James De Leo
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James De Leo is an Australian stand-up comedian and broadcaster. De Leo started his television career as a host of the ABCs Saturday morning music show – FLY- TV His television credits also include ABC TVs Late Night Fly, Talk Back Classroom, The New Inventors and AFI award winning comedy Double the Fist. 2007 saw De Leo back with the ABC as a tennis colour reporter during the Hyundai Hopman Cup and as a presenter on Sunday Arts a weekly one-hour, all-Australian arts program.
De Leo studied at Murdoch University in Western Australia where he completed a Bachelor of Commerce in Management and International Relations. He then went on to study English Literature at the University of Western Australia before attending the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at the Australian National University in Canberra.
The earnest, intellectual and understated style of De Leo has been a hit with TV fans, interview subjects and TV executives alike. De Leo is a talented comedy writer and performer and has been a 2005 and 2006 state finalist in JJJs RAW Comedy and represented Western Australia in 2006 as a National finalist in Green Faces. His radio work includes appearances on national broadcaster JJJ, Macquarie Regional network’s SEAFM, and continuing in 2007 for Austereo's Perth based station 92.9FM.
