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Greig Pickhaver
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Image:greigpickhaver.jpg 179px|thumb|Greig Pickhaver
Actor and comedian '''Greig Pickhaver''' (also known as '''H.G. Nelson''') is one half on the
Australian sports comedy duo ''
Roy and HG''. The duo originally teamed up in 1986 for the
Triple J radio comedy program
This Sporting Life (radio program) This Sporting Life, which is still on air after 18 years and has led to several successful TV spinoffs.
With
John Doyle (comedian) John Doyle as
Roy Slaven, they have appeared on television shows such as ''The Dream'', ''This Sporting Life'', ''
Club Buggery'', ''The Channel Nine Show'', ''Planet Norwich'', ''The Monday Dump'', ''The Nation Dumps'', ''The Dream in Athens'' and ''The Memphis Trousers Half Hour''.
Pickhaver was born in
Nuriootpa, South Australia Nuriootpa,
South Australia and is a graduate of
Flinders University. After a stint as a roadie for Australian rocker
Billy Thorpe in the early 1970s, Pickhaver moved into acting and comedy and first developed the HG Nelson character while performing in the Melbourne radio sports comedy show ''Punter To Punter'' in the early 1980s. He met Doyle in 1985 while both were playing minor characters in an
Special Broadcasting Service SBS TV show and they teamed up as Roy and HG in 1986.
Pickhaver has appeared in many TV programs and advertisements (often as HG Nelson) and starred in the cult Australian comedy film ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108331/ This Won't Hurt a Bit]'' opposite
Jacqueline McKenzie.
External links
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HG Nelson ABC
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Greig Pickhaver TV Tome
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Category:Australian comedians Pickhaver, Greig
Category:Australian television personalities Pickhaver, Greig
Category:People from South Australia Pickhaver, Greig
Category:Triple J announcers Pickhaver, Greig
