Tahir Bilgiç

Tahir Bilgiç is an Australian comedian, film and television actor of Turkish descent. He is primarily an actor and comedian. He has written, directed and starred in live shows including "Lord of The Kebabs", "From Lebanon With Love" and "Straight Outta Compo" to name a few. He has appeared in 5 different Australian sit-coms and 3 feature films. He co-created and starred in "StreetSmart" (ch10) as well as coming with the initial idea and then co-creating "Here Come The Habibs" (ch9).

Works

All Saints

Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.

Release Date1998-02-24

Charactersd Mr Mustafa

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

Pizza

Pizza was an Australian television series on the Australian television network SBS. The series has a spin-off feature length movie, Fat Pizza, released in 2003, and a best-of highlights video/DVD that featured previously unreleased footage and a schoolies exposé, released in 2004. In addition to this, a theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza", starring several characters from the show, has toured the Australian east coast. Through ironic and self-conscious references, Pizza involves themes of ethnicity and stereotypes, cars, sex, illicit drugs, and violence to produce its sometimes mean-spirited dark humour. The television program is noted for its frequent cameo appearances of numerous Australian celebrities of all varieties, including actors, comedians, professional athletes, and other public figures.

Release Date2000-04-24

Charactersd Habib Halal Habib

Episode Count45

Vote Count8

Fat Pizza vs Housos

After fifteen years, pizza chef Bobo is released from prison. Rent has gone up so the only shop Bobo can afford is in the infamous housing commission suburb of Sunnyvale.

Release Date2014-11-27

Charactersd Habib

Vote Count13

Dumb Criminals: The Movie

Rabbit and Rongo, two dumb but kind-hearted criminals, want to help a young girl get the medical treatment she needs. Inspired by true crimes around the world, they attempt to raise money through a series of dumb plans and hopeless schemes.

Release Date2015-10-15

Charactersd Habib

Vote Count7

Housos

Housos is an Australian comedy television series created by Paul Fenech for SBS, that screens on SBS One. The series is a satirical parody of low income Australian residents of fictional suburb Sunnyvale, who are living in Housing Commission public housing. On 1 November 2012, a film based on the series was released in Australian cinemas, titled Housos vs. Authority. On 9 September 2012 it was announced that Housos would return for a second series, which premiered 22 July 2013.

Release Date2011-10-24

Charactersd Habib

Episode Count4

Vote Count11

The Librarians

Frances O'Brian, Head Librarian, is having a hellish time of it. And for once it's not all of her making. Frances' mother, suffering from both dementia and a really horrible personality, lands on the O'Brien doorstep. Adding to her woes, morale at the Middleton Interactive Learning Centre is at a new all time low. In order to stay open, the library is forced to run as a business and return an annual profit. As the staff has a hard enough time enforcing the return of a book, this latest initiative could spell the end of the library.

Release Date2007-10-31

Charactersd Turkish Man

Episode Count1

Vote Count9

Fat Pizza

Fat Pizza is yet another slice of life at a dodgy suburban Sydney take away. Bobo Gigliotti the psychotic pizzeria owner/pizza chef is awaiting the arrival of his mail-order refugee bride Lin Chow Bang, and a new pizza deliverer is on the block. Channel V's Jabba almost steals the show as token skip delivery boy Davo Dinkum, a stoner with a bong strapped to his face like a feedbag.

Release Date2003-04-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Habib Halal

Vote Count46

Street Smart

Release Date2018-08-05

Charactersd Steve

Episode Count8

Show Me the Movie!

Hosted by Rove McManus, this comedy panel game show features two teams captained by acclaimed actor Jane Harber and comedy star Joel Creasey who compete in a series of movie trivia rounds.

Release Date2018-03-22

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Here Come The Habibs

After winning the lottery, the Habib family move into Sydney's richest suburb to live the Australian dream, but their poshy next door neighbours are not all to happy about it.

Release Date2016-02-09

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count4

Thank God You're Here

Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!". They then had to improvise their way through the scene. At the end of each episode a winner was announced.

Release Date2006-04-05

Vote Count6

Tahir Live

Having performed stand up comedy for over a decade Tahir finally releases his first DVD recorded live at the Enmore Theatre. His stand up will take you through from his Turkish heritage to his high school teaching days. Watch Tahir improvise with the audience on an electric night as one of Australia’s finest and most natural comedians hits the stage to a packed Enmore Theatre.

Release Date2010-10-06