Ossie Ostrich

Oswald Q. Ostrich, better known simply as Ossie Ostrich, is an Australian television puppet character in the form of a pink ostrich, created, performed and voiced by Ernie Carroll who appeared firstly on the Tarax Show, and then opposite Daryl Somers as the co-host on the long-running Nine Network program Hey Hey It's Saturday which started as a Saturday morning cartoon show for children in 1971.[1] In 1984, he also hosted an after-school children's show called The Ossie Ostrich Video Show, with co-host Jacki MacDonald.

Cover of the 1976 comedy album Keep Smiling with Daryl and Ossie.

Ossie is a good-natured pink ostrich sporting a light blue mohawk hairstyle.

  1. ^ Stone, Gerald (2000). Compulsive Viewing. Melbourne: Penguin Books Australia Ltd. ISBN 0-14-029817-7.