2023 Awards MC - Joel Creasey
Joel Creasey is one of Australia’s most-popular, acclaimed and charmingly controversial stand-up comedians, radio and television presenters.
Starting stand up at only 15 years old, Joel has harnessed his outrageous wit, sass and unrivalled story telling abilities to cement himself as Australia’s undisputed ‘Crown Prince of Comedy’ and one of the most-sought after and hottest comedians in the world. Every year Joel’s live show audiences grow, as punters in the know flock for an hour of no-holds-barred belly laughs. He has cemented a reputation for slicing, dicing and smashing through celebrity and pop culture, and himself, with unflinching candour and brutal home truths. Creasey cuts through celebrity spin to tell you how it is with charm, irreverence and the ultimate payoff of epic laughs. His national tours consistently sell out and the last five years he has had to add new shows at each Festival. Joel had the honour of being appointed the official Ambassador for the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2018, with over 5,000 artists from around the country and world ascending on Adelaide for this prestigious festival.
Joel has hosted and featured in numerous televised comedy specials including Sydney’s ‘Comedy Cracker Festival’, ‘Melbourne International Festival Comedy Galas’, and Network Ten’s ‘Just For Laughs’ specials, highlighting the best of the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, where he has worked alongside such icons as Neil Patrick Harris, Sir Patrick Stewart, Jane Lynch, Ellie Kemper, Carrie Fisher, Alan Carr, Jeff Goldblum and Alan Cumming. Joel has also been a featured comedian at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival over several years, having twice now been named as “one of the highlights” of the festival by the Montreal Gazette. Joel also featured with his friend and fellow comedian, Rhys Nicholson, in the very raw and highly acclaimed comedy documentary for ABC, Gaycrashers, and had his own stand up special on ABC2. Joel has made regular appearances on countless comedy and panel shows including The Great Debate, Comedy Up Late, 20 to 1, Have You Been Paying Attention, Talkin’ About Your Generation, Spicks and Specks, The Big Music Quiz, The Project, A League of Their Own, Dirty Laundry, How Not to Behave and It’s a Date, to name but a few.
Joel took a huge leap into the radio world in 2020, becoming co-host of Australia’s number #1 national drive show ‘Kate, Tim & Joel’ on Nova. At the 2021 ACRA Awards, Joel was personally recognised with the award for Best Newcomer, and the show won Best Syndicated Australian Program and Best Networked Program.
In 2022, as well as co-host of Nova’s national drive show, Joel toured his latest stand-up show ‘Basic AF’ around the country, including Melbourne’s International Comedy Festival and Adelaide Fringe Festival. He also hosted Eurovision: Australia Decides on the Gold Coast and Eurovision Song Contest in Italy for his sixth consecutive year. Joel also starred in Tourism Western Australia’s national campaign, touring through the Bungle Bungle Range, Purnululu National Park, and Kununurra, Goonoonoorrang. Joel experienced and encouraged viewers to ‘Wander out Yonder’ in WA, his beloved home state .