# Matthew Hardy

matthew hardy is a Melbourne-based comedian and comedy writer who was the first Australian to cement himself full-time on the UK live stand-up circuit, - “In heaven, everyone will be as naturally funny as matthew hardy” (Time Out London) - spending eight years there in the 1990s, including regular headlining appearances at Jongleurs and The Comedy Store in Leicester Square. A regular at many international stand-up comedy events, he is the author of Saturday Afternoon Fever (Random House), the Best Selling childhood memoir - “Laugh out loud hilarious” (Liz Ellis, Australian Netball Champion) which became the basis for three separate seasons of a one-man stage adaptation at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Hardy also appeared in the Festival with his own take on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, along with special guest Julie Dawn Cole, who portrayed Veruca Salt in the 1971 film version.