Lawrence Mooney

Lawrence Mooney (born 22 April 1965) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, and former television and radio presenter. Mooney has held various jobs including a customs officer, cleaner, salesman, furniture polisher and collecting golf balls at a driving range, before becoming a stand-up comic. He hosted the drive time show on Melbourne Talk Radio. In 2016, he regularly appeared on the Triple M impersonating former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with weekly spots on the Sydney and Melbourne breakfast shows.

On 15 January 2019, Lawrence replaced The Grill Team for Sydney Breakfast on Triple M with Moonman in the Morning, alongside Gus Worland, Chris Page and Jess Eva. In October 2019, Mooney won an Australian Commercial Radio Award (ACRA) for Best Entertainment Presenter in a metro market. In November 2021, Southern Cross Austereo announced that Mooney had resigned from Triple M.

Mooney is best known for his stand-up comedy career in such shows as Lawrence of Suburbia at the 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He was the winner of the Melbourne Fringe Best Comedy Award in 2011 and also made it to the semi-final in America on NBC's Last Comic Standing in 2007. He featured regularly on television series such as Spicks and Specks, Can of Worms, The Einstein Factor, Studio 10, The Project and Have You Been Paying Attention?. In 2013, Mooney became the presenter of Dirty Laundry Live, a comedy panel game show on the ABC.