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Dan Ilic is an Australian comedian, writer, performer, actor, broadcaster, and filmmaker. He is best known for his work on the sketch comedy TV show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, and writing and performing in Beaconsfield: The Musical. Dan is also a reporter/presenter on the ABC show Hungry Beast.
Performing
Ilic started his performing career with Cumberland Gang Show and eventually joined the production team in 1994 as a junior producer at the age of 13. Dan spent 11 years performing and producing Cumberland Gang Show, and in the late nineties he was also was regular fixture in Sydney amateur musical theatre scene.
At Macquarie University he performed in several shows including, Chris McDonald’s The Beatification Of Newt Berton and the Great Viagra Robbery which performed with Heath Franklin, and James Pender. The show toured to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and a short run in Canberra in 2003.
Dan Ilic was also part of the university sketch comedy The 3rd Degree which formed the base of the Network Ten’s cult sketch comedy television show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour which Dan was not only a cast member, and writer, but also animated and produced several sketches.
In 2007 he started the Sydney sketch comedy club night Comicide and in 2008 toured a “best of” the show, Comicide: Death By Funny, to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Beaconsfield: The Musical
Ilic’s production, Beaconsfield: The Musical, which premiered in Melbourne in late 2008, focused on the media circus that surrounded the events of the 2006 Beaconsfield mine collapse in which a miner was killed. The show received strong reviews,but its original title, Beaconsfield: A Musical in A Flat Minor, was strongly criticised, leading to the change in name.
Directing
Dan Ilic has filmed and produced a number of short video parodies, along with other related online work. These have included filming and editing for the Axis of Awesome’s Election ’07 Rap Battle; an anti-web censorship advertisement, Censordyne, produced for GetUp; a parody website describing a fake television series about the murder of Michael McGurk;and a parody video of the Freeview advertising campaign produced for Massage My Medium, a comedy stand-up routine featuring Ilic and Marc Fennell.
At times his work has been the subject of criticism – the Michael McGurk website was criticised for the use of the name and details of advertising agency Whybin TBWA in registering the domain, while the Freeview parody was removed from FaceBook after claims of copyright violation, as the work employed footage from the advertisement being parodied. YouTube later allowed the video to be up on the site under fair use.Similarly, his parody of the Where the bloody hell are you? advertising campaign, designed to attract tourists to Australia, received threats of legal action from Tourism Australia.Ilic was also behind Vicroads’ controversial “Don’t be a dickhead” campaign, which makes fun of “gingers” and “emos” in an attempt to create awareness of using mobile phones while driving. The campaign has been criticized for possibly undermining the Victorian government’s “Respect” agenda and contributing to school bullying.
In 2008 Ilic moved to Melbourne to direct The Mansion, a 13 part satirical news program hosted by Michael Chamberlin and Charlie Pickering for The Comedy Channel on Foxtel.
Journalism
In November 2006 Ilic joined the video production unit at Fairfax Digital in the role of a video journalist.During his freelance journalism career Dan covered many stories across Sydney and Australia. In January 2007 Dan Ilic broke what would be the biggest story of the year whilst on assignment in New York City for Fairfax Digital, the passing ofAustralian actor Heath Ledger.His breaking coverage of the story scooped all the major media outlets in Australia by forty five minutes, and continued to give coverage across the week.
Ilic returned to the USA in August 2008 to cover the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. His web show 51st State was created each day over the five days of the DNC, and was a mix of news, and comedy. One sketch involved asking the help desk at the Democratic National Convention for all of the information needed to assassinate a presidential candidate.
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RADIO:
- Medium Is The Massage Regular Segment
- Up For It (breakfast) Host
- Weekend Overhang (weekend breakfast) Host
- The Doorlist Host
- All- Nighter Host
- Up For It, Out Of the Box, Lunch, The Bridge Standby Host
- Various Sponsorship Announcements Voice
- Restoring The Balance Guest (Alan Jones)
- Mid-Dawn Guest Co-Host
- Hack Profile / Guest
- Super Request with Caroline Tran Regular Guest (Super Poet)
- Comicide Radio Host/Broadcaster
- Bondi FM
- Smart Arts Host
- Smart Arts Regular Guest
- Undercurrents Profile (New Media)
- Undercurrents Profile (Filmmaker)
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