Matt Okine

Matthew Okine (born 12 April 1985) is a stand-up comedian, author and radio presenter from Brisbane, Australia. He attended Brisbane State High School throughout his upbringing and grew up playing Australian rules football in his younger years. He was considered a promising prospect, and was invited to take part in the AFL's NAB Rising Stars national development program. He stopped playing football after being advised to do so upon entry into drama school at Queensland University of Technology. He supports his hometown Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League.

Career Okine performed stand-up on Rove, at the Sydney Comedy Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He appeared on TV shows This is Littleton, Legally Brown, Would I Lie to You? and Hughesy, We Have a Problem and was a guest contributor on Dirty Laundry Live, Can of Worms and The Agony of Modern Manners. In 2012, he released a DVD titled Being Black n Chicken n Shit. He also appeared as Laurie in H2O: Just Add Water and Aquamarine as an unknown character.

In 2014, Okine replaced Tom Ballard as co-host on the breakfast show on Triple J after Ballard resigned to pursue stand-up comedy. In 2016, Okine and Alex Dyson both left Triple J to pursue other interests.

He co-hosted How Not to Behave, which ran for four months on ABC in 2015.

At the 2015 ARIA Awards, he won Best Comedy Release for Live at the Enmore Theatre.

In 2017, Okine wrote and starred in The Other Guy on Stan.

In November 2022, it was revealed that Okine would star as Arthur Beare in a 2023 "reimagining" of classic sitcom Mother and Son which originally aired on ABC TV from 1984 to 1994. Okine is also the creator, writer and executive producer of the new series. He appeared as Devon in the 2023 TV series The Clearing.

Okine is one half of the children's music duo Diver City.

Filmography

Acting

Production credits

Self appearances

Discography + List of albums Title Album details Play It Out (with Alex Dyson) Released: 2016 Label: ABC Formats: CD, download

Awards and nominations 2015 Live at the Enmore Theatre

2016 Play It Out (with Alex Dyson)