[a] The award-winning duo teamed up in 1986 for the Triple J radio comedy program This Sporting Life, and were broadcast nationwide for 22 years, leading to several successful television spinoffs.

His father was a World War II veteran who saw action in the Middle East and on the Kokoda Track and whose career was in the South Australian dairy industry.

After a stint as a roadie for Australian rocker Billy Thorpe in the early 1970s, he became involved in the Melbourne theatre co-operative The Pram Factory.

[5] Since March 2020, the Roy and HG characters have broadcast 'Bludging on the Blindside', on ABC radio on Saturdays through the football season, a sports program whose main focus is both celebrating and lampooning the culture and business of rugby league in Australia.

Pickhaver starred in the cult 1993 Australian comedy film This Won't Hurt a Bit[8] opposite Jacqueline McKenzie.