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	Pretending to be Himself: Graham Kennedy, Television, Film and Authenticity
		Kennedy’s place in the television pantheon is constructed around a sense of his absence, the fact that no one knew the ‘real’ Graham Kennedy.
		Kennedy may have been the first to foreground the legitimacy that he might gain with a film role, but the hierarchy of value he alluded to was enthusiastically echoed by the print media of the time.
		Kennedy had always been very conscious of the uncertain status of his particular genre of television entertainment, and was outraged when, in 1973, his bête noir, Myles Wright, described Kennedy’s evening program as a “Tonight–type show” to be contrasted with the more esteemed “quality variety” (36).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/06/41/graham-kennedy.html (3160 words)

	Graham Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kennedy also recorded a series of eight thirty-minute radio comedies for the ABC under the title "Graham Kennedy's RS Playhouse", written by Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler and broadcast between 11 August and 23 September 1979.
		Kennedy was also involved in Sydney radio station 2Day FM, owning ten percent of the station when it launched in 1980, and from May 1981 presented a three-hour program of music and comedy on Sunday mornings.
		Kennedy finally quit IMT on December 23, 1969, exhausted, and retired from TV for two years; in spite of his fame and fortune, he later described the period as "years of misery".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graham_Kennedy (3850 words)

	Kennedy, Graham
		In the latter 1980s Kennedy was host of Graham Kennedy Coast to Coast, an innovative late night program (10:30 to 11:30 P.M.) that mixed news, accompanied by its conventions of seriousness and frequent urgency, with comic traditions drawn from centuries of carnival and vaudeville, a hybridising of genres usually considered incompatible.
		When Queen Elizabeth was shown in a news item visiting Hong Kong in 1989, Kennedy remarked that for a woman her age she didn't have bad breasts, a purposely outrageously sexist comment, directed at a figure traditionally revered by Anglo-Australians.
		Kennedy belongs not only to cultural history in Australia; his quickness of wit in verbal play, double-entendre, sexual suggestion, inverted meanings, and festive abuse joins him to a long line of great comedians thrown up by popular culture across the world.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/K/htmlK/kennedygrah/kennedygrah.htm (1269 words)

	dBmagazine.com.au
		What immediately springs to mind when thinking of Graham Kennedy is the unpredictable outbursts of outrageous, irreverent and extremely pointed comments on both radio and television.
		1988-89 Kennedy was back on television with, 'Graham Kennedy: Coast to Coast', where controversy followed him after he remarked that Queen Elizabeth "didn't have bad breasts for a woman her age", and that the show's ratings would be helped if the Pope's plane were to fly into a mountain.
		Kennedy's last TV posting was on 'Australia's Funniest Home Videos', a position he held for only one season in 1990.
	www.dbmagazine.com.au /359/iv-obit-GrahamKennedy.shtml (379 words)

	Death of a TV giant - People - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		Kennedy's flame continued to burn for TV audiences in the late 1970s and '80s with the ribald quizgame show Blankety Blanks, Graham Kennedy's World Of Comedy, Graham Kennedy's News Show and Coast To Coast (with Ken Sutcliffe, George Donikian and John Mangos) and ultimately, in 1990, as presenter of Australia's Funniest Home Videos.
		Graham Kennedy finally retreated from the Packers and TV 15 years ago, finding quiet comfort in the country, meeting and greeting old friends, talking now and then to those from his court, about the days of Joff Ellen, Ernie Carroll, Toni Lamond, Noel Ferrier, Fred Parsons, Mike McColl Jones and Bert.
		Kennedy was attracted to pursue film work as he enjoyed the camaraderie and could still be the private person that he was, Jeffrey believes.
	www.theage.com.au /news/People/Death-of-a-TV-giant/2005/05/25/1116950757519.html?from=moreStories (2437 words)

	Encyclopedia: Graham Kennedy
		My memories of Graham are less - vague flashes of goddawful Blankety Blanks, the even more hideous Australia's Funniest Home Videos, and being the man who inspired a host of banal comics such as Daryl Somers and the atrocious Rove McManus, their shows making Benny Hill seem highbrow.
		Graham can recall this moment in the fall of 1964 vividly and recognizes this was the moment that would shape his future career.
		Graham says the interviewing process with the search committee was unlike any other he had ever undertaken.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Graham-Kennedy (569 words)

	King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy by Graeme Blundell (On the Box Book Review) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Graham was lucky enough to land a job as a copy boy with the ABC which in turn led to a job choosing the records for 3UZ, a local Melbourne station.
		Blankety Blanks was really Graham's last big hurrah, although he still continued to work in TV his interest wasn't there, he appeared on the show Coast to Coast for awhile and presented the clip show Graham Kennedy's Funniest Home Video Show.
		Graham is now living in retirement in Bowral in NSW rarely venturing out after a fall left his memory severely affected.
	www.memorabletv.com /bookreviews/kinggrahamkennedy.htm (470 words)

