Wil Anderson Biography
Wil Anderson is a comedian, writer, presenter, and podcaster from Australia. Anderson has been on Good News Week, Under Melbourne Tonight, What’s Going On There?, and What’s Up With That? Have You Been Paying Attention to the Project?
How old is Wil Anderson? – Age
He is 49 years old as of 31 January 2023. He was born in 1974 in Sale, Australia.
Wil Anderson Family – Education
Anderson was raised on a dairy farm in Heyfield, Victoria. He attended Gippsland Grammar School in Sale before going on to study newspaper journalism at the University of Canberra, where he graduated first in his class in 1995. Stuart Anderson, a former AFL footballer, is his cousin.
Does Wil Anderson have children?
He has no child and revealed to Mia Freedman on the No Filter podcast why he never wants children.
Wil Anderson Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Wil Anderson Podcasts
TOFOP, a comedy podcast with friend and actor Charlie Clausen, is one of Anderson’s creations. FOFOP, where he visits with “Visitor Charlies” in lieu of Clausen; Wilosophy, in which he talks to guests about their life beliefs; furthermore, 2 People 1 Cup, an Australian guidelines football webcast with Clausen. He has also said that he would like to start a podcast about Survivor recaps called Outwil, Outplay, Outlast.
In 2010, Anderson and Clausen launched TOFOP (Thirty Odd Foot of Pod), a weekly podcast in which they discussed a wide range of topics, including film, popular culture, sports, personal anecdotes, and in-depth discussions of bizarre hypothetical situations. TOFOP became Australia’s most popular comedy podcast in June 2012, when it received a lot of attention from the media. Due to Clausen’s starring role as Zac MacGuire in the popular Australian soap opera Home and Away, the podcast was suspended in September 2012. The web recording continued in June 2014. The subsequent podcast, FOFOP, was launched by Anderson in February 2013.
Anderson sent off his Wilosophy digital broadcast in December 2014. Judith Lucy, John Safran, Felicity Ward, Osher Günsberg, Jarrod McKenna, Annabel Crabb, Marc Maron, Dee Madigan, Nazeem Hussain, Corinne Grant, Namila Benson, and Karl Kruszelnicki were among the first guests on the show. In the second half of 2018, Wilosphy released compilation episodes on topics like comedy, religion, and mental health. These episodes collect clips from previous episodes of Wilosophy and arrange them according to topic.
Anderson talked about his first Logie Awards ceremony in 2008, when he caused controversy with his live tweets from the event, in an episode of the podcast TOFOP that aired in January 2015. Anderson said that he has never been a fan of the event because he thinks there are a lot of other reasons to celebrate in Australia that don’t get enough attention. In 2020 he was a visitor on the digital broadcast The West Wing Thing. Additionally, Wil appears frequently on The Dollop alongside Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds.
Wil Anderson Stand Up
Anderson’s television and radio careers have established him as a well-known figure in Australia, but standup comedy remains his primary passion. Anderson began his career as a newspaper journalist before moving on to standup comedy. Anderson made multiple appearances on Good News Week, both the original and modified versions, in his early career. Anderson featured as a guest comedian on RMITV’s Under Melbourne Tonight on June 19, 1996, and again on the Under Melbourne Tonight spin-off What’s Going On There? on June 3, 1998.
Wil Anderson Books
Anderson’s first book, Survival of the Dumbest, was published in 2006, and it was a hilarious collection of rants and observations based mostly on his ‘Sunday Roast’ pieces in the Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Herald-Sun. In 2009, a similar novel, Friendly Fire, was published. Anderson wrote I Am NOT Fine, Thanks in 2022, a political memoir and humorous reflection on the prior years that featured much of the same material as his 2022 act, Wilogical.
Wil Anderson Career
From 2000 to 2004, Anderson co-facilitated the triple j breakfast public broadcast with Adam Spencer. Along with Corinne Grant and Dave Hughes, Anderson hosted the ABC comedy talk show The Glass House from 2001 to 2006. The show was canceled in November 2006, prompting speculation in the media that it was done as a result of pressure from the Howard Government. For his work on the show, Anderson received a nomination in the Logie Awards in 2007 for “Most Popular Presenter.”
Anderson was the subject of discussion after he poked fun at the late dad of Australian Symbol finalist Shannon Noll at the 2006 Melbourne Global Satire Celebration.
Wil & Lehmo, an afternoon drive-time radio show on Triple M, was hosted by Anderson and Lehmo from April 2007 to November 2008. He also replaced Mick Molloy as co-host of the early morning show Hot Breakfast alongside Luke Darcy and Eddie McGuire in 2018, but he will no longer host the show at the end of 2019.
Anderson took over as executive producer and host of ABC’s panel talk show about advertising, The Gruen Transfer, in May 2008. The show premiered to a record-breaking 1.287 million viewers, making it the highest-rated ABC debut entertainment program ever.