Just Rambling - why I chose the user name Aunty Jack.
Aunty Jack and the Aunty Jack show was uniquely Australian which probably makes it incomprehensible to the rest of the world. Aussies have a type of humour very different to any other. As for Aunty Jack being a transvestite, well we all knew the character was played by actor Grahame Bond and the fact that Grahame Bond played the role of a male/female did not matter to us at all.
The Aunty Jack Show was a Logie Award–winning Australian television comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1973. Produced by and broadcast on ABC-TV, the series attained an instant cult status that persists to the present day.
The lead character, Aunty Jack was a unique comic creation — an obese, moustachioed, gravel-voiced transvestite, part trucker and part pantomime dame — who habitually solved any problem by knocking people unconscious or threatening to 'rip their bloody arms off'.
Visually, she or he was unmistakable, dressed in a huge, tent-like blue velvet dress, football socks, workboots, and a golden boxing glove on her/his right hand. She/he rode everywhere on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and referred to everyone as "me little lovelies" — when she/he was not uttering her/his familiar threat: "I'll rip yer bloody arms off!", a phrase which immediately passed into the vernacular.
The character was devised and played by the multi-talented Grahame Bond and was partly inspired by his overbearing Uncle Jack, whom he had disliked as a child.
Aunty Jack was created for a proposed ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) Radio children's radio series, "The Aunty Jack Show", commissioned by Paddy Conroy (former head of ABC TV and now cable channel manager). It was intended to replace the long-running children's radio series The Argonauts Club, which was about to be cancelled. The new series never went to air because ABC executives felt that the Aunty Jack character and some of Grahame's songs were "inappropriate" for young listeners.
The Aunty Jack character made her/his TV debut in Aunty Jack's Travelling Show, an episode of ABC-TV's The Comedy Game, broadcast in late 1971. It was originally to be called Aunty Jack's Travelling Abattoirs but ABC executives also found the title inappropriate. The program featured Bond, O'Donoghue and Derum, with Sharman Mellick and Kate Fitzpatrick in supporting roles.
This marked the start of a fruitful partnership between Bond, O'Donoghue and ABC writer, producer and director Maurice Murphy. They became the creative nucleus for a string of programs that strongly influenced TV comedy in Australia.
So, there we have it. I chose Aunty Jack a my user name just to throw a light hearted whimsical spanner in the works so to speak.
Cheers from Aunty Jack.
Aunty Jack and the Aunty Jack show was uniquely Australian which probably makes it incomprehensible to the rest of the world. Aussies have a type of humour very different to any other. As for Aunty Jack being a transvestite, well we all knew the character was played by actor Grahame Bond and the fact that Grahame Bond played the role of a male/female did not matter to us at all.
The Aunty Jack Show was a Logie Award–winning Australian television comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1973. Produced by and broadcast on ABC-TV, the series attained an instant cult status that persists to the present day.
The lead character, Aunty Jack was a unique comic creation — an obese, moustachioed, gravel-voiced transvestite, part trucker and part pantomime dame — who habitually solved any problem by knocking people unconscious or threatening to 'rip their bloody arms off'.
Visually, she or he was unmistakable, dressed in a huge, tent-like blue velvet dress, football socks, workboots, and a golden boxing glove on her/his right hand. She/he rode everywhere on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and referred to everyone as "me little lovelies" — when she/he was not uttering her/his familiar threat: "I'll rip yer bloody arms off!", a phrase which immediately passed into the vernacular.
The character was devised and played by the multi-talented Grahame Bond and was partly inspired by his overbearing Uncle Jack, whom he had disliked as a child.
Aunty Jack was created for a proposed ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) Radio children's radio series, "The Aunty Jack Show", commissioned by Paddy Conroy (former head of ABC TV and now cable channel manager). It was intended to replace the long-running children's radio series The Argonauts Club, which was about to be cancelled. The new series never went to air because ABC executives felt that the Aunty Jack character and some of Grahame's songs were "inappropriate" for young listeners.
The Aunty Jack character made her/his TV debut in Aunty Jack's Travelling Show, an episode of ABC-TV's The Comedy Game, broadcast in late 1971. It was originally to be called Aunty Jack's Travelling Abattoirs but ABC executives also found the title inappropriate. The program featured Bond, O'Donoghue and Derum, with Sharman Mellick and Kate Fitzpatrick in supporting roles.
This marked the start of a fruitful partnership between Bond, O'Donoghue and ABC writer, producer and director Maurice Murphy. They became the creative nucleus for a string of programs that strongly influenced TV comedy in Australia.
So, there we have it. I chose Aunty Jack a my user name just to throw a light hearted whimsical spanner in the works so to speak.
Cheers from Aunty Jack.
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