Anyone For Tennis? Explained

Anyone for Tennis?
Alias:AFT?
Origin:Melbourne, Australia
Genre:Comedy
Musical comedy
Sketch comedy
Years Active:2005–2012
Current Members:Andrew (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.

Live shows

YearShow Details
2007RAW Comedy National Final – Melbourne International Comedy Festival[7]
2008Take Your Time – Melbourne International Comedy Festival[8]
2009CUTTHROAT – Melbourne International Comedy Festival,[9] Melbourne Fringe Festival[10]
Music, Mirth & Mayhem, Mirabel – Kids Benefit – Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2010Abacus Birdcage Gramophone Lamp – Melbourne International Comedy Festival[11]
2011Prepare 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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anyone for Tennis? – the Groggy Squirrel . 2010-01-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090924052344/http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com/comics/0A/anyone-for-tennis/ . 24 September 2009 . dmy .
  2. Web site: Archived copy . 2010-01-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091009154723/http://www.itregister.com.au/press/2006-06-15%20-%20MADC%20-%202006%20Awards.pdf . 9 October 2009 . dmy .
  3. Web site: Raw Comedy National Final 2007 – Australian Comedy Review . 2010-01-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110303205740/http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com/articles/2007/04/05/2007-melbourne-comedy-festival-reviews/raw-comedy-national-final-2007/ . 3 March 2011 . dmy .
  4. Web site: Cutthroat: The Story of Two Guys Who Stuck their Necks Out | Melbourne International Comedy Festival – 1–26 April 2009 . 2010-01-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090509211114/http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/season/2009/show/cutthroat-the-story-of-two-guys-who-stuck-their-necks-out/ . 9 May 2009 . dmy .
  5. Web site: Anyone for Tennis? – the Groggy Squirrel . 2010-01-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090505091937/http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com/articles/2007/01/02/anyone-for-tennis . 5 May 2009 . dmy .
  6. Comics in the Doghouse, Beat Magazine, Issue 1200, Page 28
  7. Web site: Raw Comedy National Final 2007 – Australian Comedy Review . 2010-01-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110303205740/http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com/articles/2007/04/05/2007-melbourne-comedy-festival-reviews/raw-comedy-national-final-2007/ . 3 March 2011 . dmy .
  8. Web site: Comedy Festival Season 2008 – Show – Anyone for Tennis? – Take Your Time . 2010-01-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090404112949/http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/season/2008/show/246 . 4 April 2009 . dmy .
  9. Web site: Cutthroat: The Story of Two Guys Who Stuck their Necks Out | Melbourne International Comedy Festival – 1–26 April 2009 . 2010-01-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090509211114/http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/season/2009/show/cutthroat-the-story-of-two-guys-who-stuck-their-necks-out/ . 9 May 2009 . dmy .
  10. Web site: Fringe Festival | Anyone for Tennis? In Cutthroat | Melbourne Fringe Festival 2009 . 23 January 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091013162713/http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/anyone-for-tennis-in-cutthroat . 13 October 2009 . dead .
  11. Web site: Anyone for Tennis? – Abacus Birdcage Gramophone Lamp | Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2010 . 2010-04-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100419143148/http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2010/season/shows/anyone-for-tennis-abacus-birdcage-gramophone-lamp/ . 19 April 2010 . dmy .
  12. Web site: Anyone for Tennis? – Prepare to be Tuned | Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2011 . 2011-11-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110412073220/http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2011/season/shows/anyone-for-tennis-prepare-to-be-tuned . 12 April 2011 . dmy .
  13. http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/anyone-for-tennis-prepare-to-be-tuned{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  14. Web site: Butterfly before we fly! . 2011-07-05. 2011-11-24.
  15. Web site: The music comedy event of the year is here! . 2011-09-25. 2011-11-24.

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