Marty Coffey is Australia’s best Canadian juggler. Now an Australian citizen, Marty has entertained us with his juggling antics for well over a decade. He is perhaps best known for causing a furore on the Midday Show when he pretended to juggle two live kittens with a running chainsaw, upsetting many short sighted home viewers... all in the name of comedy!
Marty’s act is a clever combination of spectacular juggling, fire eating and death defying feats, all wrapped up with non-stop humour. Among his routines are the uproarious apple bowling ball and egg juggling where he eats the apple during the stunt. There is the dangerous object juggling atop a two metre unicycle wheel Marty enlists the help of the audience in getting started. And of course he likes to finish on his now famous chainsaw juggling (sans kittens for the stage act!). With or without cats his deftness for combining hilarious patter, visual surprise gags and tension building stunts always keeps the audience on the edge of their seats.
Marty’s credits include the highly successful national capital tour with the Broadway musical Sugar Babies. Critics said he “stole the show” when he performed his solo spot directly before finale.
So, you’ve never seen Marty Coffey? As Marty says he is “...quite famous. It’s just that a lot of people haven’t seen me yet.” In fact most Australians have at some stage seen Marty perform, as he has appeared on every major television show in the Country.
With his high impact thirty minute show Marty has always been in huge demand as a guest artist for Australia’s biggest touring acts. He has also supported international acts such as John Cougar Mellencamp, the Everly Brothers, Thelma Houston & Issac Hayes.
In more recent years Marty has become one of the most sought after comic performers in the corporate market, performing at events for Mercedes Benz, AMP, National Mutual, Sony, IBM, Commonwealth Bank and Elders just to name a few. He has entertained at private functions for Kerry Packer, John Singleton and Paul Keating, This popularity is partly due to the large doses of side-splitting audiences involvement, a real winner at functions from small groups to gala balls. It is also the powerful universal appeal and versatility of his show, an important feature when perfection and professionalism are the standards.
Marty Coffey certainly has a sensational approach to comedy basing it around juggling - or a sensational approach to juggling basing it around comedy. Whichever way you look at it Marty Coffey has a sensational comedy act.
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