Matt Parkinson

Matt Parkinson is a comedian, MC, actor and writer with 25 years of professional experience in theatre stand-up television feature film and radio.

He is best known from The Einstein Factor as the brains trust  and The Cage (MMM-fm). He is also a former quiz champion on Sale of the Century, winning over a quarter of a million dollars!!!

Matt is remembered as half of the Empty Pockets comedy duo on The Big Gig (ABC-tv). Winning the inaugural Moosehead award for new talent in 1988 they found themselves appearing nationwide on “The Big Gig” a year later.

From Bourke RSL to the Edinburgh Playhouse he has made thousands laugh and still gets excited about the finer points of the art of the quiz.

In 2015, he was announced as one of the “chasers” on the Australian version of the UK quiz show The Chase on the Seven Network where he is nicknamed “Goliath”. He also appears in the celebrity edition of the show.