Matt F

20+ years media background experience. Producer. Lover of comedy. Loves Australian nostalgia for the greater good.

Most commented posts

  1. The Scumbus Is Coming — 7 comments
  2. Remembering: The Pissweak Kids (with bonus interview) — 6 comments
  3. Santo, Sam & Ed are goooooo!!! — 6 comments
  4. Remembering: The ACTUAL Show itself: Tom and Santo Speak — 6 comments
  5. Happy 20th Anniversary, The Late Show! — 5 comments

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Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports Fever! (SSESF) S01E01 Ratings

source: au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7 Well, after a few false starts with the scheduled time (originally 10;30pm, then moved to 10:45pm, only to have Jason Segel and Neil Patrick Harris still teasing the kids about how their dad met their mother), Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports Fever! finally got the ball rolling a few minutes before 11pm. The …

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AQFB Article: Location, Location, Location

Source: smh.com.au The articles and reviews are being laid on thick with Any Questions For Ben? due out in cinemas February 9. Sydney Morning Herald‘s journalist John Mangan talks to Working Dog frontman and AQFB Director Rob Sitch about their new feature, and how precise the locations needed to be to film their newest work …

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Judith Lucy – Nothing Fancy Interview

Judith Lucy, the “Fifth Beatle” to The Late Show in 1993, is on tour with her latest show Nothing Fancy. In a recent interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Lucy talks about her previous stage shows, her 2011 TV show on the ABC Spiritual Journey and her 2008 book The Judith Lucy Alphabet. Here’s a tiny excerpt …

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Happy Australia Day!

Girt, soil, toil… Ladies and Gentlemen – take a bow!

Santo, Sam & Ed are goooooo!!!

UPDATE: SPORTS FEVER WILL BEGIN AT 10:45PM MONDAY JANUARY 30, instead of the previous 10:30PM time. Get your Diego Maradonuts out and park your bum on the lounge for a late night live show tradition you haven’t done for 20 years! Sadly, I’m not talking about The Late Show… It’s Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports …

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Meet The Filmmaker: Any Questions For Ben?

Are you based in Melbourne? Do you have January 27 2012 clear in your diary? Got some extra cash? Cinema Nova are presenting a screening of Any Questions For Ben? – the new film from Working Dog. The extra bonus seeing this special session is that you will meet (or at least be in the presence …

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Remembering: Super Challenge

This year marks 20 years since The Late Show was broadcasted on our analogue TVs  Saturday nights at 10pm (July, 1992) and using our 8 & 1/2 cents a day very wisely. Every fortnight, we’ll try and post a reminder about various segments spanning over the two years of this classic series in which this website is …

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Have You Ever Rented A “Best Bits” That Wasn’t Quite Right?

If you own the Champagne Edition of The Late Show (which I’m sure you would!) then you would have noticed on the second disc “Some More Bits“, which acts like a fourth video if one were released with the other three volumes. Thanks to Flemishdog, “Some More Bits” has been donned a cover, which is …

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Heckle! Show us your tusks!

If you ever went to a recording of The Joy Of Sets, you’d know that the entire studio audience was primarily made of Get This listeners. (Weekend listeners were registered to go, but they never turned up as it was filmed on a Friday). During the early days of filming, Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee …

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Seasons Grindings / Greetings

On behalf of site owner Kim and every member of the Champagne Comedy forum, Seasons Greetings from the largest site based on The Late Show and related items on the world wide web. For your regular attendance and hit rates, we cannot offer much legal media of The Late Show, so we can supply you …

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