As well as comedians such as stand ups, there have been a few great Australian comedy groups and duos. They are separated as such. The highlighted ones have special pages just for them. If you know of any others, I'd be happy to find out who they are. Just e-mail me.
| Cabbage Brothers | 80s caberet act which was a forerunner to Men Who Knew Too Much.
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| Chop-Socky | Used to be on the comedy channel, ABC and 3RRR.
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| Comedy is Not Pretty | Lynda Gibson, Judith Lucy & Denise Scott
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| Como String Quartet | Yes, a string quartet notable because that's where Hung Le started off.
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| Cops On Heat | more of a show than a group, but the three in the show, Murray Fahey, John Knowles and David Callan have been known collectively as the 'cops'.
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| Crate | Have been a part of Champagne Comedy.
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| D-Generation | very popular group of people. Involved with the Late Show, the Castle, Frontline, the Panel & many more things
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| Dolphin Juice | Work on community television and MMM radio in Sydney. Consists of Darkside, Judas Falling, Barry Goldwater, Stef Torok and Bernie Tingles (aka Glenn Majurey)
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| Doug Anthony Allstars | split in 1994, consists of Paul McDermott, Tim Ferguson and Richard Fidler
Click to visit official web site Buy DAAS Gold from Chaos.com |
| Emotional People | Musical group who did a show during the 2000 Comedy Festival called "Rockothello"
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| Filthy Slurries | Four girls from Canberra
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| Flat Whites | 1980s female musical comedy act.
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| Friends of Moira | female musical act
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| Galloping Cow | Late 90s sketch group
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| God's Cowboys | John Knowles, George Catsi & David Delves - those Meat worshipping cowboy angels. appeared at the Adelaide fringe etc
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| Great Big Opera Company | two keyboardists and one singer - Jon Jackson, who has a four octave range. Popular in late 80s/early 90s, and only work very occassionally now.
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| GUD | Paul McDermott, Cameron Bruce and Phil Moriarty pick up similarly to where the Doug Anthony Allstars left off
Click to visit official web site Represented by: A-List Entertainment |
| Improzac | An improv comedy group and show consisting of Tanya Bulmer, James O'Loghlin, Adam Couper, John Knowles, and Julia Zemiro.
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| Mad Cow Comedy | extinct comedy group which Jason Starrett was a member.
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| MAHEM | Filmmaking group from Perth
Click to visit official web site Represented by: Dominica Malcolm |
| Man Bites God | Have performed at such festivals as Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne Comedy Festival
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| MSG | WA improv comedy group
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| New Joke City | Mid to late 90s sketch act made up of Greg Fleet, Marty Sheargold and Matt King.
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| Sock | Not exactly a comedy group. They actually describe themselves as an A Capella group, but in my opinion, they sing funny songs.
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| The 4 Noels | singing improv group, have appeared on triple J - actually New Zealanders but I'm going to claim them as ours like we do Russell Crowe.
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| The Dodge | (previously known as Free Fall) Melbourne bases comedy trio.
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| The Empty Pockets | Involved with Espy comedy & more
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| The Found Objects | This was a trio comprising of Frank Woodley, Colin Lane and Scott Casley. Scott left to run a bike shop in Alice Springs and the two left behind became Lano and Woodley.
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| The Gorskys | Comedy trio consisting of Liam Cody, Chris Tomkins and Jo Stanley.
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| The Hot Bagels | was a female musical act which included Libby Gore
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| The Men Who Knew Too Much |
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| The Phones | no longer together, they were the Scared Weird Little Guys and Reg Ellery (who is now in Sock)
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| The Sheryls | Singing, dancing girls who have appeared in the Melbourne Fringe & comedy festival for two years and have also appeared on Upfront 6.
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| The Whittle Family | 80s Musical/comedy act- an offshoot to 3RRR radio show Punter To Punter (from whence Trevor Marmelade came). Included Tracey Harvey and comedy writer Mitchell Fairclough amongst others.
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| Tripod | three colourful guys and a guitar
Click to visit official web site Represented by: Token Buy Tripod from Chaos.com |
| Troupe Du Jour | Impro group in Melbourne - mainly corporate work now.
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| Two-Four | Comedy group around Newcastle of which Jason Starrett is a member.
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| Vertical Smiles | extinct comedy croup. Jason Starrett was a member.
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| Authorised | John Knowles and Steve Walsh
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| Barfoot and Cantone | Craig Barfoot and Phil Cantone
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| Brian Damage and Krysstal |
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| Cliffie and Rusho | two comedians born on the same day. They were only 16 when they started in 2000 but have since broken up. They're from Victoria.
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| Cosmic Egg | Musical duo currently doing spots at the Espy.
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| Crud | Former 3RRR duo, now on commercial radio.
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| Dangerous Curves | Adelaide Improv duo consisting of Jo Coventry and Tori Hodgman.
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| Darren and Brose | Darren Chau and Brose Avard. Had a comedy show on Channel 31.
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| Flacco and the Sandman | Two characters portrayed by Paul Livingston and Steve Abbott who often do shows together.
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| Hamish and Andy | Have developed a few TV shows together
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| Lano and Woodley | have had two series of a show on the ABC
Click to visit official web site Represented by: Token Buy Lano & Woodley from Chaos.com Buy Lano & Woodley - The Island from Chaos.com Buy The Adventures of Lano & Woodley from Chaos.com Buy Lano & Woodley Sing Songs CD from Chaos.com |
| Lords of Leisure | 80s experimental duo made up of Greg Fleet and Anthony Morgan. Basically an excuse for them to drink heaps and get onstage and muck around.
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| Los Trios Ringbarkus | Comedy duo of the 1980s consisting of Steven Kearney and Neill Gladwin.
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| Martin Molloy | had a radio show and used to be on a couple of shows together
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| Merrick and Rosso | Used to be triple j radio hosts
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| Ministry of Weird | Melbourne musical duo
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| Miss Itchy | Two women, have appeared on Upfront and other things.
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| National Hero Brathers | Early 90s. Made up of two guys who are now in performance group The Men Who Knew Too Much.
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| Novak 'n Goode | WA comedy duo, have performed all over the world including London and America
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| Puppetry of the Penis | Two blokes who do 'dick tricks' on stage.
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| Roy and H.G. | triple j radio hosts and channel 7 personalities
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| Separated at Birth | NT duo. Runners up in the national final of Raw Comedy 2006. Its members are Dylan Bennett and Kadek Hobman.
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| Sista She | Hip-Hop comedy duo who formed in 2002
Click to visit official web site Represented by: Token |
| The Cabalero Kings | WA comedians, made it to the state finals of Raw comedy in 2000.
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| The Fake McCoys | Melbourne duo
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| The Laundromats | Qld's only performing musical comedy duo
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| The Scared Weird Little Guys | these two sing songs
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| The Umbilical Brothers | Have taken their unique form of mime/noise comedy all around the world
Click to visit official web site Represented by: A-List Entertainment Buy Umbilical Brothers - Speedmouse DVD from Chaos.com |
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