Once upon a time there was Elvis Presley. Then he died of stuck poo or something, and then there was The Enormous Las Vegas Impersonators Society, whose charter was to badly impersonate certain Las Vegs type entertainers. And this they did with remarkable alacrity and finesse.

 Who

The Fat Elvises - alias the Enormous Las Vegas Impersonators Society – were born when a truck carrying toxic waste from Grossland crashed into their hamburger franchise.

After making their debut on the Red Faces talent segment of television's Hey Hey It's Saturday back in 1991, the seven Fat Elvise were regularly sighted shaking their oversized jumpsuits at Grand Prix concerts, Fringe and Festival events and leading comedy venues.

The ridiculous became sublime when the group was invited to perform live on satellite television in Jakarta, as a lead-in to President Suharto's 1995 New Year's Eve address.

when

 At the 1998 Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Fat Elvises were the top local box office attraction, performing  The Lost Elvis Movie Script over six nights to capacity audiences. They returned at the 2000 Fringe to perform their new show,  King of Kings - The Second Coming for a hit two-week season.

The Fat Elvises entertained with hilarious and sometimes risqué parodies of famous Elvis songs as well as topical parodies of contemporary songs Elvis should have done…  if he was alive today!

What

The show featured reworked classics such as Return to Slender and Viva Lasagne, send-ups of the King’s former son-in-law with Cradle Robbin’, nothing was sacred to the rotund revellers. Catch a schow and you wold have found out that Elvis actually invented rap music and what he really thought about the GST!

The masters of the jumbo sized laughs and industrial strength coifs have done for the King what hamburgers did for food! With the Fat Elvises, you got not one King, but seven oversized huffin’, puffin’ lunatics who thought nothing of stopping to cook “E” burgers for the audience in the middle of a show, or calling up an unsuspecting audience member for an Elvis Make-over.

 
Seen time and again on Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday specials, The Fat Elvises- like their hero and Michael Jackson - are now dead.

 They stopped breathing.

 Above: The Fat ELVISES have a brief affair with Mike Rann

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