And when, inspired by the experience, his spoof band, the Hee Bee Bee Gees, reached number two in the Australian charts with their Meaningless Songs in Very High Voices, Deayton decided comedy was the life for him.
Though regularly likened to the great Barry Humphries and Kath and Kim, Lilley has a wider repertoire of voices and has looked for his targets beyond the lace-curtain cul-de-sacs of Australian suburbia.