Damian Callinan
Stand-up comedian from Australia ๐ฆ๐บ
About Damian Callinan
Damian Callinan is an actor and comedian from Melbourne, Australia. He has performed across many mediums, including TV, film, radio and live stand-up, acting in the Australian sketch comedy television series skitHOUSE, making regular appearances on Before the Game, and joining the cast of The Newsreader. According to Wikidata he was educated at RMIT University.
Callinan has staged numerous solo comedy shows. In 2006 he presented Damian Callinan has Spaznuts at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, a show about his fertility problems, and also debuted Babysitting that year. His other solo shows include Sportsman's Night, in which he performed every role in a story about a football club gathering with no props, as well as Last Drinks, Eureka Stocktake, The Cave to the Rave: The Story of Dance and Speech Night. In 2007 he appeared in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged alongside Frank Woodley and Keith Adams, and he launched his twelfth solo show, Swing Man, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2016.
His show The Merger, commissioned by Regional Arts Victoria and Vic Health to address racism in regional communities, was first performed in 2010 and tells the story of a struggling country football club that recruits newly arrived refugees. In 2017 it received funding from Screen NSW, and director Mark Grentell reteamed with Callinan to make the film version, also called The Merger, released across Australia in 2018 and later available on Netflix. In 2015 he took The Lost WWI Diary, a black-humour comedy based on a diary discovered in a Warrnambool op-shop, to the Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Videos (60)
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0:20Skithouse s01e14 - Weekly dvd - Damian Callinan & Fiona Harris
4.1K views
0:27Skithouse s01e12 - Holding Hands - Damian Callinan & Scott Brennan
3.9K views
0:32Skithouse s01e15 - Cops look out the back - Damian Callinan, Michael Chamberlin & Roz Hammond
3.8K views
0:55Skithouse s01e02 - Therapy - Damian Callinan & Corinne Grant
3.7K views
0:48Skithouse s01e03 - Fr O'Dea's got a hickey - Damian Callinan & Scott Edgar
3.6K views
0:38Skithouse s01e04 - Threesome - Damian Callinan, Roz Hammond & Scoot Edgar
3.6K views
0:28Skithouse s01e14 - The Ferryman - Damian Callinan
3.5K views
0:32Skithouse s01e04 - cops hard rubbish - Damian Callinan, Michael Chamberlin & Scott Brennan
3.2K views
0:19Skithouse s01e15 - Body In The Boot - Damian Callinan & Tom Gleeson
2.7K views
2:44Spicks and Specks S07E10 - Featuring Damian Callinan doing 'Substitute'
2.3K views
1:13Spicks and Specks S07E16 - Damian Callinan tells the '3 year old Buchan Bar Girl story'
2K views
1:18Spicks and Specks S07E22 - Damian Callinan on how Peter Garrett lost his hair
2K views
2:30Damian Callinan as 'Troy Carrington' at Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala 2002
1.9K views
1:36'Roadtrip' - Lameroo - Shop Locally Ad
1.7K views
3:38'Roadtrip' with Mickey D & Damian Callinan - Bordertown - Serviceton Railway Station Haunting
1.5K views
0:40Spicks and Specks S07E22 - Damian Callinan on Fabrizio Buane's 'Kangaroo Love'
1.1K views
14:38Damian Callinan Live @ Pt 1 - Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow - Walkington Theatre Karatha - Pt1
1.1K views
3:42'Roadtrip' with Mickey D & Damian Callinan - Bordertown Footy Club
1K views
0:29Spicks and Specks S07E22 - Damian Callinan on Brian Adams
928 views
4:32"Roadtrip' - Lameroo Men's Shed
921 views
3:18'Roadtrip' - Footy Training With the Port Macdonell Demon's Colt's squad
867 views
0:48Damian Callinan - Skithouse - Jesus at the Wedding
854 views
2:55'Roadtrip' with Mickey D & Damian Callinan - Bordertown - Clayton Farm Museum
690 views
0:22Roadtrip - Port Macdonnell Town Challenge - Cave Diving
578 viewsGuest appearances (1)
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Frequently asked questions
Who is Damian Callinan?
He is an actor and comedian from Melbourne, Australia, who has performed across TV, film, radio and live stand-up.
What is Damian Callinan's show The Merger about?
The Merger tells the story of a struggling country football club that recruits newly arrived refugees, and was commissioned to deal with racism in regional communities.
Was The Merger made into a film?
Yes, the film version of The Merger was directed by Mark Grentell, released across Australia in 2018 and later available on Netflix.
What TV series has Damian Callinan appeared in?
He acted in the sketch comedy series skitHOUSE, made regular appearances on Before the Game, and joined the cast of The Newsreader.
What was The Lost WWI Diary?
It was a black-humour comedy based on a diary discovered in a Warrnambool op-shop, which Callinan took to the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2015.
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