Mark Bonanno

Portrait by Ali Hassanein

## Relationships

### Partners

Joelle, Italian's Girlfriend, Thumb Doctor, Selena Gomez, Ball And Chain Bonanno

### Other family members

Tazo (dog)

**Mark Samual Bonanno** is one of the three current performing members of Aunty Donna, a host of the Aunty Donna Podcast, and main cast member in *Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun*.

His favourite sketch is Haven't You Done Well 6: $30 Bottle of Wine, because it was the first time that Max Miller got annoyed that they were doing such a long take. His second favourite is What Do You Think of This? and his third is the sketch in Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun where Zach pisses his pants. His least favourite is I Dance Like This.

He likes video games and Star Wars. He also loves Batman so much that he has a Batman tattoo on his arm, and also has a tattoo of the Netflix logo on his bottom which he got in memory of Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun. He loves hyperpop and the music scene in general, and plays the drums. He loves cum jokes, and has no moos.

Mark is the oldest member of the group. He performs barefoot because he finds shoes uncomfortable when on stage.

## Outside Aunty Donna

Aside from his work with Aunty Donna, Mark has worked on the ABC TV series *Why Are You Like This?* with Naomi Higgins and Humyara Mahbub. He has also been involved in *The Wizards of Aus*, *Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am,* and *Unclespace*. He has a twitch channel and streams under the name verypolitegamer.

He is currently directing a show for Woah, Alyssa! that will be at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and is soon to appear in an episode of season two of The Strange Chores.

## Biography

He attended the University of Ballarat Arts Academy, where he made and starred in several theatre productions. One of these, located at Sovereign Hill during the school holiday program, was a comedy performance named Deep Water. At Sovereign Hill, he played a nonna character which would eventually become Salvatore Michaelangelo. (*ProZD + Pals Podcast Episode 59: AUNTY DONNA*)

He was a year below the rest of soon-to-be Aunty Donna, but a year older than them. He became closer to them during auditions for a university play where Zach got him to read the other lines as energetically as he could to rile the auditionees up, but decided to actually cast him in it after seeing him do this. The group would later invite Mark to join them in Aunty Donna. For the first seven years of Aunty Donna, he worked in the box office at Arts Centre Melbourne.

Mark experienced severe problems with sex in 2014. Whenever he came, it would always be over his house keys, and he was unable to stop this from happening. His wife at the time who he was trying for a baby with, Joelle, once found the keys inside her when Mark pulled out. (*Cum On My Keys*)

In August 2021, it was revealed that Mark was actually the first "Robo-Mark" designed by Dr Zachary Ruane PhD. It was initially believed that Robot Mark Mk.2 was the first, created in Mark's image. However, after Mark let slip that Dr Zach programmed Robot Mark Mk.1 to "have free will", it was revealed that the original Mark was the first robot. (*Podcast Ep 267 - Switcheroo With Lindsay Cohen*, *Podcast Ep 266 - Robot Mark*)

## Awards

### AACTA Awards (2021)

* Best Comedy Performer (*Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun*)

### 1st Annual Aunty Donna Awards (2018)

* Best Upcoming North American Tour
* Best Horse

### Melbourne Web Fest (2016)

* Best Supporting Actor (*The Wizards of Aus*)

## Trivia

* Mark is able to flatten his nose against his face, and can make a clicking sound by making the cartilage snap against his skull.
* He's got like 50 hundred planes and at least 20 cars, including a truck-plane-car-plane-truck with about 50 dogs in it which is in his double garage. (*Best Freestylers in the World*)
* He believes that he is the worst impressionist among the Donna boys.

1. ↑ https://clips.twitch.tv/PerfectPhilanthropicSardineTwitchRaid-ARJFgn5X7Iasuzu4
2. ↑ https://clips.twitch.tv/ApatheticCuriousDillLitty-3go3uvDGVWGqh58T
3. ↑ https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/558722/sovereign-hill-school-holiday-program-gets-stage-show/