1. Lawrence Leung is an Australian comedian, writer, director and actor from Melbourne.
18 Facts About Lawrence Leung
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Lawrence Leung is best known for his television series Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure based his one-man shows on stories about his obsessions, such as breakdancing, ghosts, the Rubik's Cube, and his family.
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In 2001, his show Sucker won Best Solo Show at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, and in 2007, his show Lawrence Leung Learns to Breakdance won the Age Critic's Award for best Australian show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Best Local Show at the 2008 Sydney Comedy Festival.
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Lawrence Leung has written pranks for the satirical comedy TV show The Chaser's War on Everything.
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Lawrence Leung has performed frequently with Andrew McClelland; the pair have been friends since school and started in comedy together in an improvised comedy group called the Improbables, which featured other young Melbourne comedians including Nick Caddaye, Adam McKenzie and UK-based comic Yianni Agisilaou.
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Leung was the writer and star of Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure, which aired on ABC1 and ABC2 in 2009.
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The 2-disc complete series DVD of Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure was released on 7 May 2009.
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Extras include deleted scenes, music videos and a 57min tutorial taught by Lawrence Leung entitled "How To Solve The Rubik's Cube".
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Lawrence Leung performed a guest stand-up set on RMITV's The Loft Live Episode 12 of Season 8 13 April 2000 broadcast on Channel 31 Melbourne.
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Lawrence Leung co-hosted the Sunday morning breakfast show on Melbourne's Fox FM in 2005 and 2006 with Courteney Hocking and Andrew McClelland.
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Lawrence Leung wrote and presented regular off-beat mini-documentaries for Steve "The Sandman" Abbott's variety show In Siberia Tonight.
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Lawrence Leung was a writer of pranks for two seasons of ABC TV's The Chaser's War On Everything and has appeared on a variety of television shows including The Today Show, Stand Up Australia, The Edinburgh Show, Open House.
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On 4 April 2009, Lawrence Leung was guest programmer on ABC1's popular and long running overnight music video show Rage.
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On 7 April 2013 Lawrence Leung appeared on Australian television series Offspring as Dr Elvis Kwan.
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In 2017, Lawrence Leung recorded Episode 1 of Series 2 of ABC Kids Play School Story Time, reading Lynley Dodd's "Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack".
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Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure was nominated for a 2009 AFI Award in the category of Best Television Comedy.
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Lawrence Leung has a Star Wars character named after him in the 2009 Star Wars comic book series Star Wars: Invasion, written by Tom Taylor and illustrated by Colin Wilson.
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Lawrence Leung won GQ Australia's Man of the Year 2009, in the category of Comedic Talent of the Year.