Satire – engineers beat lawyers
As the team of lawyers were quick to point out, 11 of the 27 prime ministers of this country have practised law. So how did a team of engineers convince an audience that they, rather than lawyers, would make better politicians, when even Gillard and Abbott both have law degrees?
Try this argument from the engineers’ second speaker, Andrew Pratley: “Australia had only one choice at the election, and that was to elect a lawyer. And what did we do? We rejected them both.”
The inaugural debate between Young Engineers Australia Sydney Division and the Law Society of NSW Young Lawyers was [...]
Lawyers Weekly – lawyer tells of football and beer
An Australian lawyer has taken his admiration for the FIFA World Cup to new heights by publishing a book about his efforts to watch as many matches in as many pubs in as many different countries as possible.
Anthony Jucha of Jucha Legal will release his book, titled 2002: A World Cup Odyssey or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Game, on the eve of this year’s World Cup final.
The book’s concept is simple: take a young and enthusiastic man (Jucha), who knows very little about football, plonk him in Europe and send him forth [...]
Socceroos leave Australians cold after Durban disaster
Sydney – Thousands of Australian football fans thronging Sydney’s Darling Harbour entertainment precinct on Monday stood with blank faces in front of blank screens trying to come to terms with a monumental 4-0 loss to Germany.
The fanatics amongst them had dreamt of an upset victory in their opening World Cup game in South Africa and the optimists of a draw against the three-time champions.
What unfolded in Durban was worse than either camp expected.
The magnitude of the defeat was conceded by captain Lucas Neill.
“As a whole, we made silly mistakes and we got punished and at this level that’s what happens,” [...]
Golden Gavel All the Go
Renowned for being worth the 7.30am start, there will be plenty of giggling lawyers in Sydney this morning after the annual golden gavel competition.
This year 12 candidates fight it out in the hope of making it through to the national event in Canberra in October.
The Golden Gavel is not for the faint-hearted. Last year, contestant Anthony Jucha, from Jucha Legal, dressed in drag – complete with a wig – in the hope of acquiring the gavel trophy. (He came second.)
Competitors are given their own question to answer and 24 hours to prepare to be judged by NSW Supreme [...]
Monopoly Documentary – Under The Boardwalk
I represented QLD in the Australian Monopoly Championships in 2010 and appeared in a documentary about the World Championships.
See about 1:58 in the video.
See here for information about the documentary.
Monopoly Champions
An article in Sacred Heart’s Blue and Blue magazine.
Former Adelaide Lawyer Gains the Monopoly
The Today Show – Monopoly
As seen on Channel Nine’s Today Show.
On a Roll
There’s little room for fun and games when the nation’s Monopoly masters meet to decide who’s chairman of the board.
There’s a palpable frisson on the 88th floor of Melbourne’s Eureka Tower. Through floor-to-ceiling windows, the streetscape stretches out to the horizon like a child’s play mat nearly 300m below. Against this auspicious backdrop, eight would-be moguls eye each other warily and contemplate their game plan. Each has come with a singular ambition: to bankrupt their opponents and make their fortune.
Welcome to the 2009 Australian Monopoly Championships. During the next couple of hours, the country’s best Monopoly masters will do battle [...]
High Drama Unfolds in Melbourne Property Crash
Australia’s own sub-prime scenario unfolded with alarming speed and high drama in Melbourne today.
In a matter of minutes, a property portfolio worth millions turned into worthless paper.
Another empire built on leveraged deals and misplaced hope crumbled in a fraction of the time it took to be built.
Homes bought on an impulse for more than they were worth were handed back to the bank for a song.
Dreams were dashed, futures that once flashed brightly crashed spectacularly.
Remarkably, it all happened in an atmosphere of good humour and “better luck next time” resignation.
Which is no more than you might expect at the Australian [...]
9am with David & Kim – Monopoly Olympics
As seen on Channel Nine’s morning program, 9am with David & Kim.
Triple J – Monopoly
Lawyer Heads the Board at Monopoly
Table Tycoon Aims to Take on the World
ANTHONY Jucha’s aim is to bankrupt everyone and build hotels all over London.
The 34-year-old Glebe lawyer has just been crowned Queensland Monopoly champion, beating 50 other Monopoly tragics.
After coming second at the NSW Monopoly Championships on January 10, Mr Jucha decided to fly to Brisbane the next day to contest the Queensland title.
