High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Roy & HG is an Australian comedy duo, comprising Greig Pickhaver in the role of "H G Nelson" and John Doyle as "`Rampaging` Roy Slaven". Their act is an affectionate but irreverent parody of Australia`s obsession with sport. Their characters based on archetypes in sports journalism: Nelson the excitable announcer, Slaven the retired sportsman turned expert commentator. In his 1996 book Petrol, Bait, Ammo & Ice, Nelson (aka Pickhaver) summarised the duo`s comedic style as "making the serious trivial and the trivial serious".