Dave Thornton is an Australian stand-up comedian, actor, television and radio presenter. He has performed stand-up comedy throughout Australia, in Edinburgh, Singapore and New York. He has also appeared on Australian television and radio.
Nat's What I Reckon is an Australian YouTube channel featuring Nat, a Sydney-based stand-up comedian, mental health advocate, rock musician and social commentator.
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Winner Best Comedy Adelaide Fringe Weekly Awards 2018
Nominee Best Newcomer Edinburgh Fringe 2016
Nominee Best Comedy Show Perth Fringe 2016
"A sensationally entertaining hour from a comic at the peak of their powers." Herald Sun
"All killer, no filler…truly a must-see.” The Age
“Loved Nath Valvo tonight! A total natural” Graham Norton
Nath Valvo’s hilariously physical, high-energy comedy is impressing critics and winning crowds across the globe.
Nath’s comedy career skyrocketed in 2016 winning the Adelaide Fringe Weekly Best Comedy Award and his show adding 5 extra dates to meet demand in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
The same year Nath’s debut show at Edinburgh Fringe scored him a coveted Best Newcomer Nomination and praise from UK royalty Graham Norton.
Nath’s 2019 show I’m Happy For You saw him nominated for the legendary Melbourne Comedy Festival Award.
Alongside his stage career, Nath has had an impressive career in radio. In 2015 Nath hosted the Saturday Morning Breakfast Show on Nova 100 in Melbourne and now regularly appears on the KIIS FM, Nova, Fox FM, Triple M & Triple J networks.
Far from camera-shy, Nath has an equally impressive list of TV appearances under his belt having hosted ABC’s Comedy Up Late series and recorded an hour long stand up special as part of ABC’s Comedy Next Gen. Nath is the current host (2022, 2023) of Just For Laughs Australia television series for Network Ten.
Nath’s other TV credits include The Project, Show Me The Movie, Question Everything and The 100.
In 2022 Nath released his new stand up special, I’m Happy For You for Paramount Plus. In 2022 Nath impressed with his debut screenwriting credit, writing an episode for the ABC anthology series Summer Love, which is now nominated for the ACCTA Best Comedy Series award.
Based out of Melbourne, Australia, Andrew combines the learning of an scholar with the wisdom of a child. A teacher, a philosopher and a leader, Andrew prefers to be known simply as a comedian however.
In 2021, I was in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s “Comedy Zone” showcase, which showcases the top up and coming comedians. My debut solo show “Tough Guy” received 4 stars from The Age. And this year? This year I am presenting my second solo show “Hey Great To Catch Up” (tickets at the link).
I mostly post on Instagram so have a look at that.
Sam Campbell is an Australian stand-up comedian and actor. He has won The Barry award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and the main prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.
From Queensland, Campbell both performs stand-up comedy live as well as creating comedy web shows. He made a short series that was broadcast on Comedy Central Australia and guested on ABC TV’s The Checkout. In 2015 Campbell won best newcomer award then in 2018 the most outstanding show award, “The Barry”, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Campbell was the winner of the main prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his show simply entitled Comedy Show.[3] It was praised for its originality, surrealism and unexpected jokes by the judges. The show was also well received by The Times who described “a nutball, but he controls his loopiness with deceptive precision” and also said that the show was “exhausting, exhilarating and a touch of genius”. Brian Logan in The Guardian said “Campbell’s imagination produces wonderfully adhesive images.. there is now and then a core of robust observational comedy beneath Campbell’s loopiness.. None of it has anything to do with anything: it’s the incongruity, taken to uncommon lengths, that’s funny.”[6] Logan had previously commented on how Campbell had an “impish and idiosyncratic brand of comedy” and is “a maverick, not a crowd-pleaser; for a long time, indeed, he seemed wilfully to alienate his audience.” Logan highlighted the fact that Campbell’s award-winning show was only performed after midnight and only in the second half of the Edinburgh Fringe which displays an attitude which “signals nonmainstream”. The Daily Telegraph review mentioned “one-liners and absurdist whorls of madcap” delivered “with a casual, just-passing-the-time insouciance” that means the “amusement motors along so quickly, with such handbrake-turns of tone and for-the-hell-of-it bouts of recircling emphasis, it attains a runaway uncontrollable hilarity.”
In February 2023 Campbell was nominated at the UK National Comedy Awards in the best stand-up category for his show Comedy Show.
Cameron James is an award winning comedian, actor, writer and podcast guy.
With his laid back demeanour, instinctive improvisation style and seamless crowd work, Cameron has gained a reputation as one of the must-see performers on the comedy circuit today.
When it comes to podcasts, Cameron is best known as the co-host and co-creator of the ABC’s investigative mystery podcast, Finding Drago, with Alexei Toliopoulos. A comedy spin on the true crime genre, Finding Drago was nominated at the 2019 Australian Podcast award for Best TV, Film & Pop Culture Podcast, and has been described by The Australian as “tremendously bonkers” and by The AV Club as “brilliantly silly”. It’s found Cameron a cult fanbase in the UK, the US and even Sweden and South America.
You can also hear Cameron and Alexei on their weekly film podcast Total Reboot, or tune into Cameron and comedian Becky Lucas for their iTunes chart-topping podcast series, The Becky and Cam Hotline.
Cameron’s comedy career began when he was named national runner-up at the 2012 Triple J Raw Comedy Competition held at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Since then, he has toured many times across the Australian comedy festival circuit and even featured as a writer and performer with SBS’s The Feed and ABC’s Win the Week and Gruen.
