Peter Helliar
Birthday: Born in 1975-06-16 in
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Would I Lie to You?
Character: Self - Panelist
Australian version of the British comedy panel show featuring team captains joined by a stellar cast of celebrity guests who weave elaborate tales… that may or may not be the truth. Competing teams then ask questions and watch body language to determine which are outrageous but true, and which are made-up stories....
Hughesy, We Have A Problem
Character: Self
Marking his return to TEN and WIN Network in a hosting role, beloved comedian Hughesy wants to take the problems experienced by everyday Australians – the big, small and the incredibly awkward – and turn them into working solutions. From how to handle infidelity to solving who gets to hold the television remote, there is no problem too big, small, funny or difficult for Hughesy and the team to tackle. Each episode, Hughesy is joined by four of Australia’s funniest comedians who offer searingly h...
I'm a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here!
Character: Self
Australian celebrities are dropped into the African jungle with little more than their wits, strength and willpower to survive the competition. How will they cope with African wildlife, a constant series of challenges and tests, basic rations and their fellow campmates? Who will survive the infamous Bush Tucker Trials? Who will win the hearts of viewers and be crowned King or Queen of the Jungle?...
Who Do You Think You Are?
Character: Self
Australian celebrities play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past. Along the way there will be scandal, adultery, pioneers, bushrangers, artists and royalty. Join the trail of discovery to uncover where these celebrities came from as they find out just who they think they are....
Rove
Character: Self
Rove, formerly Rove Live, was an Australian television variety show which premiered on the Nine Network on 22 September 1999, before moving to Network Ten which aired the program from 2000 until November, 2009. The show was hosted by comedian Rove McManus, and featured an ensemble cast, who presented various segments throughout the course of the show. The show won the Logie Award for "Most Popular Light Entertainment Program" five times....
Thank God You're Here
Character:
Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!". They then had to improvise their way through the scene. At the end of each episode a winner was announced....
Thank God You're Here
Character: Self - Guest Judge
Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!". They then had to improvise their way through the scene. At the end of each episode a winner was announced....
skitHOUSE
Character:
skitHOUSE was an Australian sketch comedy television series that ran on Network Ten from 9 February 2003 to 28 July 2004. The series was produced by Roving Enterprises. It featured many well-known Australian comedians, including comedy-band Tripod. Reruns can now be seen on The Comedy Channel on Foxtel. In the UK, it is shown on the channel Paramount Comedy 2 and Trouble. The title name itself is a pun on the colloquial word: "shithouse". The series only ran for two seasons, before being cancel...
Tomorrow Tonight
Character: Self
The comedy panel show that gets ahead of itself by running out in front of the news cycle. As the world goes off script it is time for a show that takes a long, hard and hilarious look at “what happens next”....
Show Me the Movie!
Character: Self
Hosted by Rove McManus, this comedy panel game show features two teams captained by acclaimed actor Jane Harber and comedy star Joel Creasey who compete in a series of movie trivia rounds....
It's a Date
Character: Greg
It's a Date is a comedy series exploring the tension, expectation and complication of finding true love. Each new episode features a different cast tackling a different set of situations and addressing a new question each week. Should you have sex on a first date? Does age matter? How accurate are first impressions? How important is honesty on a first date?...
Spicks and Specks
Character: Self
Adam Hills, one of Australia's favourite comedians and winner of Edinburgh's Best of the Fest award, is joined by two team captains, comedian and actor Alan Brough and radio breakfast announcer Myf Warhurst, as well as brave personalities who enjoy having long forgotten embarrassing stories laughed about on national television. Two teams go head to head as they sing, shout and delve deep into the recesses of their collective minds to help earn their team an extremely inglorious victory....
How to Stay Married
Character: Greg Butler
How To Stay Married goes behind the closed doors of a two-point four family who are stuck in a rut. Greg and Em have been married for 14 years, but their relationship is lacking spark. Life gets complicated when Em goes back to work for the first time since the kids were born, just as Greg is made redundant....
The Project
Character:
Six nights a week, The Project provides Australian viewers with their dose of ‘news delivered differently’, serving up thought-provoking news, current affairs, comedy and entertainment....
Aunty Donna: Glennridge Secondary College
Character:
Comedy group 'Aunty Donna' present a sketch show set in Glennridge Secondary College, a quintessential Australian public school....
Taskmaster
Character: Self
Tough-love Taskmaster Tom Gleeson and his trusty assistant Tom Cashman put a batch of Aussie battlers through their paces!...
Have You Been Paying Attention?
Character: Self - Panellist
Topical comedy-quiz show featuring five guests competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. A fast-paced, funny look at international affairs, politics, sport and entertainment news, we test just how well our contestants have been paying attention....
Have You Been Paying Attention?
Character: Self - Guest Quizmaster
Topical comedy-quiz show featuring five guests competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. A fast-paced, funny look at international affairs, politics, sport and entertainment news, we test just how well our contestants have been paying attention....
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee
Character: Self
Get ready to laugh-out-loud as Guy Montgomery and his loyal assistant Aaron Chen are joined by some of Australia's favourite personalities, testing their spelling prowess with wildly inventive spelling challenges designed to befuddle, bamboozle, and bedazzle them all....
Shaun Micallef's Eve of Destruction
Character: Self
It’s a talk show like no other: one question, two guests and the man everyone agrees is this country’s least experienced interviewer. The question? If your house was about to be destroyed, what two things would you save?...
Claire Hooper's House of Games
Character:
Each week on Claire Hooper's House of Games, four celebrities face a bunch of tricky trivia, perplexing puzzles and hilarious headscratchers in exchange for a low-rent daily prize and a shot at the weekly champion's trophy....
Movie Credits
I Love You Too
Character: Blake
Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back....
Peter Helliar: One Hot Mess
Character:
Helliar’s brand new stand-up show is one hot mess or is that one mess of hotness? Either way it’s going to be both hot and messy....
Peter Helliar: Loopy
Character:
Peter Helliar has cemented himself as one of Australia's favourite comedians. He's the creator and star of Network Ten's How To Stay Married and brings the laughs to The Project four days a week. Pete has performed stand-up for over twenty five years and makes the difficult business of being funny look dead easy. A stranger on a train said to Pete recently that "everything you believe is true and the rest is bullshit... and vice versa". Yep, the world is loopy. We should talk about it....
Peter Helliar: Snazzy
Character: Peter Helliar
For his Confirmation Pete wore a yellow sweater and a thin purple leather tie. His Nan said he was the 'snazziest' boy there. Now that he's older Pete has realised Snazzy is not about the threads, it's an attitude....
Guru Wayne
Character: End Devotee
Guru Wayne follows the fortunes of Dave, a frustrated Uni student, and Gary his dead-beat, drug dealing mate. In a moment of madness, they dream up a brand new cult. To their utter amazement - it catches on!...
Border Protection Squad
Character: Five Six
Some rogue agents in Australia’s Border Protection Sqaud start to care more about the ratings of their reality show than what’s actually being smuggled into the country. So when viewing figures begin to plummett they hatch a plan to win viewers back by placing a BPS officer undercover with drug traffickers. It goes bad when he switches sides and becomes a drug traffiker. Now they need to bring him in before they are exposed or even worse, their show is cancelled....
Scumbus
Character: Andre Kilstein
After losing their badges and crashing their Police car into a McDonald's Restaurant, two constables are given the worst duty of all, they must man the Scumbus....