Karl Chandler | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Australia |
Occupation(s) | Writer and entertainer |
Website | karlchandler.com.au |
Karl Chandler (born 30 March 1976) is an Australian writer and light entertainer. [1] He used to co-host the popular comedy podcast The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy Dassalo. [2] [3] [4] [5] Chandler grew up in the small rural Victorian town of Maryborough. He has written for many TV shows, like Hard Quiz , Spicks and Specks , and The Project , and written and been part of the cast for shows like Studio A .
In 2011, Chandler collated and published a book called Funny Buggers: The Best Lines from Australian Stand-up Comedy, a collection of jokes from iconic Australian comedians like as Greg Fleet, Tom Gleeson and Dave O'Neil. [6]
In 2014, Chandler auditioned for Australia's Got Talent, but did not make it past the audition stage. [7] This experience served as the basis of the material for his 2014 comedy hour, Karl Chandler's Got Talent. [8]
Chandler has run many comedy rooms in Melbourne, such as Comedy at Spleen on Monday nights (previously co-run with Steele Saunders), Thursday Comedy Club on Thursday nights, and Basement Comedy Club on Saturday nights.[ citation needed ]
On 2 September 2017, Chandler married his then fiancée Diane, who he had been in a relationship with for 10 years. [9]
He is currently working on pre-production for Phunny Phellas, a comedy program for commercial television audiences.[ citation needed ]
Year [12] | Title | No. of episodes |
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2010 | The White Room | 2 |
2010 | Good News Week | 3 |
2011 | The Back Room | 1 |
2011-2020 | The Project | 1911 |
2012 | You're Skitting Me | 13 |
2013 | This Week Live | 13 |
2013 | A League of Their Own | 10 |
2014 | Spicks and Specks | 49 |
2014 | This is Littleton | 4 |
2015 | Dirty Laundry Live | 12 |
2017 | 20 to One | 5 |
2017 | Dr Karl's Outrageous Acts of Science | 10 |
2018 | The Weekly with Charlie Pickering | 20 |
2018 | Hard Quiz | 21 |
2019 | Squinters | 6 |
2020 | Kinne Tonight | 7 |
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