He played three one-hour games with up to five players using new speed dice rules, which propel players ahead.
It was a long time between victories for Mr Jucha, who won the South Australian title aged 17 back in 1991.
What is his strategy?
“I don’t have favourite sites,” he said. [...]
Glebe Local is on a Roll
This Monopoly Knows No Borders
IF you can’t beat `em, go interstate. Anthony Jucha came second in the New South Wales Monopoly Championship, so flew up from Sydney overnight to attempt to go one better.
Which he did, getting crowned Queensland champ at Westfield Garden City on Sunday.
(Southern Star – 14 January 2009)
ABC News – Monopoly Championships
Tinged with Gilt – Independent Weekly Review
A scorching autumn night in the Tin Shed at the Wheatsheaf Hotel Thebarton was no place to play it straight and Anthony Jucha didn’t try.
Tinged with Gilt, his latest Fringe offering, was tinged with laughter, surprise appearances by two people in a horse costume and a re-enactment of Michael Hutchence’s last hours.
Jucha, a lawyer with a conscience, touch of madness and an apparent penchant for ladies’ underwear, mixed multimedia with live comedy and music. Jucha and friend Michael Hicks take the crowd on Jucha’s rambling, but entertaining journey from corporate lawyer to defending the citizens of Redfern, Sydney and refugees.
His [...]
Tinged with Gilt – The Adelaide Fix
The funniest moments in this show were actually provided by Rundle Mall shoppers during a vox pop-style !lm segment shown at the start of the evening. Anthony Jucha (pronounced Yoo-ha) presents a show outlining one lawyer’s trials and tribulations from Sydney to Port Kemble to Redfern and back again. There are moments of interest – one can’t avoid the sexual strangulation scene – however for the most part the show lacked rhythm and at times didn’t seem to even have much point. There were a couple of giggles, even a few extended chuckles, but nothing that could produce a decent [...]
Review – & Other Difficulties
After his bare all expose during the 2004 festival, which received varying degrees of bad reviews (read: vastly misunderstood), Anthony Jucha has decided to gather up all the overtly ambitious thespian flare and spirit within and take matters further; after all this new show is clearly all about him and how dare the press attack his well meaning integrity?
Struggling between his professional career as a lawyer and, of all things, a wannabe comedian, Jucha demonstrates his aspirations over the years: dressing up as Patsy Bisco and reading an occasionally flawed, but otherwise cutely conceived story of a little sea monster [...]
Channel 10 News – Puppetry of the Penis
ABC Radio – Puppetry of the Penis
My interview with ABC Radio in Port Pirie (just after I had moved into town).
Adelaide Theatre Guide – What Makes a Man Bare All?
Billed as an hour show, I had to skip out of this one 80 minutes into it in order to make my next production. Dare I say, it was with some relief that I did so too.
Anthony Jucha is not a comedian. He’s an angry man with too many issues to be funny. Using video footage, some of his stories were amusing, but he spends a lot of the show working himself up over the injustices of this world. He has every right to be angry, as we all should, over the homeless and other unacceptable bi-products of our world, [...]
Review – What Makes a Man Bare All?
What makes a man bare all? A question that’s rhetorically asked many times over in this, a comically based exploration of social issues, morals and one man’s askew sense of curiosity. Anthony Jucha (pronounced ‘Yooha’) takes us on an ongoing journey where, often upon acting on a whim, he covertly enters into different realms.
Beginning his show by explaining his current position as an unemployed lawyer, Jucha moves on to tell of a weekend spent sleeping out with our city’s homeless. Peppering the sadder aspects of this ‘assignment’ with many humorous revelations that serve to subtly deprecate his own good fortunes, [...]
Review – What Makes a Man Bare All?
One and a half stars.
Adelaide lawyer and comedian Anthony Jucha wanted to bare all to festival-goers. What a pity then his stories weren’t particularly engaging or funny.
Jucha discussed life as a lawyer, spending three nights on the streets with the city’s homeless and losing his virginity – yet nothing held much interest. The only truly funny part was when he showed his failed audition tape from Puppetry of the Penis – though that too was more cringeworthy
than hilarious.
His “feral” folk singer sidekick Soursob Bob was the show’s only saving grace. But when a song about putting panties on mannequins is [...]
At Your Lip Service
PUCKER up, Adelaide – smooches are going for just $1.
