Nicholas Giannopoulos (born 1 July 1963) is an Australian stand-up comedian, film and TV actor and film director. He is best known for his comedy stage show Wogs Out of Work alongside George Kapiniaris, the television sitcom Acropolis Now and The Wog Boy film series and has been described as "Australia's leading exponent of "wog" humour". Early life Giannopoulos was born in Melbourne, the first-born son of Greek immigrant parents. He grew up in working class origins, his father ran a milk bar, which he staffed sometimes from a young age, while his mother was a machinist. Growing up at the time, Australia was a racially divided country, though in Richmond, there were a community of Greek Australian which he was part of. He grew up in the inner Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy and Richmond and attended Abbotsford Primary School and Richmond High School. In 1981 he was accepted into the Drama course at Rusden State College where he also was a student in Media Studies. He left Rusden halfway through his course when he auditioned and was accepted into the Drama School at the Victorian College of the Arts, from where he eventually graduated. Career Comedy After facing challenges about progressing his career, partly because casting was difficult because of his Greek origins, Giannopoulos saved up his dole cheques and put on his first show, Wogs out of work at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 1987. The show was wildly successful, toured around Australia, and remains one of the highest grossing Australian created live shows of all time. He has followed up Wogs Out of Work with the Wog Boys, Wog-A-Rama and Wog Story stage shows. Giannopoulos has also made appearances at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, as well as co-authored books. In 1990–1991, he toured Australia to full house audiences for eight months as the star of the stage production of Acropolis Now Live Onstage, which he co-produced. In 1993–1995, he toured Australia with his ethnic comedy stage show Wog-A-Rama. In the 1990s, he toured Australia with his ethnic comedy stage show Wogboys. In 2019, Giannopopulos joined the Sooshi Mango boys and Mary Coustas on stage in a show named Fifty Shades of Ethnic. Television Giannopoulos was one of the creators and stars of the television sitcom Acropolis Now. It was a popular TV show based on Greek-Australians maintaining a Greek café in Melbourne. It consisted of 5