Mick Molloy

Mick Molloy
Born	July 11, 1966 (1966-07-11) (age 45) Canberra, Australia
Occupation	Comedian, Writer & Producer

Michael "Mick" Molloy (born 11 July 1966 in Canberra) is an Australian comedian, writer and producer who has been active in the fields of radio, television, stand-up and film.

Biography

Molloy grew up in the Australian Capital Territory before moving to Melbourne in the mid 1980s to study performing arts at the University of Melbourne where he wrote his and performed in his first live act in 1987. He also attended Maroondah Secondary College.^[1] It was also during this time that he met the Australian comedy troupe The D-Generation (the future cast of The Late Show, members of which would later form Working Dog Productions and with whom Mick would collaborate on several projects).

Molloy worked with the D-Generation as a writer-performer on their 1988 Seven Network specials (he had auditioned for the D-Gen in 1986, but it wasn’t until the troupe saw him in the 1987 Melbourne University revue, Laminex on the Rocks, that they signed him up). He also worked as a writer on the ABC's The Gerry Connolly Show (1988) and Network Ten series, The Comedy Company in its 1989 season. After writing and performing on The D-Generation Breakfast Show on Triple M radio from 1990 to 1992, teaming up with Tony Martin for Triple M’s Bulltwang (1990) and working on the (unscreened) pilots for The Late Show for the Nine Network (1990), Molloy was on board ABC TV’s The Late Show (1992–1993) as a writer/performer. As well as pairing up with Tony Martin for each episode’s introduction and the Street Interviews segment, Mick co-hosted the segments Muckrakers with Jason Stephens and Commercial Crimestoppers with Santo Cilauro, played the thick-witted assistant of stuntman Rob Sitch in Shitscared, and performed in countless sketches (he provided the voices of Sergeant Olden in The Olden Days and Chief Chromedome in Bargearse). Molloy also delivered a series of volatile rants in the Mick’s Serve part of Late Show News.

After the programme finished, Mick developed, with Tony Martin, the successful Austereo radio programme Martin/Molloy (1995–98), which produced three ARIA award winning compilation albums, The Brown Album (1995), Poop Chute (1996) and Eat Your Peas (1998). Mick occasionally appeared with his former D-Gen cohorts on Network Ten’s The Panel (1998–2004).

Molloy landed his own late-night TV show, The Mick Molloy Show, which premiered on the Nine Network in 1999. Planned to run for twenty episodes, it was slated by the critics and cancelled after only eight, but Molloy bounced back with a video release entitled Shonky Golf with Mick Molloy and he directed the feature-length documentary Tackle Happy (2000). He played Kim's dad Gary Poole on Kath & Kim (2003–04) and co-starred, with David Wenham, in two Murray Whelan telemovies, Stiff and The Brush-Off (both 2004). He hosted another radio show, Tough Love with Mick Molloy (2004–06) on Triple M alongside Robyn Butler and Richard Molloy,^[2] and a TV show, Any Given Sunday with Nicole Livingstone on the Nine Network in 2006. He was involved in the 2006 Commonwealth Games coverage on the Nine Network, as a commentator for the lawn bowls events.^[3]

He has starred in three movies, Crackerjack (2002)^[4] (which he also co-wrote, receiving an AFI nomination), Tony Martin's Bad Eggs (2003), and BoyTown (2006), which, like Crackerjack, he co-wrote with his brother Richard Molloy. In the 2006 Australian feature film Macbeth, Molloy played Brown; it was the second time he has appeared in a production of Macbeth.

In 2007, Molloy filmed a pilot of The Nation, a weekly late-night news-based comedy hour on the Nine Network. The show debuted on 5 June,^[5] but struggled for ratings, attracting only 575,000 viewers nationally for its fourth show.^[6] Originally it was on Tuesdays at 9:30 pm, but was moved to Wednesdays at 10:30 pm and has been off air since the end of August 2007.

