http://stoush.net/category/topic/hey-hey The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://stoush.net/liam/852/hey-hey-its-jew-face <p>Channel 9 are un-Australian, and if you really want to know why you can ready plenty of why <a href="http://hoydenabouttown.com/20091009.6852/hey-hey-its-offensive-in-australia-too/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. We don&#8217;t do blackface in this country <small>(well you probably know we did if you read Richard Waterhouse or Melissa Bellanta, but if you do, you&#8217;re probably un-Australian too). </small></p> <p>The <a href="http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/strike-me-lucky/" rel="nofollow">Aussie</a> <a href="http://www.laughterlog.com/Personalities/per-rrene.HTM" rel="nofollow">tradition</a> is <a href="http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110370b.htm" rel="nofollow">Jew-face</a>. I certainly like to think that if Roy was alive, he&#8217;d be a star on Hey Hey it&#8217;s Saturday&#8212;primed with Sabbath jokes, sponsorship deals and quasi-Yiddish innuendo inappropriate for the timeslot&#8212;with Effie Stephanidis, Con the Fruiterer, Habib from Pizza and the Wog Boy as walk-on cameos in his act.</p> <p>In all his glory, he is pictured below. Gong &#8216;im, Red!</p> <p><img src="/files/images/mccackie.jpg" alt="Mo McCackie" title="Mo McCackie" class="image image-_original" width="250" height="316" /></p> http://stoush.net/liam/852/hey-hey-its-jew-face#comments blackface hey hey jewface mo mccackie racism roy rene Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:27:09 -0700 Liam 852 at http://stoush.net