where he frequently used the word ‘postmodern’ erroneously and out of context. He went on to betray his sex in magazines such as Cleo, New Woman, marie claire, Cosmopolitan and ELLE.

His first book, Boom Boom: 100 Years of Australian Comedy, co-written with Rob Johnson, was published in 1999. Smiedt maintains a shallow illusion of quasi-bohemianism by consuming too many things he shouldn’t and too few of the things he should in the inner-city Sydney suburb where he lives with his wife and a poodle.
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Davo (QLD)

Host of “Deputy Davo’s Pig-Squeezing Country & Western Comedy Show“, showcasing some of Australia’s finest comedy talents as you’ve never seen them before! A long-time Brisbane favourite who regularly performs in Sydney as well.

Appeared on worldwide television in season 6 of the NBC show ‘Last Comic Standing’. Season 1 of ‘Standup Australia‘. Won $10,000 in 2000 at the age of 19 on channel 9?s ‘So You Want to be a Comedian‘ programme.
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Desh (QLD)

Desh, South Africa born, Queensland raised and of Indian decent brings together his unique experiences in his award winning stand up comedy. In 2002 his comic timing, smooth delivery proved an irresistible mix as he was judged the clear winner for the Raw Comedy Queensland State Final and flew to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to compete in the National Final. The following year, Desh was also a finalist in the 2003 National Green Faces comedy competition. Desh the comedian had arrived. Desh has quickly become a fixture on the Sydney and Brisbane comedy circuit and has been developing a variety of skills as a stand up comedian, writer and actor.

In 2003 Desh was a regular and popular guest performer on Channel 9?s ‘Footy Show’ and featured with the Footy Show Comedian Tours through QLD and NZ. In 2004 Desh also appeared on ‘Rove Live’. Desh was a guest panellist on Channel 7?s ‘110% Tony Squires’ and SBS’s ‘Countdown to Eurovision’ as well as featuring on thecomedychannel’s ‘Show Us Your Roots’. In addition to his work on television, Desh has regularly contributed to radio, as a guest on Triple M’s ‘Tom and Subby Show’ and SBS’s ‘Radio Alchemy’ Show.

Desh satirises the experiences and myths that continue to shaped and influenced his world: Globalisation, Rugby League, Multiculturalism, Cricket, the Environment, Urban Design, Pornography, Love, Relationships, Funk Music and Eating.
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