Asher spent his early years sat in the back of an army green panel van driving up and down the east coast of Australia he attended Woodburn public school and when he wasn’t getting into trouble for being the class dick he was exploring the 200 hectare sugar cane farm his family lived on. He attended Mullumbimby High School and was promptly kicked out of Drama class in year 8 for being ‘unable to remain serious’ not exactly the most promising start in show business. After graduating he packed his bags, moved to Melbourne and attempted to enroll in a pilot course for the National Institute of Circus Arts. At the time Asher had no skills and only managed to weasel into NICA by pleading that, they needed people like him who were terrible but wanted a career in the circus to display a wide breadth of applicants. Somehow it worked and Asher studied at NICA for two years, completing two Diplomas in the carnie arts. After he graduated Asher moonlighted with the world renowned La Clique, (now Le Soiree) in Melbourne and the UK.
In 2006, 5 years after he graduated from NICA Asher moved to London, met Robin Ince and was inducted into the infamous Book Club. There he found himself working alongside comedians like Josie Long, Stewart Lee and Robin Ince and in this environment of incomprehensible mentalness he flourished. Asher toured throughout England with Ince’s Book club for the entire year he lived in London and it was during this time that he began his first tentative avant-garde steps into comedy. Since that time Asher has written 4 solo comedy shows CELLAR DOOR, OPEN DOOR, SECRET DOOR and MATADOR. He‘s performed at comedy festivals all over Australia and has been a regular performer at the Edinburgh Fringe. In 2009 with the assistance of a Moosehead Grant he performed OPEN DOOR, which was his first critical success earning him a nomination for the Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Then in 2010 SECRET DOOR went gangbusters, it won him the Age Newspapers Critics Choice Award and garnered Asher a Best Newcomer Nomination at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010.
Asher’s blend of physical comedy, stand up and his burgeoning sense of socio political satire have made him one of the most fascinating comic working in Australia today. Not bad for a kid who was kicked out of year 8 drama for not being serious enough.