Career
In 2003 Raskopoulos became involved with Impro Australia's Theatresports events including The Belvoir St Theatre Theatresports and the 2007 Cranston Cup competitions. He still remains involved with Theatresports and is a current State and National champion.
In 2005 he became part of the university sketch comedy supergroup The 3rd Degree who performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. This group formed the base of the Network Ten’s cult sketch comedy television show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour.
After the success of The Ronnie Johns Half Hour Raskopoulos went on to appear in Stupid, Stupid Man, Stand Up Australia, Hole in the Wall, Good News Week and Thank God You're Here, and has provided voices for the ABC2 machinima series The Team. He currently appears as a team captain on the SBS sports show The Squiz.
In 2007 his debut solo stage show was called The Adventures of the Man with the Dominant Claw.
Raskopoulos fronts the musical comedy trio The Axis of Awesome, which has won a Time Out Award for Best Australian Act at the 2010 Sydney Comedy Festival. The group received media attention after the release of their songs parodying the 2007 Australian federal election and received a Moosehead award at the 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival for their show "The Axis of Awesome Comeback Spectacular".
Raskopoulos played Trax in the 2012 movie Underground: The Julian Assange Story with Rachel Griffiths, Anthony LaPaglia and Alex Williams. In January 2013 Raskopoulos requested users of the internet forum Something Awful to vote for him in the most popular actor category of the 2013 Logie Awards, in order to ridicule the awards.
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