Hunters Hill Comedy Club - Australia's Best Comedians

Three of Australia's Best comedians.

Peter Berner - Lauded as one of the best of all time in Australia

Luke Heggie - is there an award he hasn't won.

David Smeidt - Whip, quick, smart.

Peter Berner is without a doubt one of Australia's most respected comics and broadcasters, having

performed his unique brand of comedy across Australia for nearly three decades and hosted iconic

television and radio programs.His intelligent humour has always set him apart as a performer who cancomfortably straddle comedy styles as disparate as satire, observational comedy and reactive comedy with ease.

Peter's major TV hosting roles have been ABC TV’s Backberner, The Einstein Factor, The Loaded Brush, The Comedy Channel’s You Have Been Watching, Sky News Live’s The B Team with Peter Berner and the Australian Film Institute Awards. All up he has presented more than 500 hours of national television program content in varying genres including comedy, news and documentary in live and taped environments.

On FM radio, Peter was co-host of Triple M's breakfast show, The Cage, which was networked live each day along the east coast, and has also hosted his own solo radio show, The Peter Berner Experiment.

On AM radio he hosted weekend afternoons on 2UE.

A talented artist and cartoonist, Peter is a graduate of the National Art School who has exhibited his

work in galleries across the world. In 2018 Peter was nominated as a finalist for the prestigious

Archibald Prize for his self portrait, titled Self Portrait with Hindsight. On being nominated as a finalist, Peter said, "When I received the email telling me I had been selected I confess I was stunned. Thrilled. It took a moment to sink in. And then I wondered if the Nigerians had gotten into scamming painters as anew business model. It is one of the greatest things to have happened to me.”

Peter released his first book in 2015 titled The Book of He, which was a collection of original humourous illustrations about modern life from the perspective of a very ordinary man. This was soon followed by the release of a sequel, The Book of They, in September 2017. The Book of They is an 80-page look at relationships and coupledom, complete with Berner’s brand of observational comedy.

Luke Heggie - Comic favourite Luke Heggie is known for his dry dead pan style and the ability to deliver a brand new killer comedy show year after year. He gigs relentlessly 6 or 7 nights a week and tours the biggest comedy and arts festivals in Australia and New Zealand to sell out crowds and rave reviews. Luke also has a fan base in UK by taking his harsh but fair shows about idiots to crowds at London’s Soho Theatre.

Starting out as RAW Comedy winner and going up from there Luke’s accolades include a two-time ARIA Award nominee for Best Comedy Release, the coveted ‘comic’s choice’ Piece of Wood Award at the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the 2015 Sydney Comedy Festival’s Director’s Choice Award, the 2021 Sydney Comedy Festival Best in Fest Award, and was nominated for Best Show at the 2021 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Luke Heggie’s television appearances include two of his one hour shows being aired on ABC and Channel Ten respectively, as well as performing live on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Opening Night Allstars Supershow, Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Oxfam Gala, Just for Laugh’s Stand Up Series filmed live at the Sydney Opera House for the Comedy Channel. You may have also seen him on Ten’s The Project, ABC TV’s Comedy Next Gen and Comedy Up Late.

In 2020 Luke started a Podcast with fellow comedian Nick Cody called Mid Flight Brawl, cataloguing the best all time air rage incidents, generally resulting from any old tiprat being allowed to fly now.

“Genuinely peerless. Have it.” Herald Sun, Melbourne

“...a unique, powerful, and insightful Australian comic voice...” SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

“...Deadpan genius... one of the funniest standups around.” SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

“Commandingly brisk.. relentless.” THEATRE REVIEW. (NZ)

“Deadpan sniper with no heroes.” COMEDIAN’S COMEDIAN. (UK)

“Brilliant stuff.” Herald Sun, Melbourne

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

2010 WINNER RAW COMEDY

Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2012 WINNER TIME OUT SYDNEY’S BEST COMEDIAN

2012 NOMINEE BEST NEWCOMER

Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2015 WINNER DIRECTOR’S CHOICE AWARD

Sydney Comedy Festival

2016 NOMINATION BEST COMEDY RELEASE Aria Awards

2017 WINNER COMEDIAN’S CHOICE AWARD (AKA PIECE OF

WOOD AWARD) Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2017 WINNER BEST COMEDY Adelaide Fringe Weekly Awards

2018 NOMINEE BEST COMEDY RELEASE Aria Awards

2021 Winner Best in Fest Award - Sydney Comedy Festival

David Smiedt – Described by Adam Hills, host of “Spicks and Specks” as “a living breathing joke machine” And described by Comedy Legend Joan Rivers whom David Supported on Her Australian Tour as ”So very, very funny” - Joan Rivers

A regular on television shows David is the author of seven humorous books and writes for a wide range of over 30 magazines including, Virgin Airline Mag, Elle, Home Beautiful, Cleo, Men's Health, Women's Health, Body & Soul, Sunday Style and Vogue where he specialises in a humorous take on style health trends and celebrity profiles. Aside from being the current grooming editor for GQ magazine he is the only journalist in Australian publishing history to be in concurrent issues of lads-mag Ralph and Your Garden. Topical and charming, David’s comedy will entertain and uplift.

His affability and easy charm coupled with sharp wit and fearless crowd work have made Smiedt the comedian of choice for rooms of all sizes from the Comedy Store to myriad pubs, and corporate functions.” – Chris Hook - The Daily Telegraph 2015

“A comic whom your mother would love.” – Helen Razer, the Melbourne Age

“Stylish and funny” – The Sunday

“Refreshing, sincere and engaging.” – Rip It Up

“Think Dorothy Parker meets Graham Kennedy.” – TalkFringe

“Disarmingly charming” – The Adelaide Advertiser.

“He captured the entire audience in the first five minutes of the show and had them eating out of his hands.” – Funny Tonne, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival

“Make an appointment to meet David Smiedt. If the post-show buzz is anything to go by, a lot more people are going to want to meet him.” –The Pun.

“Sharp dressed, sharp minded and very affable.” – DB Magazine

“A name to remember.” – Comedy Beast magazine

“The energetic Smiedt as MC does a fine line in disarming self-deprecation, charming the audience with amusing trivia then slipping in neat puns and barbed twists.” – Gaggingforit.com.au

“So very, very funny” - Joan Rivers (US Comedy Legend, David supported on her Australian theatre tour)