Dave
Thornton

Speaker Profile

With his accessible humour and free flowing style, Dave’s success as a comic has quickly broadened into a range of performance credits on TV, radio and stage.

Dave has been a guest on Network Ten's Talkin' 'bout Your Generation, a regular guest on Good News Week and a weekly panel member in the first season of Channel 7's The White Room in 2010. His stand-up has been televised on Good Morning Australia, Rove (Network Ten), and the Melbourne Cup special of Stand-up Australia.

He hosted the first three seasons of Channel 31's Studio A in Victoria, seeing the show through to win Best Live Show and Most Outstanding Program of The Year at the 2009 Channel 31 Antenna Awards. More recently, he has been a regular panel member and covered various stories for The 7PM Project, which has seen him interview the likes of Anne Hathaway, Owen Wilson, Jake Gyllenhall and Andy Murray.

His solo debut performance in at the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival garnered a nomination for Best Newcomer for his show 'Euromission'; he has returned to the Comedy Festival each year since, with 'Info', 'Never Sweat', 'A Different Type of Normal' and 'I Wanna Be Bruce Lee'.

Following the success of these seasons, 2009 also saw him in his debut performance at the Edinburgh Fringe with 'Allow Me To Introduce Myself'; he returned the following year with 'A Different Type of Normal', the DVD of which has just been released on DVD.

Dave's success and sell-out shows also saw him invited to the prestigious Just For Laughs festival in Montreal in 2010, as well as wrapping up his international touring for the year at the Nando's Cape Town Comedy Festival in South Africa.

Travels from Victoria