Mick Molloy’s Net Worth & Bio – Real Housewives of Melbourne

Mick Molloy was a writer-performer for the D-Generation on their 1988 Seven Network specials. He had auditioned for the D-Generation in 1986, but the company didn’t sign him until they saw him in the 1987 Melbourne University revue, Laminex on the Rocks, according to his Wikipedia. He subsequently landed a job for ABC’s The Gerry Connolly Show (1988), Network Ten’s The Comedy Company in 1989, and the Nine Network’s The Late Show (unscreened) prototypes (1990).

Mick also worked as a writer and performer on ABC’s Late Show from 1992 to 1993. He co-hosted the segments “Muckrakers” with Jason Stephens and “Commercial Crimestoppers” with Santo Cilauro, as well as coupling up with Tony Martin for each episode’s opening and the “Street Interviews” portion. In “Shitscared,” he portrayed stuntman Rob Sitch’s thick-witted helper, and he also appeared in a number of other skits (providing the voices of Sergeant Olden in The Olden Days and Chief Chromedome in Bargearse). In the Late Show News segment “Mick’s Serve,” he also performed a series of explosive outbursts.

“The Mick Molloy Program,” which launched on the Nine Network in 1999, was the comedian’s first late-night TV show. It was supposed to be a twenty-episode series, but it was panned by reviewers after just eight episodes. The program Any Given Sunday, which he co-hosted with Nicole Livingstone on the Nine Network in 2006, was his next appearance on television. He was a broadcaster for the lawn bowls events of the 2006 Commonwealth Games, which aired on the Nine Network. 

The television personality additionally starred in the debut episode of “The Nation,” a weekly late-night news-based comedy show on the Nine Network, in 2007. The program premiered on June 5, however ratings were low, with just 575,000 people tuning in for its fourth episode. It was originally shown on Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m., but was switched to Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. in August 2007.

After Peter Helliar left Channel 10’s “Before the Game,” an AFL-themed program, in 2007, it was revealed that the presenter would replace him on the panel. Helliar had left the show in 2007. His enthusiasm for the Richmond Football Club (Tigers) was often expressed on the broadcast. Mick is a well-known fan of the club, and he has been in club membership promotional campaigns in addition to appearing on “Before the Game.” The producer then reported that Nicole Cornes, the wife of former Adelaide coach Graham Cornes, had slept with player Stuart Dew on the broadcast in June 2008. Nicole Cornes sued the Ten Network for slander and was granted A$85,000 in July 2011. The actor stayed with the program until the conclusion of the 2013 AFL season when it was canceled.

Furthermore, Mick featured in the comedy The Jesters, which aired on Foxtel’s Movie Extra in 2009. He portrayed Dave Davies, a seasoned comic who has taken on the role of manager of a bunch of young, inexperienced performers and is dealing with the behind-the-scenes shenanigans of creating a comedy sketch show. In 2011, a second season aired.

Following allegations that their on-air programming of the 2010 Winter Olympics men’s figure skating featured homophobic insults, the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board stated in February 2010 that he and Eddie McGuire will be scrutinized by the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board. After meeting with McGuire, the complainant withdrew the complaint. He was named as a member of the Seven Network’s one-hour AFL match preview program on Saturday evenings throughout the footy season in February 2014. Mick was selected the presenter of an internet program called Friday Front Bar in 2015. (subsequently renamed to The Front Bar). The program was taken up by Channel 7 in 2016.

After writing and producing on Triple M Melbourne’s The D-Generation Breakfast Show from 1990 to 1992, Mick partnered with Tony Martin for Triple M’s Bulltwang, and after The Late Show ended, Mick co-created the popular Austereo radio show Martin/Molloy, that also produced three ARIA award-winning tracklistings, The Brown Album, Poop Chute, and Eat Your Peas. On Network Ten’s The Panel, he appeared alongside his old D-Generation companions on occasion. “Tough Love with Mick Molloy,” which he co-hosted with Robyn Butler and Richard Molloy on Triple M, was Mick’s second radio program. He returned to radio in 2011, joining Triple M Melbourne’s “The Hot Breakfast” as a regular member. On Triple M Brisbane’s The Grill Team, he appears every day at 6:50 a.m. Mick will host a new national drive program with Jane Kennedy throughout the Triple M network in 2018, according to a Triple M announcement made in July 2017. As a consequence, he was substituted by Wil Anderson on “The Hot Breakfast.” Mick eventually left the production on October 6, 2017, and the next week, he began his new program, “Kennedy Molloy.”

As for the films he has worked on before, Mick released with a video, named “Shonky Golf with Mick Molloy,” and produced the feature-length documentary “Tackle Happy,” upon the discontinuation of “The Mick Molloy Show.” He portrayed as Kim’s dad Gary Poole on “Kath & Kim” and in two Murray Whelan telemovies, “Stiff” and “The Brush-Off,” he co-starred with David Wenham.