Books

By Graeme Blundell Graham Kennedy, Australia’s King of Comedy, reigned over local television for 40 years as talk-show host, game-show presenter, satirist, commentator, and iconoclastic jester. This book is an engaging portrait – written with an incisive insider’s eye – of the man who transformed Australian comedy. So, here it is, Graeme Blundell’s famous Kennedy[Read More]

By: Rob Astbury Graham Kennedy collected around him some of the brightest talents of the Australian entertainment industry. For two decades high-flying sports journalist Rob Astbury was at the center of that circle, sharing Kennedy’s bed and his bleakest moments. For years Astbury refused all financial incentives to tell his story, but now he reveals[Read More]

Graham Kennedy’s Melbourne is a hard cover book of Graham’s favourite Melbourne locations. Graham describes in detail his love of the city he grew up in, along with detailed descriptions accompanying the photographs. Graham Kennedy’s Melbourne In the opening forward he says: Well, it’s my turn to make an admission I’ve been conducting a secret and very[Read More]

Henry Gay shares a few of the letters Graham Kennedy wrote to him during their 50 year friendship. It began in 1951 but, as so much has been written about the King of Australian Television , Henry decided to reveal a few odd things about other people who crossed his path and a little bit[Read More]

In this insider portrait of Graham Kennedy, Mike McColl-Jones offers a never-before-seen side to the life of the King of Television. This lavishly illustrated memoir tells Kennedy’s remarkable story, from his childhood in suburban Melbourne to the radio years, and his eventual dominance of television with programs such as “In Melbourne Tonight”, “Blankety Blanks”, “Coast[Read More]

This book is an engaging portrait — written with an incisive insider’s eye — of the man who transformed Australian comedy. So, here it is, Graeme Blundell’s famous Kennedy project. As anyone with even a passing acquaintance with the affable author can tell you, it’s been a long time brewing. There’s probably not a soul[Read More]