Australia’s Clown Prince Is Getting His Own Weekday Radio Show
Joel Creasey, one of Australia’s most prominent openly gay entertainers, is stepping out on his own with a brand new solo radio show on the NOVA network. The Joel Creasey Show launches on Monday, 20 April 2026, and will air weekdays from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm AEST across all Nova stations nationally.
So what can we expect?
Creasey is sharp, funny, and often unpredictable. The one-hour lunchtime slot will lean heavily into conversation and comedy, with regular segments, celebrity guests, and occasional appearances from his mum, Jenny!
“Having treaded the boards in the Australian spotlight for 20 years now (I started when I was 3), I have stories, anecdotes and famous friends that will tickle you pink,” Creasey said in NOVA Entertainment’s announcement.
He also promised a completely new format. “We have truly broken the mould wide open with how the show is going to look and feel,” he said. “When I say there’s been some construction happening over at NOVA HQ, I mean high-vis and hard hats.”
From teenage stand-up to national radio
Creasey started doing stand-up comedy at 15 and came out publicly at 16. He debuted at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2010, where his show The Drama Captain later sold out 23 consecutive nights.
Joan Rivers saw one of his sets on YouTube and booked him as her opening act in New York in 2014. He’s been a contestant on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! (2015), and his stand-up specials include Thirsty on Netflix (2019) and Queen of the Outback on Prime Video (2023), filmed at the Broken Heel Festival.
For eight years, he and Myf Warhurst hosted SBS’s Eurovision Song Contest coverage, which gave us one of his most viral moments. During the 2018 grand final, a stage invader grabbed the mic during the UK’s performance. Creasey’s live call of “What an absolute cockhead” went around the world.
In 2014, he and fellow gay comedian Rhys Nicholson fronted the ABC documentary Gaycrashers. The pair travelled to Colac, a small Victorian town that had been labelled “Australia’s most homophobic town,” where Creasey had previously been chased and threatened by teenagers after an anti-discrimination event. They spent time on a cattle farm (where a bull reportedly gave them a very warm welcome), and finished by performing a stand-up show for the locals.
Creasey has also been upfront about life as a gay man in the public eye. In his 2017 book Thirsty: Confessions Of A Fame Whore, he wrote about a fling with a current AFL player, someone he met at a party and didn’t realise played football until the next morning. He didn’t name the player, but the story sparked a wider conversation about closeted athletes in Australian sport.
He’s no stranger to DNA readers, either. Creasey has been featured in the magazine twice, including in DNA #232 (May 2019), where he discussed his “Euro-thirst” ahead of hosting Eurovision in Tel Aviv.
The Joel Creasey Show can be heard weekdays from 20 April on the Nova network, or streamed live and as a daily podcast on the Nova Player app.
