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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Joy of Sets: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

When you’ve finished watching Dufflecoat Supreme recover after winning the Melbourne Cup with a case of gout, stay awake to watch episode 7 of The Joy Of Sets on Channel 9  at 10:30pm tonight. In this themed episode “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee break down the ever-growing list of television bombs …

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Mick Molloy Embassador for ‘The Elevenses’

Source: theelevenses.org In a combat to fight third world hunger, Mick Molloy has been enlisted to be the embassador for The Elevenses. The Elevenses is not a movement or campaign, but a project to raise funds to help those facing malnutrition and disease in the Horn of Africa. The rules are simple – donate $11AU by …

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Joy of Sets: Episode 6 ratings

The ratings are in for this week’s sixth episode of The Joy Of Sets – “Who Killed Warwick Capper?”. Since being bumped out of 9pm to the ‘special time’ 10:30pm timeslot last week, ratings have slightly improved from 191,000 (episode 5 with new time) to 242,000 (episode 6). While not Yasmin’s Getting Married type of ratings, it shows that …

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Mick Molloy joins Triple M Brisbane

Source: Triplem.com.au After finishing his stint with Triple M Sydney’s The Grill Team this year, Mick Molloy has decided to move his golden tonsils up further the east coast of Australia to the other breakfast show – Triple M Brisbane’s The Grill Team. While still co-hosting Triple M Melbourne’s Hot Breakfast with Eddie McGuire, Mick will be …

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Joy of Sets episode 6 Tonight!

Source: http://www.facebook.com/TheJoyOfSets Don’t forget to tune in to Channel Nine at the sizzle and cut-through time of 10:30pm tonight for a new episode of The Joy Of Sets. In tonight’s episode, Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee decide to kill off Warwick Capper! All right, that’s good stuff! The character, not the man himself (he’s too …

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Book mentions

Top 10 mockumentary lists - Courier Mail 24/10/11

As part of a new mock-autobiography released by H.G. Nelson (Greig Pickhaver) called My Life In Shorts, Brisbane’s Courier Mail (24/10/11) printed a Top 10 list of  mockumentary-style TV shows, Books and films. The list comprised of US show Modern Family, as well as the Christopher Guest‘s classic film Best In Show (Tony Martin‘s favourite This Is …

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Mick Molloy talks YouTube

Mick Molloy, running off the success of Season 2 of The Jesters (both Season 1 and 2 out now on DVD) on Foxtel, released a video earlier this year talking about his favourite clips on YouTube. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htFzPKIbD30[/tube] So if you have some time and bandwidth to kill and over looking up cute cats falling off …

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Tony Martin on The Hamster Wheel

Comedy troupe The Chaser brought in Tony Martin for a ‘vox pop interview’ for their media expose comedy show The Hamster Wheel. Tony appears at the 26 second mark. Blink and you’ll miss him. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w833cAs9EN0[/tube] Also note Tony and Working Dog‘s good friend – Shaun Micallef.

Aaaannnnd Today!….

After 6 years of using an old system which didn’t get upgraded, we missed the boat and had to do things the hard way. With a front page that didn’t get updated much, being spammed like no tomorrow, and other dilemmas, we employed Geoff & Terry Bailey for $50 to give us a makeover we …

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Rare Late Show warmup footage!

Thanks to boots, here’s some footage that usually doesn’t see the light of day. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjg3Aa58W04[/tube]