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Vizard studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne ; he practiced as a lawyer and was a partner in a City Law firm ; he has written for and produced various Logie and AFI award winning television show-from Fast Forward to Kangaroo Palace ; he has hosted his own 5 night a week national Tonight Show, Tonight Live With Steve Vizard for which he was three times nominated for and won a Gold Logie in 1991 ; he has interviewed over two thousand major names, from Audrey Hepburn, Oliver Stone, Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Patrick Swayze, Bob Hope, Sir Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Parkinson, Spike Milligan, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, Sir Harry Secombe, and Prime Ministers and politicians ; he founded one of Australia ’ s largest independent Production houses, Artist Services, which was subsequently sold to Granada ; he has been the President of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Chairman of the Victorian Major Events Company, securing events such as the World Cycling Champioships and the World Gymnastics Championships ; he has appeared on the cover of Time and Rolling Stone ; he was an elected representative to the 1999 Constitutional Convention ; he was Father of the Year in 2001 ; he was embroiled in three highly publicised legal proceedings, involving the theft of moneys by his former accountant from the Vizard Companies, and Vizard's civil penalty in 2005 for breaching directors duties ; he has broadcast on the Austereo, Fairfax and Macquarie Radio Networks and in 2011 was nominated for best Talkback Presenter in Australia ; he was Chairman of the World Swimming Championships ; and he has written several books ranging on topics ranging from humour to Australia's population policy.
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Vizard and Law
In 1976, while at Melbourne University, Vizard appeared in the Archi Revue and the following year he and fellow university students established, wrote and produced the inaugural University Law Revue.
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Among Hoyland's remaining notable older residences and former residences are Hoyland Hall, a late Georgian property, situated in a small park off Market Street and onetime home to William Vizard, first owner of Hoyland Silkstone Colliery, who was also attorney to Queen Caroline at her celebrated trial in the House of Lords.
After finishing high school in 1973, Vizard won a scholarship to study law and arts at the University of Melbourne.
Between 1976 and 1982, while still studying at Melbourne University, Vizard wrote and performed in over a dozen productions, working at such theatres and cabarets as The Last Laugh and the Flying Trapeze with a variety of local performers including Rod Quantock, Wendy Harmer, Glenn Robbins, Peter Moon and Paul Grabowsky, who would later work with Vizard as the band leader on his Tonight show.
In February 2002 Vizard was the Convenor with the Premier of Victoria of a National Population Summit at which 50 of Australia's most prominent leaders spoke to over 1, 000 delegates in a bipartisan debate about all aspects of Australia's population.
The third legal action involved Vizard directly and arose out of allegations made by Hilliard in 2003 at the criminal trial of his former bookkeeper.
In 1998, Vizard was an elected as a delegate for his home state of Victoria at the 1998 Australian Constitutional Convention in Canberra, representing the Australian Republican Movement.
Vizard conducted the first interviews with the schoolgirl at the centre of the St Kilda Football Club scandal and with David Galbally QC before the delivery of his report into the players ’ scandal ; and covered the Chilean mine disaster and pursued the defrocking of convicted priests by the Catholic Church, on behalf of abused victims.
Vizard was awakened at 3am by his 16 year old daughter who had seen an intruder in her room, and Vizard pursued the intruders into the street in the nude where he was nearly driven over by the getaway Alfa Romeo.
Vizard's younger brother, Andrew Vizard, is Professor of Veterinary Science at the University of Melbourne and an expert on animal health having served on numerous boards including Animal Health Australia Ltd, The Zoological Parks and Gardens of Victoria, and the Australian Wool Corporation.
Vizard often entertained his guest before the show at a nearby restaurant in Melbourne, Lynches, and often a member of the crew would have to race to the restaurant to retrieve Vizard and his guests so that they wouldn ’ t miss the start of the show.
In a 1991 episode, Vizard, actor Gerard Depardieu and film director Peter Weir were dining at Lynch ’ s before the show.
Vizard and Grabowsky had been friends since their studies at University of Melbourne and Vizard referred to Grabowsky as “ the Count ”.
• Vizard had a television set installed on the host set so that he could turn over at any time and see what Tonight Live was up against on the other stations.
• The show included an on-set fax machine ( at the time the show ran these were just becoming popular ) and Vizard regularly read out Viewer faxes and rang viewers from the phone on his desk.
• When guest hosts appeared, Vizard's voice would announce that they would be ' playing the role of Mister Steven Vizard ', reinforcing a concept that he had mentioned at the time, that he saw his on-screen persona as a character.
Vizard and University
Growing out of Melbourne University and The D-Generation came The Late Show ( 1991 – 1993 ), starring the influential talents Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy, Tony Martin, Mick Molloy and Rob Sitch ( who later formed Working Dog Productions ); and during the 1980s and 1990s Fast Forward ( Steve Vizard, Magda Szubanski, Marg Downey, Michael Veitch, Peter Moon and others ) and its successor Full Frontal, which launched the career of Eric Bana and featured Shaun Micallef.
