Beached As Bro

You'll likely find most of them were made here.

There's lots of lampooning of Australians done in Australia.

There's a great film made by Indigenous folk called "Barbecue Area".


I'm trying to think of anything that might be around on the net.

John Clarke satirizes us all the time, and is brilliant...but he's so deadpan it might not be apparent to foreigners.

Roy and HG satirise Australian sporting culture beautifully.

I guess it's no fun if we are the ones doing the laughing at ourselves, though, eh?

Aha, I can always make fun of your national icons:



I was looking for some Americanized Paul Hogan to rub in your faces but came across this coverage of the "Aussie Olympics".

Here's a twofer, and I get both Kiwis and Aussies by making fun of Crowe:



And I remember dlowan posting this article about 6 years ago that does a great job of lampooning Australia's little country syndrome:

Lol!!!!

That hyperactive fella (forget his name) marketed himself for an AMERICAN audience!!!

We'd never heard of him while Amricans were wetting themselves over him.


However, he did REALLY get loved by lots of Oz kids after he became big in the states, and their little hearts were broken by that stingray.

Just recalled his name...Steve Irwin.

One of my colleagues had a kid who adored him, and who wrote a letter, after his death, to the crocodiles in his care.

It said how sorry he was at their loss, and he knew they would be taken care of by Bindi and the mum, but he knew they would never be loved with the passion Steve had for them.


I won't look at the rest until I get home from work, but I LOVE that Oz invasion story.

It really does capture the chip on our shoulder hilariously. perfect!!!


I know it sounds kind of weird, but it was heart-wrenching to read.

Lol!!!!

That hyperactive fella (forget his name) marketed himself for an AMERICAN audience!!!

We'd never heard of him while Amricans were wetting themselves over him.


However, he did REALLY get loved by lots of Oz kids after he became big in the states, and their little hearts were broken by that stingray.

Just recalled his name...Steve Irwin.

One of my colleagues had a kid who adored him, and who wrote a letter, after his death, to the crocodiles in his care.

It said how sorry he was at their loss, and he knew they would be taken care of by Bindi and the mum, but he knew they would never be loved with the passion Steve had for them.

I know it sounds kind of weird, but it was heart-wrenching to read.


I won't look at the rest until I get home from work, but I LOVE that Oz invasion story.

It really does capture the chip on our shoulder hilariously. perfect!!!

heard ya the first time flossy

Bugger.

How did that happen?


That Russell Crowe thing was so boring I couldn't keep going.

Yawwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn...

Russell Crowe thing boring...... Yup

Found a fast forward (or was it full frontal) clip about skippy and the neuclear bomb though.

do ya think the noise skippy makes is TTH TTH.

Tth! tth!!!
whats that skip? sonnies been kidnapped by the russians AGAIN???????
Quick skip you fly the helicopter I'll drive the 4wd this time.

hoges makes me laugh even all these years later.

BTW
Headlines in Australia:
Bad russel crow = NZ born actor russell crowe
good russell crow = Australian actor russel crowe

how cant ya tell the difference between da poms and kiwis? And i looked this up coz i would go to scool and all i could hear was " I'm beached as brew" But did a whale get beached in new zealand or sonthin. i mean i'm and aussie but i dont watch the news. lol. But dat video is funny as brew!!

There's a Paul Hogan special screening here some time in the next week. Re-living some of his great sketches. I used to love that show.

If you want to hear some seriously bizarre and almost impenetrable accents, talk to some country boys from coastal South Carolina.

I would never mistake an Australian or a Kiwi for a Pom. However, i have mistaken South Africans and Kiwis for Australians. You can tell an Australian . . . you just can't expect them to listen.

a new zealander

"Dame Edna" is an Australian. A better actor than either Paul Hogan or Russell Crowe.

Well, Barry Humphries is the good actor.

Of course, Humphries is the actor who plays Edna, and he is always brilliant.