15-447: The Comedy Channel was an Australian television channel from 1996 to 2020. The Comedy Channel may also refer to: The Comedy Channel The Comedy Channel (promoted on air as comedy ) was an Australian subscription television channel available on Foxtel , and Optus Television . The channel ceased broadcasting on 1 September 2020. A joint venture between Artist Services (20%), Australis Media (40%), and Foxtel (40%),
30-714: A Knockout from 2011 to 2012 alongside former Hi-5 star Charli Robinson and sports presenter Brad McEwan . Pickhaver joined Stephen Quartermain and Alisa Camplin for the Sochi Tonight show during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in February 2014, and was featured in the SBS series Who Do You Think You Are? in September 2015. Many of his television opportunities have been "alternative" sports presentation coverages of
45-735: Is both celebrating and lampooning the culture and business of rugby league in Australia. With John Doyle as Rampaging Roy Slaven , Pickhaver has appeared on television shows such as The Dream with Roy and HG , This Sporting Life , Blah Blah Blah , Club Buggery , The Channel Nine Show , Planet Norwich , Win Roy and HG's Money , The Monday Dump , The Nation Dumps , The Ice Dream with Roy and HG , The Cream , The Dream in Athens , The Memphis Trousers Half Hour , and Roy and HG's Russian Revolution . Pickhaver hosted It's
60-637: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation 's Triple J youth radio network. It was continuously on-air for a 22-year period till 2008. This Sporting Life was added to the National Film and Sound Archive 's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013. Since March 2020, the Roy and HG characters have broadcast 'Bludging on the Blindside', on ABC radio on Saturdays through the football season, a sports program whose main focus
75-533: The Kokoda Track and whose career was in the South Australian dairy industry. Pickhaver has three sisters (Jane, Anne and Mary) and a brother, Mark. Pickhaver lived on Morphett Road, Warradale, South Australia up to the age of 15, and then the family moved to the suburb of Prospect , where he lived until the age of 22. He attended Oaklands Park Primary school, Brighton Secondary School , and for
90-512: The Triple J radio comedy program This Sporting Life , and were broadcast nationwide for 22 years, leading to several successful television spinoffs. Pickhaver was born at Walwa private hospital, Myrtle Bank, South Australia , to parents Gordon Samuel Pickhaver, and Beryl Marion Rebecca Pickhaver née Skuce. His father was a World War II veteran who saw action in the Middle East and on
105-507: The American broadcast, aired completely uncensored with profanity intact. The new incarnation also premiered a lot of other Adult Swim shows including Moral Orel , Titan Maximum , Robot Chicken: Star Wars , Frisky Dingo , Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job and Childrens Hospital (airing uncensored with profanity intact), along with the latest additions but aired at a different time, Metalocalypse and The Venture Bros ,
120-521: The Comedy Channel hosted Stand Up Australia ; and H.G. Nelson , who hosts Comedy Slapdown . The Comedy Channel transferred from 4:3 to Widescreen 16:9 broadcasting on Thursday 1 April 2010 at 5:30am as part of Foxtel's plan to convert all of its channels to widescreen before the end of 2010. On 31 July 2020, it was announced that Comedy would cease broadcasting in September, alongside sister network Fox Hits , and both channels merged onto
135-526: The Fox Hits channel space as Fox Comedy . Its current-day programming was dispersed across Foxtel 's Fox8 and Fox Showcase , as well as ViacomCBS ' free-to-air 10 Shake . Greig Pickhaver Gordon Greig Pickhaver AM (born 10 February 1948) is an Australian actor, comedian and writer, who forms one half of the satirical sports comedy duo Roy and HG as the excitable sports announcer HG Nelson. The award-winning duo teamed up in 1986 for
150-567: The HG Nelson character while performing in the Melbourne radio sports comedy show Punter To Punter in the early 1980s. Pickhaver met John Doyle in 1985 while both were playing minor characters in an SBS TV show, and they teamed up as Roy (aka Rampaging Roy Slaven) and HG in 1986. Their radio comedy program This Sporting Life was broadcast initially in Sydney and later nationally on
165-541: The channel began broadcasting on the Galaxy platform, and became available on Foxtel on 1 August 1996. After the collapse of Australis in 1998, Foxtel's share of the channel increased to 80%. The channel became fully owned by Foxtel after it purchased Artist Services' (now ITV Studios Australia , formerly Granada Australia) 20% stake in August 2002. In 2006–2007, the channel moved headquarters from Sydney to Melbourne, into
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#1732782607525180-507: The last two years of high school Adelaide High School . He graduated from Flinders University and describes himself as dyslexic , having always relied heavily on memory and recall to achieve any academic results. Pickhaver performed in plays at school and at university. After a stint as a roadie for Australian rocker Billy Thorpe in the early 1970s, he became involved in the Melbourne theatre co-operative The Pram Factory. He moved into radio broadcasting on 3RRR in Melbourne and developed
195-720: The latter making it the third show with Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Harvey Birdman to have been aired on both the old and the new block. Some series that aired on Adult Swim have been released to Region 4 DVD by Madman Entertainment , including shows that have never been shown on Australian television before, such as Metalocalypse , Minoriteam , 12 oz. Mouse , Xavier Renegade Angel . The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters has also been quietly released to DVD. Comedy Channel personalities include Frank Woodley , who hosts Aussie Gold ; Tim Ross and Merrick Watts , who together host The Merrick & Rosso Show ; Cameron Knight , who amongst other things for
210-576: The programming on 1 July. The Boondocks also airs on the same channel although it is not under the Adult Swim banner and instead airs separately. Moral Orel has premiered on Australian television. Titan Maximum also premiered on 6 January 2010. Frisky Dingo joined the Comedy Channel’s "Animania" line-up as of 21 July 2010. Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job premiered on 26 January 2011 along with Childrens Hospital which unlike
225-608: The studios vacated by Fox Footy Channel . Until the launch of Comedy Central in 2016, The Comedy Channel was the only channel in Australia specifically dedicated to comedy around the clock. It primarily features stand-up comedy , sitcoms , animated comedy series , sketch comedy , comedy films, and talk shows . Started on 11 March 2008 but the comedy shows are now airing on The Comedy Channel on 11 March 2008. The block returned with Robot Chicken and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law , in March 2008, with Aqua Teen Hunger Force joining
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