Same here, 1984 was a ripping year, played Rodney and Austen Tayshus all the time.20 years old, drinking beers on a friday night with mates and then later heading off to a nightclub and hoping the bouncers didn't think you were too pissed. Good days and simpler times.
I remember seeing Rodney live in the 80’s so funny I was struggling to kept my eyes dry from laughing soo much he is and will always be a legend in Australian comedy 😅😂🥲🤣
I knew Rude when he was touring as The Kangaroo in Canada in the mid-1970s. I still have an autographed album of live Kangaroo performances. He once told me confidentially -- that is, speaking to me one-to-one in the bar I worked as a teenager, but loud enough for everybody within earshot to hear -- "I am the most fucked-up guy you're ever gonna meet." Those exact words. He's right. He was. It was kind of sad. There was a sort of crazed unhappiness to him. Nice to see he pulled through and appears to have a good life. Though he did spawn a Canadian son who stayed behind in Canada.
@@thebathuman Sorry, it's vinyl and I don't have the equipment for it. But here's a link to the particulars, including terrific photos. It was recorded live during his mid-70s Canadian tour. www.discogs.com/The-Kangaroo-The-Kangaroo-Volume-1-Adult-Entertaiment/release/6576899
@@nidzdotnet76 I doubt very much there's any stray video or audio of these Canadian barroom performances, other than his own self-released live albums. It's almost fifty years ago. Compact audio recording devices were still relatively rare and not of good quality. I'm not even sure there were fully portable video cameras then! But it would have been wonderful to catch those performances, when Rude was unleashed and unhappy and running amok. He was genuinely antic.
My father was a radio personality for 7EX in Launceston Tasmania in the 80’s and interviewed Rodney. He didn’t stick to the script and had my old man on the floor in stitches. Funny as fuck, is this bloke
Dale M This is all your fault you know. Those two blokes in 1954 who came up with the idea of a hamburger joint that is now WORLDWIDE in hundreds of countries. But on the good side you gave us Rodney Rude. Cheers. Mate 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺. Glad you enjoyed him. He really is in a class by himself. Come back and visit us and maybe see him live. He is hilarious. Cheers
Australia is probably the closest thing to the South outside the States. Different accents, but same way of life and looking at things. Sydney and Atlanta are just 12 miles apart if you look at their lattitude. Weather pretty much the same.
Same only no cones. We were crying with laughter when it finished. The dude with no arms playing darts…. NOW THROW THE F##KING dart board at me. Ohhh man. He was sooo good. 🤣🤣🤣
Rodney got me through a lot of McShit. Never got sick of his stuff; sometimes you gotta just turn your brain off for a bit and laugh at the absurdity through the Rude character. Loved the CDs from the early 2000s, was the first thing I ever got exposed to, bloody classic. 🤣
i remember listening to this on a burnt CD from my friend in year 7 on my discman :/ how cool was I. also was in my cd player so when i couldnt sleep at 4am this would be on super low volume.
We used to bring in a walkman with a speaker in it and blare it during recess. Those were the days.. now every prick gets offended by the first swear word.
2 of my friends were having lunch in Sydney. With lunch, they knocked over a couple of bottles of vino. They went to an ATM in Martin Place. At the next ATM was Rodney. Jane said to Mike “ Hey, that’s Rodney Rude”. Mike said “ no it isn’t”. So, Jane goes up to him and says “Hey, are you Rodney Rude?” His reply (classic Rude..) was... “ Yeah, NOW FUCK OFF!!!!” Perfect!
Saw him in Grace Bros, Miranda Fair in 1986, I was 10 😂 screamed out “Hey Rodney, how’s grandfather” … don’t think he expected that from a 10 year old, just nodded at me, I’m sure he wanted to tell me to fuck off 🤣😂🤣
i dont think many people outside of Oz have heard of him (i don't think he's ever toured outside Oz, and a lot of his comedy is very localised), but there's quite a few good clips and even a couple full gigs on youtube!
