Category: News

Santo the Magnificent for Archibald Prize!

Late Show fan Daniel Sanger is painting Santo Cilauro as his famous Santo the Magnificent character and entering the creation in the (even more) famous Archibald Prize portrait competition! Santo told The Daily Telegraph: “It’s so surreal, it’s ridiculous. The artist, as a kid, was obsessed with (the ABC comedy) The Late Show and wanted to paint …

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Merry Christmas Champagne Comedy fans!

To everyone who has supported this site by visiting the forums and participating in the brilliant discussion, we salute you! 2007 has been the biggest year for the Champagne Comedy site and its illustrious forums. Let me give you a small sampling of highlights from the website and the D-Generation world: In the members’ only forum, …

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Get This farewell party – photos

Thanks to menagers on the members’ forum for the first-hand pics of the Get This Farewell party at Dick Liquor! Details to follow… or why not join the forum and tell us your own stories?

London Rally mentioned on Get This!

On Tony’s penultimate show today, he very kindly played a couple of minutes of footage from the Save Get This London Rally that happened last weekend. Woohoo! It’s only taken fifteen years to get any sort of feedback from the Tonester.

London Save Get This Rally – the slideshow!

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byN4dYpn460[/tube] The London Save Get This Rally – to check out how it all went, listen to the audio and watch the clips unfold before your very eyes… thanks to Fran for getting us all together; to Bean for the Jonestown reading and Rob for staying up late editing the slideshow. and to me, for working …

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London Get This Rally on 17 November

The London Save Get This Rally is happening on 17 November! Thanks to Bean and Francesca for organising it. Meet at midday near the river entrance to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside. Your Champagne Comedy representative plans to be there, so pictures and footage of the, er, ‘pseudo flash mob’ (can’t call …

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Get This rally a success!

The Get This rally today was a roaring success. About 150 people turned up, and Tony, Ed and Richard turned up to give their support to the fans. There are some images on Facebook -in the public gallery for the Global Movement to Save Get This Facebook group and Lucas’s album (Facebook login required).

Rally to save Get This – remember the 5th of November & wear satiny kaftans

The ‘Global Movement To Save Get This’ Facebook group is planning a support rally. Thanks to Simon Hevey for letting me repost his request here. If anyone ends up going, can you take some pics and I’ll post them up here? Thanks For those of you in Melbourne, and who are interested, a decision has been made …

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The Late Show: Juice Magazine

Thanks to Menagers for The Late Show Juice magazine article dated September 1993. Ah, how we remember it. Click the thumbnails for full size versions of this five-page article, Decoding the D-Generation.

Noooo!!! Get This gets axed

Get This!! You can’t leave us! It is with shock and regret that we discovered today how Tony Martin’s radio show Get This has, sadly, been axed by Triple M. The general reaction from forum members has been: YOU BASTARDS If you care about Get This, join our members’ area to discuss this tragic news and, …

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