About
Marc Ryan aka The Beautiful Bogan is a comedian for hire in Adelaide, SA.
Marc Ryan performs as The Beautiful Bogan, an award-winning comedian and keynote speaker who talks about mental health by making people laugh first. His own experience of PTSD, depression and anxiety sits at the centre of it. Four years ago he built a tour called 'The Beautiful Bogan vs The Black Dog': 30 gigs in 30 days, played in mining camps, a local church, a boxing gym and on a skate ramp. Since then he's taken the same message to drought-affected communities on the Eyre Peninsula and to towns hit by fire. A set runs roughly 15 to 20 minutes of jokes to build rapport, 10 minutes of straight talk about lived experience, then another 15 of comedy so the room leaves lighter than it arrived. Corporates, government, universities and community groups all book him. All he needs is a PA.
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Marc talks openly about living with PTSD, depression and anxiety, and he does it to make the conversation ordinary rather than awkward, particularly for men who assume they're the only one. He built his own tour around that, 'The Beautiful Bogan vs The Black Dog', thirty gigs in thirty days in places most speakers never see: mining camps, a local church, a boxing gym, a skate ramp. Since then he's carried the same message to drought-affected communities on the Eyre Peninsula and to fire-hit towns on Kangaroo Island. He's not precious about being vulnerable in front of a room, and that willingness is the whole reason it lands.
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Public liability insured
