AN ALMOST COMPLETELY TRUE BIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE LISTIES

The Listies are Richard Higgins and Matthew Kelly, a comedy double act who are serious about being silly. They formed during the latest Ice Age to perform absurdist comedy to herds of adult megafauna by fire light, they switched to kids comedy in 2010 and never looked back.

To date, they have claimed to have written nine award-winning and critically acclaimed live shows, recorded three albums, and published two books with Penguin - though we have to take their word for it. On Australian television you can see them on ABC TV with their show The Listies Work For Peanuts, and occasionally in the background of outside news broadcasts.

In 2019 they have performed over 120 shows to tens of thousands of people all over Australia. Nearly all of them stayed awake and only some of them vomited. Recently in what may have been administrative error they won the Edinburgh Festival’s ‘Primary Times award for Best Production for Children’. In the past they have received a Sydney Theatre Award, 'The HarperCollins Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book', and the Best Independent show (Golden Gibbo Award) at Melbourne Comedy Festival, what can we say - the bribery seems to have worked.

Check out The Listies' website to learn more.