Troy Kinne

Biography

TOPICS: MC, COMEDY

Troy is often recognized from his performance on. The Search for Australia’s Funniest Man DVD featured with FHM magazine in Jan 2006. Troy had been performing stand up comedy for less than a year prior to this performance and has since won almost every young comic competition in the country. Among which was the You Gotta Be Joking competition at the Comic’s Lounge in Melbourne. This win saw Troy receive the prize of a trip to New York to attend the American Institute of Comedy. In only six weeks Troy managed to impress enough of the right people to earn him comedy spots at world famous comedy clubs Caroline’s on Broadway, Stand Up New York and Gotham Comedy club.

Since returning from New York, Troy has appeared on The Comedy Channel’s Stand Up Australia and Comedy Gold, C31’s Comic’s Lounge Live, and Hughsie Kate and Dave’s Wednesday Wacky segment on Nova 100. He has recently worked for MIX FM and GOLD FM in Melbourne as part of the on air promotional street teams, during which he performed different on air roles such as Bachelor. The Troy, Rocketman, the Time Keeper and even Santa Clause.

As well as performing regularly at comedy clubs and sporting clubs around the country, Troy has been requested for many charity, corporate and Christmas functions, performed for workers at over 50 of Western Australia’s Mining Camps, and has recently returned from East Timor where he spent two weeks entertaining the Troops of Australia’s Armed Defense Forces.

Based in VIC – travels everywhere