Matt Parkinson Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Matt Parkinson (born in Perth, Western Australia) is a comedian, actor, and radio host who has appeared on a variety of television and radio shows. He started performing while still in school and went on to study Theatre Arts at W.A.I.T. (now Curtin University). His professional career started in Perth with the Hole in the Wall Theatre Company, where he performed in plays such as Hamlet, The Cherry Orchard, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the title role in Ben Johnson’s The Alchemist. He has since acted in a number of other plays across Australia. Parko is a nickname that he is often known by. He was previously a part of the comedic team The Empty Pockets, which included Matthew Quartermaine and appeared on the television programme The Big Gig on a regular basis, before moving on to other projects.

 A champion winner of the television game show Sale of the Century, Parkinson was also a champion winner of the Sale of the Century competition in the 1990s. The Cage, a famous Melbourne morning show hosted on Triple M, included him as one of the hosts. 

After The Cage was axed from the Sydney market at the end of 2006, he relocated to Melbourne to continue to co-host the programme in the Melbourne market. Parkinson appears regularly as a member of the “Brains Trust” on the ABC quiz programme The Einstein Factor, which is hosted by fellow Cage member Peter Berner. Parkinson also served as a judge on the Comedy Channel’s Comedy Slapdown, which was hosted by HG Nelson and aired in 2008. In 2010, he worked as a writer on the ABC comedic murder-mystery game programme Sleuth 101, which aired in the United States.

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