Adam Hills
Adam Hills was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on July 10th, 1970 and is the Comedian. At the age of 53, Adam Hills biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Adam Hills (born 10 July 1970) is an Australian comedian and television and television presenter.
In Australia, he hosted Spicks and Specks from 2005 to 2011, as well as Adam Hills Tonight from 2011 to 2013.
He hosts The Last Leg, a British talk show.
He has been nominated for both the Edinburgh Comedy Award and the Gold Logie Award. Born in Sydney, he began performing as a stand-up comedian in 1989, and since 1997 has produced ten solo shows that have toured internationally.
He has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, receiving three consecutive Edinburgh Award nominations for his Edinburgh performances in 2001, 2002, and 2003. With his single "Working Class Anthem," a song by Scottish-born Australian rocker Jimmy Barnes, he had a minor success in Australia in 2002.
Personal life
Hills was born in Loftus, a southern Sydney suburb. Hills was born without a right foot and wears a prosthesis, making him a regular source of ridicule in his routine. He earned a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) at Macquarie University, graduating in 1991.
Hills married opera soprano Ali McGregor in December 2009. McGregor and her daughter stayed in Melbourne during filming sessions of The Last Leg in London, and they had two daughters and lived in London until just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hills found that many generations of his ancestors in Sankt Sebastiansberg, Austria, (now Hora Svatého ebestiána in the Czech Republic), shortly after World War I started, as an Australian citizen. He also discovered that another ancestor who died in 1511 had been a notary in Aragonese-Sicilian Malta and had funded corsairs (pirates).
Hills is a supporter of his hometown rugby league team, the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Hills was instrumental in the establishment of the Warrington Wolves Physical Disability rugby league team in 2017. He competed against the South Sydney Rabbitohs in August 2018, winning 34–12. Hills is both a member of Australia's squad for the inaugural PDRL World Cup and a spokesperson for the cause.
Hills became Ambassador for The Children's Trust, a British charity for children with brain injury and neurodisability, in February 2020. When he first became involved with The Children's Trust in 2014, he met Seb, a nine-year-old boy with a severe brain injury and leg amputation after a road traffic collision. He has also sponsored five annual comedy shows at The Comedy Store for the charity.
The Australia Post released a series of stamps recognising Australian Legends of Comedy in April 2020, with Hills appearing on one of the stamps.
In the 2022 New Year Honours, Hills was named Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his contributions to Paralympic sport and disability awareness.
Career
In 1989 at the Sydney Comedy Store, Hills first appearance in the comedy scene was made. He appeared on breakfast radio in Adelaide, as well as stand-up shows, and, by the mid-1990s, he had focused on live comedy. He premiered "Stand Up and Deliver" in 1997, the first of ten solo performances, many of which have toured internationally. He has travelled extensively, appearing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and the Montreal Just For Laughs festival. He has been nominated for three consecutive Edinburgh Comedy Awards for his 2001, 2002, and 2003 solo performances at Edinburgh Fringe.
During a 1999 Melbourne performance, the title of his 2001 show, "Go You Big Red Fire Engine," was coined. Hills begged an audience member to yell his name to the audience and for the audience to yell it back, but instead the guy yelled, "Go you big red fire engine!" The word quickly became a chanting audience, and Hills promised that it would be the name of his next performance because, he says, "it was such an exciting and genuinely silly moment." Later, "Go You Big Red Fire Engine" became the name of a second stand-up performance and a comedy collection. Senator Natasha Stott Despoja of Sweden yelled it in a Detroit newspaper on a Swedish website, and it was also yelled in the Australian Parliament by Senator Natasha Stott Despoja.
The artificial right foot of Hills is often used as a point of humour in his shows, and the comedian has been known to change it and pass it around. However, he had been performing live comedy for more than a decade before he mentioned his prosthesis on stage, and it was only after "Go You Big Red Fire Engine" was nominated for a Perrier Award in 2001 that he began incorporating it into his act. Hills claims he could have been too easily be a comedic comedian and that he "didn't want to be known as the one-legged comedian." I wanted to make myself as a comedian before talking about it.
Hills regularly performs alongside Leanne Beer, an Auslan sign interpreter, at a disability art conference in Adelaide, a move sparked by a performance he did in Adelaide. Hills discovered that not only did the deaf audience members enjoy his content, but also provided an enriching and educational experience for the hearing audience members. "Now I'm hearing people who will only read [for sign interpreted shows]," he says.
Chris Addison, Greg Fleet, Rich Hall, Daniel Kitson, Ross Noble, and David O'Doherty are among the influential figures in his life.
Spicks and Specks from Hills' debut in 2005, a musical trivia competition show. With appearances in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Newcastle, and Perth, he appeared on a national live tour dubbed the "Spicks and Speck-tacular." The Finale, an international competition that took place in late 2011 and early 2012, in Sydney, Newcastle, Gold Coast, Wollongong, Canberra, Perth, and Melbourne. He has also appeared on Australian television shows, Rove Live, The Glass House, and The Fat, as well as the UK shows: Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Mock the Week, and Ask Rhod Gilbert. In addition, he appeared on the first TV version of BBC Northern Ireland's Great Unanswered Questions. He conducted backstage interviews at Australia's 2005 and 2006 Logie Awards and was one of three presenters at the 2007 awards.
Hills co-hosted the ABC coverage of the 2008 Summer Paralympics in September 2008.
Hills appeared in Thank God You're Here in July 2009, and he also appeared on Good News Week.
On the ABC from early-2011, Hills hosted his own weekly talk show, Adam Hills in Gordon Street Tonight. It was renamed Adam Hills Tonight in 2012 and ended with its third-season finale on July 31, 2013.
He was on the London 2012 Summer Paralympics' TV commentary team and hosted a daily alternative preview of each day's activities, including Alex Brooker and comedian Josh Widdicombe. In 2013, the Last Leg was revived for seven episodes before being extended to nine episodes, which began on January 25th, 2013. On December 6, 2019, the 200th edition of the 200th edition aired. In 2013, Hills hosted the panel game Monumental for BBC Northern Ireland.
Hills will be a special one-off revival episode of Channel 4's quiz show Fifteen to One in August 2013. This was broadcast on September 20, 2013 as part of the channel's 1980s-themed Back to the Future weekend of shows. In honor of William G. Stewart's first appearance, he was credited under the name "Adam C. Hills." Hills' full daytime specials were hosted by Danish-born comedian Sandi Toksvig in 2014.
Buddy Pendergast appeared in Thunderbirds Are Go! in 2016.
He began hosting Super League coverage on Channel 4 in February 2022.
Hills recorded "Working Class Anthem," a titled "Advance Australia Fair" song by legendary Australian rocker Jimmy Barnes in 2002. Around 40 comedians contributed to the album, which debuted in Australia's top ten. All funds went to the Australasian Fire and Emergency Services Authorities Council, an organization funded by Barnes and Jon Bon Jovi that supports firefighters. Hills has performed the song on television, including a tribute to Barnes' appearance on Spicks and Specks.
Hills wrote for BBC's disability website Ouch! between 2003 and 2005.
In 2018, Hills wrote Best Foot Forward, his first book. In February 2022, his first book for children, "Rock Star Detectives," was released.