In 2008 it was announced that Molloy would replace Peter Helliar on the panel of Channel 10's Before the Game, an AFL themed show, after Helliar had discontinued his position post-2007. On the show, his views as a keen supporter of the Richmond Football Club (Tigers) are often made clear. Molloy is one of the club's more prominent supporters and as well as appearing on the Before the Game, he has in the past appeared in a club membership advertising campaigns. In June 2008, Molloy made comments on the show regarding Nicole Cornes, the wife of former Adelaide coach Graham Cornes, in which he suggested she had slept with footballer Stuart Dew. Nicole Cornes sued the Ten Network for defamation, and was awarded AUD$85,000 in July 2011.^[7]

Molloy was the long-term partner of actress Sophie Lee during the 1990s (Lee regularly appeared on Molloy's nationally syndicated radio show, as well as playing Tracey Kerrigan in the film The Castle, which was made by Molloy's former D-Gen cohorts).

In February 2010 it was announced that Molloy and Eddie McGuire would be investigated by the NSW Anti-discrimination board following complaints that their on air coverage of the Vancouver Winter Olympics men's figure skating contained homophobic remarks.^[8]

In 2011, Molloy returned to radio and to Melbourne's Triple M, as a permanent member of The Hot Breakfast.^[9] He is also appearing after 8am (due to day light savings time differences) on Triple M Brisbane's The Grill Team.^[10]

Television

• The D-Generation Goes Commercial (1988) – Various – (also writer)
• The Gerry Connolly Show (1988) – (writer only)
• The Comedy Company (1989) – Various – (also writer)
• The Late Show (1992–93) – Himself/Various – (also writer)
• The Mick Molloy Show (1999) – Himself – (also writer/producer)
• Kath & Kim (2003) – Gary Poole (2 eps)
• Stiff (2004) – Angelo Agnelli
• The Brush-Off (1996) – Angelo Agnelli
• Any Given Sunday (2006) – Himself
• The Nation (2007) – Himself – (also writer/producer)
• "Before The Game" (2008–) – Himself
• The Jesters (2009–) – Dave Davies

Movies

• Tackle Happy (2000) – Himself – (also director/producer)
• Crackerjack (2002) – Jack Simpson – (also writer/producer)
• Bad Eggs (2003) – Ben Kinnear
• Macbeth (2006) – Brown
• BoyTown (2006) – Tommy – (also writer/producer)
• BoyTown Confidential (2007) – Tommy Boy – (also writer/producer)^[11]

Radio

• The D-Generation Breakfast Show (Triple M Melbourne 1990–92)
• Bulltwang (Triple M Melbourne 1990)
• Martin/Molloy (Austereo network 1995–98)
• Tough Love with Mick Molloy (Triple M network 2004–06)
• "The Hot Breakfast" (Triple M Melbourne 2011– )
• "The Grill Team" (Triple M Sydney 2011– )

Albums

• Martin/Molloy: The Brown Album (1995) 2CD
• Martin/Molloy: Poop Chute (1996) 2CD
• Martin/Molloy: Eat Your Peas (1998) 2CD

Video/DVD only release

• Shonky Golf (1999) – Himself – (also writer/director/producer)

References

1. ^ The Many Faces of Mick
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ Mick Molloy takes on The Nation – Entertainment – brisbanetimes.com.au
4. ^ Crackerjack – smh.com.au
5. ^ Molloy hopes for nine lives, The Herald Sun 11 May 2007
6. ^ Mick Molloy's The Nation reaches series low ratings : thewest.com.au
7. ^ Mick Molloy sorry for defamation loss, Herald Sun, 7 July 2011.
8. ^ Anti-discrimination board to investigate Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy
9. ^ Mick Molloy Joins The Hot Breakfast!
10. ^ Mick Molloy joins Triple M Brisbane
11. ^ Boytown Confidential – iMDB website

External links

• Mick Molloy at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview : Web Wombat Movie Channel
• The many faces of Mick Sydney Morning Herald

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Name	Molloy, Mick
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Date of birth	11 July 1966
Place of birth	Canberra, Australia
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