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Matt Elsbury is a stand-up comedian, satirist and writer based in Melbourne. He has toured nationally and internationally for over a decade, and has more than a dozen Melbourne International Comedy Festival shows on his resume, including 2007's meaning...?, where he analysed the modern use and abuse of language, described in The Age as "...a bleak and funny tour of a world drained of truth". He has appeared on Foxtel's Comedy Channel, and on the ABC on such shows as O'Loghlin on Saturday Night and Standing Up! He can be found struggling with Twitter's character limit under the handle @thinkforasec.