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In order to prevent us trashing the Harold thread, innit.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

fat pizza pizzas, they're big and they're cheesy

― purple patch (electricsound), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

and stupid

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I'll start off by saying that Aus comedy's really in two camps - the shit stuff and the sublimely good stuff.

Shit: Comedy Inc, Comedy Company, Full Frontal, Hey Dad, and *shudder* Pizza
Great: Anything Sean Micallef breathes on, Tripod, those two guys who do the political thing on the ABC on thursdays whos names always escape me.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Argh, stop being my brain.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

frontline and that show about the olympics were both top hole

― purple patch (electricsound), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

John Clarke and Bryan Dawe?

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

was that the guy who was at Pause the other day?

― purple patch (electricsound), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I dont quite know where to categorise Let the Blood Run Free. It was a bizarre thing unto itself.

xpost yeah those guys. Me and Jim saw Bryan Dawe at Pause that nigt you didnt come meet us ;P

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost again dammit.

Oh yeah - Frontline was wicked. I watched it while Sept 11 was happening. Switch back and forth btwn Frontline, and CNN - brain breaks.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I also rather like D Generation and the Late Show - Tony Martin is hilarious. He does standup pretty well too.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

See, now we need a celebrity spotting thread. Madness, I tell ye.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

john clarke is god.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a new D Generation DVD, with something like three hours of the old ABC stuff from the '80s.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

trayce saw joe scully at the bottle-o

― purple patch (electricsound), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, here we go.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Australian...........comedy??!??

― Krankenhaus, Friday, 6 August 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. You know, like The Micallef Pogram and The Late Show and Aunty Jack and Chances.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It was at the Stinkerman, too. Heh.

Hey yeah Nick was telling me about the new DGen DVD - I might buy that after work if its at JBs. I only have one video I think .. or a DVD... or is that the Late Show? I'm confused now.

Rob Sitch is a git.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Chances hahahahha! And yea... Sylvania Waters ;)

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

xx-post

Sorry you've lost me.

Now if you were to say HG and Roy...

Bingo!

― Krankenhaus, Friday, 6 August 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Sitch is indeed a git, but he's a funny git when he's writing.

The Late Show DVD has the best commentary track I've ever heard. That alone makes it eminently worth owning.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Micallef is a brilliant bastard. So underrated, because his style of humour is very subtle and surreal. So often you could see jokes flying over the audience's head, and meanwhile I was literally crying with laughter.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

HG and Roy used to shit me, until I realised Roy wrote Changi and HG does some other clever stuff I can't remember now.

xpost: Yeah, Micallef has talent oozing out his pores. Obviously based on the likes of Fry & Laurie, but very much its own genre, and so incredibly clever. It's no surprise he didn't work on Nine.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and Chris Lilley deserves massive props. That right there is wasted talent.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Its his facial expressions or something, I think. He does this great bewildered look, and this thing with his timing - or mis-timing I suppose - that for some reason really tickles me.

Woah now you've got me, whose Chris Lilley? I feel like I should know.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

He worked with Hamish & Andy and The Big Bite. He's the one who did the X-Treme Darren and Mr G segments.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh! Yes, now I know who you mean. He's not bad indeed. Some of the other Skithouse guys are pretty good too.

One of my friends is a pretty well known comedian, he's been on Rove and stuff.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah? Which one?

Oh, and if ABC DVD doesn't release a complete collection of all the Micallef Programmes, I will personally go postal* on the ABC's arse.

* letter campaign

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh.

Adam Richard (nb thats not actually his real name. WHich is amusing). I did my prof writing course with him - he used to do hilarious mariah carey impersonations at the pub. I guess comedy was an obvious choice.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, excellent. He's much hilarious.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Hes an absolute bitch ;) In the best and gayest way of course.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

And now for episode 9845435 in the "do Adam and Trayce actually share a mega-brain or what?" series.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Does the following mean anything to you Trayce:

'There's nobody here but us chickens'

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha. Um... *whistles... tumbleweeds roll by*

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

In that case, we don't share a brain.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I mean, that phrase could mean 101 bloody things dammit - Gary Larson was actually the first thing I thought of. Then I thought you said it cos no one else but us is stinking up the place.
I know its from some other tv show too but I cant remember which one now.

Im fungry.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Dell? Sarge?

Pffft, never mind.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

*cries*

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahah fungrys!!

― purple patch (electricsound), Friday, 6 August 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Aargh just got the Fungry reference. When's that coming back ffs.

― Al'manach Oseni (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 August 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

It sort of changed, it went from CNNNN as a studio show, to some sort of weird different format, which I never got round to seeing. Then it kinda disappeared.

