John Alan McKellar (13 August 1930 – 6 September 2010) was an Australian writer, primarily of comedy revues or musical theatre.
His most critically acclaimed and popularly attended work was A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down which premiered at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre on 18 September 1965 and ran for more than 250 performances.
Some of his works provided vernacular phrases used in Australian English including "is Australia really necessary", "A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down", and "But I wouldn't want to live there".
[2] On 18 September 1965, his play, A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down, premiered at Phillip Street Theatre and ran for more than 250 performances.
Overall Gussow was disappointed as "the approach demands a much keener sense of style and of comedy than is demonstrated ... [o]n a very basic level, Keystone is just not funny enough".
[11] In 1996, McKellar returned to Australia where he wrote and directed a play, Virtual unReality, which was performed in May at the Tilbury Hotel, Woolloomooloo.