Tahir Bilgiç
| Tahir Bilgiç | |
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| Born | 12 December 1970 İstanbul, Turkey[citation needed] |
| Medium | Stand-up, television, film |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Genres | observational humour |
| Notable works and roles | Pizza, Swift and Shift Couriers, Housos, Bogan Hunters and Fat Pizza vs. Housos |
Tahir Bilgiç (born 12 December 1970) is an Australian comedian, film and television actor, of Turkish descent.[1] He is best known for his role as Habib in the sitcoms Pizza and Swift and Shift Couriers. He is often credited, along with Sleek the Elite as the person who came up with the catch phrase 'Fully sick'. The phrase 'fully sick' is used throughout each of the Pizza episodes and throughout the ongoing Paul Fenech sitcoms by the main characters.
Career[]
Tahir features as the Lebanese character Habib in the hit series Pizza and the motion pictures Fat Pizza and Fat Pizza vs. Housos. Habib enacts the ethnic stereotype of drug-dealing, obnoxious, womanising migrant. In 2011, he appeared in Swift and Shift Couriers.
Bilgiç has appeared on Rove Live, The NRL Footy Show, Laughing Stock, Recovery, Foxtel, Comedy Channel, the SBS documentary series - Aussie Jokers and the Australian improvisational comedy series, Thank God You're Here and as a celebrity judge on Bogan Hunters.[2] He is cousin of Outside 90 writer Nicholas Amies.
Filmography[]
- Sydney Comedy Store (1995)
- Voted Sydney Comedian of the Year (1996)[1]
- Pizza TV series (2000–2007)
- Fat Pizza (2003)
- Lord of the Kebabs: The Fellowship of the Hommous (2003)
- Show us your Roots (2004)
- Hollywood Kebabs (2004)
- Swift and Shift Couriers (2011)
- Housos (2011)
- Bogan Hunters (2014)
- Fat Pizza vs. Housos (2014)
- Here Come the Habibs (2016)
- Street Smart (2018)
- I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2018)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Young Turk". The Sydney Morning Herald. 10 January 2003. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
- ^ "Bio – Tahir". Retrieved 14 February 2021.
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- Living people
- Turkish male film actors
- Turkish emigrants to Australia
- Australian stand-up comedians
- Male actors from Sydney
- Australian male comedians
- I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (Australian TV series) participants
- 1970 births
- Australian actor stubs