	Entertainers pay tribute to Kennedy. 25/05/2005. ABC News Online
		Tributes are pouring in for legendary entertainer Graham Kennedy, who died this morning at the age of 71.
		Kennedy's biographer, actor Graeme Blundell, says the star of the small screen for 20 years did not even own a television set when he got his first break.
		A former co-host and friend of Kennedy, John Mangos, says while Kennedy was a pioneer in television, he was very different in private from the personality the public knew.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200505/s1376381.htm (748 words)

	Silent Edge
		Sheldon Kennedy was coached by Graham James, a highly respected and nationally famous coach, as a junior-level hockey player in Winnipeg, and then during the late 1980s on the Swift Current Broncos of Canada's Western Hockey League.
		He was sexually abused as a teen by Graham James, his coach and "father figure," who controlled his hockey career and his daily life from the time he was 14 to 19.
		In January 1997, Graham James was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for sexually assaulting Kennedy and another unidentified player.
	www.silent-edge.org /kennedy.html (877 words)

	MILESAGO - Profiles - Graham Kennedy
		Graham's last TV venture, in the early '90s, was hosting of the popular Graham Kennedy's Funniest Home Video Show but this came to an abrupt end when the show was unexpectedly pulled at the order of Nine Network boss Kerry Packer after the screening of a supposedly offensive item.
		Graham Kennedy's final TV appearance was in a Ray Martin interview; he later said he felt ambushed after Martin strayed into personal areas.
		Kennedy is the subject of an unauthorised biography published in 2003 and written by actor and author Graeme Blundell, who wrote the definitive biography of Brett Whiteley.
	www.milesago.com /People/kennedy-graham.htm (3061 words)

	Bulletin - TV Review: Graham Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kennedy’s legacy defies tacky grandstanding, as it does all those who remember him for just one aspect of his television career.
		The stand-out was Kennedy as the club president who vainly battles against the loss of all that matters to him.
		The Kennedy mirth was contagious, the kooky set-ups often as pleasing as the punchline.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/site/articleIDs/9357A1B08FF3096DCA2570100072A8FB (455 words)

	Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent
		Graham's first foray into television was in 1957 as host of successful variety show In Melbourne Tonight (IMT), when he was just 23 years old.
		As testament to his outstanding contribution to Australian television, Graham was inducted into the Logies Hall Of Fame in 1998, with Bert Newton accepting the award on his behalf.
		Although Graham passed away in May last year at age 71, his legend lives on in his extensive body of television and film work, and now in the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent.
	tvweek.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=82051 (495 words)

	Parent-world -> Graham Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kennedy had suffered several long illnesses in recent years after he fell down a set of stairs in 2003, breaking his leg and skull.
		Brown, who worked with Kennedy on the TV show Blankety Blanks and helped care for him in recent years, said she was with him on Tuesday afternoon.
		Kennedy retired from television about 15 years ago and retreated from public life on his property near Bowral.
	www.parent-world.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=33804 (455 words)

	Graham Kennedy - Melbournians - Reference - Melbourne Online - Only Melbourne
		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.
		What happened to Graham Kennedy - whatever exactly did happen inside that buzzing brain that reduced him to such a sad and angry wraith - has the same epic element, leaving one to ponder the essentially extractive nature of television which, taken in overdose, destroys the thing it loves.
		Everything he did and said was for public consumption; the book is laced with references to his unknowability, the chasm from the start between the private man and the performer.
	www.onlymelbourne.com.au /melbourne_details.php?id=3199 (964 words)

	A tribute to Graham Kennedy
		The king, Graham Kennedy, was back on TV this week, funny as ever, just the way he would like to be remembered.
		As Graham Kennedy used old tricks of vaudeville and radio to brighten his television show, young performers today owe much to his legacy — like Libbi Gorr: "He is hailed as the king of comedy and the king of comedy was the most anarchic, inventive and dangerous performer that Australian television has ever seen."
		Kennedy's merciless lampooning of his sponsors — with his anti-advertising ads — was legend, as Graeme Blundell explains: "Initially sponsors were terrified about what this man was going to do and there were complaints and people withdrew their products overnight only to find the next morning that they had walked off the shelves.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/art_profiles/article_1793.asp (732 words)

	PM - Graham Kennedy bows out
		GRAHAM KENNEDY: (singing) Being a chum is fun, that is why I'm one, always smiling, always gay, chummy at work and chummy at play, laugh away your worries, don't be sad or glum, and everyone will know that you're a chum, chum, chum.
		GRAHAM KENNEDY: I would very much like to thank me for having faith in the Reg Grundy organisation.
		GRAHAM KENNEDY: An animal lover who thought he'd bred a one-eyed cat discovered that it was entering the room backwards.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2005/s1381428.htm (634 words)

	National Film and Sound Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In tandem with Bert Newton, and a series of sidekicks, Kennedy quickly became synonymous with the then-new medium of TV and was bestowed the epithet that has remained with him ever since the 'King' of Australian television.
		Although not a formally trained actor, Kennedy's diligent dedication to learning and practising the art of film acting, combined with the increasingly irreverent and bawdy screen persona he developed as a charismatic figure on live television, contributed to some distinguished and distinctive performances.
		Undoubtably Kennedy's iconic status, box-office appeal and irreverence contributed to shaping the character of what was to become known as the Australian feature film 'revival' of the 1970s.
	www.screensound.gov.au /Screensound/Screenso.nsf/AllDocs/EE4735BB3E3D88E1CA25700B0082ADC4?OpenDocument (411 words)

