Girt, soil, toil… Ladies and Gentlemen – take a bow!
Jan 24 2012
Santo, Sam & Ed are goooooo!!!
Source: facebook.com/sportsfever7
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 Fever!
Beginning Monday January 30 at 10:30pm 10:45pm on Channel 7, the show will be broadcasted live directly into your living room. Covering sports around the world and close to home, it’ll be a ‘no holds barred, no beg your pardons’ (whoa.. flashbacks!) where Santo Cilauro, Sam Pang and Ed Kavalee will stay up all night to wits end to come up with news and jokes that hopefully don’t all end up in the trash.
Even if you’re not a vivid sports nut, it’ll be highly entertaining.
Hopefully we’ll see a few cameos from the Working Dog crew too.
Watch the commercial below – if it doesn’t show, view the video here and “like” the official Sports Fever! Facebook page.
Jan 18 2012
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 of the same room as..) Rob Sitch, the Director of AQFB, who also directed The Castle and The Dish.
Writer/director/comedian Rob Sitch (The Dish, The Castle, Frontline, The Panel) makes a special appearance at Cinema Nova to introduce his new film, Any Questions For Ben, before an advance screening. Join Rob as he shares some stories from behind-the scenes, talks about the joys of working on an Australian film, and tells us what is was like teaming up again with partners in crime Santo Cilauro and Tom Gleisner. From the Working Dog Team who brought you The Castle, and The Late Show, Any Questions For Ben? is amongst 2012’s most anticipated comedies featuring an all-star cast including Rachel Taylor (Red Dog), Daniel Henshall (Snowtown) and Alan Brough (Spicks and Specks). For 27-year-old Ben (Josh Lawson), life couldn’t be better. He has a well-paying job, good friends and nothing to tie him down. But when he is invited back to his old school for a student Q&A about their personal achievements, Ben is the only speaker not to be asked a question. This triggers a year of soul-searching and looking for answers in all the wrong places with hilarious results.
Tickets are available now through Cinema Nova’s website now. Get them while they’re hot.
Jan 16 2012
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 based on.
To begin, how about we avoid the obvious segments and go with more obscure parts of the show… such as an irregular fill-in game show “Super Challenge”. Appearing in Season 2 Episode 12 and Episode 17, it was created to fill in a gap to pad the show so it reaches its hour time limit. Tom Gleisner was the quizmaster, with the teams made up of the cast and two members from the audience. The questions, while topical in some areas, the answers weren’t 100% accurate – with mainly inside jokes happening and Tom accepting them if they were close enough… depending on who wrote the joke question and answer.
There was no clear winner, but the rawness of the quiz was pure gold. Here’s the first Super Challenge from Season 2 Episode 12.
Jan 14 2012
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 good enough to become one if “Some More Bits” was released on VHS – for retro sakes.
Have you made one yourself? Post it up in the forum and we’ll throw it up on the site and on the Facebook page for all to gander.
Jan 05 2012
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 realised that they were going to be heckled by the audience with quotes from Get This. So, Ed and Tony gave the audience time to let it all out.
Credit to ACTrailor who filmed it from their upskirting shoe.
Did it floor you? Totally floor you?
Dec 21 2011
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 with this legal item instead:
Going Down Under / Meat Pie / Australian Pie – starring Tony Martin‘s former Get This co-host, Ed Kavalee.
Feel the wheels of steel.
Warning: Contains… umm… disturbing humour and people from Big Brother Australia.
Dec 17 2011
FlashBackChat
Thanks to forum regular Mason Hell-Cat / Flemishdog and the beauty of YouTube, want to know what the fuss was all about before The Late Show appeared?
The D-Generation got their televisual start with a sketch comedy show on the ABC in 1986, with cast members Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro, John Harrison, Madga Szubanski, Marg Downey & Michael Veitch. As the show developed, Tom Gleisner, Mick Molloy, and Tony Martin & Jane Turner joined the cast. When The D-Generation sketch show was shown, it was seen as a ‘rebellious’ comedy show that was full of toilet humour and labelled a ‘disgrace’ (mostly from the … very mature… viewers who’d rather watch endless repeats of Fawlty Towers and Dad’s Army).
Take a glimpse at the farce, that was The D-Generation in 1986 from disgruntled viewers (with some added positive feedback.
Starts at 1 minute 22 seconds
Looks like Tim Bowden has had ongoing issues with them for a while…
Starts at 6 minutes 31 seconds
Dec 13 2011
Santo Sam & Ed TV fever
We couldn’t get enough of the crazy antics of Santo Cilauro, Sam Pang, and Ed Kavalee in 2010 for their coverage of the FIFA World Cup. Now, after popular demand, Santo, Sam & Ed are coming back to the idiot box for Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports Fever!
After a successful series on SBS, covering the soccer in various shapes, ways and forms, Cup Fever! developed a cult following. Ranging from team updates to interviews and out-of-control sketches that verged on the “me no rikey” scale, we would have to wait until 2014 to see the guys strut their stuff again. However, Channel 7 have come to the rescue, and given the guys the same show, but different name ending.
We had such a blast doing Cup Fever! that we couldn’t wait until 2014 to do it all over again.
So now we’re back with Sports Fever!
It’s exactly the same show – 3 blokes at a desk in front of a live audience – same segments and interviews, same shambolic mayhem.
Only a couple of small changes – it’s once a week and will feature ALL INTERNATIONAL sports. Oh, and it’s on Channel 7… so the ads will be in English.
Bring on 2012! Make sure you wear your big spectacle. Sign up to the official Cup Fever Facebook page while you’re at it too.
