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Jack Druce (NSW)
Jackie Loeb (SYD)
Jacques Barrett(SYD)
Jason ‘Rash’ Ryder
Jennifer Wong (SYD)
Jimmy James Eaton (WA)
Jody Ekert
Joel Ozborn
Jonas Holt (SYD)
Judith Lucy
Julia Clark
Julia Wilson
Justin D Lodge
Jack Druce (NSW)
Jack is one of our most exciting young comics, originally from Canada and living on the NSW South coast, Jack has achieved success in Standup Comedy and Comedy Film – beginning stand up as winner of the NSW Kick Start comedy competition at the ripe old age of 15.
Jack was Melbourne International Comedy Festival Raw Recruit winner for Best Newcomer in the 2007 Raw Comedy after winning the NSW State finals. In 2008 Jack was chosen to be part of the MICF’s showcase of rising stars The Comedy Zone with fellow comedians, Jaques Barrett, Lila Tillman, and Tom Ballard. Jack brings a fresh young perspective, with surprising observations that give his comedy a wide appeal.
Jack is a regular at the Comedy Store, Mic in Hand, Comedy on the Rox. Jack has also performed at the Local Laughs Comedy Club in St Kilda, and has appeared on “The Footy Show”.
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Jackie Loeb (SYD)
Jackie began her comedy career in the early 1990’s at the Sydney Comedy Store and the Harold Park Hotel, an Australian comedy institution and the training ground for many of today’s most loved and respected comedians. Since then, Jackie’s career and reputation as one of Australia’s finest working comics has gone from strength to strength.
Jackie’s style is fast-paced commentary on personal and cultural quirks interspersed with surreal tangents and punctuated by her marvellous (and hugely popular) musical impressions and original comedy songs.
A seasoned performer, in the last year alone Jackie has appeared on Stand-Up Australia, The World Stands Up for Paramount Television (UK), Joker Poker and appearances at local and international Comedy Festivals. Jackie is a regular on both the local and international Comedy Festival circuit. Jackie was also the Comedy Channel’s resident female voice-over artist for two years.
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Jacques Barrett (SYD)
Jacques has been working the Sydney scene with steady progress over the past 5 years but he’s hit his stride since 2008 and is now one of Sydney’s most sought-after MC and feature acts.
His combination of social satire and sharp original impressionistic style has put him at the forefront of the new breed of Australia’s rising stars.
He was selected for Melbourne Comedy Festival’s “Comedy Zone” in ’08 and The Festival Roadshow in ‘09. He made the Semi Finals of Raw Comedy in 2006, the Grand Final of the Australian Comedy God Competition in 2005, and the final five in Rove’s Golden Nut Comedy Awards ’09. Jacques was picked for a co-hosting role on Channel 9′s late night gem Ralph TV in 2007. He also organises several comedy rooms around town with his company Wagon Productions.
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Jason ‘Rash’ Ryder
Jason ‘Rash’ Ryder is one of Australia’s most experienced performers as both a feature act and MC/host. He’s featured in all of Australia’s top live comedy venues, at universities and in festivals such as the prestigious Edinburgh Festival. He has also toured extensively through regional Australia and New Zealand, and performed in London and New York.
Nominated twice for a ‘Mo Comic of the Year Award’, Jason ‘Rash’ Ryder is also a familiar face on Australian television, with appearances on The Russell Gilbert Show, and Home & Away (as a bikie punk/ mafia dude) to name but two.
You may have also seen him as the presenter on Foxtel’s Nude Surfing and Desperate & Dateless – those are two separate shows by the way – and in his Comedy Channel series, Rash’s A-Z of Lying.
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Jennifer Wong
Writer and self-described comedy tadpole Jennifer Wong is happily swimming the waters of her comic apprenticeship.
Her first gig was at the Sydney Comedy Store in 2005 as part of Triple J’s national Raw Comedy competition. With a background in journalism and publishing, she decided to take comedy seriously after attending the spirit-buoying Jeez Louise women’s comedy workshop as part of the 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Since July 2006, she has performed at almost 50 open mic nights and new comic showcase events in twelve months, showing signs of a decidedly amphibious streak.
Today she’s a regular at Comedy on the Rox and the Sydney Comedy Store’s new comics nights. She is currently writing for the 2008 series return of Good News Week on Channel 10, and has written and performed at corporate and fundraising events. Her work is played on Australia’s longest running comedy program ‘Home Grown Humour’, which is broadcast to 60 stations across the country.
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Jimmy James Eaton (WA)
Jimmy was a 2003 Triple J Raw comedy national finalist and performed at the 2003 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He is one of WA..s most recognizable and talented improv comedians, he is a star of The Big HOO-HAA, WA’s premier live improv comedy show that has been running every Saturday night for the last four years.
He has supported the likes of Greg Fleet, Dave Callan, Akmal Sali, and Pommy Johnston just to name a few, and has also collaborated with comedians such as Tim Minchin, Jimeoin, Red Simons, Tim Ferguson and WA’s Xavier Michelides, Andrea Gibbs, Claire Hooper and Andrew Horrabin.
Jimmy was the 2006 WA Media Guild’s People’s Choice Award winner for his comedy interview segment ‘Eaton Alive’ on ABC TV’s program ‘How The Quest Was Won’ and aired every Friday at 6:30PM in 2005. In 2004 he was as a presenter on Foxtel’s Channel V as Mystery Jimmy. He was an announcer on Perth’s NOVA937 and he is a regular guest on ‘The Dead Set’, a weekly comedy-based variety show on RTRFM (RRR’s equivalent) in Perth.