The Golden days of Australian comedy all slowly went downhill after this renaissance period of laughs. We need a statue of Rodney Rude somewhere to signify and commemorate this abundant period of our history and to remind our children of the potential danger and slow decline into PC hell
I'm an American here, and, this guy's fucking hilarious, despite what I'm seeing in comments from my neighbors. True performer. Don't have to get every cultural reference to see that he's a genius and great as his craft.
+ErisTheFairest5 I am glad that you enjoy Rodney Rude's stuff. Mind if I recommend a few other stand up bits of his? There is: "Well Hung Ploughboy", "I Hate Cats" and "Throw the fucking board at me (aka Head)".
Goodonya man at the end of the day there are only two kinds of people...good peepz and bad peepz. ...I got all the time in the world for good peepz regardless of where they come from 🙂
I grew up listening to Rodney, 80's & 90's. If there was one comedian who's revival would be fucken interesting, it'd be this one. And I'm here for it!
"Ill back my 4 wheel drive all over your landscape mcshrubs....ill hook my mcwhinch to your fuckin mcmenu and tow it to fucken mcgosford"..... the amount of times I have wanted to say that at the drive through....
Rude was charged with obscenity in Western Australia and beat the charge. Comedians can get away with a lot more now.. "Political Correctness" is a myth.
First time I heard him was a boot legged tape from Indonesia in 1986, was in the Navy, never heard Rodney Rude in the states, he would make it big but....what the heck, he must have banned or something, bought anything Rodney Rude original before the shipped pulled out of Australia, he's damn good and I can't believe he's still around. Never knew what he looked like other than the pictures on his tapes, dvd's, nice to see him on RU-vid.
I once posted a Kevin Bloody Wilson and Rodney Rude album to an American mate with the message, "Don't play around kids. At least not the first time." He replied with how he understood why I wrote that message. He loved it but he thought they would be too much for the American audience.
Wat a god of comedy that has stood the test off time. I Saw him twice for the The Rats Ass tour then couple the Rude Basted tour to which I had bought the CD, ticket had it signed and a photo obviously from Rodney’s crew, but never. King of comedy. King of limericks and so done as quik to shut hecklers.
I had the pleasure of being insulted by him coz I was the last bloke walking back from the bar as he came on. I felt privileged to have been on the end of one of his ribbings. The whole show was Funny as fuck! Great times.
That is the way I was introduced to Australia in 1982..my first time to a pub concert...scary!..I did not even have a return ticket..or the money for one...fucking Perth ..but the bands and the fishing is been awesome..
Rod 'ought-2-bee a national bloody treasure, Unique, individualist, ocker-god of common opinion no-one else dares to express AND while he never had a fish n' chip shop he 'ought to get into politics ig only for question time :-)
Il cause you some MC pain. All the time I do My own Rodney Rudd,,As we all do from time to time. I make my friends laugh and smile but we all want to talk like him. So funny how much we love being someone else.
2010 new years eve me and the fam sitting around the table listening to cd of this and the funniest part i love is anybody who wears shoes that big must be a fucken clown!
On a long drive, after two and a half hours then parking and going straight into McDonald's straight to the lavs and having a huge poo, is a tradition that Australians hold dear.
Met old Rodney at work the other day. Funniest shit I ever heard was “who ever in the room can’t tap dance, Is a f****t”… so thankful I met him, got a signed shirt and a photo with him 🤙🤙
After a long, hard, day, my mate got pissed off with the lousy service at a McDonald's - and boy did he let the store manager have it - just like Rodney here - but this was genuine!! He didn't hold back either!! For a couple of minutes he vented what he thought of McDonalds, their service and their food. We were crying with laughter when he ended on a crescendo with the all-encompassing sentiment: "AND YOU CAN ALL GO AND GET McFUCKED!!" and stomped out!! I'll never forget it, my only regret is that we didn't have a camera to capture the moment.