Oh my god, I just had the best porterhouse steak and garlic butter EVER, I feel like I'm going to explode, but in a good way.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

What, no Paul Hogan/Leo Wanka yet?

Sorry.

Hey, maybe some of you Auscom buffs can help me out. Back in the mid/late 80s, when the world was young, I got hold of a tape of an Australian comic named George Smilovic (sp?). He was funny as hell, or at least that's the way I remember him. One of his bits was singing 'The Girl From Ipanema' all the way through, ending it with the hilarious payoff: "But she doesn't see... Because she is blind."

I'd really like to get hold of that tape again. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 6 August 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh lordy I remember that guy. I dont remember him being very funny... but its been a long time.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

watch out for the bits of exploded trayce. messy.

― purple patch (electricsound), Friday, 6 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(was he the guy who did the "I'm tough" "how tough?" "so tough I break tonka toys" etc etc guy?)

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm... exploding trayce.

― Chreiysy (trayce), Friday, 6 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(was he the guy who did the "I'm tough" "how tough?" "so tough I break tonka toys" etc etc guy?)

Christ YES, it's all coming back to me now. He doesn't seem so funny now that you've jogged my memory.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 6 August 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Still, the 'Girl from Ipanema' bit still makes me giggle..

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 6 August 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm tuff!! i remember that! i'm so tuff i drink cordial... straight from the bottle!! i'm so tuff my mum irons my shirts..... while i'm wearing 'em!!!

― purple patch (electricsound), Friday, 6 August 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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I wonder what happened to Adam? He's never around anymore. I liked this thread.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

didn't employment happen to him?

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

Happened to us too but you see that stopping anyone!!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

he now spends his time online trying to zing his nemesis on his own forum.

― controversial buffalo stance (haitch), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

I shall have to send him some sms pwnage.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 January 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

I know it's been mentioned - and slated - elsewhere, but Summer Heights High... I like it.

Dipped in to eps 5 and 6 on the iplayer, and I'm already a bit hooked. Am I so wrong?

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 00:44 (seventeen years ago)

There's def worse shit than SHH

― wilter, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 00:47 (seventeen years ago)

crazy-ass racial/sexual/class stereotyping throughout, but 10x more convincing than, i dunno, little britain's attempts at same and somehow less offensive for its credibility.

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 00:52 (seventeen years ago)

No, it's still shit.

― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 04:44 (seventeen years ago)

it is a thousand times better than little britain.

― haitch, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 06:18 (seventeen years ago)

Doesn't stop it from being shit.

― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 06:33 (seventeen years ago)

classic discourse, people!

so why does everyone hate summer heights high?

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 12:58 (seventeen years ago)

I like it- I cried in the last episode.

― bingolola, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

comedy!

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 17:38 (seventeen years ago)

It's simply nowhere near as good as We Can Be Heroes, which you never got. Maybe later in the year on BBC3.

― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

explain me that now please.

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 17 July 2008 00:34 (seventeen years ago)

dudes it's non on alluc. details please!

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 17 July 2008 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

WCBH was also by Chris Lilley and also involved him playing multiple characters as he does in Summer Heights High. I havent seen enough of either to comment, but when you consider the dearth of anything resembling good we have for comedy in this country, I think saying "its shit" is unhelpful, and quite off the mark. Yes, it's sometimes rather unpalatable, but that's the point, I would think. I found the ep of SHH I watched kind of... unwatchable, but in a similar way that "Nighty Night" was unwatchable - it was just too extreme, but that certainly doesnt make it shit.

― Trayce, Thursday, 17 July 2008 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

i never got into WCBH because i don't really give a fuck about the australian of the year contest, whereas i could relate to the characters in SHH far more - take away the islander stuff and i shared a classroom with a 'jonah' for four years. he observes a lot of the detail of the way people act very well, i think.

― haitch, Thursday, 17 July 2008 01:06 (seventeen years ago)

if you want to be a comedian in australia all you have to do is announce that you are one and nearly the whole country goes along with it.

― estela, Thursday, 17 July 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)

I like SHH, though it's not laugh-out-loud that often. Jonah is BY FAR the most sympathetic of the three main characters. I thought the islander stuff was a parody on how complex racial issues are dealt with patronisingly and ineffectually in institutions, but maybe I'm giving it too much credit. I'd be interested to hear what people who actually live in Australia make of that interpretation, though.

― chap, Thursday, 17 July 2008 12:22 (seventeen years ago)

can't fucking stand that lilley guy. i'm afraid i fail to see the hilarity or wit in a grown man doing an excellent intepretation of an upper middle class snobby teen. maybe i have no sense of humour. i didn't like the we can be heroes show either.

