Reports just in of hundreds of Sydneysiders leaping from the Sails of the
Sydney Opera House in response to what can only be described as
"very hurtful" comments from actor and fully paid up member of the
Jugglers and Clowns Union (Hollywood branch) Jim Kennedy.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has called for calm and urged all Sydneysiders with no real reason to be out doors (except for waiting tables ,shaving chest hair "been uppity" or getting really drunk and "turning blue") to stay indoors lock all doors and windows and monitor Television and Radio news reports for further instructions.
All schools and public buildings have been shut down until further notice.
Pubs disordely houses and male chest hair shaving salons will of course remain OPEN.

ASIO and the Australian Federal Police have raised the "look out for uncomplementary comments about Sydney" Alert meter to EXTREME and advise that there is a BAN on lighting outdoor BBQ's and a total Fire Ban is in force until midnight December 31 2010.

Please remain ALERT but NOT ALARMED.
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Comedian slams Sydneysiders

By Peter Mitchell in Los Angeles
February 21, 2005


AMERICAN comedian Jamie Kennedy has given the people of Sydney a big thumbs down.

Kennedy spent five months in Sydney last year shooting the action-comedy, Son of the Mask, at Fox Studios and, while promoting the film in the US in recent weeks, the Hollywood star has held little back about his beef with the city's residents.
He accused Sydneysiders of not being "real", described the women as being "uppity", the men as drinking too much and restaurant waiters as being overpaid and, consequently, rude.

"Sydney thinks it is Paris but it is really Nebraska," Kennedy told Canada's Toronto Star newspaper in one interview.
His views continued to be aired while a guest on US TV talkshows - including the top-rating Tonight Show with Jay Leno - and while sitting down for interviews in Los Angeles with print journalists from around the world.

Kennedy said his grudge was not with all Australians as he enjoyed the time he spent visiting other cities.
"I love the Gold Coast, I love Brisbane, I love Melbourne," Kennedy told AAP in an interview in LA.
He also liked Sydney as a city.
His harsh words were for Sydneysiders.
"The food is great," Kennedy said.
"The city is great. The feeling of the place is great. The beaches are great. It's just the girls and some of the guys got on my nerves."

Kennedy made it clear he wanted Sydneysiders to read about his critique.
"You can print this. I don't care," he said.
"Sydney acts like it's not impressed by celebrity. Yes, they are.
"That's the funny thing. London is not impressed by celebrity. They don't care. Sydney acts like it isn't, but it is and it goes out of its way to say FU."

The 34-year-old, best known for his Candid Camera-style TV show The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and the 2003 comedy film Malibu's Most Wanted, is regarded as one of America's top young comedians.

His face is widely recognised when out in public in the US.
Son of the Mask co-star, Traylor Howard, says that could have been Kennedy's problem.
Sydneysiders, especially the women, did not give Kennedy the star treatment he was used to.
"He did not get recognised," Howard, an American actress who lived in Bondi while shooting the film and loved Sydney, explained.

"I think he was so used to the ladies recognising him. I think it had a little bit to do with it.
"He had fun, but he would try to flirt with the girls, but they just weren't as flirty over there."
Other issues he had a problem with Sydney were ...

SYDNEY'S NIGHTCLUBS: "First of all the clubs close at 2am. That's too early. Second of all, people drink excessive amounts alcohol to the point of being blue in the face. Three, the guys shave their chest and are all pumped up. Who shaves their chest?"

RESTAURANTS: "It's not a service-oriented country. $15 an hour for a waiter? The guy is not going to want to get you your bread because he's like 'I'm making more than you'. In America we tip, but I tipped everyone and they were freaked out."

Son of the Mask, a spin-off of the 1994 Jim Carrey-Cameron Diaz hit The Mask, is scheduled to open in Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria in late March and in NSW, West Australia and South Australia in April.
Carrey and Diaz are not in the new film.
In Son of the Mask, Kennedy plays an aspiring cartoonist whose son is born with spectacular powers.
AAP

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