G'day, Blackface!

In case you were wondering what Australian television in 2009 has in common with fictional 1960s advertising exec Roger Sterling, well, apparently, they share an unbridled love of blackface. Really, they just can't get enough. But while Roger Sterling sort of has an excuse for painting his face with shoe polish and singing "My Old Kentucky Home" at the country club—it was 1963, and like many rich, old, white men in 1963 he's kind of a racist—the Australian variety show Hey Hey It's Saturday! doesn't really have an excuse for putting on a blackface act called "The Jackson Jive" on their recent reunion show. "This is a classic bit from 20 years ago!" doesn't quite excuse broadcasting a literal minstrel show, unless, wait, is it 1910 in Australia? If so, where is Harry Connick Jr's time machine?