Timothy Dorcen Langbene Ferguson was born on 16 November 1963 and is an Australian comedian, film director, screenwriter, author and screenwriting teacher.
44 Facts About Tim Ferguson
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Timothy Dorcen Langbene Ferguson grew up in Singapore, and later on a rural property near the town of Perthville, New South Wales.
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Tim Ferguson is the son of Tony Ferguson, who was a Vietnam War correspondent, the first reporter to release news of the Tet Offensive to the world media.
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Tim Ferguson hosted the Logie Award-winning series Don't Forget Your Toothbrush on the Nine Network.
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Tim Ferguson starred in Australian commercials advertising the video game console Nintendo 64.
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Tim Ferguson co-wrote and hosted eight series and twelve one-hour specials of his comedy clip show Unreal TV.
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Tim Ferguson was creator, co-writer and co-producer of the sitcom Shock Jock with Marc Gracie and Chris Thompson.
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Tim Ferguson is co-director of the feature film Spin Out.
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In 2017, Tim Ferguson co-wrote the feature film The BBQ starring Shane Jacobson, Julia Zemiro and Magda Szubanski.
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Tim Ferguson appeared in the movie Fat Pizza as the magician David Cockerfield and in multiple seasons of Fat Pizza: Back in Business as Julian Bousage.
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In 2021, Tim Ferguson launched the standup comedy show Smashing Life - Motivation For Idiots at Adelaide Fringe Festival.
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Tim Ferguson toured Australia to sell-out festival theatres, raising awareness for employment and housing for people with disabilities.
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In 2014, Tim Ferguson joined Paul McDermott and Paul Livingston to reform the Doug Anthony All Stars with Livingston replacing Richard Fidler as the group's guitarist.
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Tim Ferguson played the role of Frankenfurter in the long-running The Rocky Horror Show, directed by Nigel Triffit.
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In 2014, Tim Ferguson teamed up with Maynard to start a podcast named Bunga Bunga.
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From 2016 until 2018, Tim Ferguson taught comedy screenwriting at New York University.
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Tim Ferguson has taught comedy screenwriting at the Screen Academy Scotland, Sydney University, Victorian College of the Arts and Sydney Film School.
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Tim Ferguson was a sessional lecturer in Screenwriting and Writing TV Comedy at RMIT University, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
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Tim Ferguson published The Cheeky Monkey-Writing Narrative Comedy, a comedy writing manual for screenwriters, playwrights, and authors.
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Tim Ferguson writes The Tim Ferguson Report, a weekly satirical column in The New Daily newspaper with over 1.7 million subscribers.
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In 2017, Tim Ferguson co-wrote the feature film The BBQ starring Shane Jacobson and Magda Szubanski.
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Tim Ferguson's autobiography Carry a Big Stick: A Life of Laughter, Friendship and MS was published by Hachette in September 2013.
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In 2001, Tim Ferguson branched out into production when he created the TV1 comedy series Shock Jock.
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Tim Ferguson was script producer for the AWGIE-nominated web series Forgettherules.
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Tim Ferguson co-wrote and hosted eight series and multiple one-hour specials of Network Ten's Unreal TV and Foxtel's long-running sci-fi fan-show Space Cadets.
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Tim Ferguson held exhibitions in Sydney 2019 - 2024 with artists Gretel Killeen and Paul Livingston.
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Tim Ferguson's works have toured extensively and appeared in publications in Australia and Britain.
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Tim Ferguson is Ambassador for The Human Rights Commission for Disability and Ambassador for IncludeAbility, a resource for employers and people with disability.
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Tim Ferguson is a patron of MS Australia, and an ambassador for Pandis, a not-for-profit initiative investigating environmental pathogenic microbes in chronic disease.
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Tim Ferguson is patron of Music for Canberra, an organisation supporting Canberra's music education and performance.
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Tim Ferguson announced on an episode of Good News Week in 2010 that he has multiple sclerosis, which required him to occasionally use a walking cane.
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Tim Ferguson has experienced MS symptoms since the age of 19.
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Tim Ferguson's show at the 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival was called "Carry a Big Stick", an allusion to his MS.
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Tim Ferguson's condition has since progressed further and he now uses a wheelchair.
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Tim Ferguson owns the third largest Star Wars toy collection in the southern hemisphere.
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On 22 March 2017, Tim Ferguson featured on Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery, with host Julia Zemiro taking him on a tour of his childhood home and schools in Bathurst and Canberra.
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Tim Ferguson has spoken out for young Australians with MS and other disabilities living in aged care.
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In 2017, Tim Ferguson hosted the South West Disability Expo, helping thousands of South West Sydney residents with disabilities gain greater control over their lives and engage the most suitable services in their area to meet their individual needs.
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In 2021, Tim Ferguson became a leading campaigner for Building Better Homes, an initiative for a national building code of mandatory accessibility standards.
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In February 2018, Tim Ferguson apologised via his management to TV critic Candace Sutton for a series of abusive letters containing numerous rude remarks, faxed to her in 1990, with cartoons drawn by him.
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Tim Ferguson launched the MS Australia Connections Hub in May 2020.
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Tim Ferguson regularly speaks at public and corporate events about disability, housing, social services, and health at events.
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Tim Ferguson said that he would have no policies and that he wanted someone for whom he could vote.
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Tim Ferguson nominated for the Senate for New South Wales, as a member of the Senator Online party.