That’s the going rate at a kissing booth run by Adelaide comic Anthony Jucha, left, to promote his Fringe show, What Makes a Man Bare All?, starting today.
Anthony, 29, who is also a part-time commercial lawyer for Doman Lawyers and failed penis puppeteer entrant, said the stunt was all his marketing budget would allow.
“You do have to do things to compete with the big names,” he said.
Andrew has managed to rack up 50 kisses – from both men and women – in two days. A bought kiss earns a free ticket [...]
On Going Bare
ADELAIDE lawyer and penis puppeteer Anthony Jucha gives a thoughtful and humorous account of his personal experiences in What Makes a Man Bare All at the East End Exchange Hotel from March 8 to 14 (daily at 7pm and 9pm). He reveals the intricacies of penis puppetry and professional flirtation, relates his experience of sleeping out with the homeless, and reflects on his rejections in law and in love.
(The Messenger – 3 March 2004)
Freshbait Theatre
Freshbait is a Fringe program giving young artists the chance to test their work on a live audience.
Free Freshbait theatre, music, dance, film and mixed media performances are dotted around the Fringe Hub. If past festivals are anything to go by, they are worth a look although my opening-day Freshbait experience was hit and miss.
After arriving late for the start of the theatre program – curiously, a film called Evolution – I joined a queue of similarly ill-fated people asked to wait outside. When the film ended, we waited some more while the set was installed for the second piece, [...]
Law in the Raw
HE’S an Adelaide lawyer who moonlights as a comedian and his claim to fame is auditioning for Puppetry of the Penis – and failing.
“I don’t know why I missed out because I could do all the moves – the Eiffel Tower, The Loch Ness Monster, the Windsurfer,” Anthony Jucha said last week.
Now Anthony has turned his bizarre life experiences into a one-man show, What Makes A Man Bare All, from March 8 to 14 at the East End Exchange for this year’s Fringe Festival.
The show will include some video footage of Anthony’s penis puppetry audition.
“You just won’t see anything more [...]
Down and Out in Adelaide – It’s Just Not On
THREE nights in the cold and rain have convinced Anthony Jucha that Adelaide’s homeless community is doing it too tough.
Mr Jucha, a lawyer, went to the city’s west parklands on Friday night to spend the long weekend with people sleeping rough. He wanted to see how people coped under such trying conditions. What he found at his campsite near the West Tce cemetery was dozens of people who had too little to eat and few opportunities to improve their lives.
He was also angry at what he saw as the heavy-handed tactics of police and council workers.
“I was warmly accepted and [...]
Blitz on Parkland Homes
HOMELESS people camped in the Adelaide Parklands say city council workers took away their tents and blankets during the wild weather of the past fortnight.
People scattered through isolated pockets of the parklands are now using tarpaulins as shelter against the winter rains.
Several are settled among gum trees behind former netball courts next to West Tce Cemetery.
Aaron Mundy, 29, who has been camping in the parklands on and off for the past seven years, said council patrols were taking possessions while people were away finding food or showers.
“They come by during the day and take our tents, blankets, pillows, even cups [...]
Lawyer Lives on the Streets to Highlight Homeless Hardship
An Adelaide lawyer is spending the long weekend living on the streets in a bid to highlight the plight of homeless people in Adelaide.
Anthony Jucha says he is angry at the way homeless people get shunted from one spot to another but thought it important to get a more informed understanding of the issue.
He says it has been a difficult experience.
“I’ve done two nights out, I’ve got one to go,” he said. “It’s a long weekend, so Friday, Saturday, Sunday night. It’s pretty cold but it’s a drop in the ocean. I mean, I’ve met people who have been out [...]
Forest of Dreams
MEANWHILE, a lot of city residents remain fascinated or intrigued by that artwork in Hurtle Square. It’s moved Anthony Jucha to write:
There never was a forest
any less of a forest
than The Forest of Dreams
But there never was a forest
any more of a forest
with such beautiful trees
Published in The Adelaide Messenger on 28 May 2003.
What Makes a Man Bare All – Puppetry of the Penis Audition
PERFORMERS usually jump at the chance to be part of an international comedy show but only one rose to the occasion at the Adelaide auditions for Puppetry of the Penis yesterday.
Anthony Jucha, 28, a lawyer and part-time comic writer, braved the cold at Her Majesty’s Theatre to perform genital origami.
“I just came here for research for my writing. I am really nervous about getting a call back and I will cross that bridge when I get to it,” he said.
