Rove McManus

Rove McManus moved from his native Perth to pursue a career as a stand up comedian in Melbourne in 1995.

After hundreds of gigs and a stint on community television Rove landed a chance to show off in front of the nation with nine late night episodes of his own tonight show, rove on Channel Nine in 1999.

When Nine passed on another series of the program, the Ten Network gave Rove and his production company, Roving Enterprises, another shot with ten episodes of Rove Live in late 2000. Since then, the program has moved timeslots, switched days and lost the second half of its name. Rove is now a high profile fixture on Network Ten’s prime time schedule as well as on TV3 in New Zealand.

In 2002 Rove was nominated for the Gold Logie and Rove Live won the Logie for Most Popular Light Entertainment Program. In 2003 Rove took out three Logies, including Most Popular Presenter, Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy program and the coveted Gold Logie for most popular personality on Australian Television. He repeated the trick in 2004 and 2005, picking up all three awards including the Gold Logie each year. In 2006 Rove added Most Popular TV Presenter to his collection of Logie metalware.

“A few years from now there’s a real chance we will look back on September, 1999 as the time we saw the start of a network TV career of a young guy who may well turn out to be one of the biggest selling names in the business.” Robert Fidgeon, Herald Sun.

Check out Rove's monologues from the show in the video section. You can also read more about Rove on the Ten website.