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DAAS

hi everyone! ive just chucked all my daas stuff together, will fix soon.



There seems to be a somewhat lacking in material on the internet regarding the Doug Anthony All Star, Timothy Ferguson. So it is my role to you here today to shed some light into cyberspace.
The Doug Anthony All Stars are an Australian comedy group that began in the eighties and performed their last show in Perth, on December 17, 1994. A date I will remember always. A few days before that, DAAS did a free show in Forrest Chase, in the center of Perth. What I remember most is when Tim sung 'Throw your Arms Around Me'...... to my mother. Stupid Cow!!

Post All-Stars Tim has hosted 'Don't Forget Your Toothbrush' and piloted 'Little Aussie Battlers' on the 9 Network. He has also written a book, released last year, and for a while in 1995 wrote a political satire column for Perths Xpress Magazine. He also ran for parliment against the strongest Liberal seat in Victoria ( against Bronwyn Bishop?) under the name THE PARTY PARTY PARTY PARTY. He could give those Liberals a run for their money! I am not sure if this is factual, but apparently Tim was one of the causes of the DAAS breakup, and that now he denies any association with them. I find this very sad indeed, because we would all love a DAAS reunion, and we quiver in sorrow at the Good News Week New Years Eve Special, when Paul and Richard had to sing alone.
He is Married with three children aged 8, 4 and 2.

BOOK

Tim Ferguson graduated from Duntroon Military College in Canberra in 1987. He has pursued a military career in the world of comedy. Tim has written two books of essays: Wagner's Republic and Carcass (Allen & Unwin/Haynes). He likes guns and bourbon.


DAAS Kapital

Ummmmm..... I was going to put this in, but when I look at my book, the front few pages are missing.. I'll fix this problem soon.


I suppose that there will be many folk out there who would like to correct me, and that would be really, really appreciated, so feel free to e-mail me to the address below. Thanks!

from the sydney morning herald: 

Wednesday, October 29, 1997

      Unemployed comedian
      succeeds in politics 

      Wake-up call ... political satirist Tim Ferguson,
      author of Left, Right and Centre, rises from the
      cross-benches yesterday. Photograph by PETER
      RAE 

      By RICHARD JINMAN, Entertainment
      Writer

      He was raised in Canberra and once
      contested Andrew Peacock's seat in a
      general election. Could the political novel
      Left, Right and Centre: A Tale of Greed, Sex and Power, by the comedian Tim Ferguson, be a
      touch autobiographical? 

      "Well, there's a little bit of me in Luther," he said in Sydney yesterday, referring to his book's
      seductively handsome, power-hungry protagonist, Luther Langbene. 

      But which bit?

      "Unfortunately, the muscular physique isn't mine," said the lanky 33-year old. "That's a little bit of
      Arnold Schwarzenegger. Luther's a little bit of Margaret Thatcher, the Messiah and a naughty
      boy."

      A former member of The Doug Anthony All Stars comedy trio, Ferguson was snared by Channel 9
      to host its frenetic 1995 series Don't Forget Your Toothbrush. A second series was not
      forthcoming and Ferguson has been "working behind the scenes" since then. 

      His first novel was born two years ago as a script for a six-part television series about "a mad
      renegade politician who takes over Australia". 

      But, said, Ferguson: "I thought, "Hang on, if it's ever going to be a series, it has to be a
      best-selling novel first'. I ended up with a bevy of characters, a reckless economy, money flying
      backwards and forwards - and morals flying all over the place."

      On a more serious note, Ferguson hopes his tale of ruthless political ambition may serve as a
      wake-up call to apathetic voters.

      "Most Australians front up at the ballot box as though they were at the Melbourne Cup," he said.
      "They know nothing about the horses and haven't looked at the form guide in 12 months. But they
      sniff the horses, kick the poo around, ask someone next to them, and walk in and place their bet."

      Left, Right and Centre offers a particularly merciless portrayal of Australian politicians.

      As its author explains: "The Prime Minister is the voice of conservatism, the leader of the Left is
      everything that's bad about the Left, and the Greenies are a pack of communists." 

      He isn't expecting any lawsuits, because the book is set 10 seconds in the future and most of the
      characters are "larger than life".

      Having finished his political novel, Ferguson is still busy.

      "I've already got a second book under way, which is about crime," he said. "The leap from politics
      to crime wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. In fact, it's frighteningly similar."











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