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Rove McManus (born John McManus, 21 January 1974)
is an Australian talk show host, comedian and
owner of the production company Roving
Enterprises.  

Born in Perth, Western Australia|Perth, Western
Australia he moved to Melbourne to pursue a career
as a stand up comedian. After hundreds of gigs and
a stint on community television (Channel 31) Rove
landed a ten late night episodes of his own
tonight show, Rove on GTV9 in 1999.  Channel nine
did not continue with the series.

The Ten Network gave Rove and his production
company, Roving Enterprises, another shot at
hosting ten episodes of his show in late 2000. The
resulting Rove Live|Rove (Live) is now a weekly
live-broadcast talk show on Network Ten as well as
on TV3 in New Zealand.  The show involves
celebrity guests, publicity stunts, comedians and
live band (music)|bands.

In 2002 Rove was nominated for the Gold Logie
Award and Rove Live won the Logie for Most Popular
Light Entertainment Program. In 2003 Rove took out
three Logies, including Most Popular Presenter,
Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Program
and the coveted Gold Logie for most popular
personality on Australian television. In 2004 and
2005 he repeated his 2003 award haul, including
Gold Logies. 

He voiced the crab in the 2003 animation|animated
blockbuster, Finding Nemo.  He is represented by
personal management company Token Artists.

Roving Enterprises has produced a number of
programs apart from Rove Live including the sketch
comedy program Skithouse and the AFL Football
program, Before The Game. Roving has also produced
the ARIA Awards since 2002, hosted each year by
Rove. 

In July 2004 he announced his engagement to his
girlfriend of three years, Australian actor
Belinda Emmett. They married on January 29, 2005
at the Oblates of Mary Immaculate|Mary Immaculate
Church in Waverley, a suburb in the east of
Sydney, Australia.

Rove returned to his roots during 2005 with a live
solo stand-up comedy show which toured Australian
cities Melbourne, Perth, Western Australia|Perth,
Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney and Adelaide whilst
still returning to Melbourne each Tuesday to film
his weekly TV show Rove Live.

== Other work ==
When Bert Newton fell ill in early June 2005, Rove
hosted his show Good Morning Australia in his
place.