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Chris Taylor is a writer and performer with The Chaser team, responsible for comedy shows such as CNNNN and The Chaser's War on Everything on ABC-TV.

A former ABC journalist, he quit his day job to join the Chaser newspaper in 2000, and soon rose to become its senior contributor of typos. In addition to his Chaser work, Chris has written a number of short plays and even shorter haikus.

He also presented the popular radio show Today Today on Triple J, but was controversially sacked after refusing to broadcast the program in Braille. He's currently working with Andrew Lloyd Webber on a musical adaptation of Wikipedia.

Since completing an architecture degree in 1995 Andrew Weldon has been a regular contributor of cartoons and illustrations to many major newspapers and magazines. He has been a regular contributor to the Chaser newspaper, books and website since 2001. His work currently appears regularly in the Big Issue, the Bulletin, the Age, Titanic (Germany's leading satirical magazine) and on the Ink Group greeting cards and calendars.

His work has also appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Magazine, the Sunday Age, Good Weekend, HQ, GQ, Private Eye (UK), the Spectator (UK), Punch (UK) and Might (US).

His political cartooning work has been included in Best Australian Political Cartoons 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006, and has been included in all of the National Museum of Australia's annual political cartooning exhibitions since 1998. In 2004 his cartoon 'Conjoined Non-Twins' won the People's Choice prize at the National Museum's exhibition, Behind The Lines: The Year's Best Cartoons. A collection of his political cartoons from ten years of the Big Issue magazine - the Big Issues - was published in July 2006.

I'm So Sorry Little Man, I Thought You Were A Hand-Puppet, a collection of his gag cartoons, was nominated for Outstanding Humorous Book at the 2003 Australian Comedy Awards. A review of the book in the Walkley Magazine described Weldon as 'one of the country's wittiest and sometimes darkest and most laconic cartoonists'. The book has been reprinted three times, and a US edition (entitled Really – It's Not You, It's Me) was published by Riverhead Books in June 2006. Allen & Unwin will publish Weldon's second collection of cartoons, If You Weren't A Hedgehog... If I Weren't A Haemophiliac..., in December 2006.

He has written and illustrated two children's books The Kid With The Amazing Head (1998) and Clever Trevor's Stupendous Inventions (1999) as well as illustrating several other books, including The Reading Bug by Paul Jennings (2003), a top ten non-fiction bestseller, and Written In Blood by Beverley MacDonald (2003), a CBC Notable Australian Children's Book 2004.

He lives in Melbourne and he smells funny.