20+ years media background experience. Producer. Lover of comedy. Loves Australian nostalgia for the greater good.
Dec 17 2011
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 …
Dec 13 2011
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 …
Nov 23 2011
This year the Australian Recording Industry Awards (ARIAs) are celebrating 25 years of the celebratory achievements that the Australian Music Industry as given to Australia. Beginning in 1987, the awards were handed out similar to the Logies, but to musicians, producers, writers for their hard work and sales of record albums and achievements. Between 1995 …
Nov 22 2011
Lukewarm off the internet press is Working Dog‘s preview for their latest film, Any Questions For Ben?. Yes, question mark included. Starring Josh Lawson, Rachael Taylor, Felicity Ward, Jodi Gordon and Ed “KD Lang” Kavalee, based around we assume to be 25 year olds (the working title was named ‘25‘) the film was completed last year …
Nov 13 2011
A nostaglic past to 1992 (like everything on this site) and we dive into an old issue of TV Hits magazine. As voted by readers, The Late Show sits in at Bergamui Number 3, beating the little fat kid from Hey Dad..! and a few others. The listing is as follows (don’t forget, it was 1992!) …
Nov 09 2011
The final episode of The Joy Of Sets has now been and gone. A total number of 225,000 ‘weekend listeners’ tuned in for the slaughtering of Warwick Capper‘s meat and two veg being shot off by a machine gun, while the show finally got the ending credit roll at the end with an amusing montage …
Nov 07 2011
In the eighth and final installment of The Joy Of Sets, Tony and Ed look at. The end. That’s it. Oh, the show is about looking at the end of shows finishing. Whether it’s speculation of a second series renewal but no word from the ‘upper management’, to wrapping up a long winded series, to go …
Nov 04 2011
Four years on since the axing of Tony Martin‘s highly successful radio show Get This, and people still want ducks. Photo proof: That is all.
Nov 02 2011
What else could go wrong with The Joy Of Sets on Tuesday night? 222,000 – down 20,000 from last week, but still higher than Episode 5 . One right up the bracket, anyone? Anyway, it was extremely pleasant and rib-tickling to see the legendary Pete Smith make an appearance, especially announcing old Martin/Molloy and Get This …
