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Andrew McClelland is an Australian comedian, writer and DJ from Melbourne, Victoria.
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Andrew McClelland is an Australian comedian, writer and DJ from Melbourne, Victoria.
McClelland has performed hour-long comedy shows around Australia, New Zealand and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival since 2003. His past shows have included Tie Her To The Tracks (2012 Moosehead recipient), Andrew McClelland’s One Man Stand (2012 Crikey's 'Best of the Fest' award), and Andrew McClelland's Somewhat Accurate History of Pirates (1550-2017) (2004 Piece of Wood Award). He is a frequent collaborator of comedian Lawrence Leung. [1]
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 'Piece of Wood' (Comedian's Choice) Award.
Sydney Comedy Festival Judges Panel Award.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Moosehead Award.
Crikey 'Best of the Fest' Award.
2004 A Somewhat Accurate History of Pirates
2005 The Somewhat Secret Secret Society Show (with Lawrence Leung)
2006 Andrew McClelland's Mix Tape
2007 Andrew McClelland's Somewhat Ambitious Solution for Making the World a Better Place
2008 Andrew McClelland's Guide to Being a Modern Gentleman
2009 Time Ninjas (with Lawrence Leung)
2010 Andrew McClelland's Somewhat Accurate History of the Fall of the Roman Empire
2011 Truth be Told
2012 One Man Stand
2012 Tie Her to the Tracks
2013 Hang the DJ
2015 Overdressed and Underwhelmed
2016 We Really Must do this Again Sometime
2018 Andrew McClelland's seated Walking Tour of Western Europe
McClelland has had numerous television appearances including Spicks and Specks (ABC), In Siberia Tonight (SBS), Stand Up Australia (The Comedy Channel), AD/BC (SBS), The Chaser's War on Everything (ABC1), The Circle (Channel 10), Slide Show (Channel 7), Tonightly with Tom Ballard (ABC), Comedy Up Late (ABC), and providing all main character voices for The Dukes of Broxtonia (ABC3). [2]
Andrew has DJd since 2003 and has been head DJ at Mr McClelland's Finishing School since 2008 and sometimes performs a children's DJing show 'Mr McClelland's Starting School.'
He was also the only support act for Cher's 2018 Australia/New Zealand tour and Robbie Williams support for a secret gig in Melbourne in 2022.
Andrew currently DJs parties and functions around Australia and internationally.
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