Col Elliott

Col Elliott was element of a generation of Australian standup comedians, along with Rodney Rude and Kevin “Bloody” Wilson, who portrayed the larrikin picture — a crude and irreverent Australian personality given to a lot of fart gags and casually racist jokes. In his concert events, Elliott played individuals that included a failed kamikaze pilot, a Pakistani Elvis impersonator, and an Italian ambassador called Guisseppe Lasagne. Other individuals of his satirized Australian stereotypes, like bush poet Slugger Mulligan and rocker roadie Chooka Dennis. Of most his era of comedians, Elliott was the most sentimental — a enthusiast of nation music and an ex-member from the navy, the comedian using the catchphrase of “Watch out Australia!” split up his pieces with banjo renditions of unhappy songs about dropped family members and wartime comrades. Elliott lied about his age group to become listed on the Royal Australian Navy at age 15. While docked at the city of Nee Shortly in Singapore he produced a band known as the brand new Nee Soon Town Ramblers Jug and Jazz Music group, carrying out there and later on in Hong Kong. Departing the navy after offering in Vietnam, he discovered himself unemployed and without the especially useful peacetime abilities aside from banjo-playing and joke-telling. In 1973 he moved into the talent display New Encounters because he required the prize cash to displace his car’s wheels. Surprised at arriving first, he started a profession in humor and music. Elliott toured for ten weeks of the entire year for some of his existence and was presented with the nickname “Australia’s Citizen Madman” by announcer Wally Bishop. He released many well-known singles over that profession, you start with “Gotta Supply the Grog Aside” in 1982 and including many weepy country tracks like “Hankies from Nanna” and his biggest strike, “Henry, Banjo and Me.”