LOL Comedy @ Cronulla Golf – 23 MAR 23
7:30pm Showtime
Dinner from 5:30pm
Dinner Bookings – 95232266
This is the opening night for monthly comedy at Cronulla Golf Club. This venue is the premiere golf club in the shire, now it becomes the home of comedy for the best professional comedian’s in Australia.
Fully licensed bar with amazing drinks and cocktails
Limited Seating – Tickets $35 per person
Nulla Bar – Cronulla Golf Club
The Show
Gary Eck – Headliner
Gary Eck is one of Australia’s most popular & versatile stand-up comedians whose sharp wit has been entertaining Australian and international audiences for nearly two decades. He is also an accomplished writer, actor and director. A graduate of Canberra University with a BA in Marketing and Advertising, Gary’s career has taken him all round the world from Edinburgh to Paris to New York and London.
Gary has performed his stand-up accompanied by a Live Orchestra, emceed the Myer Spring Summer Launch with Jennifer Hawkins and appeared on numerous television shows including Rove, The Footy Show, Spicks and Specks and was weekly guest on Mick Molloy’s The Nation on Channel Nine.
Gary has also successfully ventured into film having co-starred and co-written the feature film You Can’t Stop the Murders(Miramax 2003) and starred in the film BoyTown alongside Mick Molloy and Glenn Robbins.
Gary has won the world’s largest short film competition, Tropfest, with his short film entitled The Money (2004). A collection of Gary’s shorts recently screened in a special one-hour programme on the Comedy Channel entitled, Ecks Rated Shorts.
In 2010, along with Academy Award-winning director George Miller, Gary also co-wrote and co-directed the feature animation, Happy Feet Two.
Simon Kennedy – MC
Simon Kennedy is in demand as a comedian for corporate events and the comedy circuit. He also keeps very busy as a voice-over artist, and writer for television, radio, and print.
Kennedy’s TV appearances include Stand Up Australia (The Comedy Channel), Joker Poker Series 1 & 2 (Channel 10), Today Show (Channel 9), Harry’s Practice, Home & Away (Channel 7), Thursday Night Live (ONE HD) as well as numerous television commercials for the UK and Australia. Simon was also seen as an Australian finalist in Last Comic Standing on the NBC Network in the USA. He is also developing a few TV projects of his own.
His skills as a voice artist saw Simon provide all the character voices for the award winning animated short films Atonement Tonight, a parody of the Iraq War, and Barney The Whitehouse Terrier, screening at various Academy Award qualifying festivals internationally. Also, keep an ear out for Simon’s voice in the upcoming short feature The Adventures of Roman Pilgrim by acclaimed Director Anny Slater.
Simon’s first Melbourne International Comedy Festival show was Fishing for Cigars in 2001, followed by his successful one-man show The Angina Monologues at Sydney’s famed Old Fitzroy Hotel Theatre and the 2003 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Simon can occasionally be seen treading the boards in efforts such as The Theatre Sports Celebrity Challenge (2005) at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre, Simon Kennedy Stands Up! (with a Slice of Bevan) 2006 at Brisbane’s Powerhouse Theatre and 1 NIGHT STAND a comedy gala at Newcastle’s Civic Theatre, Townsville Entertainment Centre and Sydney’s Capitol Theatre along-side Pete Rosethorn, Julia Zemiro, and many more.
In addition to hosting The Show With No Name and Kennedy & Philp on Sydney’s Nova 96.9fm, Simon was the Chief Creative Writer for the Nova Radio Network across Australia for 7 years. Simon has also provided characters and comedy sketches to Triple M Sydney.
Simon has picked up a few awards for some unknown reason too; Commercial Radio Industry Awards (‘ACRA’s) for Best Comedy Segment (1998) and Best Radio Production (2004), and again in 2006 he was a finalist for Best Comedy Segment.
Jake Howie – Feature
Sydney-based comic Jake Howie got his start on the vibrant London comedy scene. Performing regularly at some of the world’s best clubs, including Top Secret Comedy Club, Brighton Komedia and Glee Club Birmingham, Jake won the Reading Comedy Festival New Act of the Year in 2015 and placed as a finalist in the prestigious NATYS New Variety Lives Awards in 2018.
Starting out in improv, Jake went on to appear in Australasian TV commercials and a variety of professional acting work. This includes a supporting role in Auckland Theatre Company production, an episode of Jam TV’s Working Holiday and a role in New Zealand soap opera, Shortland Street. On top of this, Jake has been heard on BBC Radio 4, Talk Radio and the popular podcast, Global Pillage, as well as being seen on BBC One, Twitch TV and TVNZ.
As well as performing at comedy clubs throughout the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Jake took his debut comedy hour to the Brighton Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Leicester Comedy Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and a sell-out weekend run at The Classic in Auckland. Jake’s second hour, Cult Fiction, debuted this year at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
“Honest, hilarious and raunchy – Jake Howie is the business!” MSN.com
“Seriously funny!” – Newshub
“An engaging presence” – Chortle
“Jake is 10 comedians in one man” – Sara Pascoe
“A true comedy star…Jake Howie shines bright with killer jokes and a fresh new perspective” – Express NZ
Date
- Mar 23 2023
- Expired!
Time
- 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Cost
- $35.00
Location
- 19-27 Hume Rd, Cronulla NSW 2230
Organizer
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Cronulla Golf
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Phone
(02) 9523 6777 -
Website
https://www.cronullagolf.com.au/cms/
