Clancy Under the Milky Way.

I have to share with you this gem I found the other day.

Regular readers will know I love comedian/entertainer Adam Hills* (and I know I’m not the only one out there) so when I found this clip from his show In Gordon Street Tonight I was thrilled.

This clip has the unexpected combination of Adam Hills reciting the famous Australian poem written by Banjo Paterson, Clancy of the Overflow, alongside his talented wife Ali McGregor, who is singing Under The Milky Way Tonight, by The Church.

Who would have ever thought those two completely different things would fit together so well!

*Click here if you want to see other posts about Adam Hills I have done. Go on. He is very funny and he can sing too. Not as well as his wife of course…. 😉

Australia Day. Still…..

I don’t know how it works in the rest of the world but here in Australia if a public holiday falls on a weekend we get a normal weekday off in lieu of the one we should have had. We love our public holidays 🙂 That means although Australia Day was on Saturday we are all getting another Australia Day off on Monday.

Because of that I am doing my patriotic duty and I am chucking a sickie. I scheduled this post just so I can have the day off for no reason at all.

I am hoping my lazy post today will give you a laugh when I share a clip of the lovely Adam Hills (again) with his take on Aussie accents and what Captain Cook might have said when he first got here.

Hope you have a great day and I will be doing… ummmm…. Nothing. Feet up, good book, relaxed. 😀 Happy (extra) Australia Day everyone!

Advance Australia Fair, Barnesy style.

In my other post today I was asking where in the world you are so I thought I might add this extra post about our national anthem, since Australia is where I am.

Our national anthem in called Advance Australia Fair and you either love it or hate it. I love it, only because it makes me feel all patriotic, but I understand why people might not feel the same way.

In this clip the hilarious Adam Hills (Aussie sign language) shows us how our national anthem would sound if it was sung in the style of a great Aussie rock icon, Jimmy Barnes and the song Working Class Man.

Barnesy is known for his screaming, drinking and all round rock attitude, and he and his band Cold Chisel are responsible for a few other songs that also qualify for Aussie anthem status. If our real anthem was sung like this…well… we all might come over so Aussie we would explode. Apologies if you like the more serious version.

Something that always makes me laugh. Australian sign language, as told by Adam Hills.

This Friday, in the hopes you will have a chuckle all weekend, I thought I would do something different and share one of my favourite Australian comedians with you, the lovely Adam Hills. He is one of those comedians that is unfailingly nice and always hilarious.

Everything he does amuses me, but as a person that loves words and language this show about Auslan (Australian sign language) he did at the 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival has a special place in my heart.

My favourite part of this clip starts at about the 3:20 mark, and is about a very Australian phrase loosely translating as ‘I am very annoyed with you, and everyone around you’.

I will give you a language warning before you watch it in case you are of delicate sensibilities.

Awww, it’s not that bad, go ahead and watch it. I guarantee that you will laugh, and possibly be tempted to make up some of your own sign language. If nothing else you will have learnt an amusing Australian phrase that should not be used in polite company.

If you enjoyed that clip, here is a link to another show where he has an Auslan interpreter on the stage with him. He incorporates her into the show wonderfully, saying things just to see what she will sign through her laughter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtW-RtMJkwY (I love the bit where he asks if there are any deaf people in the audience and a bloke calls out ‘pardon?’)