John Henry Michael "Rove" McManus[1] (born 21 January 1974) is an Australian triple Gold Logie award-winning comedian, television and radio presenter, producer and media personality.

In 2005 and 2008, McManus undertook live stand-up comedy shows, touring Australian capital cities as well as Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand.

McManus has appeared on Good Morning Australia, John Safran vs God, Pulp Sport, The Living Room, The Project, Studio 10, Celebrity Name Game, Have You Been Paying Attention New Zealand?

He then took an offer from the Nine Network for ten late-night episodes of his own variety show, Rove, in 1999, but Nine cancelled the series at the end of its run.

During the 2004 and 2007 federal elections, McManus unsuccessfully campaigned to have the Australian prime minister, John Howard, appear on his program.

In 2005, McManus co-hosted the historic tri-network tsunami appeal Reach Out with fellow presenters Eddie McGuire and Andrew O'Keefe on three commercial networks Seven, Nine and Ten.

He returned, however, in the competitive Sunday 8.30 pm timeslot on 1 April 2007 with a major format overhaul, including renaming the show to simply Rove.

In May 2011, McManus relocated to Los Angeles, California, and landed a hosting role on a new talk show, Rove LA.

He has also made intermittent appearances on TV3's satirical Pulp Sport series, usually performing menial tasks for the hosts, "Bill and Ben".

In 2014, McManus hosted Riot, the US version of the French light entertainment improv show Vendredi Tout est Permis (Friday Anything Goes).

[21] In 2024, McManus guest starred in the Bluey episode "The Sign",[22] voicing a Toy Fox Terrier real estate agent named Bucky Dunstan.

In 2000, he filled in on Triple M Sydney's Andrew Denton Breakfast Show with co-host Amanda Keller and Mike Fitzpatrick.

[25] In 2000, McManus started the production company, Roving Enterprises and co-owns it with business partner Craig Campbell.

[2] The company co-produced Rove Live and produced the AFL football comedy panel program Before The Game during their runs on Network Ten.

Past projects include the sketch comedy program skitHOUSE, the parody show Real Stories, Rove LA and, between 2000 and 2004, host and producer of the ARIA Music Awards.

McManus is a triple TV Week Gold Logie winner for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, winning in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Between 2008 and 2010, McManus was a director of the Australian chapter of the conservation charity Fauna & Flora International, for a period serving as the vice-president.

[27] McManus married actress and singer Belinda Emmett in 2005 at the Mary Immaculate Church in Waverley, an eastern suburb of Sydney.

[31] For three seasons, starting from 2003, McManus was the number-one ticket holder of the club (a prestigious but largely symbolic position often given to prominent Australians).

[33] On 8 June 2007, he appeared as the presenter of a secondary school discussion at Rod Laver Arena with Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, in attendance.