In 2022, Cameron embarked on a national tour with his hilarious show, Electric Dreams. It tells the story of Cameron’s teenage years when he dreamt of becoming a famous rockstar and features performances of the cringe-inducing songs he wrote growing up in his family home.
The hysterically awkward show filled with “sweaty waves of noughties nostalgia”, was met with critical acclaim and saw Cameron take home the 2022 Sydney Comedy Festival’s Directors Choice Award and receive a nomination for Most Outstanding Show at the prestigious Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Currently, Cameron and Alexei are working with Screen Australia and the Aunty Donna team at Haven’t You Done Well Productions, to create the third instalment of the Finding series. Finding Yeezus will be released on YouTube channel, Grouse House, in late 2022.
Hola, I am Ivan Aristeguieta, the ‘Maracas from Caracas’, a Venezuelan-born
comedian, or as what Aussies call me – ‘Mexican’. I get it, we all sound the
same.
For 10 years now, I’ve lived in Australia - living amongst you, observing
you, learning about you, and now I make a very good living taking the piss out
of you. I am a true blue, dinky di Venez-stralian. Nah, she’ll be right! (Who
is she by the way?)
I left Venezuelan after I was carjacked at gunpoint (true story!). Thank you
for giving me a citizenship, Australia!
My TV Comedy credits:
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Galas (2016,
2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022)
Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival (2017).
ABC iView Sitcom, Lost in Pronunciation, a fictionalised
account of my immigration experience to Australia.
I have also been a guest panellist in numerous TV shows: Have you Been Paying Attention, The Project, The
Weekly, Celebrity Name Game, Hughesy We Have a Problem and The Living Room.
Awards and Nominations:
Best Newcomer Sydney Comedy Festival 2016
Most Outstanding Show Nominee Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2021
Comedy Specials:
Chorizo Sizzle - ABC (2016)
The Fourth Floor - Independent Production (2019)
Happy Papi - Paramount Plus (2022)
I am also a trained cook, food technologist and brewer. I’m a loud and proud
food nerd. When I’m not performing, I’m probably making my own chorizo at home,
or experimenting switching Vegemite for Miso paste. Don’t tell anybody this,
but I was making bread at home before Covid. During the pandemic I hosted “About
This Much – Live” an online ‘follow-along’ cooking party, where I
bring my kitchen to yours, via Zoom.
A host of Australia’s finest and funniest are getting together to help one of their own.
Benefit for Bedders is a huge one night only comedy spectacular for writer, producer, comedian and media personality, Steve “Bedders" Bedwell, currently dealing with the effects of early onset dementia.
Hosted by Dave O’Neil and Bev Killick and featuring Steve Vizard, Tom Gleeson, Scared Weird Little Guys, Bob Franklin, Richard Stubbs, Elliot Goblet, Tania Lacy, Hung Le, Brad Oakes, Ethel Chop, Sean Choolburra, Jeff Green, and Colin Lane (Lano & Woodley fame).
Urvi Majumdar is a Melbourne comedian on the rise, even though she’d probably make some absurd, self-deprecating joke if you mentioned it.
Having moved from India to Australia at the age of 6, Urvi has always juggled two worlds— living up to her parent’s expectations (or trying to!) whilst still trying to appear cool at all times. Urvi’s experiences add a unique flavour to her observational comedy. Balancing her dark wit and sarcasm with a contagious excitability, Urvi’s comedy values quality and connectedness above all. Her favourite drink is a sparkling red and that’s how she sees her comedy. If you haven’t tried it, go get yourself a glass!
After making it to the State finals of RAW comedy in both 2018 and 2019, Urvi went on to be hand-picked by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) for the Stand Up! Grant, awarded in conjunction with Premier Dan Andrews. For MICF 2021, Urvi did guest spots on prestigious line-up shows Up Front, Comedy Up Late, Geraldine Hickey and Friends, and 2 episodes of Comedy Rooms of Melbourne.
No stranger to sold out crowds, Urvi has also performed to packed audiences at Melbourne Writers Festival, Fringe Festival, Emerging Writers Festival and Adelaide Fringe Festival. After four highly successful shows at MICF with some of Australia’s most exciting new comics, Urvi is preparing for her greatly anticipated debut solo show Urvi Goes to an All Girls School. It will debut in 2022 starting with Adelaide Fringe Festival and MICF.
Urvi’s strength in stand-up has led to many other writing and performing opportunities on screen. She writes regularly for The Project, was in the writer's rooms for Screen Australia funded projects Emu War and Swamped, and has played Gwen Albright in two seasons of comedy series Metrosexual. Urvi also appeared as herself with her Mum in the ABC Fresh Blood series Gourmet Lazy and has had several guest spots on Triple R Radio, including a week of stepping in as a Breakfasters host.
Ty quit his full-time role as a teacher to make comedy 'happen'. Now, after returning home after midnight from gigs each night, he has to turn up to a new school each day and face a new group of kids ready to tear him down every chance they get.
After starting comedy in Melbourne, Ty moved to Darwin in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic to escape lockdown. There, he made an immediate impression on the Darwin comedy scene, hosting and headlining gigs around town and touring his debut solo show Those Who Can't Do to Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Darwin Fringe Festival and Perth FRINGE WORLD, all while juggling his role as a full-time teacher. Now, he's moving teaching to the side and putting comedy to the front, but to support himself he still has to be a Relief Teacher.