Comics: P-R

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Peter Green
Peter Meisel
Phil Andrews
Rachel Berger
Ray Badran
Rebecca De Unamuno
Rob McHugh

Peter Green (SYD)

Peter is a writer for Australia’s Funniest Home Videos and until June 2007, he owned the world’s second largest ball of used clingwrap. (Now the third largest: a small American boy rolled out a 127.7kg effort, clearly becoming the fresh new record holder.)

No comedy lightweight, Peter performed his first gigs at the Harold Park hotel in 1988, and was the winner of the NSW Raw Comedy Finals in 1997. In 2004, Peter and three friends did the Last Legs Around Australia Comedy Tour, where they cycled 20 000 kilometres around Australia, performed 200 live shows, and raised $40,000 for the Cancer Council.

He has written extensively for TV, with credits on Dawn and Barry, the 2005 TV Week Logie Awards, Strictly Dancing, The Fifty Foot Show, Akmal and Friends, Austen Tayshus Australia Day Special 2006, Stand Up Australia, and O’Loghlin On Saturday Night.

Peter is currently awaiting results of a PhD submission on the DNA sequence of an immune system gene in Sea Squirts.
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Peter Meisel (SYD)

Peter makes people laugh either through his unique sense of humour or by appearing naked in his bedroom.

Peter can be seen regularly at the Laugh Garage. He has also made several appearances as a feature and/or emcee at the legendary Harold Park Hotel, Sydney’s Comedy Store, Double Bay Comedy Club, the Comedy Cellar, the Basement, the Hakoah Club, the Manly Boat Shed, the Harbourside Brassiere, the Oatley Pub, Hawkesbury Sporting Club, the Novotel in Wollongong, the Crown Hotel in Terrigal, and SJ’s and Raymond Terrace and Sydney’s Comedy Cruise in Newcastle just to name a few.

He has also performed at many corporate functions including Hitachi, Roche, the Hurstville City Council, Capital Trust, Iscar, the Australian Navy, Balmain Police, Cronulla Caringbah Football Club, the NRMA, the Erina Football Club and the Bankstown Soccer Club.
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Phil Andrews (Vic)

Residing in Frankston, Phil has a unique outlook on life as only he can see it. Taking humor from the strange things people do and the interesting questions his friends ask, Phil has been heard on Triple J as well as seen at Melbourne’s Premier venues with the likes of Tom Gleeson, Jimeon, Stephen K Amos, Justin Hamilton, Dave Thornton and many more.

After making a start in stand up comedy in 2005’s RAW comedy Phil continued on to enter in Raw 2006 as well as Search For a Funny Bone 2005 & 2006 as well as Green Faces 2006 held in Canberra as well as performing regularly in many Melbourne venues ranging from The Vault to The Comics Lounge to Young & Jacksons and making his debut in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with Lach Ryan in 2007.
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Rachel Berger

Rachel Berger is one of Australia’s most highly regarded, adept, and adaptive comedic talents, working variously as a comedian, broadcaster, novelist, columnist, agitator and television entertainer.

Political, passionate and armed only with her material, Rachel has been prowling the stand-up circuit like a tigress for 21 years. She’s taken four solo shows to the Edinburgh Festival and her dynamic presence and engagingly sharp observations have made her an extremely popular performer both live and on television, across Australia and overseas.

Her debut novel for Penguin, Whaddya Mean You’re Allergic To Rubber?, sold out faster than Santo Santoro.
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Ray Badran

Ray Badran is one of Sydney’s youngest, talented and fastest rising comics. Just after starting, he placed in the grand final of almost every comedy competition in Australia. He started getting booked and paid work very shortly after and now works for Templar Entertainment – A TV and Film production company.

With a love of fun and having a good time, Ray is a regular performer at The Laugh Garage, The Comedy Store, and many other venues.
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Rebecca De Unamuno

Rebecca is a regular on Australian television and radio. Her television credits include Comedy Inc – The Late Shift, The Election Chaser , The Glass House, Big Bite, CNNNN, Hamish and Andy, Joker Poker, Australia’s Next Top Model, Comedy Channel Promos, David Tench Tonight, You May Be Right, The Chaser’s War on Everything, Stand Up Australia and Kath and Kim.

On radio Rebecca has been the voice-over artist for the Triple J Breakfast Show and Triple M Chaser. She has been co-host of Late Night Chaser, Triple M Breakfast Show, Tom and Subby, The Shebang and is a regular guest on Thank God It’s Friday (ABC 702). Film roles include the feature film Dags and short films Muffled Love (2001 Tropfest Finalist), Tragic Love (2nd place, 2002 Tropfest) and Garbage Man (2005 Tropfest Finalist).

Rebecca has many stage credits and has been an improviser for ten years, performing regularly at Belvoir St Theatre and Enmore Theatre. She is a two-time Cranston Cup champion and was a member of the Australian team which won the Improv World Cup at the 2001 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. Rebecca was the first woman in the history of the competition to be named Player of the Tournament. In 2003 Rebecca was nominated for Most Outstanding Newcomer to Television at the inaugural Australian Comedy Awards and in 2005 was a Moosehead Award recipient for her solo improvisation show Open To Suggestion at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Rob McHugh

Rob McHugh started doing stand up comedy at age 18 and has been a regular performer on the Australian comedy scene for the last 25 years.

He was the resident MC at the Sydney Comedy store for a number of years and has had many television appearances as well as numerous writing credits including the Doug Mulray breakfast radio show and for television on Candid Camera, The Don Lane Show and You’ve Got to be Joking.

He most recently appeared on the popular Stand Up Australia programme in October 2006 for the Comedy Channel and currently teaches comedy at Sydney Community College and Eastern Suburbs Community College in between wowing audiences all over the country.

Rob is not married, nor does he have three children or live at Crookwell.
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