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Australian comedy duo

Roy and HG are an Australian comedy duo, comprising Greig Pickhaver in the role of "H. G. Nelson" and John Doyle as "'Rampaging' Roy Slaven". Their act is an affectionate but irreverent parody of Australia's obsession with sport. Their characters are based on stereotypes in sports journalism: Nelson the excitable announcer, and Slaven the retired sportsman turned expert commentator. In his 1996 book Petrol, Bait, Ammo & Ice, Pickhaver summarised the duo's comedic style as "making the serious trivial and the trivial serious". The duo's long running triple j radio program This Sporting Life was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013, and the This Sporting Life 30th anniversary retrospective collection won the ARIA Award for Best Comedy Release in 2016. Since March 2020, Roy and HG's weekly show Bludging on the Blindside airs on Saturday afternoons on ABC Sport, ABC Local Radio, and the ABC Listen app, as well as podcast platforms. It was reported in July 2021 that Roy & HG would host Dodging Armageddon, a daily podcast for ABC Radio with an Olympics theme, which will air throughout the XXXII Olympiad's competitions.

Doyle and Pickhaver wrote and hosted the live, improvised, and satirical radio program This Sporting Life on triple J from 1986 to 2008. They also broadcast annual live commentaries of the NRL and AFL Grand Finals (dubbed the Festival of the Boot, Parts I and II) and the Melbourne Cup. Commentaries for all three matches of rugby league's annual State of Origin series are also broadcast (main article: Roy and HG's State of Origin commentary), and they have also broadcast live commentaries of other major events, including the Bicentennial celebrations on 26 January 1988 and the 2007 Australian federal election (Indecision 07). They also provided a half hour coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics every weekday under the guise of the Golden Ring Show. At conclusion, 'This Sporting Life' held the record as the longest running program in the history of triple j.

Starting 12 January 2009, the duo presented the drive time program The Life on the Triple M network, on Mondays and Fridays. In 2011, 'The Life' show was cut to Fridays only, with the last episode broadcast on 25 November 2011. 'Roy & HG's Mardi Gras of Medals' – their coverage of the Rio Olympic Games – was broadcast on Triple M in August 2016. A weekly program, 'The Sporting Probe with Roy & HG' commenced broadcast in January 2017 and ran for two years until December 2018. The show aired from 10:00 am to midday on Saturday in 2017, and in the same timeslot on Sunday in 2018. All episodes are available as a podcast.

In 2019, Roy and HG presented Just Short of a Length on the Macquarie Sports Radio network. Nine Radio have not renewed programming contacts for 2020 and beyond with Roy and HG after dropping the unpopular MSR branded talk format and returning to a music format for their Sydney 2UE, Melbourne 3EE aka Magic 1278, and Brisbane 4BH assets. All three stations reverting to their original historical station ID call signs.

Between 2012 and 2016, Roy and HG resumed their Festival Of The Boot AFL and NRL grand final commentaries on ABC NewsRadio. In March 2020, Roy and HG returned to ABC Sport to present a new weekly Saturday afternoon show entitled Bludging on the Blindside. The show is broadcast on ABC Sport digital radio and the ABC Listen app, and broadcast on ABC Local Radio in NSW, ACT and QLD. All episodes are available on podcast platforms soon after initial broadcast. In July 2021, it was announced that Roy & HG will be presenting a daily Olympic games podcast for ABC Radio, entitled 'Dodging Armageddon'. This Sporting Life (1993–94), The Dream was followed by three spinoffs – The Ice Dream (from the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics), The Cream (from the 2003 Rugby World Cup), and The Dream again for the Athens 2004 Olympics. Roy and HG were not selected by Channel Seven to cover the Beijing Olympics because of security concerns and the belief by Channel Seven management that the style of their coverage – going to air live following a day's events – would not have suited Australian audiences given Australia's time zones. Instead, a daily radio programme, The Golden Ring Show, was broadcast on triple j, with Roy styled as "Crouching Tiger" and H. G. as "the Hidden Dragon".

In 2005, they presented The Memphis Trousers Half Hour, a TV show they claimed was recorded in different American cities such as Baltimore or Albuquerque, ensuring that 'Australia is the flavour of the month, every month'. The show screened weekly on the ABC on Saturday nights and was named after an incident in which former Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser lost his trousers in a Memphis hotel. The show, seemingly filmed in the United States, was in fact filmed entirely in Sydney. The format was a parody of American talk shows and pretended to present Americans with new 'facts' about Australia.

Roy and HG joined Network Ten for their Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics coverage, where they hosted a commentary show called Roy and HG's Russian Revolution. HG Nelson also joined Stephen Quartermain and Alisa Camplin for the Sochi Tonight daily show.

Year & Ceremony For Award Result1990 ARIA Awards Rampaging Roy The Life and Times of Roy Slaven Best Comedy Release Nominated1991 ARIA Awards Wicket to Wicket Nominated1997 Logie Awards Club Buggery Most Outstanding Achievement in Comedy Won Club Buggery Most Popular Comedy Program Nominated1998 Logie Awards Most Outstanding Achievement in Comedy Nominated2001 Logie Awards The Dream with Roy and HG Most Popular Sports Program Won The Dream with Roy and HG Most Outstanding Comedy Program Nominated2002 Logie Awards The Monday Dump Most Popular Sports Program Nominated Most Outstanding Comedy Program Nominated 2003 Australian Comedy Awards 17 years of radio & television work Outstanding Performers Won 17 years of radio work Outstanding Networked Radio Comedy Performance Won 2005 Logie Awards The Dream in Athens Nominated2016 ARIA Awards This Sporting Life Best Comedy Release Won