EXCLUSIVE MANAGEMENT FOR:   DAVE HUGHES Stand Up Comedian/Broadcaster

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Dave Hughes is perhaps one of the most important and significant talents to have emerged from the Australian comedy scene in the last ten years. A natural and unmistakably Australian comic, Dave’s laconic style thinly disguises one of the fastest comic minds this country has ever seen.

"Hughes has become one of the most appealing, and most powerful comics around." Sydney Morning Herald

It was at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 1999 that Hughesy was forced to move from a tiny upstairs city bar into a 300-seat room at the Melbourne Town Hall. Word had started to spread about this impossibly laid back guy from Warrnambool.

Since 1999 the word has spread even further and Hughesy has become one of the biggest and most loved names in Australian stand up comedy. Honest and imperfect is how Australians like their comedy and Dave Hughes delivers exactly that in spades.

"Dave Hughes is one of the funniest men in a city that has produced many of Australia's funniest people." Sunday Telegraph, Sydney

Along with Kate Langbroek, Hughesy makes up Melbourne’s Nova 100 breakfast team.  And if that’s not enough, he can be seen on Network Ten’s Before the Game during the AFL footy season, and also on the highly successful light-entertainment program, Rove.

His very first DVD, aptly titled Dave Hughes LIVE was released in September 2006 through Liberation Music.

The most powerful testimony to Dave’s talent is his enduring popularity with audiences. He has over the course of the last five years become one of the highest selling Australian comedy acts in the country. He will hit the road in  2009, with his latest solo show offering, Dave Hughes is Handy.

"Hughes is skilled, appealing to all and always in control. Excellent." The Age, Melbourne

Television

2009

Good News Week (Panellist)

Network TEN
2009 2009 Superbowl broadcast
(commentator)
Network TEN
2008 Spicks and Specks (Contestant) ABC-TV
2007-NOW

ROVE (Core Cast Member)

Network TEN
2004-NOW Before The Game
(Core Cast Member + Writer)
Network TEN
2007-08 Spicks and Specks (contestant) ABC-TV
2007 ROVE LIVE from Los Angeles
(Core cast member)
Network TEN
2007 Thank God You’re Here (Contestant) Network TEN
2007 The TAC Grand Final Breakfast (Host) Network TEN
2007 The Sideshow (Stand Up Spot) ABC-TV
2007 The Logies (Key Presenter) Nine Network
2007 20-1 (Interview) Nine Network
2007 The Dave Hughes Special Nine Network
2001-06 The Glass House
(Weekly Cast Member)
ABC-TV
2006 ARIA Awards Hall of Fame
(Host)
Channel V
2006 Australia's Brainiest Comedian
(Contestant)
Network TEN
2006 Rove Live
(Stand Up Appearance)
Network TEN
2006 Temptation
Comedian Special (Guest)
Nine Network
2005-07 ARIA Awards
(Presenter)
Network TEN
2005 Seriously Funny
(Interview)
Network TEN
2005 Essendon Vs Carlton
Wizard Cup (Guest Commentator)
Network TEN
2004 Enough Rope with Andrew Denton (Interview) ABC-TV
2004 TV Week Logie Awards
(Award Presenter)
Nine Network
2004 World Comedy Unplugged
(Stand Up Appearance)
Nine Network
2003 After The Game
(Panellist with Peter Helliar)
Network TEN
2003 Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala
(Host)
Network TEN
2002 Raw Comedy Final
(Host with Corinne Grant
& Wil Anderson)
ABC-TV
2001-06 Melbourne Comedy
Festival Gala
(Stand up
comedy appearance x 4)
Network TEN
2001 Raw Comedy National Final
(Host)
ABC-TV
2001 Rove Live
(Stand up comedy appearance)
Network TEN
2000-01 GNW Debate Network TEN
2000 The Fat
(Regular panellist)
ABC-TV
2000 The Java Lounge
(Weekly segment)
thecomedychannel
2000 Good News Week
(Regular panellist)
Nine Network
2000 The Russell Gilbert Show
(Stand up comedy appearance/special reports)
Nine Network
1999-00 Melbourne Comedy
Festival Gala
(Stand up
comedy appearances x 2)
Nine Network
1999-01 The Big Smooze
(Various interviews and
panel appearances)
thecomedychannel
1999 World Cup Comedy Seven Network
1998 Hey Hey it's Saturday
(Stand up comedy appearances)
Nine Network
1997 IMT
(Stand up comedy appearance)
Nine Network

