Greig Pickhaver

Greig Pickhaver AM (born @1948) is an actor, comedian and writer, who forms one half of the Australian satirical sports comedy duo Roy and HG as the excitable sports announcer H.G Nelson. The award-winning duo teamed up in 1986 for the Triple J radio comedy program This Sporting Life, and were broadcast nationwide for 22 years, leading to several successful television spinoffs.

Pickhaver was born in Nuriootpa, South Australia to parents Gordon Pickhaver, and Beryl Skuce. His father was a World War II veteran who saw action in the Middle East and on the Kokoda Trail and whose career was in the South Australian dairy industry. Pickhaver has three sisters Jane, Anne and Mary and a brother Mark. Pickhaver was raised in Brighton, South Australia up to the age of 15 then the family moved to the suburb of Prospect where he lived until the age of 22. He attended Oaklands Park Primary school, Brighton High School and for the last two years of high school Adelaide High. He graduated from Flinders University and describes himself as dyslexic and having always relied heavily on memory and recall to achieve any academic results.

Pickhaver performed in plays at school and at university. After a stint as a roadie for Australian rocker Billy Thorpe in the early 1970s he became involved in the Melbourne theatre co-operative The Pram Factory. He moved into radio broadcasting on 3RRR in Melbourne and developed the HG Nelson character while performing in the Melbourne radio sports comedy show Punter To Punter in the early 1980s.

Pickhaver met Doyle in 1985 while both were playing minor characters in an SBS TV show and they teamed up as Roy and HG in 1986. Their radio comedy program This Sporting Life was broadcast initially in Sydney and later nationally on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Triple J youth radio network. It was continuously on-air for a 22 year period till 2008. This Sporting Life was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013.

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