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Sally Kimpton
Sam Bowring
Sam Simmons
Sarah Levett
Scared Weird Little Guys
Shane Matheson
Shaun Flagg
Simon Palomares (VIC)
Subby Valentine

Sally Kimpton

Sally Kimpton delights with stand up that is clever, fun and hilarious!

2008 has been huge for this popular performer. She starred in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s ‘Extreme Blonde’, then ‘Sally Kimpton MyStar’ at the Sydney Cracker Comedy Festival. Sally was recently selected and jetted to Miami where she made the quarter finals of NBC’s ‘Last Comic Standing’.

Catch her live, and on the 4th of July in the ‘Mother of All Galas’ special on the Comedy Channel.
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Sam Bowring

Sam began performing standup comedy at the famous Harold Park Hotel in 1996 when he was 16, getting his first paid work there at 17. A finalist in the 1997 Comic of the Year Awards, he then moved to Bathurst to study. Here he ran ‘Comics Out West’, a comedy club playing throughout the central west of NSW, and also had a community radio station spot on 2MCE.

Back in Sydney he became a state finalist and then a national finalist (finishing second) in the Raw Comedy competition ’03/’04. He has been heard on TGI Fridays with Richard Glover (ABC 702) and on Triple J with Wil Anderson and Adam Spencer. Currently he is a regular on Home Grown Humour, syndicated to radio stations across Australia.

Sam has written for The Big Bite (channel 7) and Newsworld (channel 7, pilot). His published books are “Sir Joshua and the Unprofessional Dragon” (Koala Books, 97), and “In Sarah’s Dreams” (ILTS Publishing, 05). His plays include the sell out “Great Library of Earth” (01, 02) which he also directed, and “Death’s Waiting Room” (02, 03, 05).

In 2005 he produced and performed in the MICF Show Mic in Transit, the Big Laugh Festival (Sydney), the Sydney Comedy Underground DVD (commercial release) and was selected for a showcase Letterman audition at The Comedy Store. In 2006 Sam enjoyed critically acclaimed shows in both the Adelaide Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festivals (nominated for Best Emerging Comic in Adelaide, and for Best Newcomer and The Piece of Wood Award in Melbourne) and also appeared in the Moosehead Benefit Night, in front of a 1500 strong crowd in the Melbourne Town Hall.
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Sam Simmons

Sam is a multi award winning cult figure within the Australian comedy scene He has collected awards and glowing reviews, and played to sell out houses with his solo Melbourne Comedy Festival shows Tales of the Erotic Cat in 2006, and The Sex & Science of Boredom in 2007. Tales of the Erotic Cat picked up a prestigious nomination for the Barry Award for Most Outstanding Show.

Joyous on the radiowaves, Sam has made Triple J his own. 2008 sees him take over the helm of the Weekend Breakfast Show as well as popping up on the weekday Breakfast and Drive Shows with his mischievous antics.
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Sarah Levett

Sarah Levett is a comedian, actor and radio/TV presenter.

Sarah has performed regularly at Sydney’s major stand-up venues since 1998. For the last few years Sarah was working for Nova 969 as part of the “street team” (Casanovas) where she would write and deliver crosses that went to air, drawing on her improvisation, writing, comedy writing and of course performance skills. She was also a regular MC for Nova events.

Sarah made the move down south in early 2008 and is now the Co-Host of the new K-ROCK Breakfast show in Geelong – “The Sarah and Matt Show” – 6-9am weekdays.
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Scared Weird Little Guys

The Scared Weird Little Guys are John Chaplin-Fleming and Rusty Berther. They burst on to the vibrant Melbourne comedy scene in a frenzy of harmony, hilarity and broken guitar strings in July 1990.

Since then the Scaredies have been consistently touring, recording, doing radio and television appearances and playing at Festival programs, corporate and private functions, public seasons, comedy clubs, childrens festivals and public humiliations.
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Seizure Kaiser

Slighty psychotic demon comedian – Seizure performs around Sydney and MCs the International House of Comedy show at Newtown‘s Town Hall Hotel. He is the creator of the “60 in 60? concept, where 60 comedians get up and each throw just exactly one minute’s worth of one-liners at the audience.
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Shane Matheson

A regular on the Sydney scene and state finalist in Raw comedy twice, Shane comes from a background in radio and theatre.

As part of the 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival show “The Zinger Machine”, Shane was described as a “comedy genius” and a “comedic loose cannon” in a review by the Groggy Squirrel.

Shane has a surreal yet approachable style, involving a huge array of topics, quirky songs and a cheeky manner that, although amazingly odd, doesn’t serve to alienate the audience but to invite them on a rather silly journey.
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Shaun Flagg

As heard on Sydney’s Triple M, Shaun Flagg is a former Sydney Comic of the Year, Legends of Laughter champion and National Green Faces Finalist. Shaun comes highly awarded, and after seeing his honest act and laidback style, this will be of no surprise.

A bush boy through and through, Shaun keeps it simple, straight and honest. Works by the slogan, ‘telling people the other way it is’.
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Simon Palomares (VIC)

Simon Palomares is one of the most influential performers in Australian comedy as one of the creators and stars of Wogs Out of Work and Acropolis Now, as well as being one of the most sought after stand up comedians and corporate speakers in the country.

He has performed comedy shows in the United States and Canada, including Gangster Apparel in New York with George Kapiniaris. More recently, Palomares has toured Australia in a combination cooking program and stand-up comedy show called Palomares Cooks Calamares.

Simon also has an extensive list of acting credits.
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Subby Valentine

Subby Valentine is one of Sydney’s most experienced, versatile and successful comedians. Working in all areas of comedy, Subby’s abilities extend beyond stand-up comedy into the areas of television and radio writing, sketch comedy acting and writing, radio program presentation and as a television host and guest panelist.

Subby has been with 2DAYFM as the writer for the Morning Crew with Wendy Harmer and Greg Fleet, then onto the Triple M Network on-air firstly with a weekend show and then onto the Tom and Subby Show. The show is an incarnation of the ‘Tom and Subby’ show which aired on Triple J Nationally throughout 2002 and 2003. Subby has also contributed successfully as a writer to the cult hit Network 10 sketch comedy program ‘SkitHouse’, as well as being a contributing writer for Music Max and Channel V.

Subby emerged in the late 90?s and has worked in almost all genres of comedy. Not only a very successful stand-up comedian who has toured throughout Australia extensively, Subby has also worked extensively on television, appearing as a guest on ABC’s ‘The Fat’ and ‘The Glasshouse’, he was also the Host of SBS’s ‘The Mens Room’, the Cartoon Networks ‘ Electoon’ campaign and Antonia Kidman’s ‘The Little Things’ series on Fox 8.
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