Rove McManus

Rove McManus started his entertainment career as a stand up comedian but has gone on to become Australia’s most successful talk show host and one of its biggest producers of entertainment television.

Rove got his first TV gig on community television, hosting his own tonight show, The Loft with a budget of $500 a week. Rove hit the prime time schedule in 2000 with Rove Live on Network Ten after a brief late night stint on the Nine Network in 1999.

‘Rove’ continued on the Ten Network as a weekly, live talk/comedy show and made Rove McManus Australia’s most popular television personality. The show has played host to some of the planet’s biggest names with the likes of Cameron Diaz, John Travolta, Drew Barrymore, Matt Damon, The Duchess of York and U2 taking time out to chat with Rove.

At the same time Rove’s production company Roving Enterprises has produced two scripted comedy series (Skithouse and Real Stories), a weekly sports panel show (Before The Game), a nightly news review program (The 7PM Project) and the ARIA Awards for the Australian music industry which Rove has also hosted three times.

All this time Rove has maintained his stand up comedy, touring nationally with an appearance at the 2010 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal scheduled. In the USA he has made guest appearances on Leno and Chelsea Lately as well as hosting a 2008 holiday special for ABC called THE LIST.

Rove has also been a three-time recipient of Australia’s most prestigious television award the oddly named Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality.