Mike McColl Jones began writing comedy in the early 1960s, and for the next 40 years worked continuously at the epicentre of the Australian entertainment industry through the golden age of television.
It was the comic strip and movies that unleashed the legendary Australian comedian, and many of his characters, on the world.
Politicians have cynically used metaphor to imply meaning through language.
Through characters such as Bazza McKenzie, the late comedian promoted Australian vernacular – the witty, the crude, and both – to new audiences.
Australian slang features creative reuse of verbal constructions, and even If no one’s actually using these expressions, it’s easy to imagine them coming from the mouth of a dinkum Aussie.
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