Anyone for Tennis?
Also known asAFT?
OriginMelbourne, Australia
GenresComedy
Musical comedy
Sketch comedy
Years active2005–2012
MembersAndrew (Doody) Doodson (vocals, guitar)
Jason English-Rees (guitar, vocals)

Anyone for Tennis? was a two-man Australian musical comedy band,[1] writing team and performance duo. Before splitting up in 2012, the two created musical comedy, video sketches, and stand-up comedy routines.

History

Anyone for Tennis? (Andrew (Doody) Doodson & Jason English-Rees) formed in 2005 while studying advertising at RMIT University in Melbourne. After working in the Melbourne advertising industry together for just over 3 years and winning an MADC[2] award the creative team downed pens and pads and began as a full-time comedy duo in 2006. They played around the Australian comedy scene for a while but it was not until 2007 when they made it through to the national final of the Raw Comedy Award,[3] a nationwide open mic competition, that they started to get widely recognized on the mainstream comedy scene.

Anyone for Tennis? performed shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival,[4] recorded an EP 'Acey Deucey' and released numerous YouTube clips including 'Let's get Famous',[5] a parody of the famous OK Go treadmill video. Anyone for Tennis recorded their first and only full-length album in June 2011 titled "Prepare to be tuned" which is a live recording of the 2011 Melbourne and Edinburgh Comedy Festival show of the same name.

As a writing team Andrew Doodson and Jason English-Rees contributed material to numerous Melbourne publications such as Melbourne street press Beat Magazine,[6] and wrote comedy sketches for Channel 31 comedy variety programme Planet Nerd in which they also appeared.

Live shows

Year Show Details
2007 RAW Comedy National Final – Melbourne International Comedy Festival[7]
2008 Take Your Time – Melbourne International Comedy Festival[8]
2009 CUTTHROAT – Melbourne International Comedy Festival,[9] Melbourne Fringe Festival[10]
Music, Mirth & Mayhem, Mirabel – Kids Benefit – Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2010 Abacus Birdcage Gramophone Lamp – Melbourne International Comedy Festival[11]
2011 Prepare To Be Tuned – Melbourne International Comedy Festival,[12] Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Melbourne Fringe Festival[13]
Anyone For Tennis? at the Butterfly Club[14]
The Polyphonic Comic Frolic – Melbourne Fringe Festival[15]

Musical releases

  • Very PE (Single) (2005)
  • Coincidentally Ramsey Street (single) (2006)
  • Bad Morning (single) (2008)
  • Acey Deucey! EP (2008)
  • Five Pence ('Five Cent', Aus' Title) (single) (2009)
  • Marg (single) (2008)
  • My Future Wife (Single) (2010)

References

  1. ↑ "Anyone for Tennis? – the Groggy Squirrel". Archived from the original on 24 September 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "Raw Comedy National Final 2007 – Australian Comedy Review". Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  4. ↑ "Cutthroat: The Story of Two Guys Who Stuck their Necks Out | Melbourne International Comedy Festival – 1–26 April 2009". Archived from the original on 9 May 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  5. ↑ "Anyone for Tennis? – the Groggy Squirrel". Archived from the original on 5 May 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  6. ↑ Comics in the Doghouse, Beat Magazine, Issue 1200, Page 28
  7. ↑ "Raw Comedy National Final 2007 – Australian Comedy Review". Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  8. ↑ "Comedy Festival Season 2008 – Show – Anyone for Tennis? – Take Your Time". Archived from the original on 4 April 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  9. ↑ "Cutthroat: The Story of Two Guys Who Stuck their Necks Out | Melbourne International Comedy Festival – 1–26 April 2009". Archived from the original on 9 May 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  10. ↑ "Fringe Festival | Anyone for Tennis? In Cutthroat | Melbourne Fringe Festival 2009". Archived from the original on 13 October 2009. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  11. ↑ "Anyone for Tennis? – Abacus Birdcage Gramophone Lamp | Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2010". Archived from the original on 19 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-29.
  12. ↑ "Anyone for Tennis? – Prepare to be Tuned | Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2011". Archived from the original on 12 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
  13. ↑ http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/anyone-for-tennis-prepare-to-be-tuned%5B%5D
  14. ↑ "Butterfly before we fly!". 5 July 2011. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
  15. ↑ "The music comedy event of the year is here!". 25 September 2011. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
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