Anyone for Tennis?
Two-man Australian musical comedy band
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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.
Musical comedy
Sketch comedy
Anyone for Tennis? | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | AFT? |
| Origin | Melbourne, Australia |
| Genres | Comedy Musical comedy Sketch comedy |
| Years active | 2005–2012 |
| Members | Andrew (Doody) Doodson (vocals, guitar) Jason English-Rees (guitar, vocals) |
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.[citation needed]
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)