October 2021 Recently we had the very successful television special “Hey Hey It’s 50 Years” in Australia and I started thinking back to my own cherished memories of the show. Following a couple of years and 8 performances on a tonight show called the “Daryl Somers Show”, I joined Hey Hey in 1984 as an occasional standup comedian, when it moved from mornings to evenings… and I hung around right up to the end of the show in 1999. My 21 appearances on this splendid show included one as a Red Faces judge, memorable because I got the makeup people to go berserk with my makeup and the result was one of the reddest faces in the history of television. Sitting next to me on the judges bench was the always funny Red Symons and the very talented Greedy Smith (Mental As Anything) who we lost way too early. On the subject of Red Faces, I was flattered a couple of times when I was imitated by contestants, including a very accurate imitation by “Elliot Wineglass”. My standup appearances were always enjoyable, initially with zinc cream on the nose but always with a deadpan expression and often with a Gladstone […]