Andrew John Hansen was born on 18 September 1974 and is an Australian comedian, musician and author, best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser.
38 Facts About Andrew Hansen
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Andrew Hansen was a producer and regular panellist on The Unbelievable Truth.
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Andrew Hansen has co-written and performed in The Chaser's stage shows, Cirque du Chaser and The Chaser's Age of Terror Variety Hour.
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Andrew Hansen was characters Rudi J Blass, director of "Newstainment", and Simon Target, an English reporter.
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Andrew Hansen has been a regular writer and performer on The Chaser's War on Everything since the pilot episode.
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Andrew Hansen is particularly known for composing and performing songs on the program.
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Andrew Hansen is known for his character pieces, which include Scenes from the Life of the Crazy Warehouse Guy, The Surprise Spruiker, Clive the Slightly Too-Loud Commuter, and Mr Ten Questions.
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Andrew Hansen has said that he likes to look entertaining with his clothes and his hair.
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Andrew Hansen is a pianist and guitarist and in addition to his songwriting, Andrew Hansen composed the show's theme music, which received the APRA-AGSC Screen Music Award for Best Television Theme.
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The most controversial song that Andrew Hansen has performed was The Eulogy Song, which was originally written for Chris Taylor's play Dead Caesar, with music by Andrew Hansen and lyrics by Taylor.
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On 17 October 2007 episode of The War, Andrew Hansen performed the song which satirised the lives of several deceased celebrities, including Peter Brock, Stan Zemanek, Princess Diana, Donald Bradman, Steve Irwin, John Lennon, Jeff Buckley and Kerry Packer, expressing the view that people with flaws during life are often disproportionately hailed as "top blokes" after death.
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Andrew Hansen performed an updated version of The Eulogy Song in his 2020 tour.
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Andrew Hansen composed the music for and starred in The Blow Parade, a scripted radio comedy series he made with Chris Taylor.
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Andrew Hansen co-wrote and appeared in the live show Cirque du Chaser, which toured Australia in 2005.
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Andrew Hansen composed and performed the music for the Sydney Theatre Company's 2007 musical comedy Dead Caesar, which was written by Chaser colleague Chris Taylor.
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Andrew Hansen played the roles of Marc Antony and Lucius.
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In 2008, Andrew Hansen toured Australia with The Chaser's second stage show, The Chaser's Age of Terror Variety Hour.
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In October 2009, Andrew Hansen hosted The Goodies: Before, During and After, a live show by British comedy trio The Goodies at Sydney's Riverside Theatre and at the World's Funniest Island comedy festival.
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In 2011, Andrew Hansen joined various combinations of The Chaser team's members for a series of live shows in Sydney entitled The Chaser's Empty Vessel.
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In 2017, Andrew Hansen co-starred in a production of the play Neville's Island by Tim Firth at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre, playing 'Roy'.
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In 2020, Andrew Hansen began touring Solo Show, a set of sketches and songs about people going it alone, performed on guitar, piano and iPad.
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Andrew Hansen presented the show in Adelaide and Brisbane before postponing the remaining dates due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Andrew Hansen has appeared in multiple versions of the live quiz show, Good Game Live at the EB Games Expo.
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Andrew Hansen was the guitarist and one of the vocalists for independent Sydney band The Fantastic Leslie.
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Andrew Hansen was a member of independent alternative band Mending.
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Andrew Hansen co-wrote the short film Garbage Man with Charles Firth and British comedian Henry Naylor.
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Andrew Hansen has performed occasional voice-overs for ABC programs including First Tuesday Book Club and Media Watch.
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Andrew Hansen composed the music for Nickelodeon's Sarvo and Napman, and songs for the Sesame Street character Ollie.
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Andrew Hansen appeared and presented at the 2007 MTV Australia Awards and the 2007 and 2011 ARIA Music Awards.
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Andrew Hansen made an appearance as a guest host on the program in 2010, filling in for host Steven O'Donnell, again in 2011 filling in for host Stephanie Bendixsen and 2012 filling in for O'Donnell.
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Andrew Hansen made an appearance as a special guest in Good Game 10th year birthday special in 2016.
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Andrew Hansen appeared again on Good News Week in 2010, this time with Chris Taylor, in the guise of characters from their radio show The Blow Parade.
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Andrew Hansen was the host of Strictly Speaking, a speechmaking competition series, which aired on ABC1 in 2010.
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Andrew Hansen was a producer and regular panellist on the comedy show The Unbelievable Truth, a TV version of the BBC Radio 4 program of the same name.
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Andrew Hansen played the character 'Dex' in the 3D movie Sanctum, produced by Andrew Wight and released in 2011.
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Andrew Hansen played 'Mr Mudwasp' and the Australian version of 'Alex the Stinkbug' in the Netflix animated series Beat Bugs.
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Andrew Hansen was a guest star in the Australian science fiction audio drama Night Terrace, playing the role of Horatio Gray in the second season, following a brief cameo appearance in the first season.
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Andrew Hansen has worked with Benjamin Maio Mackay twice, once on stage in 2016's Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Live and again in 2017 as a supporting role in the audio drama adaptation of The Phoenix Files.