Kevin Bloody Wilson was flabbergasted, when in 2010 he was nominated as Australian of the Year for his services to the entertainment industry.
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"I didn't win it - I think Skippy the Kangaroo won it that year," he said in an interview with the Herald, "they must have been running out of contenders - I was absolutely broken.
"In all fairness I was chuffed to be nominated, and the fact that I didn't win it didn't matter.
"The irony of it was that 25 years earlier I was getting arrested for doing exactly the same thing. It's going back the other way now, with all this f***ing PC s**t you've got to put up with every day."
Wilson will bring his show "FU PC" to Cootamundra Ex-Services on Wednesday September 11.
In case you think his humour is only for the low-brow, his publicity material claims he's appreciated "from Broken Hill to Buckingham Palace".
Quizzed on this, he says he had it substantiated by a showbiz friend - "and here comes the name dropping, Billy Conolly's a mate of mine and Billy told me Prince Charles was a big fan.
"But how I first found out is we were playing at a place called Usk in Wales and there was about half a dozen fellas in suits holding back at the end of the show when I was doing the signing and I picked them as coppers.
"One of them approached me and said he was actually on secondment from New Zealand to the special branch and was cleaning inside his boss's car and next minute this voice blares out "stick that f***ing phone up your f***ing arse" and he said it sounded either Australian or Kiwi. So he rummaged through the glove box and it turns out there was two of my cassette tapes.
Then he said 'you might be interested to know my boss is His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales'!"
Wilson started his show, which he does with his daughter Jenny Talia, who lives in Chicago, in Los Angeles in April.
"A lot of what we've done this year has been overseas and in the capital cities - so we're finally getting back to the bush again," he said.
"I'm from the bush so it's a good way of recharging your batteries and I also know how much we miss out on in the bush."
With wife and tour manager Betty, Wilson and Talia will tour Katoomba, Gosford, Charlestown, Mudgee, Parkes, Cowra, West Wyalong, Cootamundra, Leeton, Hay and Tolland.
The PC theme was chosen because "it's all you hear around the water coolers these days and in the crib rooms and factories and mines, is basically f*** you political correctness".
To drive home the point, he says England has been ruined by migration and Pauline Hanson was right to wear the burqa into parliament.
"She's not the most eloquent lady in the world but you have to admire her f***ing spunk haven't you, being in jail and all that sort of stuff and coming back and having another go."
