Timothy Jonathon Ross (nicknamed Rosso) is an Australian comedian, radio host, writer and television presenter.
As well as performing as a comedian, Ross has fronted the comedy band Black Rose, which opened the Vivofit festival in Melbourne and Sydney in 2009.
[3] In December 2012, Mix 106.5 announced that Ross and Hooper would be replaced by a new breakfast show with Sami Lukis and Yumi Stynes in 2013.
[6] In 2016, Ross presented Streets of Your Town, a two part television documentary series about Australian modernist architecture, which was the most watched arts program on the ABC that year.
[7] He has written on architecture for various publications including Real Living, Habitus, The Saturday Paper, The Smith Journal, Qantas Magazine and The Guardian.
In 2019, Ross was awarded the prestigious National President's Prize[8] from the Australian Institute of Architects for his advocacy work in architecture.
Ross's two part series on Australian architecture, Streets of Your Town premiered on ABC TV in November 2016.
In 2017, Ross launched his second book, The Rumpus Room,[9] capturing nostalgic short stories about life in Australia's suburbs in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.