	Ugly Dave Gray on Graham Kennedy :: ABC Brisbane
		Graham used to make negative comments about Robbo's show all the time and even compared the ratings of the two shows on a weekly basis.
		Sandra: "I just wanted say that Graham Kennedy made my life so much bearable at a time that was quite difficult for me. I was a teenager in my last year of school when Coast to Coast was broadcast, and the man was an absolute joy.
		We got a TV of our own very soon after that and I remember watching Graham, waiting for it to come on, you would never know with Graham what was coming next, you just knew that it would be really funny and entertaining.
	www.abc.net.au /brisbane/stories/s1376643.htm (1240 words)

	Graham Kennedy, The King, Dies, 71 [May 25, 2005] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The man acknowledged as a comic genius by his peers, Graham Kennedy, has died, aged 71, in Bowral, NSW.
		Kennedy also had a keen interest in politics.
		In a rare expression of political opinion, Kennedy launched into McClelland on April 17, 1975, calling for McClelland to be sacked and the portfolio to be dropped.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2005/05/05-05-25_kennedy.shtml (168 words)

	Crikey Website - Graham Kennedy's stellar career (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Graham Kennedy was Austalia's greatest TV talent, writes Glenn Dyer, and he helpd to make the Packer family rich.
		It's a brilliant read and it makes it clear that Kennedy was a giant in this rapidly changing area: TV's inroads into the Australian consciousness, especially the living room, was a major factor in many of the social and political changes this country underwent from the late 1950s onwards.
		There are a dozen or so references to the Packers and their dealings in the Blundell Book, but perhaps the most miserable and heart rending come towards the end (pp 421-422) when Kennedy is living in Bowral in the Southern Highlands and needs money for constant care after injuring himself in a fall.
	www.crikey.com.au /articles/2005/05/25-1156-6837.html (630 words)

	Tim Blair
		Graham Kennedy, one of Australia’s finest entertainers, has died at 71.
		The exposure being given to Graham Kennedy’s death is a measure of the grip on the print media by the ageing baby boomer generation and evidence that most of their readers come from the same era.
		Kennedy was a unique entertainer who held in thrall a couple of generations of television viewers.
	timblair.net /ee/index.php/weblog/comments/graham_kennedy (1247 words)

	The Australian: Graham Kennedy funeral today (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kennedy, 71, died at a nursing home in Bowral in NSW last Wednesday.
		Long-time friend Tony Sattler said Kennedy's non-religious funeral would be a celebration at the Mittagong Playhouse - a small local theatre similar to the Little Theatre in Melbourne, where Kennedy began in show business as an extra.
		Sattler said Kennedy was a lifelong supporter of St Kilda (AFL) football club, and the pallbearers would be St Kilda president Rod Butterss, coach Grant Thomas, captain Nick Riewoldt and players Aaron Hamill, Fraser Gehrig and Luke Ball.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,15462620^29277,00.html (191 words)

	Amazon.com: Personal History (Vintage): Books: Katharine Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Katharine Meyer Graham was a woman born into a world of wealth and privilege who raised four children, became involved in volunteer work, and ended as the head of a powerful newspaper.
		This is the story of a newspaper's rise to power but also of the destruction of a marriage, as Philip Graham slid into alcohol, depression, and suicide, and of Katharine's rise as a powerful woman in her own right.
		Mention the name Katharine Graham today, and she is almost as well known as she was in 2001 when she died after falling and striking her head.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375701044?v=glance (1922 words)

	Graham Kennedy A Television Legend
		But it is not to remember Graham Kennedy that I am writing this article, but it is to show my disgust over the comments recently made by Derryn Hinch.
		I think if you are going to attempt to wound Graham Kennedy’s reputation once he is dead and can’t defend himself, then you should at least be able to physically prove your point.
		Many people remember Graham Kennedy when he first started and much of the Australian population grew up with him on their televisions feeling as if they knew the man personally like he was one of their own family members.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/may/article435.html (554 words)

	HINCH.net - The Official Derryn Hinch Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Graham Blundell was talking about Graham Kennedy – king of Australian television.
		Graham Kennedy was such a piece of flotsam – to continue the seafaring analogy.
		Graham Kennedy, as his biography from a worshipping Blundell still shows, was a talented, at times loathsome, self-promoting, self-deceiving, brilliant entertainer.
	www.hinch.net /articles_archive/in_maudlin_tonight.htm (922 words)

	Sparks fly as Hinch claims AIDS killed Kennedy - TV & Radio - Entertainment
		Broadcaster Derryn Hinch came under fire again today after telling his Melbourne radio show that Graham Kennedy had died from an AIDS-related disease.
		She said Kennedy's skin was clear of dark spots on the day he died.
		Hinch said it was not homophobic to declare that Kennedy was gay.
	www.smh.com.au /news/TV--Radio/Sparks-fly-as-Hinch-claims-AIDS-killed-Kennedy/2005/05/26/1116950803727.html (640 words)

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