Matthew Okine

Matthew Okine (born 12 April 1985), known as Matt Okine, is a stand-up comedian, author and radio presenter from Brisbane, Australia. He is of Ghanaian and European descent, born to his father Mack Okine and his mother Roslyn, who died of breast cancer when he was 12. He attended Brisbane State High School and grew up playing Australian rules football, being invited to the AFL's NAB Rising Stars national development program before stopping to enter drama school at Queensland University of Technology.

Okine performed stand-up on Rove, at the Sydney Comedy Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and appeared on TV shows including Would I Lie to You? and Hughesy, We Have a Problem. In 2012 he released a DVD titled Being Black n Chicken n Shit. In 2014 he replaced Tom Ballard as co-host on the Triple J breakfast show alongside Alex Dyson, and both left the station in 2016. At the 2015 ARIA Awards he won Best Comedy Release for Live at the Enmore Theatre.

In 2017 Okine wrote and starred in The Other Guy on Stan. In November 2022 it was revealed that he would star as Arthur Beare in a 2023 reimagining of the classic sitcom Mother and Son, of which he is also creator, writer and executive producer; he had first proposed adapting the sitcom in 2013, collaborating with original creator Geoffrey Atherden. On 15 August 2024 the series was renewed for a second season. He also appeared as Devon in the 2023 TV series The Clearing, and is one half of the children's music duo Diver City.