Lance Charles Curtis, was an Australian actor, writer and comedian who
became well known in Australia in the early 1980s through his many
radio, TV and film appearances. He was best known for his work on
Triple J's Off The Record and The J-Team with comedians Angela Webber
and Adam Bowen and presenters Jonathan Coleman, Ian Rogerson and Rusty
Nails, and for his comic partnership with satirist Geoff Kelso, which
included their collaboration on Double J's Doctor Who sendup Doctor
Poo, which ran from 1979-81 (not to be confused with the 1996 Viz
comic strip of the same name).Curtis' regular Off The Record and
J-Team characters included nervous teenage Double J work-experience
intern Wayne Simpson - who nursed a deep unrequited passion for
Bananarama singer Siobhan Fahey - and doddering pensioner Harold
Davenport, the foil for Angela Webber's "punk grannie" character
Lillian Pascoe. In one famous segment broadcast after the federal
election of 1983, Curtis and his colleagues lampooned the defeat of
the then Liberal government led by Malcolm Fraser (who famously broke
down and cried on camera when conceding defeat) by portraying
Davenport's deep distress at being deposed as president of his local
bowls club.In the early 1980s, Curtis made numerous appearances on the
Donnie Sutherland-hosted music programmes Sounds and After Dark. He
had a regular segment on Sounds (as Wayne Simpson), called Wayne at
Work, and he also made several memorable appearances in character on
After Dark, including the humourless Det. Sgt. Frank Masarati of the
NSW Police Entertainment Squad (whose job was to carry out "random
laughter tests"), and as Harold Davenport, who appeared in a parody of
contemporary pop duo Haysi Fantayzee with his "deeply platonic" friend
Lillian Pascoe (Webber). Excerpts from several of Curtis' appearances
on After Dark were compiled as a tribute to him and included in the
final episode of the series, which went to air the week after Curtis
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