Ellen Briggs is an author, comedy writer, and professional MC but where she is most at home is on the stage doing stand up comedy. She is funny. Properly funny.

Early on in her career, she was a finalist in the prestigious RAW Comedy competition and won a National Foxtel competition that was voted on by peers and managers in the industry. She has never looked back.

Ellen regularly performs as a comedian and MC at venues all over Australia, and created a stand up comedy show called Women Like Us with fellow comedian Mandy Nolan that they toured all over Australia to packed houses and rave reviews. They set out to take a high quality stand up show into regional areas for audiences who often don’t get any entertainment, and ten years later and over 350 shows down, the show was more in demand than they ever imagined. In 2018 they released their co-authored book,” Women Like Us” which needed a reprint in the first week! They also have a hugely popular podcast of the same name.

Ellen was selected by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to perform at the Melbourne Town Hall in UpFront, the women’s comedy gala to over 2,000 people and the reviewers singled her out as one of the favourites.

She has toured internationally with Punchline Comedy through Asia to rave reviews in all those shows, and became a regular and favorite comedian on P&O and Carnival Cruises throughout the country performing to thousands of people, doing both adult content shows as well as family friendly content.

She is a popular and regular guest on ABC NSW’s political satire show Thank God It’s Friday, and her quick wit and relatable personality landed her a weekly spot as guest comedian on Triple M Radio on the Gold Coast, as well as often sitting in as co-host for their popular breakfast and drive time shows.

Early in 2019 she was a guest on the popular TV Show - Hughsey We Have A Problem on Channel 10. She is also a writer on the hit TV Show “Kinne” starring Troy Kinne which is now in its third season of production.

Ellen has an easy-going, friendly nature that belies the dark wit that lurks beneath. She is one of the most relatable comedians on stage and comedy comes naturally to her. It’s been said that "Ellen says out loud the things others only dare to even think", and that Ellen takes her audience on an observational and hilarious journey through life as an accidental mother of identical twins and the wife of a husband who is away working for 8 months of the year. She has made an art-form of sneaking laugh out loud punchlines onto the end of "nice" yarns. She launches the punch lines stealthily. You won’t see them coming, but you’ll know when they hit.

Ellen has performed alongside all of the big names in Australian comedy, and is a highly regarded and a much loved colleague in the Australian comedy industry. Ellen is a favourite at ladies events, such as Ladies Lunches, Girls Nights In and numerous other Cancer Council and fundraising events. She has also become sought after for men’s luncheons and functions, for a hilarious women’s perspective that is not often heard at those events!

Regionally based, she is as comfortable hosting national conferences such as the Agricultural Show Society and Poultry Associations as she is performing in premier comedy clubs such as The Comics Lounge in Melbourne, the Sit Down Comedy Club in Brisbane, or to an audience of 800 in a showroom on a cruise ship.