He also runs and manages Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den, Perth’s best selling comedy theatre venue, above the Brisbane Hotel, in Northbridge WA.
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Jody Ekert
Jody is a Sydney based comedian, writer and events organiser. She has been performing her comedy for three years and has appeared at numerous festivals throughout Australia. She has toured her first solo comedy show, White Trash Lesbian, to Feast in Adelaide, Mardi Gras in Sydney and Brisbane Pride (where opening night was a sell-out).
Apart from her comedy she also organises and MCs the very successful Green Kitten Open Mic, which showcases community comedians, poets and writers. Her comedic opinion pieces appear in the street press, and her stand-up comedy course for beginners has been included in the program of several Sydney community colleges.
Jody has been heard on 2Day FM as a semi finalist in their Comedy God Contest, and also on RadioWise’s “Home Grown Humour”, syndicated Australia-wide. She has appeared on QueerTV on Foxtel and on various community radio programs. She was also resident comedian at Turtle Cove’s Womyn’s Week last October, as well as one of a bunch of great women at the Armidale Women’s Comedy Festival.
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Joel Ozborn
Joel Ozborn began performing comedy as street theatre, in the tradition of Robin Williams and Eddie Izzard. Joel’s performances in Circular Quay led him to win the Street Performer of the Year competition at Sydney Opera House in 1998. Since then he’s taken his stand-up comedy throughout Australia, South East Asia and America.
After winning the competition, Joel moved to America and toured extensively with comedian/magician The Amazing Jonathan, where he introduced his ‘off the wall’ comedy all over the country. ‘Off the wall’ included having a slingshot fired at his face, and squeezing his body through a tennis racket (among other things).
Upon his return to Australia in 2002, Joel was a regular in comedy clubs across the country. He performed at Sydney Opera House in 2004 and did a national theatre tour with Akmal Saleh in 2005, as well as a sellout theatre tour with American comedian Arj Barker. Joel has performed at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Sydney Cracker Comedy Festival and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Jonas Holt
Jonas Holt has been entertaining professionally since 1996. As a theme actor he has played most of the world’s favourite children’s characters – everyone from Peter Pan, Men in Black and Dracula to Superb-man, Batt-man. But big kids love him too. This talented all-rounder, described by one critic as having ‘the voice of an angel’, has regular gigs at various Sydney comedy venues, including Sydney’s Original Comedy Store.
He has the knowledge, experience, energy and instincts to entertain people.
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Judith Lucy
Judith Lucy first appeared at Le Joke in early 1989, immediately attracting great interest and acclaim for her brilliantly funny ability to take everyday experiences and boldly expose their idiosyncrasies with deliciously extravagant irony.
Her formidable reputation as a compere and her sharp as-libs and considerable improvisation skills have quickly elevated Judith to the forefront of a new generation of Australian comics. Her work in radio, television, film and her sell out national tours have made Judith Lucy a household name.
Judith regularly comperes and performs at all the major comedy venues throughout Australia and is frequently invited to perform overseas. She had her own segment on radio MMM – FM as part of the D-Generation’s Breakfast Show and is in great demand for corporate performances. In 2004 Judith Lucy was announced as the host of the 2DAY-FM Breakfast Show in Sydney, and was famously demoted and sacked the following year, which became the subject of Judith’s biggest tour yet, I Failed, which toured Australia in 2006. She plans to tour again in 2009.
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Julia Clark
Native Briton and occasional Australian, Julia Clark regards her two favourite nations through loving, amused eyes. Julia’s wry observations on the darker and sillier sides of life took her from tentative pub gigs to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Comedy Zone in less than a year, her unflinching comic style leaving many in her irreverent wake wondering, ‘did she just say that?’ She has recently moved back to London to give comedy a crack in the homeland, but plans to keep on visiting Oz regularly as long as they keep letting her back in.
- “One of the best warm ups we have seen – the tiny British bundle of nasty hilariousness that calls itself Julia Clark”
Daily Telegraph – July 28, 2009 - “Perky yet bitchy and cynical material which had the audience cackling throughout.”
The Groggy Squirrel – 3 April 2010 - “With the energy of a devilish pixie, her well-timed lonely hearts routine had the audience groaning with each raunchy punchline.”
The Australian Stage – 30 March 2010
Julia Wilson
Described by many as the toughest woman in comedy, Julia Wilson tours the world with her dubious morals, having plenty of seriously dangerous fun along the way!
This convent school girl, bouncer, accountant, stand-up comedian, whose humour refuses to be pigeonholed and personality can’t be ignored would rather live her life with bruises and scars instead of being too scared to do anything!
Whether it’s being bitten by a lion, stalked by a hippo, getting burnt by a burning hot gun cartridge, or being accosted by an armed hold up convict, Julia has aquired plenty of scars, and certainly isn’t afraid to share them with you!
Julia doesn’t just take to the stage, she owns it. Her unique style of storytelling is delivered with such honesty and at a blisteringly energising pace that a shirt full of sore ribs is guaranteed!
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Justin D Lodge
Justin D Lodge is a comedian who delves into the magical, the surreal and the fantastical. While most other comedians might occasionally dip their fingers into the realm of the imagination he literally dives in head first and almost drowns in it.
His material touches topics such as gingerbread houses, a eulogy for Humpty Dumpty, dragons, and a conversation with the man in the moon. This imaginative style has endeared him to audiences at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2005 Justin was runner-up in Triple J’s National RAW Comedy Final, and since then he has toured the UK and been featured on ‘Stand Up Australia’ on the Comedy Channel.
Justin has done MC, support and feature spots all around Australia and has supported several fine comedians including Akmal, Wil Anderson, Tom Rhodes and Andrew O’Keefe.
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