Dave Thornton

Biography

Dave Thornton

With his accessible humour and free flowing style, Dave’s success as a comic has quickly broadened into a range of performance credits on TV, radio and stage.

Dave Thornton showed another side by acting in an ongoing role in ABC’s Bed of Roses,which aired in 2008, and was a regular performer on Comedy Inc. ‘“ The Late Shift 2007. His stand-up comedy has been televised on Good Morning Australia (Network TEN) and the Melbourne Cup special on Stand-up Australia (The Comedy Channel).

Most recently he performed stand-up comedy on Rove Live, was a guest on Network Ten’s Talkin’ ‘˜bout Your Generation, and The 7PM Project and will be seen on your screens in 2010 as a weekly panel member in the first season of Channel 7’s The White Room.

Dave Thornton also performs nationally in numerous comedy venues, at corporate events and universities. It was the latter that won him Campus Comedian of the Year at the 2006 Tertiary Recreation Entertainment of Victoria (TREV) awards.

Dave Thornton’s solo debut performance in at the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival garnered a nomination for ‘˜Best Newcomer’ for his show Euromission. He has returned to the Comedy Festival each year since and in 2010 toured extensively nationally and internationally with his best show to date A Different Type of Normal. Debuting at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Sydney Comedy and Montreal Just For Laughs Festival and including a return to Edinburgh, the biggest Fringe Festival in the world, Dave certainly has gained if anything a lot of Frequent Flyer points.