Roy and HG

Roy and HG are an Australian comedy duo, comprising Greig Pickhaver in the role of "HG 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 archetypes in sports journalism: Nelson the excitable announcer, 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".

This Sporting Life was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013.

Radio

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.