“The first episode is about Snapchat, the second is about the Cloud and we do Angry Birds and Trojan viruses,” he says. I’m nervous about it, but also excited about the prospects.”.
By Elyse Philips. Which is why I like improv and why I feel it suited me so well because it’s very much a team environment; because if I don’t turn up then I let you down. Steen Raskopolous has got a lot of people up his sleeve – a Greek Orthodox minister, an unstoppable businessman and a champion athlete among them. These include staring in BBC Three’s Top Coppers and being a cast member of the Australian version of Whose Line is it Anyway? Help keep Chortle viable. If I could follow anyone’s career path it would be his. “I also like that collaboration aspect of it. Website and all original content copyright © Chortle 2000 - 2020. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Ever since Steen Raskopoulos received a Barry Award nomination for Best Show at the 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Greek Australian comedy improv performer’s star has risen.
“That is what I need to do. Raskopoulos added, “But the dream? We are currently listing 3,371 upcoming comedy events. “So, Jack Gleason plays King Joffrey in Game of Thrones and when I saw him I thought ‘that kid looks familiar.’ After the show the ticketing lady told us, ‘King Joffrey was raving about how much he loved your show.’, “I thought, ‘that’s cool, it would be nice to meet him’, and then he came again the next night and in the Q & A we do towards the end of our show he asked a question. The last couple of years has seen Bear Pack perform to sold-out audiences in Australia and Scotland but one night stands out amongst all others. Lanky young performer Steen Raskopoulos received a nomination for best newcomer at the festival last year and took out that award at Sydney's comedy festival. It was set in a Melbourne cafe and run by a Greek (Nick Gianopoulos) while his father was overseas. I hated doing it at the time because all my mates were going to movies and beaches in the school holidays and I would be too tired to do anything else because by the time I got home I went straight to bed.
And the priest isn’t the only Greek character in Steen’s repertoire. To be or not to be a (Greek) Australian comedian? “There will be a bunch of new characters, new narratives,” he says, describing his new show. Raskopoulos says his penchant for working hard was passed down through his family. “So, I like that style of mixed emotion and connecting with Carlo.”. I remember drinking a Fanta (my mum learned not to give me that any more) and pretending to be Skippy being blown up by a bomb… we were at an airport.
It was very real and damn funny. “I’m still here to tell the tale so it must have been pretty good.”. To see what started as a university sketch show being given two seasons on national TV was the tipping point for me wanting to become a performer. “Comedy is like a pressure valve so if you keep it tight and keep tightening it, you create silence, tension, and emotion.
As a performer, you’d be fooled into thinking Steen was his stage name, but no, he came into this world as Steen.
It is much like a play but, in this setting, it is the audience that sets the parameters by providing a location, a word, and a genre while the characters and plot are improvised on the night. His show This is Littleton on the ABC includes a short skit with Stedios and his Greek friend Vasili. He performed a cooking segment with Bob Franklin, which always made my dad and I howl with laughter. If I can have a career that fits into that, that sees me starting out in sketch comedy and then moving towards more feature films, that would be the goal. His follow-up show is another collection of one-man sketches featuring a variety of characters and plenty of audience interaction. Raskopoulos’ output over the last two years has been remarkable, performing 58 shows in 27 days in both 2016 and 2017. I see a lot of my friends doing a lot of TV, live stuff, and touring. “But it was the best thing. We see you are using AdBlocker software.
I know he’s not Australian but he had a massive impact on our comedy in the mid 1990s. “I’ll be on a show on the ABC called Squinters and it also has Tim Minchin,” he says. Raskopoulos began in sketch comedy and improv at Sydney University studying for a Bachelor of Arts. It helped that my eldest sibling, Jordan, who got me into performing was in it. “He set up a few businesses and learnt how to speak the language and assimilated into Australian culture and that work ethic stuck with me. I’ve been invited to perform in Wales and Ireland and another festival in London. He was thrust on stage at the age of 15 when he went to watch his brother perform at university.
22 December 2017 9:41am. “In Edinburgh this year Jack Gleason came along to watch one of our shows,” Raskopoulos says. TWITTER & INSTAGRAM = @steenrasko.
So whatever I did that night belongs to the audience.”. Remarkably, the upward trajectory is set to continue next year when Raskopoulos will share a TV screen with one of Australia’s greatest actors – Oscar-nominated and AACTA and Logie Award winner Jackie Weaver. Even still, it was ballsy and fearless as well as funny. At 26, Steen has made quite an impression in the tough world of Australian comedy. It was the group’s first open air performance, and from just a location suggestion, the audience sat down for an hour long comedic journey that included priests, farmers and dragons and hands for feet. You can have your Whose Line Is It Anyway? “With any conversation that we watched as kids around the table, especially when they were speaking in Greek, you could see they were so energetic,” he says. Thirteen relatively unknown comedians take up roles in the fictional town of Littleton, with Steen portraying the delusional mayor, among others, in the four episode series. Chortle. Steen’s father is former Socceroos and Sydney Olympic legend Peter Raskopoulos and he says NSL diehards always enquire why he didn’t follow in his father’s footsteps. It’s about the conversations we have before and after work. Also packing them in is the Bear Pack show. These include playing sold-out shows at the Melbourne and Sydney International Comedy Festivals, including televised appearances at the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne’s Palladium at Crown. “Every old Greek man has asked me that question,” he replies. All of these achievements and opportunities have Raskopoulos dreaming big and he hopes that 2018 will see him take the next step which includes trying to crack the US. Improv was his first love and it’s what made him a unique performer. I remember sitting up with my family to watch this every week.
If people are coming to watch us at Enmore and Giant Dwarf and if I am still invited to perform overseas and people are still interested in me pitching TV ideas, I guess that means I am doing something right.”, If having King Joffrey from Game of Thrones in his audience wasn't surreal enough, 2018 will see Steen Raskopoulos star alongside Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver. It was a mixture of 14 or 15 characters, all living in the same world and eventually all meeting up in the end. I love that spontaneity because they are coming into it not knowing what is happening and I am getting them up and involving them in my set.”. I try and put it in all my shows, to have that sort of intimacy in the show.
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