Mike Wilmot

2003: Winner of the Barry award at the Melbourne comedy festival.
2002: Time Out Comedy award winner
2002: Edinburgh show Pretzel Logic with Rich Hall

Wilmot's a hard-drinking, sweaty, irritable Canadian who talks mainly about, well, being a hard-drinking, sweaty irritable Canadian.
Though there's much to enjoy in his assured, fast-moving set, it's the sex-driven material that packs the strongest punch - mainly thanks to the brilliantly unflattering images that lodge themselves steadfastly in your head.
While a comic talking about sex is hardly headline news, but Wilmot takes it new levels, thanks to his compulsive self-deprecation, which sees him boasting his painful inadequacies in a disarmingly frank ways. Near-the-knuckle doesn't begin to cover it.
The power of the set is in the performance - cynical, grizzly and powerful, with a take-no-prisoners attitude that makes him almost heckle-proof. Excellent stuff.

Canadian comic Mike Wilmot tells us he hates his tag line 'the crudest show on the fringe', then launches into almost an hour of some of the most graphic - and achingly funny - sexual material you're likely to hear.
But 'crude' should not be confused with 'offensive'. For while this show deals in topics that would make a maiden aunt blush, it does so with an honesty and brilliant wit that is unlikely to disgust anyone. Even the elderly couple who seemed to have wandered into the wrong show stayed the course - even if they did sit stony-faced through the whole proceedings.
Otherwise, though, his easy confidence built a strong rapport with the audience, creating a relaxed enough atmosphere to peddle his below-the-belt material.
Confessional, uncompromising and very, very funny - this is unadulterated laugh-out-loud comedy for grown-ups.

KING DOWN UNDER
Mike Wilmott has won this year's most prestigious Australian Comedy Award, The Barry Award for Most Outstanding Show, which comes with a prize of $3,000.
Mike commented on his win: "As a drunk, I don't normally get awards. I'd like to thank all my fellow nominees, because that seems to be the thing to do. But clearly I am the best. The evil regime of Ross Noble [last year's award-winner] is over. Let's go outside and tear down his posters.
The 6th Annual Barry Awards were held on Friday 18th April at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. They were judged by a panel of journalists and comedy industry representatives. The Barry Award is named in honour of Barry Humphries, Australian creator of Dame Edna Everage.

Mike's effortlessly funny style is a fast-paced, hard-hitting comedic look at everyday life. His comedy targets vary widely, from diets, kids and sex - to American-Canadian backbiting and his fondness for beer...

TV
Have I Got News For You (BBC2)

Never Mind the Buzzcocks (BBC2)

Rich Hall's Badly Funded Think Tank (BBC Choice)

A Beginners Guide (BBC Choice)

The Stand Up Show series 3 and 5 (BBC 1)

The Comedy Store series 1 and 3 (Channel 5)

Clarkson (BBC 2)

Up Late With Sean Hughes (BBC Choice)

Shoot The Messenger (Paramount Comedy Channel) Team Captain

"The highlight was Mike Wilmot, a fast talking stand-up whose close-to-the-bone repertoire leaves the audience in a state of hilarity that most comedians can only dream of."
The Sunday Times

"The bear-like, gravel voiced Mile Wilmot fires keen reports from the front line of the sex wars. He sweats; he shambles; he swears. You'll cough, choke and chortle."
The Glasgow Herald

"At times raucous, offensive and downright crude, he was nonetheless very, very funny producing belly cackles of genuine mirth throughout ... this was a most entertaining experience."
The Scotsman

"Like any fine comedian, he exudes intelligence and sweat in equal measures, Wilmot can give any other stand-up alive lessons in the power of laughter to free us from the shackles of embarrassment."
Time Out

"Bearing an uncanny resemblance to both Oliver Reed and Rodney Dangerfield, the 38 year-old Canadian is a natural raconteur, dispensing with a watch, 'preferring to use beer as a clock' ... he's effortlessly funny."
The Independent

"Respite is at hand in the shape of Mike Wilmot, Canada's answer to Bill Hicks. "I'll try and be cute for the first half-hour," he promises. "But after that, forget it. Think of me as a hooker. You'll have a ball and when you leave you'll tell no one
" Well, he got the first part right at least. In yer face and quicker than a coop of Roadrunners,
he's politically and anatomically incorrect. But damn if he ain't funny."
Metro

"At times raucous, offensive and downright crude he was nonetheless very, very funny, producing belly cackles of genuine mirth throughout. He turned his rapacious cynicism to, amongst other issues, the battle of the sexes with some good ol' Canadian-American back biting for added enjoyment. I felt like my mind was being de-flowered by a cynical aging imp, yet, disturbingly, this was a most entertaining experience.."
3 Weeks

"Some of the most graphic - and achingly funny - sexual material you're likely to hear.done with an honesty and brilliant wit that is unlikely to disgust anyone, very rarely is it done this well.
Confessional, uncompromising and very, very funny - this is unadulterated laugh-out-loud comedy for grown-ups."
Chortle

"Highly entertaining crudity, covering every sexual topic you can think of... gloriously un-PC and proud of it... His facial gesticulations are also a strength. Most are subtle, but they add to the laughs in a way worthy of any great physical comedian."
Evening News

"Plays the world-weary, misanthropic, fucked-up, sex-obsessed comedian almost perfectly,with a razor-sharp way with a one-liner ... The man's likeable foul-mouthed slob persona makes for irresistible comedy."
The List