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

Denise Scott
Comedian/Broadcaster/Writer/Actor/Presenter

Denise Scott is a highly accomplished writer, actor and stand-up comedian.

She has acted in some Australia’s most beloved TV series, including Please Like Me, Jack Irish, Winners and Losers and House Husbands. 2025 will see Denise back on TV in series 2 of Mother and Son alongside Matt Okine.

Denise is a comedic doyenne who has won a string of awards for her shows, most notably a Helpmann award and Melbourne Comedy Festival’s Director’s Choice Award for her solo show Regrets. She likewise won the Melbourne Comedy Festival award for Most Outstanding Show for her solo show Mother Bare.

In recent years, she has toured extensively as part of a comedy duo with Judith Lucy. Denise and Judith’s show Disappointments won the Melbourne Comedy Festival’s People’s Choice Award and toured nationally to sold-out theatres across Australia.

Denise is a favourite guest on many of Australia’s most reputable panel shows, including Spicks and SpecksThe ProjectHave You Been Paying Attention? and is the Narrator of the Nine Network hit Travel Guides, now entering its 9th Season.

  • Television
  • Writing
  • Radio
  • Live Shows
  • Recording
  • Awards
  • Corporate
Edited Highlights

2023- 2025 – ABC: Mother and Son (Role of Maggie)

2017 ongoing – Nine: Travel Guides (Narrator)

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

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)

 

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.