Demi Lardner
Born
South Australia, Australia
OccupationComedian
Years active2010–present
Spouse
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(m. 2023)​
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Genre(s)Gaming, Comedy
Followers7.7 thousand
(4 April 2023)

Demi Lardner is an Australian comedian based in Sydney. In 2013, she won Raw Comedy in Melbourne and went on to win So You Think You're Funny? in Edinburgh for her comedy set. She regularly streams on Twitch, and co-hosts the podcast bigsofttitty.png with her husband Tom Walker.

Early life

Lardner grew up in Adelaide, South Australia.[1]

Career

Lardner began performing in Adelaide at open mics at 15,[2] and won Adelaide Comedy's Rising Starr Award for Best Newcomer in 2010.[3] In 2013, she won the Raw Comedy national competition and earned a place in that year's So You Think You're Funny? competition at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which she won in a tie.[4][5] Lardner co-wrote and performed in Wolf Creek, The Musical, which won BankSA's Best Emerging Comedy Show Award at Adelaide Fringe.[6][7] That year she also won Adelaide Comedy's Out of Adelaide award and was nominated for their Adelaide Comedian of the Year award.[3]

Lardner's comedy has been described as surreal and absurdist.[8][9] She performed in Limbless Cagefighter in 2014,[10] and was nominated for Adelaide Comedy's Adelaide Comedian of the Year and Out of Adelaide awards.[3] In 2015 she performed in her first solo show Birds with Human Lips,[11] as well as in Angus and Demi are: Best Good Show with Angus Brown.[12] She also began the podcast We Are Not Doctors with Bart Freebairn in 2015, which ended after its 100th episode in 2017.

Lardner's 2016 solo show Life Mechanic led to her receiving the Sydney Comedy Festival's Best Newcomer Award as joint winner[13] and being nominated for Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Best Newcomer award.[14] Her 2017 show Look What You Made Me Do, directed and co-written by Mark Bonanno,[15] received the Directors' Choice award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival[16] and the Underbelly Edinburgh Award at Adelaide Fringe.[17]

In 2018 Lardner's show I Love Skeleton won the Pinder Prize at Melbourne International Comedy Festival.[16] She also began the podcast bigsofttitty.png with Tom Walker, which was picked up by Sanspants Radio Podcast Network later that year.[18]

Her 2019 solo show Ditch Witch 800 won Best International Show at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival,[19] and was nominated for Edinburgh Fringe's Best Show[20] and for Edinburgh Comedy Awards' Best Comedy Show.[21] Also in 2019, Lardner performed alongside Tom Walker in We Mustn't, which received Sydney Comedy Festival's Director's Choice Award.[22] Walker and Lardner began their second podcast We Have No Strong Feelings About Harry Potter that year, which was also on the Sanspants Radio Podcast Network. The podcast ended in 2020.

While she had previously occasionally streamed on Twitch, Lardner began to stream regularly in 2020 with COVID-19 restrictions preventing live shows.[23]

Personal life

A few years after beginning comedy, Lardner moved to Sydney.

Lardner is openly bisexual. She has been involved in LGBT+ awareness initiatives, such as a Triple J interview about her parents' responses when she came out to them,[24] and creating a satirical public service announcement in October 2018, addressing recent national debate about the rights of religious schools regarding LGBT+ employees and students.[25]

References

  1. ^ "Demi Lardner". So You Think You're Funny?. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Demi Lardner". Chortle. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "The Accolades". Adelaide Comedy. Archived from the original on 4 August 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Raw Comedy winner now has to fathom Scots". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  5. ^ "SYTYF? Past Winners". So You Think You're Funny?. Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  6. ^ Noble, Kelly (18 March 2013). "Adelaide Fringe 2013 Award Winners". Glam Adelaide. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  7. ^ Wray, Tyson (28 March 2014). "Wolf Creek The Musical". Herald Sun. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  8. ^ Thompson, Hannah (23 December 2019). "Podcasts that we recommend (that aren't our own)". Triple J. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  9. ^ "Fest's Edinburgh 2019 Round-Up: Best of Comedy". Fest Magazine. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  10. ^ Ozog, Kasia (15 March 2014). "Adelaide Fringe review 2014: Demi Lardner - Limbless Cagefighter". Adelaide Now. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  11. ^ McDonald, Patrick (19 February 2015). "Adelaide Fringe review 2015: Demi Lardner — Birds with Human Lips". Adelaide Now. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  12. ^ McDonald, Patrick (13 February 2015). "Adelaide Fringe review 2015: Angus and Demi are: Best Good Show". Adelaide Now. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  13. ^ "Sydney Comedy Festival Unveil 2016 Award Recipients". The Music. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  14. ^ Clark, Lisa (17 April 2016). "Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award Winners for 2016". Squirrel Comedy. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  15. ^ Brookfield, Joanne (2017). "Demi Lardner: Look What You Made Me Do". Beat. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  16. ^ a b "Awards". Melbourne International Comedy Festival. 2021. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  17. ^ "Adelaide comes to Edinburgh Fringe 2017". The Skinny. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  18. ^ Lardner, Demi; Walker, Tom; Zammit, Joel; Duscher, Joel (19 June 2018). "ep 24 - bub feat. ZAMMIT and DUSCHER". bigsofttitty.png (Podcast). Sanspants Radio Podcast Network. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  19. ^ "NZ International Comedy Festival announces Billy T, Fred winners". The New Zealand Herald. 27 May 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  20. ^ Simpson, Peter (21 August 2019). "Edinburgh Comedy Awards: The 2019 nominees". The Skinny. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  21. ^ "Best Comedy Show". Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Archived from the original on 17 June 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  22. ^ Karay, David (19 May 2019). "Sydney Comedy Festival Announces Its 2019 Award Winners". Sydney Arts Guide. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  23. ^ Blake, Elissa (16 September 2020). "'I go out to the beach to dance': Australian artists contemplate their lives – and careers – post Covid". Guardian Australia. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  24. ^ Nat Tencic (2 March 2020). "MARDI GRAS SPECIAL: How to be a good ally". The Hook Up (Podcast). Triple J. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  25. ^ Clift, Tom (16 October 2018). "Comedian Demi Lardner Brutally Mocks The Religious Freedom Debate With This Helpful PSA". Junkee. Archived from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2021.

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