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tough love. I owe a lot to her an I love my mother! She stuck with me and never gave up on me, all though my dysfunctional years. You can definitely say I am a mummy’s boy” he says laughing.
Kevin draws his comedy from his very dysfunctional past. “I found my healing 14 years ago and turned my life around. I made some concrete decisions in my life, I moved forward and never looked back”. He has no regrets with his decisions as now he is reaping all the positive things in life with his children and career. He goes on to explain that his comedy is based around true life experiences, ups and downs, pain and laughter. Some of my funniest comedy material comes from my real painful experiences. “We all have a unique story, I have managed to use my story to turn it into comedy”.
Kevin has also had a funny bone, so to say, as he was the class clown. “I was always the life of the party and making people laugh. My family and friends always said I should get into comedy! I always had the gift of making people laugh, so I knew I was funny way back in the primary school”.
Melbourne’s International Comedy Festival’s Deadly Funny’s, a national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stand-up competition to find Australia’s funniest Indigenous people is where Kevin got his start, thanks to his family who forced him to enter. “I didn’t expect to make a career or living out of it, because I finished third in the South Australian heat, however I got a wild card to the National Finals, and ended up winning it!”.
Winning Deadly Funny’s has been a life-changing experience for Kevin. He has made so many new friends, and met so many awesome people through comedy. “I love performing, however it is all the beautiful long lasting friendships that I have made”. Also, another perk he explains is the traveling all over our beautiful country, Australia and he gets paid to make people laugh. He definitely loves his job!
Kevin tours Australia constantly, appearing all over the country, including at some of its most remote communities, and is a bona fide star of the Indigenous performing arts, appearing at the Deadly Awards at the Sydney Opera House six years running. As well he is a regular feature on the mainstream corporate, club and festival circuits and a Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow regular.
He is also steadily building a substantial TV and media profile with a long list of special guest appearances on NITV’s season 2 - Express Yourself, the Foxtels Big 3oh!, the Koori Knockout Gala Dinner, ABC’s Stop Laughing This is Serious and Comedy Up Late and Channel 10’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival Comedy Allstars Supershow just to name a few.
While on tour hosting the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) Roadshow in 2015, Kevin had an epiphany to create an Aboriginal Comedy Roadshow, now known as the Aboriginal Comedy Allstars. There were other Aboriginal comedians on separate MICF roadshow tours such as Andy Saunders, Sean Choolburra and Matt Ford. “I thought how good would it be to