Angela Webber
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Angela Webber (1955- 10 March 2007) was an Australian author, TV writer and comedian.
Webber was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, and the University of Sydney, where she studied architecture and discovered her passion for writing comedy. She first came to prominence in the early 1980s on the ABC's youth radio network Triple J as a member of the comedy group The J-Team, which also included the late Lance Curtis. The J-Team were featured alongside co-hosts Jonathan Coleman and Ian Rogerson in this freeweheeling Sunday afternoon satirical comedy program. The group then moved on to a popular stint as the stars of the Triple-J breakfast show, which was nominally hosted by DJ Rusty Nails.
Webber is probably best known in Australia for her comedic alter-ego, the anarchic punk pensioner Lillian Pascoe, who had a fondness for heavy metal music and who regularly proclaimed her slogan "Rage 'til ya puke!". As well as her Triple-J commitments, Webber made numerous guest appearances on radio and TV as Lillian and also released a novelty single which parodied the hip-hop classic "The Message".
In the 1980s and 1990s Webber wrote for and appeared in a variety of TV comedy projects, but her best-known and most successful later work was the children's TV series Mortified, which won an AFI award.
Webber was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 29 and battled the disease for many years. She died in Sydney from cancer-related causes on 10 March 2007.
