Hamish Blake

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Hamish Blake

Born	Hamish Blake 11 December 1981 (1981-12-11) (age 26) Melbourne, Australia
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Hamish Blake (born 11 December 1981) is an Australian comedian from Melbourne, Australia.

[edit] Biography

Hamish Blake was educated at St Leonard's College and Caulfield Grammar School. He studied Commerce at the University of Melbourne where he drew for first place in the university's annual stand up comedy competition. There he met comedic partner Andy Lee, with whom he hosted the short lived comedy program on Australia's Seven Network, Hamish & Andy. Before this, Hamish appeared with Andy, Ryan Shelton and Duncan Campbell on Channel 31's Radio Karate, and had various spots on the radio stations FOX FM and SYN Radio. His girlfriend of three years is Anna Jennings-Edquist who was once on Neighbours.

Currently he is a regular on ABC music trivia program Spicks and Specks (where he holds the record of most appearances - 28) and shares the national (Today Network) drive-time program with Andy Lee. The radio show is very successful, scoring top positions in the radio ratings in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth^[1], with a share of around 20%. Blake also appeared on the Network Ten program Australia's Brainiest Comedian, and with Andy Lee and Rove McManus' company Roving Enterprises developed a parody current affairs program, Real Stories, which also screened on Network Ten from 22 August to 10 October. He and Andy are also regulars on Rove Live.

Blake has appeared in nine episodes of improvisational comedy show Thank God You're Here, winning twice and receiving an honourable mention and a dishonourable mention. During a Christmas episode of Spicks and Specks, he kissed Brian Mannix on the cheek before being pashed (Australian slang for a tongue kiss) by the host of the show, Adam Hills. Blake has also appeared in the British version of Thank God You're Here.

He also has a monthly column in the Australian women's magazine, Cosmopolitan and is the host of the number one drive radio show in Australia, The Hamish and Andy Show, on the Today Network nationally. The Hamish and Andy show has recently began the 'Ideas Bonanza', in order to gather the ideas of the nation for Kevin Rudd's Ideas Summit in which they are gathering ideas all over the country. The Ideas Bonanza was completed on 26th March 2008 at 5.22PM. Blake was the winner of the TV Fugly Award for Spunkiest Male TV Personality in 2008.^[2] On an episode of Rove aired 18th of May 2008, it was announced that Hamish is 6'4".