Ben Price
Australia's best impersonator.
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Australia’s Best Impersonator, comedian Ben Price has his audiences rolling in the aisles with his spot on impersonations of personalities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump, Owen Wilson, Homer Simpson or Dr Phil.
Previous experience
Performer: A national talent at an international level, Ben has performed all over the world bringing his 200+ voices. He was a Grand Finalist on Australia’s Got Talent in 2011 and he’s been on The Today Show several times, Good Morning Washington, Good Morning Texas, Huckabee, Kid’s WB and CT Style and many more.
Actor: Ben has featured in 4 movies. Audacity (2015), At Least Once (2017), Christmas Gone Viral (2017) and provided 3 character voices for the upcoming 3D animated feature, The Pilgrims Progress (Scheduled for release in 2018).
Impersonator: Discovering his talent for impersonating voices at the age of 10, Ben used his amazing talent to entertain classmates and pull pranks. Since starting out he has developed an impressive repertoire of over 200 character voices, including Dr Phil, Donald Trump, Liam Neeson, Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, John Cleese, Barack Obama, Tom Cruise, Donkey, Shrek, Homer Simpson and many more. His impersonations are exact in sound, and in full costume and make-up, Ben can also look the part, mimicking his subject’s exact mannerisms.
TV: Aside from AGT and Kids WB, Ben’s appeared on Channel Nine’s A Current Affair as Dr Phil, Stand-Up Australia on Foxtel’s Comedy Channel and on Channel Ten’s The Panel Christmas Wrap. Ben has appeared on various other TV shows; including Sunrise, The Morning Show, Studio 10, Huckabee, Way of the Master, The Footy Show, The Sunday Footy Show, Rex Hunts Footy Panel, The Today Show, The Daily Edition, CT Style, Good Morning Washington, Good Morning Texas, The AXA Grand Final Breakfast, Live n’ Kicking, Starstruck, Australia’s Got Amazing Talent, Ten News, The National IQ Test, The Perth Telethon Channel 7, 9-AM, In the Limelight, Planet unEarth and The Good Friday Appeal.
Appearances: Ben is in high demand for corporate appearances worldwide. Some of his corporate clients include Telstra, AMP, Commonwealth Bank, Mercedes Benz, JB HIFI, Mobil, Foxtel, Bendigo Bank, Realestate.com.au, McDonald’s, NAB, Sony Ericcson, Microsoft, BT, Tourism Australia, Cadbury and many more.
Comedy: Ben has performed several times in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, with sell-out shows in 2000 with Melbourne the Musical, 2001 with Who Am I? and 2003 with The Best Show Ever. In 2006 he performed the hugely successful Hollywood Live & Uncut at The Palms at Crown and in 2007 he had sellout shows performing as Dr. Phil in What were you thinking? This was followed by a successful regional tour all over Victoria. In 2008/09 Ben performed in the highly successful Ben Price Live at Red Scooter and in 2010 Tim Tam from Vietnam Live. 2011 saw the return of Melbourne the Musical 11 years on followed by Ben Price Live in 2011/12. In 2013 Ben performed Celebrities Got Talent to a sellout audience and it was also a successful DVD and CD of the same name. Since then Ben has taken his show to a worldwide audience performing in LA, New York, Vegas and more.
Commercials: As well as his stage and television credits, Ben has made appearances in TV commercials for such brands as Toyota, Holden, Just Jeans, Just Klapp and he had the honour of taking on the persona of Bear Grylls as the face (and voice) of the Victorian Caravan and Camping Show’s media campaign. He warmed up the crowd as Arnie for Arnold Schwarzenegger when he spoke at the Global Financial Summit. He also used the same character as in for Realestate.com.au His many character voices have also been used for several radio campaigns.
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Ben Price was fantastic, working our audience. The amount of people he impersonated in a small amount of time was excellent and very funny.
He came in as a bumbling English Nurseryman with an innovative idea for tracking plants - confused the life out of the professionals in the industry. He even managed to get them asking questions before revealing his true identity - which one would that be? He has his characters down to perfection - turn around and you wouldn't know you were listening to an impersonator. He was great fun. Excellent!
Thank you so much for making our Christmas Luncheon this year a special one. Your show was absolutely brilliant and everyone of our customers that I have spoken to have said how much they enjoyed your impersonations and jokes (my cheek muscles were aching afterwards!). I've no doubt you are Australia's best impersonator and we would highly recommend you to anyone looking for similar professional corporate entertainment.
Our Excellence Awards went very well and Ben was great, very professional and accommodating. We had excellent feedback. His MC role was very well received as was his 20 min performance. Ben’s witty and light humour thrown in between the awards presentations kept the guests laughing and entertained.
Ben was one of the best MCs we have had throughout the six years I have been organizing conferences for Professionals Real Estate. He is funny, witty, has many characters to offer throughout the longer events which keep the audience entertained and brings a relaxed approach to an atmosphere that can often be frantic and stressful. I have received so many comments from our delegates post conference stating that Ben has been our best MC yet, questions on his availability to come visit their offices and just straight out - where can they get Ben's details. One very important MC characteristic that our attendees tend to base their decision on is the ability for the MC to mingle with guests and really be part of the conference. This is something that Ben does extremely well. Believe me, you will not be disappointed when hiring Borat, Arnie, Dr Phil or even just Ben Price himself.
At first as we came around the corner we actually thought it was Matt Preston standing there. The makeup, voice, gestures were all so spot on! Matt... I mean Ben... would have no problems fooling a crowd that he was there as a special guest judge at any conference. We've now seen Ben as Dr Phil, Borat (a personal favourite), Arnie and now Matt Preston and it still amazes us how he is the one person under all of these terrific characters!
