Rosie Koonunga-Hill exposed!

Podcast: Comedy365
Date: February 17, 2009
Title: Chickenflaps, Episode 28

The veil has come off, and we now know that Rosie Koonunga-Hill, the voice behind the curious Chickenflaps intro, is none other than the female half of the unknown U.K. comedy team Sowerby and Luff, Georgina Sowerby.

“Originally hosted by Georgina Sowerby’s foul-mouthed Aussie alter-ego Rosie Koonunga-Hill, Chickenflaps is now produced and presented by Richard Cray. The show features the very best comedy songs from around the Internet…,” reads the Chickenflaps page on the re-designed and now nearly impenetrable Comedy 365 site.

Still don’t know why the show’s called Chickenflaps; still don’t care.

However, I’m generally pleased to report my third appearance on Chickenflaps (See Comedy 365: We ask the tough questions and Stop flapping; it’s not funny), the second with Richard Cray as host.

Those funny, funny Brits

From its mysterious title to its colloquial jokes and references to obscure publishers of romance novels, Chickenflaps is a fount of idiomatic entertainment.

Here’s this episode’s description, which I filed away before Comedy 365 wiped much of Chickenflaps’ history off the Google map:

Cray works from a script  — and most importantly, pronounces my name correctly, even if the producers misspelled it — and the show’s overall sound is professional, if not spontaneous.

“Love is in the air,” he says. “Not in a fluffy Valentine’s way. More in an obsessional and murderous Jerry Springer girlfriend-you’re-a-werewolf or some other kind of fictional creature way. None of your gushy American Idol star ballads on this show, folks, no!”

The menacing playlist includes my song, True Love (Live at Bill’s Records).

Fluffy valentine  (1:03).

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 7:41 pm Mon, Jun 29, 2009.