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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 Do

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rdfs:comment	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 Do (en)
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name	John McKellar (en)
birth place	Orange, New South Wales
death place	St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney Darlinghurst, New South Wales
death place	Sacred Heart Hospice, Darlinghurst, Australia (en)
death date	2010-09-06 (xsd:date)
birth place	Orange, New South Wales, Australia (en)
birth date	1930-08-13 (xsd:date)
dcterms:subject	1930 births 2010 deaths Australian musical theatre lyricists 20th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Princeton, New Jersey Satire 1930 births Congregation of Christian Brothers McCarter Theatre Mel Gussow Ruth Cracknell Sydney Teachers College The New York Times St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney Claytons Australian English 2010 deaths Waverley, New South Wales Waverley College Australian musical theatre lyricists Lance Mulcahy Darlinghurst, New South Wales Gloria Dawn (actor) A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down 20th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights John Ewart Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne Metropolitan Theatre (Sydney) Kings Cross, New South Wales National Library of Australia Orange, New South Wales Reg Livermore Revue Phillip Street Theatre Woolloomooloo, New South Wales Sydney University
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has abstract	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". (en)

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