Dan Ilic

Dan Ilic (born 20 November 1981) is an Australian presenter, comedian and filmmaker. He has been known for his parody work, including videos and Beaconsfield: The Musical, which he wrote, and more recently for his work on the show Hungry Beast. His mother is half Lebanese and half Italian, and his father was born in Germany to Serbian parents. He was previously head of satirical content for the digital content provider AJ+ until he was fired for misusing company materials for a failed audition for The Daily Show.

Ilic started his performing career with the Cumberland Gang Show, joining its production team as a junior producer at the age of 13 and spending 11 years performing and producing it. At Macquarie University he performed in several shows, including The Great Viagra Robbery with Heath Franklin and James Pender, which toured to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He was part of the university sketch comedy The 3rd Degree, which formed the base of Network Ten's cult sketch show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, where Ilic was a cast member, writer, animator and producer. In 2007 he started the Sydney sketch comedy club night Comicide.

Ilic worked as a reporter/presenter on the Andrew Denton-produced show Hungry Beast on ABC1 and as a writer/performer on Can of Worms on Network Ten. His production Beaconsfield: The Musical, which premiered in Melbourne in late 2008, focused on the media circus surrounding the 2006 Beaconsfield mine collapse and received strong reviews. As a director, he helmed The Comedy Channel's satirical news program The Mansion, starring Michael Chamberlin and Charlie Pickering. In December 2014 he took up a position in San Francisco as "senior producer of satire" with AJ+, part of Al Jazeera Media Network, but was sacked in 2015 after using company equipment to film an audition for The Daily Show.