Paul Livingston

Paul Livingston, (born 1956) popularly known as his alter ego Flacco, is an Australian comedian who has regularly appeared on many television shows, predominantly on ABC TV and Network Ten, including Good News Week, "The Sandman and Flacco Special", The Big Gig, DAAS Kapital, The Money or the Gun, The Fat and The Sideshow. He also was on Triple J Breakfast from 1994 to 1997 and is presently on ABC Radio National. He has also acted on stage and in film. He was joint winner of the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award in 1996 for outstanding achievement in the performing arts in Australia. Livingston also wrote the play "Emma's Nose" about the relationship of Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Fliess and their patient Emma Eckstein.

He has toured Australia and internationally and appeared at festivals in Edinburgh and Montreal, and currently works with Paul McDermott on The Sideshow.

Publications

*Flacco's burnt offerings (1995) Penguin ISBN 0-14-024782-3
*The Dirt Bath (1998), Penguin, ISBN 0-14-025622-9
*The Flacco Files, (1999), Allen and Unwin (originally in "The Australian Weekend Magazine".ISBN 1-86508-226-0
*Releasing the imbecile within : an incomplete idiot's guide (2003), Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-74114-069-2

External links

* [http://www.hlamgt.com.au/paul-livingston-flacco.htm Paul Livingston (Flacco) at HLA Management Australia]
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