Concetta Caristo | |
Nationality: | Australian |
Years Active: | 2019–present |
Notable Works: | triple j Breakfast |
Concetta Caristo is an Australian radio presenter and comedian. She is of Italian parentage https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/teen-jesus-and-the-jean-teasers-team-up-with-triple-js-concetta-caristo-on-the-song-i-wrote-when-i-was-11/ and has co-hosted the triple j radio show Breakfast since December 2022.[1]
Caristo began performing comedy in 2019.[1] The same year, she co-wrote (with Hannah Pembroke) and starred in the one-woman play Loose, an autobiographical "blend of stand-up, storytelling and theatre" about Caristo's family escaping from her abusive father and moving to Perth.[2] [3] The show was her debut at the Sydney Fringe Comedy Festival.[4] Other shows Caristo has performed in include Big Natural Talents and Funny As Sin.
She has been co-host of the morning radio show triple j Breakfast since December 2022.
On television, Caristo has appeared on Celebrity Letters and Numbers, The Cheap Seats, and Question Everything.[5] She is set to appear on the third season of Taskmaster Australia, in addition to Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee.
Caristo received a Moosehead Award in 2023.