DICK TROUBLE!
I got a call from Dick Smith out of the blue just before christmas. “Dan, I got your number from Andrew Denton, I want to make an ad” Why not? He’s an Australian legend. Sounds like fun. So I wrote the...
View ArticleDan Ilic’s Melbourne Comedy Festival Show: On Sale Now
I’m doing my first ever Melbourne International Comedy Festival solo show. It’s going to be pretty good. It’s roughly about how and why I like to get into legal trouble doing my comedy, as well as some...
View ArticleMy Favourite 10 “Can Of Worms” sketches
It’s been an enormous privilege to work on Channel Ten’s Can Of Worms over the last couple of years. Can of Worms was a talk show where three famous Australians talk about tricky faux pas and explore...
View ArticleDAN ILIC’s GUIDE TO THE ELECTION: #C@%TASTROPHE2013
Over the last few weeks I’ve been creating stories for The Feed on SBS2 around the circus of electapoolooza 2013. Here there are as a triptych so you can elect your balls away…. THREE WORD SLOGANS THE...
View ArticleGetUp 2013: Three Videos I’m Heaps proud of
This past election season I had the great opportunity to work with the sharp brains and bleeding hearts at GetUp!. GetUp! are a fantastic non partisan lobby group who fight for progressive change in...
View ArticleIn Australia “Stupid Funny” Is Illegal
Next year I will officially have been a “comedian” for ten years and in that time I have found there is a rarer or more simple comedy treat than swapping the faces of two people in a photo, especially...
View ArticleIs this guy the world’s biggest Glasshole?
One of the biggest tech evangelists of our day, Rambotia Jones, came to Australia this month to talk at the Festival Of Dangerous Ideas, in the foyer. I managed to have a high enough Klout score to...
View ArticleThat’s a wrap for A Rational Fear (for now)
Over the last three years, myself and a motley crew of comedians have created a powerhouse brand of satirical comedy. It started off as a pub show in Kings Cross; where it quickly went from being a...
View ArticleHow to call in Sick… (Entertainment meets content)
Last month I was dropped into one of my favourite places on earth, and was forced to have 4 days of fun, in a professional context. Destination Queenstown and One Green Bean got me on board to front...
View ArticleMy best bits of work for Fusion Comedy.
Over the last 9 months, I’ve had a blast working for FUSION. With a production team of two, we’ve managed to pull off some really great work and build the fastest growing facebook page in the FMG...
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