John McKellar (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian theatrical writer
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Place of Birth: Orange, New South Wales, Australia
About John McKellar (writer)
- John Alan McKellar (13 August 1930 – 6 September 2010) was an Australian writer, primarily of comedy revues or musical theatre.
- His most critically acclaimed and popularly attended work was A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down which premiered at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre on 18 September 1965 and ran for more than 250 performances.
- He was the resident writer at that theatre in the 1950s and 1960s.
- In the 1970s he provided the slogan, "The drink you have when you're not having a drink" to advertise Claytons non-alcoholic beverages.
- Most of his humour involved social satire where typical self-mockery was developed into an art form.
- Some of his works provided vernacular phrases used in Australian English including "is Australia really necessary", "A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down", and "But I wouldn't want to live there".
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