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 Peter Helliar in his Bryan Strauchan guise during the 2008 Australian Grand Prix Celebrity Challenge |
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| Born | 16 June 1975 |
| Occupation | Comedian |
| Website www.rovedaily.com.au |
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Peter Jason Matthew Helliar (born 16 June 1975 in Melbourne) is a well known Australian comedian.
Helliar initially worked the Melbourne stand-up comedy circuit in the mid nineties, performing in various venues and the annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In 1998 he became a regular on Melbourne community television Channel 31's weekly variety show The Loft Live, hosted by Rove McManus and including other well known Melbourne comedians such as Dave Hughes, Kim Hope, and Dave Callan. He appeared as a live on-screen guest as well as scripting and recording skits for live playback.
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Alter ego
For the 2005 AFL season, Peter created an alter ego named Bryan Strauchan (aka "Strauchanie") who debuted on the television show Before the Game. The character was the last pick in the 2004 AFL national draft, and yet to get a game for his new club Collingwood.
For the role, Helliar dons a blonde mullet wig and attempts to play up an Australian bogan stereotype. The comedy is achieved by self effacing humour, putting Strauchan in situations that highlight his weight, lack of fitness and general inability whilst his egotistical personality and delusions of grandeur mean he is completely unaware of these weaknesses. The character of Strauchanie has made several subsequent appearances across different media.[original research?]
In the 2009 'EJ Whitten Legends' football match, Helliar broke his ankle late in the game after being tackled. He suggested that this could be then end of his career.
You could be seeing the end of a great career. Doctors say I won't walk again unless there's two blokes on either side of me. I will always stay involved in football; maybe even coach—Peter Hellier in the role of Bryan Strauchan
Radio
Between 1998 and 2000 he was a regular guest on the ABC's national youth network Triple J.
In 2002, the Austereo radio network signed Peter Helliar, to appear alongside TV colleagues Rove McManus and Corinne Grant on the weekly program Saturday Morning Rove, broadcasting from Fox FM every Saturday from 10 am to midday after being pre-recorded the day before. In 2004 the program moved to Friday mornings, allowing live phone callers, and was re-titled Rove Live Radio. It was discontinued at the end of 2004.
In 2004, Peter Helliar was signed to do the breakfast shift on Austereo's Sydney station 2Day FM with Judith Lucy and Kaz Cooke. The program was discontinued after its first year.
Still signed to Austereo, Peter also appeared on the Melbourne based The Arvo, a daily program broadcast out of Fox FM between 4 pm and 6 pm and networked to other capital cities. It was discontinued in June 2005.
Helliar now does his own show called Pete's Show which is on 10 am - 12 pm on Fridays.
He filled in for Merrick and Rosso, along with Rove McManus, for their breakfast daily show on Sydney's Nova 96.9 whilst they were on holiday. Helliar also recently filled in for Kate Langbroek on Hughesy & Kate on Melbourne's Nova 100, while Kate had Irritable Bowel Syndrome. It was announced by co-host Dave Hughes that Helliar would begin making appearances on the show every Thursday morning.
In 2008, Helliar began presenting the Triple M Melbourne breakfast spot with Myf Warhurst called Pete & Myf.[1][2], but the show was axed in July 2009.
References
- ^ Comedian Helliar takes on new radio gig - AAP, 4 Oct 2007
- ^ Martin's Get This gets the chop - The Age, 16 Oct 2007
External links
- Peter Helliar at the Internet Movie Database
- Token Artists management biography
- Austereo Today Network Pete's Show
- Rove official website
- Before the Game official website
- Roving Enterprises official website
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