Ro Campbell
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Ro Campbell's Comedian Bio
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| Bio | ‘Effortlessly Briliant...’ The List
"Top Notch" Scotsman
"Hugely entertaining and accomplished performer" TheSkinny
"Mad and bad...peddling savage lines ****" ThreeWeeks, Edinburgh
’Very wrong, Rather funny’ Chortle.co.uk
‘He hammers home the punchlines...showing the craft of a Circuit Pro.’ The Skinny 2008
‘the belly laughs kept coming so fast that tears were starting to flow..." Shetland Times 2006 | | Influences | Mostly Bad. | | Members | I Dis Members. | | TV Shows | The Late News (Channel 10, melbourne), 2003. Made a brief appearance in a slow news day bulletin, drunkenly watching an acquaintance of mine get put in the back of an ambulance after he was beaten up by some bouncers (in Fitzroy, Melbourne). OK he had stolen a pool cue. But they were very heavy handed and heavy handed bouncers were a hot news topic at the time and next thing you know its gone from being a shitty wednesday night out to being in my list of TV appearances.
I was Roadie..2 in John Safrans Music Jamboree (Australia). Episode 3 I think. Could be wrong. The one where he re-enacts all the big stars riders and me and a pal got the gig of playing a couple of stereotypical roadies, and had to wheel out all the road cases and pull all the stuff out as Safran read out the lists. We thought it was a silly idea at the time, but the show was actually pretty good and we pocketed an alright bit of wedge for being lowly "featured extra’s". After playing Roadie..2 I appeared in a short film as Junkie..1 which I took as confirmation that I was moving up in the world of moving pictures.
Palestinan TV. Bethlehem, West Bank,1999. No shit. I must be one of the only westerners to have ever appeared on Palestinan Television and still have my head (oooohhh). Seriously. I went to Bethlehem to see the church of the nativity. Not because of any religiousity, just cos it was there, and I’m born on christmas day, and I thought I might be able to blag a few freebies because of it. I’m walking down the street, next thing a ragtag looking camera crew of 3 palestinian dudes comes ambling towards me. I’m thinkin "don’t tell me they just do this beheading shit in the street now", but turns out they were trying to guage the feeling of tourists for the (at the time temporarily "peaceful") West Bank. I was feeling great. I’d just blagged a glow in the dark Jesus, seen the spot He was allegedly born, and some camel herder had offered me 5 camels for my girlfriend (I told him 7 or no deal) and now I was gonna be on Palestinian TV. I mustered every piece of the Arabic language that I could and spun it into a completely unitelligible and meaningless sentence that included the words "tabouleh" "hoummos" "Ma Salamah" "Mabsout" "Chacran" "Pitta bread" "Allah Hakbar" and "the Infidels must die". They fucking loved it. (One day the feds will come for me and I’ll disappear to a CIA run interregation chamber in Nigeria for a decade of ritual humiliation and water torture). | | Films | When I was 11 I was in a film called Captain Johnno (only in australia!). A degree of nepotism was involved. My mum taught the director. A degree of talent was also involved...lets get that fucking straight too. To be honest, I think I was mis-cast. I played a bully who beat up a deaf kid (with another bully-I couldn't have taken out the big deafie on my own)and threw his hearing aid into the sea (this traumatising experience caused the deaf kid to run away - or sail as the case actually was - from his 1950's small country town, sparking mass panic and a search with a happy ending). And yes my character (darryl) did feel like a bit of a cunt because of it. I don't think I was particularly convincing, though I'm very critical of my own work. For the record I haven't had a speaking role in a feaure film since. I do still get the occasional urge to beat up deaf people and rip out their hearing aids. I always was a method actor. |
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Ro Campbell's Interests
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| General | Mayhem, Insanity, Strolls in the Countryside | | Music | I like it. I don't play it. I wish I did play it. Rock'N'Roll is cool. Its the new comedy. I am not an obsessive seeker of new music, but I have seen and worked on a fucking shitload of gigs, big and small (and massive!), in the 8 or so years (on/off) that I worked as a stagehand. I have done and seen shit many people would dream of. There are far more passionate and deserving music fans for many of the experiences to which I've been privy. But hey. Life ain't fair. And I do love the circus that is touring rock and roll. I've seen Keef and Ronnie argue backstage (one of only 2 witnesses..."fuck your fuckin hand ronnie...fuck your fuckin hand"). I've looked Dylan in the face as he walked to the stage (I'll never forget that "is this guy about to stab me" flicker of emotion on his face). I've had a beer in Oasis's dressing room (and seen Noel get refused onto stage by a dumb fuck security numptee cos he didn't have a pass! much to his bemusement). I've been side of stage while Deep Purple played trackside at Melbourne GrandPrix. I've watched James Brown from side of stage with Geldof and Bono next to me (Live8). I fired confetti cannons for KISS (and fired it during the wrong song the first time...straight into a punters face...d'oh!). I've worked backstage for AC/DC (4 shows). I've mopped a stage with 100 bottles of coca-cola for BonJovi (makes it sticky). I was backstage for the first INXS reunion after Hutchence died (Jon Stevens vocals.band messy, drunk and emotional). I've tripped over in front of 12000 people on stage during a set change for Kylie. I've stood on the back of a riser holding together a massive stack of fake Marshalls for The Darkness while they played at MTV awards cos some dumb fuck forgot to strap them (probly me!). I've been in the middle of the MCG on grand final day under the stage the national anthem was being sung from. I pinched a bottle of Hennessy from Puff daddy's dressing room. I am the proud custodian of Eddie Vedders cigarette butt. These things and many more. By the way, kings of leon are who I've listened to most the last few years. | | Movies | Some are good. Some are shit. Some are both. I like that kind. Plus the good ones. | | Television | A drug I try to only use recreationally, but occasionally abuse to detrimental levels. | | Books | Among the authors I've read and respect...Tom Robbins, John Irving, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Edward Bunker, Gregory David Roberts, Mario Puzo, Robert G Barrett, Irvine Welsh, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Henri Charriere, Hunter S Thompson, Rich Hall, Ken Kesey, John Kennedy Toole (who topped himself because he couldnt get his book published and whose mom found his manuscript and made it her lifes mission to make sure it was), Chopper Read (especially his kids stuff) and Silvester and Rule (Legends of Melbourne underworld Literature). | | Heroes | ...they're usually dead.
| You Are 50% Evil | 
You are evil, but you haven't yet mastered the dark side.
Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination.
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Ro Campbell's Details
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| Status: | Swinger | | Hometown: | Yes | | Body type: | 0' 8" / Body builder | | Ethnicity: | East Indian | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Occupation: | vegan prophylactic manafacturer/comic |
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