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Feature - Dave Eastgate
Dave Eastgate has gone from stunt shows to television shows, theatre to feature film and New York Comedy Clubs to the Sydney Opera House via the Tokyo Punk Scene. He has received rave reviews and has supported international comedy stars including Arj Barker, Ed Burn, Stephen K Amos, Ross Noble and Emmy Award Winner Kathy Griffin, not to mention Australian comedy greats like Carl Barron, Jimeoin and The Umbilical Brothers.
From the age of 16, Dave honed his talent performing characters and playing music in Queensland’s famous comedy clubs, theatre restaurants and theme parks. Then with an all out, high energy musical comedy routine known as the Scottish Rap, Dave won Channel 9’s classic Red Faces on Hey Hey It’s Saturday in 1999 and the stage was set.
In 2001 at the age of 21 Dave took a break from stand-up and headed to Osaka, Japan to perform as a roaming minstrel at Universal Studios Japan. Immersed in the language and the culture of Japan, Dave spent 5 years performing his own characters and music in fluent Japanese. During this time Dave also toured with local bands, performed Japanese stand-up comedy and made several television and radio appearances.
Dave would return to Australia and to Aussie stand-up comedy in 2006 and immediately make his presence felt. That year he was runner up in the prestigious Green Faces Comedy Competition National Final, was featured at The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Showcase, appeared on the Comedy Channel’s Stand Up Australia and represented Queensland at the National Theatresports Championships in Sydney’s Enmore Theatre.
Since then Dave has taken the Australian comedy scene by storm, rocking out audiences around the country with his hilariously unique brand of high energy, socially conscious stand-up comedy, characters and music. Not satisfied with just comedy clubs, Dave then lent his talents to the biggest live shows on Australian television as a scriptwriter and audience warm-up including the reality TV tri-fecta that is Big Brother, Australian Idol and So You Think You Can Dance.
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