It's been a long time since there's been an Australian prime minister from the Hunter. In fact, there's only been one, Edmund Barton, who represented the Hunter electorate, was Australia's first prime minister.
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So maybe, just maybe, Isaac Butterfield's run for the top job is right on time.
The 25-year-old professional comedian from Charlestown is certainly a man of the people: born in Dudley, he attended Whitebridge High School, and he's a son of former Newcastle Knights front rower Tony Butterfield. He's working class to the bone.
Butterfield's petition on change.org to become prime minister has obtained more than 26,000 signatures by Friday.
The centrepiece of his platform is an eight-minute video on his Youtube channel that he posted on Monday.
"Vote in someone new, someone young, someone entertaining, someone not afraid to speaking their goddam motherf - - -ing mind," he says in the video.
He calls the upcoming federal election "f - - -ing incredibly boring". He tackles several major political parties - Liberal, Labor, Greens, One Nation, Clive Palmer's United Australia Party - before stating the case for himself.
The Butterfield platform: ban cyclists, ban vegans, make feminists think, ban watchers of The Project, tax corporations who aren't paying tax. On the positive side, he makes a case for no cuts to the NDIS, higher minimum wage, no cuts in weekend penalty rates, and help solve the homeless crisis.
"So ScoMo, Bill Shorten, pull your finger out mate," he says. "Get something done to help people!"
And, of course, "Coke in the bubblers and recess would go longer".
Before you take the leap to his channel, be warned, Isaac is very fond of using the f - - - word to express himself.
Oh yeah, and you have to remember, he's a comedian, a vulgar one, who has a wicked, very Australian sense of humour.
So far, the video has been viewed more than 188,000 times.
While he may not be a household name yet, in the internet world, he's an outright star. Butterfield has 872,000 subscribers to his Youtube channel, on which he releases at least two original comedy videos every week. He's also got 276,000 followers on instagram, a social media platform evolving quickly, in part due to its enhanced video.
His political campaign, which is totally for fun, is also a tool for his career. It coincides with the firestorm-like rise in his popularity as a rebel comedian.
"Every week I'm gaining 20,000 subscribers," he says. "I hope to reach 1million by July. It legitimises your channel. It's hard to do. All I do is talk, expressing my opinion. Sometimes the opinion is not widely held, not mainstream."
He was a starving comedian until he realised that chasing an audience on YouTube was his best chance at success. He was doing two videos a week for a year on Youtube, lucky to get 1000 views per video, until he hit gold on January 30, 2018.
That was the day he released a reaction video, entitled 10 Reasons Not To Visit Australia (Aussie Reacts). Within a week he went from 1000 subscribers to 150,000 subscribers. That video has been viewed more than 10 million times on multiple internet platforms.
Make no mistake, his language and his take on controversial issues has gotten him into hot water. He's been called a misogynist and much worse.
"I've been called everything, absolutely everything," he says. "Its absolutely hilarious, because in real life I don't hate anyone."
And about that f-word: "I was editing a video early on, and I said, I think I've broken the f - - - meter on this. And then I went down to the footy training with the Dudley Magpies and it turns out that's how people talk. Every second word is f - - - in this country. That's how people talk to one another.
". . . In reality when you're hanging out with your friends, that's how people talk. When you got the shits you'll say the f word. Why hold back. It's an act, pretending we don't say these words."
Butterfield attended the concert of popular bogan-rapper Post Malone in Brisbane last weekend and found himself swamped with autograph seekers and fans wanting a selfie with him.
He is a star to a new generation - he didn't come from a reality TV show; he found an audience on the web.
Or rather, they found him.
"I knew I was going to be a comedian who caused trouble," he says. "I like offensive comedy. I was going to create my own. My mind doesn't work in a way that appeals to everybody. I'm a filthy pig, in the nicest way possible."
His climb to the top is accelerating. This week a documentary on his life was released, Behind the Beard: The Isaac Butterfield Story. Next week he will release The Butterfield Effect, a live performance video.
Reality can be stranger than fiction. Last month Volodymyr Zelenskiy, was elected president of Ukraine. He's a comedian.
