Hey Hey It’s Saturday (c. October 7, 1979)

Blah blah blah.

I dunno.

I used to think that Very Important Persons had branes, or could at least afford to employ others armed with the gooey stuff. Sadly, my illusions — carefully nurtured since childhood — have been shattered of late, first by law-talking guys from the strange world of ‘public relations’, now by a TV show.

From the Department of Where’s Kamahl?

“Hey Hey It’s Saturday was the No.1 program across all demographics of the night” on Wednesday October 9 according to Channel Nine. The champagne comedy was flowing all night and right across all demographics, with the highlight being when Sydney plastic surgeon Dr Anand Deva and five of his mates:

…respected medical specialists, performed the same Jacksons tribute they did 20 years ago as Sydney University medical students. “It is like riding a bike, you just get back on,” 43-year-old plastic surgeon Anand Deva, who plays Michael Jackson in the act, said. The group said they had not changed the routine in 20 years, performing it at birthday parties and weddings to keep their choreography polished.

Sadly, as noted by the brains trust at Stormfront, a goddamn Jew named Harry Connick Jnr. failed to see the funny side of the skit, remarking that ‘‘If they turned up like that in the United States, it’d be like Hey Hey There’s No More Show’’. Which is probably correct — and an indication that Harry has come a very long way from home… in Jew York… in the Jewnited States.

*boom-tish*

Happily, unhampered by the cultural and racial sensitivities burdening poor old Harry, millions of Australians are able to see the funny side, and given that neither the host, nor the producers who approved the act, anyone in the studio, or on the judging panel, objected to it, the lesson, I think, is fairly obvious:

Don’t invite humourless world-renowned Jewish-American jazz musicians on to Australian TV shows.

Besides, the middle class are never racist. “It certainly was not meant to be racist in any way at all,” Dr Deva said (Criticism over black make-up act, BBC, October 8, 2009).

Bonus!

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British television series, produced by the BBC, that screened from 1958 to 1978; it was also screened in Australia. George Mitchell (February 27, 1917–August 27, 2002) devised and conducted the Show.

Everyone agreed it was very funny to see white folks in black-face, but then PC Nazis — who are really no better than the Nazis themselves according to local experts — orchestrated a campaign to cruelly suppress freedom of speech, and the Show was terminated.

Last month, a Curtin University student got into heap ’em big trouble for his production of a website based on the virtual adventures of “Nigel the Crazy Noonga”.

Well, maybe.

Word on the street is that the poor bastard in question got his house raided by the police; further, that rather than being self-consciously ‘racist’, the teen in question was, in his view, engaged in mere comedy.

That’s entertainment.

Still, while YouTube removes videos which allegedly violate corporate copyright quicker than a bride’s nightie on her wedding night, the Crazynoonga channel is considered kosher, as is the following:

Of course, a teenage student from Perth is one thing; the Nine Network — which screens Hey Hey It’s Saturday — is another matter entirely. The Network is owned by PBL Media; PBL Media is owned by CVC Capital Partners. CVC owns 52 companies worldwide, with combined annual sales of €88.0 billion (AUS$144 billion) and employs over 400,000 people. Meaning not only that the company is likely to employ an army of law-talking guys, but has the resources to supply them with an almost unlimited amount of ammunition.

Added Bonus!

Still, we can hardly complain if foreign commentators from London’s Guardian to New York’s Newsweek now take this nothing as one more sign of our racism, given we’ve so long insisted we do indeed have such evil in our heart.

Our Prime Minister, for instance, has falsely accused his own country of being so racist that we stole thousands of Aboriginal children — not even 10 of whom he could actually name — just because they were black.

Taxpayers’ dollars were handed out to film director Baz Luhrmann to make Australia, and to Phillip Noyce to make Rabbit Proof Fence, so they could tell this same lie to the tut-tutting world.

In promoting Australia on US television, star Hugh Jackman even likened his land to Nazi Germany, so no wonder our critics assume Hey Hey was as racist as it wasn’t.

We worded the world up too well on our wicked ways, and through just the same kind of know-nothingness that has Somers’ face not black but red.

Name ten. Go on, just name ten.