Vince Sorrenti

Vince Sorrenti (born 21 March 1961) is an Australian stand-up comedian, writer and television presenter from Punchbowl, New South Wales.

[3] In recent years he has appeared on Australian Celebrity Apprentice, Skating on Thin Ice, Wide Open Road, 20 to 1, Studio 10, and many others.

A gregarious raconteur, he also enjoys an occasional quiet beer at his favourite haunt, the Star Hotel in Milton, or fresh shucked oysters from Don Hearn's private lease.

Each year on the anniversary of his death, Vince re-enacts Donny's Saturday-night Land Rover drive to Bendalong bottle shop, with the pet magpie perched on the steering wheel supposedly calling the shots.

The alacrity of believing a magpie needs chocolates (really for Donny's mistress back at the caravan) amused Vince immensely.

In the ad, Sorrenti "explains the benefits of using Tyreright to an Asian man standing in front of what appears to be a rice field, who then asks in broken English if the process of fitting a tyre will take a ‘wong’ time".

[6][7] In December 2021, Sorrenti apologised for changing a line of "That's Amore" to "When you're hit by a thug in a tough Kiwi pub, that's a Māori" on the radio station 2GB.

[8] The line elicited anger in some of the Australian Māori community, with Sorrenti saying, through an agent: "That humour is outdated and unacceptable" and that he'd be retiring the joke.