The Wog Boy

The actor who celebrates that line in The Wog Boy is in real life the aptly named Costas Kilias and I hope he never comes looking for me if I owe him money.

Mr Kilias also hilariously played that rather large and helpful family neighbour in The Castle.

Melbourne boy Nick Giannopoulos found that he could make people laugh and make money playing up his Greek background in Acropolis Now on T.V. in the late 1980's. He later transformed the skit into a very successful satirical stage show called Wogs Out Of Work.

The Wog Boy attempts to extend this theme into a full length feature film, an effort which certainly has it's moments, even if the satire gets well in the way of a rounded, mature script.

The idea is that there's plenty of pleasure not to mention pride to being an Australian who is not of English stock.

Being unemployed these days in Australia is also given support. "Ambition is just an excuse to not have the guts to be unemployed" is an encouraging philosophy if you just can't find a decent job.

The chief bad cheese in this comedy is in fact one of the few white Anglo Saxon employed people on the block. She also happens to be The Minister For The Unemployed and she's played way over the top by Geraldine Turner.

A dastardly plot is being launched to force the those on the dole into jobs at slave labour wages and Nick, the proudest wog and dole bludger in town just might come to rescue - unless the jibes handed out to him by Derryn Hinch shames him into submission.

But this lad is cool for being famous and famous for doing nothing. The Wog Boy has credibility and pin up potential not to mention eyebrows like house eaves and a nose like The West Gate Bridge.

He's a proud Aussie with a great Wog Boy pick up line.