Tim Minchin

Tim Minchin is an Australian musician actor comedian and writer He has been performing his unique brand of musical comedy in front of appropriately excitable and ever growing audiences since starting out in South Melbournes Butterfly Club in 2005 He won the Directors Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for his breakout show Darkside and followed this later the same year with one of the most successful debut acts ever at the Edinburgh Fringe winning the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer Without wanting to go on and on about it hes done some pretty successful live shows since then often in Australia or the UK but also on the North American continent yes that includes you too Canada But not you Guatemala Maybe one day His current songs span topics such as environmentalism rationalism prejudiceism and his amour de boobsism In fact it would hardly be over the top to say that his love of boobs would be up there in the back of Platos cave in the bit thats carved out for the most perfect and complete example of the love of boobs But not in a weird way During his shows he plays the piano always nicely and oftentimes wildly and excitingly whilst looking wonderfully athletic in a pair of delightfully uncomfortable skinny jeans Tim has made many TV appearances most recently on Good News Week in Australia and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in the UK Hes also performed on radio his most recent project being Strings a brand new comedy sitcom pilot for BBC Radio 2 which he both wrote and starred in His acclaimed 9minute beat poem Storm is being animated for release in October Tim is currently writing the music and lyrics for the musical Matilda with the Royal Shakespeare Company This adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic opens in StratforduponAvon in November 2010 Tim his wife and two young children now live in London