Australian comedians Hamish Blake and Andy Lee founded Hamish & Andy in 2003. The Hamish & Andy Show, a popular drive-time radio program (and its numerous spinoffs), their work as correspondents on Rove, and their Nine Network series Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year are what they are best known for. They have frequently appeared as hosts of events, players on game shows, and participants in celebrity athletic events. With individual incomes of A$4 million, the duo was Australia’s highest-paid commercial radio presenters. At the University of Melbourne, where Lee was studying commerce and Blake was studying business and science, the two met through comedy competitions.
The pair started hosting a Friday afternoon drivetime show on the Student Youth Network. The Matt & Jo Show on Fox FM, which Hamish started writing for shortly after, was followed by the duo hosting “Almost Tuesday” on the same station every Monday night. The pair then co-hosted the Saturday morning Fox FM program Almost Midday, which was so popular that it was nationally syndicated throughout the Today Network. They have hosted the two-hour afternoon program Hamish & Andy, originally The Hamish & Andy Show, on the Today Network in all states and territories of Australia and in New Zealand since 2006 until its change in format at the end of 2017. Additionally, a weekly highlights program was shown in Dubai.
Additionally, a weekly highlights program was shown in Dubai. In the United Kingdom, the pair performed two radio specials on BBC 6 Music. On the Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show, it was revealed that Hamish and Andy would host three episodes in London to fill in for O’Connell’s vacation. A contract was signed by Hamish and Andy to host a number of programs that will run on Absolute Radio on Sunday evenings. Christian O’Connell worked with Hamish and Andy on a one-time sociological experiment. Since 2003, Hamish and Andy have hosted a variety of TV shows and specials. They started out on sketch shows but have recently had more success with their travel-diary-style presentations.
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) hosts a series of yearly ceremonies known as the ARIA Music Awards. Hamish and Andy may both boast successful independent TV careers. The popular host of the award-winning and top-rated LEGO Masters Australia series on the Nine Network is Hamish. Before hosting the wildly popular, Logie-nominated series The Hundred for the Nine Network, Andy directed The Cube for Network Ten (a show he also acts as EP for). Andy also created and hosted the audience favorite Guess Who each year for Nine during their AO Tennis coverage. He also served as the Gen Y Team Captain on Shaun Micallef’s Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation for Nine. Andy has also had a sporadic presence on The Front Bar, a program on the Seven Network.
Have You Been Paying Attention? Spicks and Specks, The Wrong Girl, Thank God You’re Here, The Project, Playschool, Hard Quiz, Bluey, Utopia, Rove, Letters and Numbers, Tomorrow Tonight, Molly, Kinne, Hughes, We Have a Problem, and Open Slather are just a few of the popular television shows that Hamish and Andy have appeared on. From the Logie Awards to the Australian portion of Live Earth, they have hosted several TV events. Hamish has appeared in the animated Disney picture and the movie Two Little Boys, Now Add Honey. While Andy was a part of the critically acclaimed short Your Call Is Important to Us, which earned him a nomination for Best Performance at the Stellar Short Film Festival, Ralph Breaks the Internet Andy and Hamish co-starred in the Uber “I’d Rather Be Eating” advertisement. Recently, Hamish (together with his wife Zo Foster Blake) served as a proud ambassador for Tourism Australia’s Holiday Here This Year campaign, and Andy did the same when he made an appearance for their Christmas campaign. Hamish and Andy have both enjoyed critical and financial success as writers. Famous children’s author Andy is the creator of the best-selling, internationally acclaimed series Do Not Open This Book.
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