About Tim Ferguson
Tim Ferguson is a widely acclaimed comedian and screenwriter. He’s toured the world performing stand-up and musical comedy, co-writing dozens of live stage comedy shows and light entertainment programs.
Tim is a patron of MS Australia, and national advocate for employment of people with disabilities.
Recent credits include: co-writing (with Edwina Exton) co-directing (with Marc Gracie) the romcom feature film Spin Out [Sony Pictures]. He is Series Script Editor for the ABC1 sitcom Ricketts Lane.
Tim has taught Comedy Screenwriting courses at New York University, Scotland Screen Academy, Australian Film Television & Radio School, RMIT University, Sydney Film School, VCA.
Tim consults for various international production companies and networks on screen comedy development.
Author of the bestselling comedy manual ‘The Cheeky Monkey – Writing Narrative Comedy‘, Tim wrote the memoir ‘Carry A Big Stick’, a tale of love, laughter & MS. He wrote the political satire Left, Right and Centre (Penguin Books).
Tim consults for various production companies and teaches Cheeky Monkey Comedy Courses worldwide.
He writes The Ferguson Report, a weekly news satire column in online newspaper The New Daily. He also makes regular appearances in the media.
Tim Ferguson’s award-winning Live solo shows include Carry a Big Stick and Fast Life on Wheels, mischievous “sit-down-stand-up comedy”.
The Doug Anthony All-Stars [DAAS] won the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s Spirit Of The Fringe Award in 2016.
Cortle.com chose DAAS as the UK’s #2 comedy act for that year.
Tim began as a member of comedy trio Doug Anthony Allstars (DAAS) (with Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler) whose credits include the scifi sitcom , live comedy show The Big Gig, the feature film The Edinburgh Years, the BBC’s DAAS LOVE and UK Channel 4’s Viva Cabaret.
DAAS broke box office records on 9 world tours and released various books, comics, artworks, live recordings and Australia’s biggest selling independent album, ICON.
DAAS reformed in 2013 with Tim, Paul McDermott & Paul ‘Flacco’ Livingston with 3 sell-out tours. Their new live show “Near Death Experience” is now toured the UK to packed theatres.
Tim hosted the Logie-winning mega-production Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush, the UK/Australian co-pro sitcom Shock Jock, Big Brother Insider, the Unreal-TV franchise, starred in the spoof 70’s cop show Funky Squad and the live satirical commentary show With Tim Ferguson (WTF). He has appeared on many TV shows i
ncluding Good News Week and was a 1990 candidate for the seat of Kooyong.
Tim shocked and rocked as Franknfurter in the record-breaking Sydney production of Rocky Horror Show.