“I practised at home for a couple of hours. It wasn’t that hard, it’s a pretty simplistic craft.”
While the tricks may [...]
Today Tonight – Gotcha
One Man’s World Cup Odyssey
Many would think Anthony Jucha is totally mad. He caught 35 trains, eight buses, four planes and three ferries all to watch a sport he cared little for, as MICHELLE GIGLIO writes.
Soccer fans across the country who may be weary after four weeks of intense World Cup emotion in front of the television should spare a thought for Anthony Jucha.
The London-based Australian has travelled 11,000km, zigzagging around Europe to watch Cup matches with European fans. He has spent 240 hours on trains, buses and ferries to make each kickoff on time, often foregoing sleep – and personal hygiene – along [...]
7 Days, 7 Parties
FORMER Adelaide lawyer Anthony Jucha reckons he’s no soccer fanatic.
But buoyed by a desire to join in the local festivities as fans cheer on their World Cup teams, Jucha has clocked up 5000km in a dash across the continent.
He has traversed seven countries in seven days, catching 30 trains, three ferries, three planes and two buses to cheer on each European team.
His rationale is simple.
“Anyone can buy a ticket and go to the Cup,” he said. “It is a completely unremarkable thing to do. My venture is unique, exciting and untested ground.”
by NADINE WILLIAMS and JOSEPHINE AGOSTINO
(The Adelaide Advertiser – [...]
Triple J – World Cup Interview
An interview broadcast on Triple J during 2002: A World Cup Odyssey.
Monopoly Champ
Anthony Jucha, of Marion, on Saturday, became South Australia’s best money-maker, winning the Monopoly Championship State finals. Anthony, 17, will compete in the grand final next Saturday, when Australia’s representative to the 1992 world championships in Berlin will be decided.
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Gonzo Journalism – Aboriginal Tent Embassy
The few times I’ve been to Canberra, I’ve felt drawn to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. Australians are an obedient lot and, once in a while, it’s nice to see some ‘un-Australian’ breaking of rules.
So this year, on Australia Day, I decided to leave my de facto and baby at home – for my first night away since our boy’s birth – and camp at the Tent Embassy for its 40th anniversary celebration. For the first time in almost a year, I might get a decent night’s sleep.
I arrived to see TV crews leaving and an angry speaker on stage. I [...]
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Satire – Golden Gavel 2010
My speech in the NSW Young Lawyer’s Golden Gavel public speaking competition in 2010.
Competitors are assigned a topic at random less than 24 hours before the event. My topic was ‘Barristers – without solicitors they’re really just fluff and stuffing’. 500+ lawyers watch the event.
This was the last year I am ‘young’ enough to compete so I went for broke and tried to put on a real show. I also took the opportunity to made fun of: the President of Young Lawyers, the President of the Lawyer Society and the Honourable Justice Bergin Chief Judge in Equity of [...]
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Guerilla Law – complaints about police
I set up my ‘free legal advice’ stall in Glebe. Two young men sat down and said they were sick of being hassled by the police. I told them that the best thing to do would be to avoid the police in question. I also told them how to make a complaint about the police.
I recorded the conversation and it was broadcast on 2SER’s law show ‘Radio Atticus’. You can listen below:
See Radio Atticus at 2SER for the full show.
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Satire – engineers beat lawyers
As the team of lawyers were quick to point out, 11 of the 27 prime ministers of this country have practised law. So how did a team of engineers convince an audience that they, rather than lawyers, would make better politicians, when even Gillard and Abbott both have law degrees?
Try this argument from the engineers’ second speaker, Andrew Pratley: “Australia had only one choice at the election, and that was to elect a lawyer. And what did we do? We rejected them both.”
The inaugural debate between Young Engineers Australia Sydney Division and the Law Society of NSW Young Lawyers was [...]
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Satire – What Makes a Man Bare All?
Anthony’s 2004 Adelaide Fringe debut takes us on a journey that bares all. With musical support from Gary and Rob (and constant interruptions by Michael Hicks), the show features such unusual explorations as:
• why spotted ties send the wrong message
• the rejection letter poem
• the army, cocaine, grenades and me
• why thinking about work can actually increase arousal
• losing your virginity; beware the dark blue ring
• hard up at the puppetry of the penis auditions
• the brighter side of breaking your penis
• a long weekend sleeping out with the homeless
If there is a place in hell for you [...]