― gem, Thursday, 17 July 2008 13:35 (seventeen years ago)

excellent imitation i meant - he's a great mimic i suppose. that brand of humour just doesn't appeal to me i suppose.

― gem, Thursday, 17 July 2008 13:37 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

first little britain usa, now hbo has summer heights high :/

― eman, Monday, 17 November 2008 04:02 (sixteen years ago)

Oh christ, you're joking!?

― Trayce, Monday, 17 November 2008 04:17 (sixteen years ago)

Well by which I mean, are you saying they are remaking it? Who is going to do Chris Lilley's bits?

― Trayce, Monday, 17 November 2008 04:18 (sixteen years ago)

they're just screening it

― fela cooties (haitch), Monday, 17 November 2008 04:25 (sixteen years ago)

Oh. Phew.

― Trayce, Monday, 17 November 2008 04:27 (sixteen years ago)

NB: I'm not neccesarily being precious about the show (its ok but I'm no fan) but am just tired of US remakes of stuff (ala kath and kim).

― Trayce, Monday, 17 November 2008 04:28 (sixteen years ago)

I sat through 2 hours of something called Packed To The Rafters the other week. It was the worst show I have seen since Paradise Beach a long time ago. The Rafter kid that lives next door with the Greek dude has the most annoying Australian accent ever. Ever. Just like that Ingo Rademacher (had to look that up on imdb). Shame on you, Australia!

― svend, Monday, 17 November 2008 05:10 (sixteen years ago)

I haven't seen that one but it keeps getting raves in the TV guides and apparently is rating thru the roof. Wouldn't suprise me if it's shit.

― Trayce, Monday, 17 November 2008 05:28 (sixteen years ago)

sorry not remake, just picking it up for us tv

― eman, Monday, 17 November 2008 05:32 (sixteen years ago)

Lilley won't let the Americans remake it. thankig u.

Review with Myles Barlow is gold, if you can get past the awkward studio bits.

Very Small Business was good, too.

Stiff & Shit Couriers, um, yeah.

― cock++; (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 20 November 2008 02:21 (sixteen years ago)

Haven't seen Review with Myles Barlow yet.

Shift & Swift Couriers = worst use of Ian Turpie ever.

Very Small Business is easily the best Aussie show this year with Wayne Hope AND Kim Gyngell bringing the awesome back to your ABC.

― Germany's second-favourite Australian fat leg spin bowler (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:27 (sixteen years ago)

I quite like both Very Small Business and Stupid Stupid Man.

― Trayce, Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:33 (sixteen years ago)

can't get into very small business. don't mind s&sc but then i lol'd during pizza too

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:34 (sixteen years ago)

wayne hope is imo one of the most overrated australian comedians

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:35 (sixteen years ago)

which is not to say he's as bad as wil anderson or dave hughes

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:35 (sixteen years ago)

I had pizza at the pizza shop where they filmed Pizza the other week!

― Germany's second-favourite Australian fat leg spin bowler (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:41 (sixteen years ago)

They weren't big but they sure were cheesy.

― Germany's second-favourite Australian fat leg spin bowler (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:41 (sixteen years ago)

Haven't seen Review with Myles Barlow yet.

In a year it'll be huge. Most obvious sleeper hit I've seen in a very long time.

― cock++; (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:57 (sixteen years ago)

I hear good things about it but I just haven't found the time to watch it!

― Germany's second-favourite Australian fat leg spin bowler (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 20 November 2008 10:06 (sixteen years ago)

i saw the first 2 or 3 episodes of very small business, i thought it was pretty good! absolutely could not stomach summer heights high or whatever it was called though

― behind the times (gem), Thursday, 20 November 2008 13:59 (sixteen years ago)

o for an ungoogleable mongthread

― numismatic factory (sic), Friday, 21 November 2008 07:59 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

Haven't seen Review with Myles Barlow yet.

In a year it'll be huge. Most obvious sleeper hit I've seen in a very long time.

― cock++; (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 20 November 2008 20:57 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 22:41 (fourteen years ago)

When I was in Australia I saw one episode of a thing about a man dressed as a dog who actually was a dog which I thought was funny. Is this well thought of?

― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:37 (fourteen years ago)

Very. I don't know if anyone watched it but everyone appreciated it.

― goldenarsehat.jpg (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:41 (fourteen years ago)

wilfred? i don't really like it, but it seems sorta popular

― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:42 (fourteen years ago)

xpost

― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:42 (fourteen years ago)

Wilfred's being remade in the US with the same dog, but Elijah Wood as the other bloke

― Urban Coochie Collective (sic), Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:04 (fourteen years ago)

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