Kate Dehnert is a writer/actor/comedian whose work has earned rave reviews and sold out seats, but she’s never eaten 50 hotdogs in one go. She’s written and acted in TV, radio, theatre, web-series, podcasts, and on her poorly managed Instagram. But again, has she really done anything if she hasn’t eaten 50 hotdogs at once?

A BBC Studios Staff Comedy Writer (arguably the most competitive and established comedy writing position in the UK) for 2023 - 2024, she wrote on a wide variety of programs for BBC Radio 4 and developed her own shows. In addition, she was banned from the office kitchen after spilling a large glass of mucky water while practicing at lunch, arguing, ‘Ya gotta dip the dogs in water to soften the bun so they go down quicker.’

“Bizarre, brave, daring, probably dangerous, but most of all smart and very funny. The dawning of a psychedelicomic superstar.” ★★★★½ - The Herald Sun

In Australia, you can watch her work in ABC’s Get Krack!n, Paramount+’s and Channel Ten’s The Project, and Binge’s The Last Year of Television + The Back Side of Television. Her sketch podcast Loner was in the Australian iTunes Top 10, and she features in 20 to 1: Sorest Hotdog Eating Competition Fails as ‘Woman Screaming At An Official Because She Was Placed In The 10AM Slot And That Was “Too Close To Breakfast”’.

She’s performed live comedy at several Melbourne International Comedy Festivals, Melbourne Fringes, on Triple J, ABC Radio, at Splendour in the Grass and Women of Letters. A previous recipient of a Moosehead Award, and a regular performer at Improv and Character Comedy nights, She’s received numerous complaints that she ‘reeks of hotdogs’ and ‘half eaten dogs drop out of her pockets when she sits’.