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Angela Webber (1955- 10 March 2007) was an Australian author, TV writer and comedian. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Webber was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, and the University of Sydney, where she studied architecture and discovered her passion for writing comedy. She first came to prominence in the early 1980s on the ABC's youth radio network Triple J as a member of the comedy group The J-Team, which also included the late Lance Curtis. The J-Team were featured alongside co-hosts Jonathan Coleman and Ian Rogerson in this freeweheeling Sunday afternoon satirical comedy program. The group then moved on to a popular stint as the stars of the Triple-J breakfast show, which was nominally hosted by DJ Rusty Nails. The Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney (P.L.C Sydney), is a private day and boarding, Presbyterian school for girls in Croydon, New South Wales, Australia. ...
Croydon is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
The University of Sydney, established in Sydney in 1850, is the oldest university in Australia. ...
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC (formerly the Australian Broadcasting Commission) is Australias national non-profit public broadcaster. ...
Triple J (JJJ) is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ...
Jonathan Coleman nicknamed Jono (born 29 February 1956 in Hackney, London, England), is an Australian television personality, radio announcer and writer and performer of comedy. ...
Webber is probably best known in Australia for her comedic alter-ego, the anarchic punk pensioner Lillian Pascoe, who had a fondness for heavy metal music and who regularly proclaimed her slogan "Rage 'til ya puke!". As well as her Triple-J commitments, Webber made numerous guest appearances on radio and TV as Lillian and also released a novelty single which parodied the hip-hop classic "The Message". Heavy metals, in chemistry, are chemical elements of a particular range of atomic weights. ...
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In the 1980s and 1990s Webber wrote for and appeared in a variety of TV comedy projects, but her best-known and most successful later work was the children's TV series Mortified, which won an AFI award. Mortified is an Australian Childrenâs television series, co-produced by the Australian Childrenâs Television Foundation and Enjoy Entertainment for the Nine Network Australia, Disney Australia and the BBC. Debuting in 2006, it is a live action comedy-drama which includes surreal fantasy elements. ...
Webber was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 29 and battled the disease for many years. She died in Sydney from cancer-related causes on 10 March 2007, aged 52. She is survived by her husband Stuart and two daughters. Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ...
References
- Obituary from the Sydney Morning Herald
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