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Die on Your Feet | |
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Genre | Comedy/Drama |
Created by | Greg Fleet |
Based on | Die on Your Feet (2005) (play) |
Starring | Greg Fleet Adam Hills Alan Brough Corinne Grant Steven Gates |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Running time | 28 minutes |
Original release | |
Release | 7 August – 25 September 2014 |
Die on Your Feet is an Australian television comedy series premiering on One on 7 August 2014. The eight-part series follows the story of five fictional stand-up comedians trying to make a go of it in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The main characters are played by five real life stand-up comedians, and debuted at the real MICF. [1] [2] Throughout the show, real Australian comedians are name-dropped, and real Australian comedians make cameo appearances as themselves.
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