Billy Birmingham

Australian entertainment history was effectively rewritten a decade ago by a clever Australian conceptualist with a wicked wit, a predilection for playing with words and an astounding art for mimicry, who was able to deftly tickle the national funnybone by 'borrowing' the persona of a revered icon and imbuing it with an unexpected verbal dexterity and dimension.
The conceptualist was Billy Birmingham who, as The 12th Man, became one of the most successful spoken-word recording artists in the world (certainly the most successful in Australia, ever). The icon was - indeed still is - cricketing legend Richie Benaud, who became the thematic centre piece of a string of phenomenally popular comedy masterpieces which have sold in quantities beyond the reach of all but Australia's ranking rock royalty.

Billy here is better known as "The 12th Man". He developed a large following of cricket fans for his take offs of the channel 9 cricket commentary team. He can do voices for over 12 different people and he can click them on and off whenever he wants.