In addition to writing for theatre, television and film, Vizard has written and edited several books, including a 2008 biography of Graham Kennedy, Graham Kennedy Treasures: Friends Remember the King ( Melbourne University Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-522-85545-6 ) which he co-wrote with veteran writer, Mike McColl-Jones.
Vizard has been the recipient of an Australia Council grant for Poetry and a University of Melbourne Writers Fellowship.
In 2004 Vizard was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Deakin University Australia.
* Bedwell, S: " Vizard Uncut: The Full Story ", Melbourne University Press, ( 2007 ), ( ISBN 9780522854749 )
Vizard and Melbourne
Vizard was born in Melbourne, Australia on 6 March 1956, the son of Godfrey Lancelot Pitt Vizard and June Purtell.
After being spotted in the revue, Vizard wrote material for the inner Melbourne comedy scene.
In 1987, Vizard performed in the first Melbourne International Comedy Festival, launched by Peter Cook ; and was one of the hosts of the Comedy Festival Gala in 1991.
In 1998 Vizard performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, narrating Saint-Saens Carnival Of The Animals.
From 1997 to 2005, Vizard served as a Member of the Committee of the Melbourne Cricket Club.
Since its establishment in 1991, Vizard House has provided over 20, 000 room nights free accommodation for needy people visiting inner Melbourne hospitals.
In February 2010, Vizard began a brief stint on Melbourne radio station Triple M, filling in for Eddie McGuire who was in Vancouver covering the Winter Olympics.
In 2012 Vizard broadcast Afternoons as a fill in for Dennis Walter on leading Melbourne radio station 3AW, owned by media giant Fairfax.
In 2006 Vizard ’ s Toorak mansion set a real estate record for Melbourne when it sold for $ 17. 75 million after Vizard received an unsolicited knock on the door offering to buy the landmark home.
In 2002, Vizard sold Roxby Park to South Australian Tuna fishing magnate, Tony Santic, the owner of three time Melbourne Cup winning horse, Makybe Diva, who renamed the property Smytzer's Lodge, and uses it as the home of his Makybe Diva breeding and bloodstock operations.
Presented by Australian lawyer, comedian and writer Steve Vizard, the show's format was an eclectic mix of a traditional Tonight Show, such as the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson or Jay Leno, In Melbourne Tonight with Graham Kennedy with more off beat, often deconstructionist elements, such as broadcasting a rehearsal of the show, a rained out show, a parallel Tonight show, using the floor manager and cameramen as on air talent, using the studio audience to replace high profile guests and the like.
Vizard and ;
• Steve Vizard and Peter Moons ; Advertising executives, Brent Smythe and Barry ; Indian Rug Fakari salesmen ;
• Steve Vizard ; Darren Hunch
Some of the most memorable sketches included Gina Riley, Jane Turner and Magda Szubanski's Kath and Kim, which would later give rise to the spin – off series of the same name ; Dumb Street, a parody of Home and Away and Neighbours ; a lampoon of Skippy ; Moon and Vizard breaking up in their parody of Kung Fu ;
Also in 1990, the company was bestowed with two AWGIES, the Australian Writers Guild Awards ; one for Fast Forward for best Comedy / Revue / Sketch and the other for Vizard, Co-writer Best Sketch Comedy – Fast Forward.
A detail from " The Trial of Queen Caroline 1820 " by Sir George Hayter — left to right: Stephen Lushington ( judge ) | Stephen Lushington ( in wig with back to painter ); Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Henry Brougham ( in wig handing sheet of paper downwards ); William Vizard, the Queen's solicitor ( on floor beneath Brougham ); Lord Chancellor John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Lord Eldon ( seated in centre background facing front ); Caroline of Brunswick | Queen Caroline ; Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey | Lord Grey ( with extended arm ).
Vizard and lawyer
Stephen William Vizard ( born 6 March 1956 in Richmond, Victoria ) is a Gold Logie award winning Australian media personality, lawyer, comedian, businessman, producer, broadcaster and and writer.
Vizard and was
The show was produced by Steve Vizard, who was an Executive Producer, writer and performer, and starred Magda Szubanski, Marg Downey, Michael Veitch, Peter Moon, Jane Turner and Gina Riley who went on to star in Kath & Kim, Alan Pentland, Steve Blackburn, Geoff Brookes, Ernie Dingo, the Rubbery Figures satirical puppets and numerous guests and supporting stars, such as Gerry Connolly and Brian Dawe.
Fast Forward was commissioned and produced in 1989 by Vizard ’ s production company, United Film Completion, and broadcast on Seven Network, then part of Christopher Skase ’ s Quintex Group.
Agro was a guest host for Tonight Live with Steve Vizard on four occasions.
As Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, Damian Bugg determined that there was insufficient evidence on which to base any prosecution of Steve Vizard in July 2005, and granted indemnities in relation to Schappelle Corby
The company was originally founded as Artist Services, a company formed by a group of investors including Steve Vizard, producing many shows such as Fast Forward, Full Frontal and SeaChange.
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