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== '''''Sieg Heil!''''' ==
[[Image:rove_2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Rove McManus.]]
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'''Rove McManus''' (born '''John McManus''', [[21 January]] [[1974]]) is an [[Australia]]n variety show host, [[comedian]] and owner of the production company [[Roving Enterprises]]. He also likes to eat cock and copies David Letterman.
==Career history==
===Television===
Born in [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]], [[Western Australia]], McManus grew up in [[Riverton, Western Australia|Riverton]] and attended Orana Catholic Primary School. He moved to [[Melbourne]] to pursue a career as a [[stand up comedian]]. He hosted ''[[The Loft Live]]'' on community television ([[Channel 31]]) and subsequently landed ten late night episodes of his own tonight show, ''Rove'', on [[GTV9]] in 1999. Channel Nine did not continue with the series.
The [[Ten Network]] offered McManus and his production company, [[Roving Enterprises]], another ten episodes of his show in late 2000. The resulting ''[[Rove Live]]'' became a weekly talk show on [[Network Ten]], and is syndicated on [[TV3 (New Zealand)|TV3]] in [[New Zealand]]. The show involves [[celebrity]] guests, publicity stunts, [[comedian]]s and live [[band (music)|band]]s.
In 2002, he was nominated for the Gold [[Logie Award]] and ''Rove Live'' won the Logie for ''Most Popular Light Entertainment Program''. In 2003, McManus won three Logies, including ''Most Popular Presenter'', ''Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Program'' and the [[Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television|''Gold Logie for most popular personality on Australian television'']]. In 2004 and 2005, he repeated his 2003 award haul, including winning another Gold Logie.
Roving Enterprises has produced a number of other programs including the sketch comedy program ''[[Skithouse]]'' and the [[Australian Football League|AFL football]] program, ''[[Before The Game]]''. Roving Enterprises has also produced the [[ARIA Music Awards]] since 2002, hosted by McManus until 2004.
McManus undertook a live solo [[stand-up comedy]] show in 2005, touring the Australian capital cities and [[Wellington]] and [[Auckland]] in New Zealand, whilst still returning to Melbourne each Tuesday to film ''Rove Live''.
In 2004, he had a [[fatwa]] placed on him by [[John Safran]] in an episode of ''[[John Safran vs God]]'', for dropping Safran's scheduled appearance on Rove Live. It was later removed. He also unsuccessfully campaigned to have [[Prime Minister of Australia|Australian Prime Minister]] [[John Howard]] appear on his program during the [[Australian legislative election, 2004|2004 federal election]]. On the [[25 October]] [[2005]] episode, ''Rove Live'' had a segment that Rove himself deemed "controversial" when it aired a live TV [[vasectomy]]. For the season finale, he offered six cars as prizes on his show. After falling viewing figures, the show was revamped for 2006, with the first episode of the new show airing on [[14 February]]. In 2006 his long time supporting presenter, [[Corinne Grant]], left the show.
===Radio===
In 1999 he was a regular host on [[Triple J]] radio. He had a segment on the breakfast show (starring [[Wil Anderson]] and [[Adam Spencer]]) on Friday mornings, ''Know Your Millennium'', a quiz show that looked into the past.
In 2002 the [[Austereo]] radio network commissioned Roving Enterprises to create a weekly radio program. Starring McManus alongside regular TV colleagues [[Peter Helliar]] and Corinne Grant, the show was originally called ''Saturday Morning Rove''. Broadcast from [[Fox FM]] every Saturday from 10AM to Midday, it was actually pre-recorded the day before to allow the performers to have a full weekend of media commitments.
In 2004 the program moved to Friday mornings allowing live phone callers, and was re-titled [[Rove Live Radio]]. It was discontinued at the end of 2004. The style of the program was very similar to ''Rove Live''.
===Other work===
When [[Bert Newton]] fell ill in early June 2005, Rove hosted his show ''[[Good Morning Australia]]'' in his place.
With Newton, Rove co-hosted a Roving Enterprises television special ''Ten Seriously 40'', a look back at the history of the Ten Network.
McManus voiced a crab in [[Pixar]]'s 2003 [[animation|animated]] film, ''[[Finding Nemo]]''.
==Personal life==
McManus is represented by personal management company [[Token Artists]].
In July 2004 he announced his engagement to his girlfriend of three years, Australian actor [[Belinda Emmett]]. They married on [[January 29]], [[2005]] at the [[Oblates of Mary Immaculate|Mary Immaculate]] Church in [[Waverley, New South Wales|Waverley]], a suburb in the east of [[Sydney]].
==Criticisms==
Rove won the 2006 Fuglies award for "Australia's ALL TIME Most Overrated TV Star". [http://www.fugly.com.au/awards/2006/] The Fuglies are annual awards, celebrating the worst of Australian television. It is held in the run-up to the Logie Awards and votes are collected over the Internet.
== Trivia ==
* He is a fan of the [[Fremantle Football Club]].
* AFL player [[Shaun McManus]], who plays for Fremantle, is McManus' 1st cousin.
* McManus is interested in [[professional wrestling]]
* He was a runner in the [[Queen's Baton Relay]] (which carries a baton around Australia before the [[2006 Commonwealth Games]]). He based a segment of one of his shows on trying to obtain special privileges using his Commonwealth Games uniform and replica baton. He was able to run around the [[Parliament of Victoria|Victorian Parliament]] chambers and meet the Premier of Victoria [[Steve Bracks]], as well as Bert Newton who had just moved to a rival network.
== External links ==
* [http://www.rovelive.com/ ''Rove Live'' Website]
* [http://rovelive.com/rove_bio/ Rove's official biography]
* [http://www.roveonline.com/facts.html Rove McManus factoids]
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