Denise Scott

WINNER, People’s Choice Award, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2017

“Big-hearted, shamelessly entertaining” The Age, Melbourne

“Scott can help us see the funny side of any adversity” Sunday Herald Sun

Disappointments – Behind The Scenes

The Weekly: Halal Certification

Melbourne Comedy Festival Oxfam Gala 2014

Denise Scott is a highly accomplished Writer, Actor and Stand-Up comedian.

Denise is the author of two brilliant autobiographical books, All That Happened At Number 26 which was a national best-seller, and the uproariously funny The Tour. She also contributes a monthly column to the Australian Women’s Weekly magazine.

She has acted in some Australia’s favourite TV series, including Please Like Me, Jack Irish, Winners and Losers and House Husbands. In 2023 Denise will appear in the ABC’s revival of Mother and Son alongside Matt Okine.

Denise won a Helpmann award for her solo show Regrets, for which she was also awarded the Melbourne Comedy Festival’s Director’s Choice Award. She likewise won the Melbourne Comedy Festival award for Most Outstanding Show for her solo show Mother Bare which she went on to perform at Adelaide Fringe, The Brisbane Powerhouse and The Sydney Opera House. Mother Bare returned to MICF for an encore run at the Comedy Theatre and the prestigious Hamer Hall.

In recent years, she has toured extensively as part of a comedy duo with Judith Lucy. Their 2013 show The Spiral debuted at the Princess Theatre during MICF and went on to sell well over 30,000 tickets across Australia. Denise and Judith’s show Disappointments won the Melbourne Comedy Festival’s People’s Choice Award in 2017 and toured nationally in 2018. Their most recent show together Still Here toured in 2022 to sold-out theatres across Australia.

Denise is favourite guest on many of our most reputable panel shows, including Spicks and Specks, The Project, Talkin’ ‘bout Your Generation, Have You Been Paying Attention? She was a contestant-turned-co-host on 2019’s Dancing With The Stars reboot for Network Ten, and she also provides the voice for the Nine Network hit, Travel Guides.

Television
Writing
Radio
Live Shows
Recording
Awards
Corporate

Edited Highlights

2018- 2022 – Network Ten: Have You Been Paying Attention? (Regular Guest)

2017 ongoing – Nine: Travel Guides (Narrator)

2021-2022 – ABC TV: Fisk (Leslie)

2005-2021 – ABC TV: Spicks & Specks (Regular Guest)

2020 – SBS: Who Do You Think You Are? Australia (Guest)

2020 – ABC: Comedy Care Package (Host)

2018-20 – Network TEN: Hughesy, We Have A Problem (Guest)

2018-20 – Network TEN: Studio 10 (Co-Host)

2020 – ABC TV: PlaySchool Story Time (Guest)

2019 – ABC TV: The Yearly with Charlie Pickering (Drump History segment)

2019 – ABC TV: PlaySchool Story Time (guest)

2019 – Network TEN: Dancing With The Stars (Contestant

2018-19 – Network TEN: Studio 10 (Co-Host)

2018 – ABC TV: The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (Guest)

2016 – Channel 7: The Big Music Quiz (Guest)

2016 – Channel 9: Postcards (Guest)

2016 – Channel 9: House Husbands (ongoing guest)

2015 – ABC1: Jack Irish (guest, 2 episodes)

2015 – Channel 9: House Husbands (guest)

2015 – ABC1/Pivot: Please Like Me (Cameo)

2005-11, 2014 – ABC TV: Spicks and Specks (Regular guest)

2004-14 – Network TEN: MICF Oxfam Gala (Comedy spot)

You can download a full list of Television credits below

2014: All That Happened at Number 26 second edition, Hardie Grant

2012: The Tour, Hardie Grant

2009: All That Happened at Number 26, Hardie Grant

2020 – Audible/MICF: Plot Twist (Contributor)

2019-20 – Triple M: Kennedy Molloy – National Drive (regular guest appearances)

