The Chaser

The Chaser
The full Chaser team (from left to right), Julian Morrow, Dominic Knight, Charles Firth, Craig Reucassel, Chas Licciardello, Chris Taylor, and Andrew Hansen appearing on the War on Everything studio together.
Medium	Print, online, radio, television, stage & Christmas crackers
Nationality	Australian
Years active	1999–present
Genres	Satire
Subject(s)	Politics
Notable works and roles	The Chaser (1999–2005) The Election Chaser (2001) The Chaser Decides (2004 & 2007), CNNNN (2002–2003) Cirque du Chaser (2005) The Chaser's War on Everything (2006–2007, 2009) The Chaser's Age of Terror Variety Hour (2008) Yes We Canberra (2010) The Hamster Wheel (2011-2012) The Hamster Decides (2013) The Chaser's Media Circus (2014-) The Chaser's Election Desk (2016)
Members	Charles Firth Andrew Hansen Dominic Knight Chas Licciardello Julian Morrow Craig Reucassel Chris Taylor
Website	www.thechaser.com.au

The Chaser is an Australian satirical comedy group. They are known for their television programmes on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation channel. The group take their name from their production of satirical newspaper, a publication known to challenge conventions of taste. The group's motto is "Striving for Mediocrity in a World of Excellence".

The Chaser's earliest foundations were Charles Firth, Dominic Knight, and Chas Licciardello who went to Sydney Grammar School together and produced a small satirical school magazine The Tiger. Then Firth, Knight and Licciardello met Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen and Julian Morrow at the University of Sydney. Chris Taylor also attended the University of Sydney but never knew the others during that time. Licciardello, Knight, Reucassel and Morrow all studied law at the Sydney Law School and Firth, Taylor and Hansen all studied in the University of Sydney Faculty of Arts. Firth and Hansen featured in the ABC documentary called "Uni" by film-maker Simon Target. Firth and Hansen organised the University of Sydney Arts Revue and Firth, Knight, Reucassel and Morrow wrote for the University of Sydney student newspaper Honi Soit. In 1999 the four members began The Chaser and their first newspaper project entitled The Chaser.