Radio

2002-Now NOVA 100 Breakfast Show
(Host with Kate Langbroek)
NOVA 100
2001 The Dave and Dave Show
(Host with Dave O'Neil every Saturday morning)
Triple M Melbourne
2000 Networked nationally on drive shifts (Regular segment) Triple M
1999-00 The Breakfasters (Regular segment) Triple R
1999-00 Crud (Regular segment) Triple M Melbourne
** Dave has also made various publicity appearances on a variety of radio networks.

Live Shows

2008

Cranky
Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2007-08 Hughesy Goes Bananas
Solo Show
National Tour2007 Dave Hughes Live! – Solo showWalkabout, London, UK
2006-07

Hughesy Rides Again
Solo Show
Thebarton Theatre - Adelaide Fringe Festival - Athenaeum Theatre - Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Theatre Royal - Hobart, Princess Theatre - Launceston, The Enmore Theatre - Sydney, Brisbane Convention Centre - Brisbane, Civic Theatre - Newcastle, WIN Entertainment Centre - Wollongong, Regal Theatre - Perth

2006

Dave Hughes Live
Solo Show
Victorian Regional Tour

2005 Dave Hughes Live
Solo Show
Victorian Regional Tour
2004-05 Tasty
Solo Show
The Enmore Theatre - Sydney, Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2003 High Voltage
Solo Show
Sydney, The Enmore Theatre
2003 Massive
Solo show
WA Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2002 Whatever
Solo show
Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Store.
2001 Full On
Solo show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival.
2000 Super Toasty Loaf
Solo show
Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Valhalla Cinema - Sydney.
1999 Lying To The Government
Solo show
Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
1999 Bone Idle
Solo show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
1998 Revolution
Solo show Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
1997 Facing Reality
Solo show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
1996 Hughesy And Friends Are Lying To The Government
Solo show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Corporate

Various clients including Bakers Delight, Columbus Line, Fujitsu, the Gippsland Business Awards, Microsoft, National Australia Bank, Coles Myer, IMA Insurance, Telstra, Collingwood Football Club, Elite Sports Properties, AFL, AGL, Telstra, Australian DVD Awards, The Herald Sun, Clemengers, IMA Insurance.

Awards

2007

Winner of ARIA Awards for Best Comedy Release

2003 Award for Outstanding Radio Comedy Performance: Hughesy, Kate and Dave - Australian Comedy Awards2003
2003 Nominated for the Australian Commercial Radio Awards Best-On-Air Team with Kate Langbroek & Dave O'Neil for the NOVA 100 Breakfast Show.
2003 Nominated for the ARIA Best Comedy Album Award for Whatever.
2002 Winner of the RAWARDS Best On-Air Team with Kate Langbroek & Dave o'Neil for the NOVA 100 Breakfast Show
2000 Nominated for the Campus Activities Victoria Best Comedy Act Award.
1999 Nominated for the Stella Award for Best Show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival for Bone Idle.
1999 Nominated for the Campus Activities Victoria Best Comedy Act Award.

Recordings

2006 Release of Dave Hughes Live through Liberation/Warner Music
2002 Release of Whatever released through Liberation/Warner Music.
2001 Release of the Melbourne Comedy Festival CD compilation through Rubber Music, distributed by BMG Australia.

Writing

2007

Herald Sun – Weekly Election Campaign Column

2007 Herald-Sun Fortnightly Opinion Page Column

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Last Updated:  February 2009