2019 – HIT Network: Hughesy & Kate (Fill in co-host)

2013-15 – Nova 100: Breakfast with Meshel and Tommy (regular guest appearances)

2006 – 2007 – Vega 91.5: Breakfast with Denise Scott, Dave O’Neil and Shaun Micallef (Co-Host)

2005 – 2 Day FM: The Arvo with Judith Lucy and Peter Helliar (Weekly Segment)

2005 – 774 ABC: Evenings with Derek Guille (Host x 3 Weeks)

2004 – 2 Day FM: The Judith Lucy Show (weekly)

Edited Highlights

2022 – Still Here with Denise Scott and Judith Lucy

National Tour: Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse

2021 CHICKSAL 500 – All female line up show

Adelaide Fringe Festival

2016-18 – Disappointments with Denise Scott and Judith Lucy
Canberra, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Perth, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney State Theatre, Newcastle, Darwin, London Soho Theatre, Brisbane, Sydney Opera House, Hobart Spiegeltent, Return Season at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2018, Spiegeltent Wollongong, Port Macquarie, Caloundra, Mackay, Wagga Wagga, Bendigo, Sutherland, Albany, Bunbury, Mandurah

2015 – Mother Bare – Solo Show
Return season at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2014 – Mother Bare – Solo Show
Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Opera House and Brisbane Powerhouse

2013 – The Spiral with Denise Scott and Judith Lucy
Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, Canberra Theatre, Concourse Theatre Chatswood, Enmore Theatre Sydney, Perth Concert Hall, Hobart, Darwin Festival

2011-12 – Regrets – Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival

2009-10 – Number 26 – Solo show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival (premiere & return seasons), Campbelltown Arts Centre, Devonport Entertainment Centre, Kingston Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane Cabaret Festival, Sydney Opera House

2007 – Up Front – Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2005 – Denise Scott Gives Good Council – Solo Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2004 – Scotty & Son – with Jordie Lane
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Albury/Wodonga Comedy Festival

You can download a full list of Live Show credits below

2011: Denise Scott – Number 26 DVD – Released and distributed by Madman

2017: Joint Winner (with Wil Anderson), People’s Choice Award – Disappointments with Denise Scott and Judith Lucy – Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2014: Winner, Barry Award – Mother Bare – Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2011: Winner Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer

2011: Winner of Melbourne International Comedy Festival Director’s Choice Award for Regrets

2009: Winner of Groggy Squirrel Critics’ Award for Number 26

2005: Nominated for the Barry Award for Best Show in the Melbourne Comedy Festival for Denise Scott Gives Good Council

2004: Nominated for the Barry Award for Best Show in the Melbourne Comedy Festival for Scotty and Son

2004: Winner of the Green Room Award (Cabaret) – Most Innovative Use of Form and Most Outstanding Cabaret Show for Comedy Is Still Not Pretty

2003: Age Critics Award – Melbourne Comedy Festival for Comedy Is Still Not Pretty

2000: Nominated for the Barry Award for Best Show in the Melbourne Comedy Festival for Suburban Riot

1999: Nominated for the Stella Award for Best Show in Melbourne Comedy Festival for Comedy Is Not Pretty, Winner of the Radio National award for Best Solo Performer in the Melbourne Fringe Festival for Extraordinary Encounters Of A Mundane Kind

Various clients including: ACT Tourism Awards, Victorian Tourism Awards, ATOM Awards, Australian Teachers Of Media, City of Moonee Valley, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, Eastern Ranges GP Association, Essendon Football Club, Fly Buys, Gippsland Business Awards, InnovationXchange Network, Lindt, Local Government Professionals (LG Pro), Melbourne Football Club, Municipal Association of Victoria, Office of Women’s Policy (Victoria), Meat and Livestock Australia, The Parramatta Eels Ladies In League, Victorian Department of Human Services ,Women’s Health Victoria, CPA Australia and Mazda.

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