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''Pommy Johnson'' is a
comedian A comedian (feminine comedienne) or comic is a person who seeks to entertainment, entertain an audience by making them laughter, laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foolishly (as in slapstick), or employing prop c ...
from
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who is best known for performing his parody song "Psycho Chicken" while wearing a rubber glove on his head on the Australian television program
Hey Hey It's Saturday ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' is a long-running variety television program on Australian television. It initially ran for 28 years on the Nine Network from 9 October 1971 to 20 November 1999, with a recess in 1978. Its host throughout its entire ...
. He won as the
Maurie Awards Maurie is a masculine given name, sometimes a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Maurice (name), Maurice. People named Maurie include: * Maurie Beasy (1896–1979), Australian rules footballer * Maurie Collins (1876–1943), Australian rules footbal ...
Australian comedian of the Year 2002, held at the
Comic Lounge a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...
. He appeared on the
RMITV RMITV is a not-for-profit, community access television production facility based at RMIT University City Campus in Melbourne, Australia. It is a full member of the Melbourne Community Television Consortium, a not-for-profit consortium that o ...
show
Under Melbourne Tonight ''Under Melbourne Tonight'' is a weekly live variety hour television program produced by RMITV that broadcast on C31 Melbourne in 1993. Reaching a weekly viewership of 55,000 people each week, the show was reviewed in ''The Age''s Green Guide ...
on 10 April 1996.


Standup Comedy

* Pommy Johnson - Live At The Comedy Club, Melbourne (DVD, 2004)


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