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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Tony Martin as FM104 “The Writer”

Thanks to Michael Coles for sharing this. It’s well spoken of that the D-Generation have a heavy radio background, especially of one Tony Martin. One of Martin’s early jobs after moving from New Zealand to Australia was working in Brisbane as a copywriter at FM104, known today as Triple M. In a book published under the …

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Frontline on Lateline

Thanks to Chad Lofts for searching through his VHS collection, this little wonder has surfaced on the internet. A day after the final episode of Frontline was screened on the ABC in 1997, Mike Moore‘s twin Rob Sitch is interviewed for The 7:30 Report by Kerry O’Brien, about how Frontline was developed. Warning: Contains skivvy-wearing.

Border Protection Squad Out Now

Ed Kavalee’s 2nd film starring Tony Martin is now available to buy!

Flashback: D-Generation on The Don Lane Show (1994)

Back in the day when Variety television was king, and time had passed just long enough for reunions and specials started to seep in for shows based in the 70s and 80s – The Don Lane Show is a prime example. In 1994, Channel 9 ran a special, hosted by the late Don Lane, who was …

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Bargearse’s “Bluey” To Get DVD Release

Before I get into this – I really never thought I’d see the day this would happen. Everyone’s favourite larger-than-life Detective Sargeant Bluey, is finally getting a DVD release. The TV drama series was first screened from 1976 to 1977, only lasting 39 episodes (or one season) on Channel 7. Stand-up comedian (the late) Lucky Grills was …

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Audio Fan Vault via AudioBoom

If you’ve been a regular member to the Champagne Comedy forum, there has always been a friendly share of radio interviews of the D-Gen / Working Dog crew over the years. We’d get hot tips from various social media or someone transferring the odd cassette tape. This random collection build would be from short interviews …

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CC Archive: Bad Eggs Promotion – 2003

Diving into the vast, vast, vaaaaast (a few GB) audio archive here at Stunt HQ, here we have one Tony Martin, promoting his wares on Triple M Brisbane breakfast radio, with Fat Cat, Marto and Tanya. 2003-07-09

More Utopia

Get ready for a fresh start with Tony (Rob Sitch) and his friends at the National Building Authority… The Logie award winning Working Dog series Utopia is back on ABC TV for Season 2 – beginning Wednesday August 19 at 9pm. If you haven’t caught up yet and don’t have Season 1 on DVD or …

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HYBPA Returns Monday May 11

A friendly reminder to you all that the new season of Have You Been Paying Attention? starts 8:30pm Monday May 11 on Channel 10. Join Ed Kavalee, Jane Kennedy, Mick Molloy, Fifi Box, Sam Pang and guest ‘Question Asker-er’ Real Housewives of Melbourne reality star Gina Liano with host Tom Gleisner for a quiz of news that happened over the …

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Utopia wins Logie

A big congratulations goes to the team at Working Dog for taking out the Most Outstanding Comedy Program at the 71st TV Week Logie Awards on Sunday night on Channel 9. Their hit ABC dramedy show Utopia beat other ABC shows Please Like Me, Black Comedy, Upper Middle Bogan and SBS’s Legally Brown. A well deserved achievement, Rob Sitch, Celia …

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