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Daniel Burt | |
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Comedian |
Daniel Burt is a writer and comedian from Australia, and co-host of morning radio program breakfasters on community radio station 3RRR. [1] [2]
Early in his career, Burt presented programs on SYN and Channel 31, including Pluck, The Reviewers, Raucous, and 3 Day Growth.[ citation needed ]
In 2002, he won National TREV Campus Comedy Competition. [3]
In 2005, Burt lived in New York where he interned as a writer for the Late Show with David Letterman . He spent all his savings and borrowed money from his parents just to get to New York for the interview. [4]
He returned to Melbourne in 2006 and since then has written for skitHOUSE , The Glass House , The Sideshow , Good News Week , The Einstein Factor , National Bingo Night , Hole in the Wall , Taken Out , and The Biggest Loser . [5] and The 7pm Project.
As a corporate speaker, he has entertained companies such as Vulcan Steel and BHP Billiton.
He has been a frequent columnist for The Age . [6] and was a contributor to The Green Guide.
In 2007 he wrote and presented a series of art "isms" for Sunday Arts on the ABC. [7]
Burt has acted in iSH media mobile comedy series Girl Friday and wrote and acted in The Three Day Growth, which received funding from the Australia Council, [8] Australian Film Commission, [9] and Film Victoria [10]
He has also acted on stage in The Coming of Stork by David Williamson at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival [11]
In August 2009, Burt collaborated with Catherine Deveny for 'An Evening Of Insight And Filth' a live comedy show at the Butterfly Club in South Melbourne. [12] A cocktail was created their honour. [13]
In 2010 his Melbourne Comedy Festival Show – Yes Man Syndrome was a sell out. [14]
In August 2010 Andrew Bolt described him as apparently having "...the mark of a modern messiah". [15]
Time Out online listed him as one of Melbourne's top 10 tweeters.
He performed his show 'Inspired by Mediocrity' at the 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Burt has been a writer for The Weekly with Charlie Pickering [16]
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