Anyone for Tennis?

For the idiom, see anyone for tennis? For the song by Cream, see Anyone for Tennis. For other uses, see Anyone for tennis? (disambiguation).

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.[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)

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[permanent dead link‍]
  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.