2) Judith is pairing up with ABC Radio National personality Jason Di Rosso to fill in for Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton on At The Movies for three weeks from July 16.
They will be doing reviews and interviews in their own special way, with Jason having a pop culture background for his radio show The List and Judith being a major film buff.
3) Coming off the success of her series Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journeyon ABC1 in 2011, ABC have picked up a new show from Judith’s noggin – Judith Lucy Is All Woman.
A six-part series will show if there’s any difference of lifestyle change for women from 50 years ago until the present day.
It will be produced by Bearded Lady Productions, funded by Film Victoria – coming soon.
Okay, we might be stretching it a bit, but who’s complaining?!
Even though July 17 last year we celebrated 20 years since the first episode of The Late Show was broadcasted, Saturday June 5 1993 was the first day that the first episode of Season 2 went to air. By then, the show had developed a cult following.
And what a way to start the season with the now infamous “We’re Still Number Four!”, a direct parody of commercial TV idents which promote the channel’s talent. Just like Channel 9’s “Still The One“.
The Late Show got a few extra coins in their budget, allowing The D-Generation to change the set a little, going from the emerald green to a tinge of orange, red and horizontal venetian blinds. Once the money dried up, a whip-around with the hat added up to employ an extra staff member – Judith Lucy – for season ’93.
The News Desk returned with an extra bit of spit and polish, and the team get off to a flying start – a ‘brief 2 minute” synopsis of Paradise Beach. (Note: Paradise Beach was a soap on Channel 9 that aired only a few days before the return of The Late Show, and was universally panned by critics and the general public. Though somehow it lasted until 1994.)
“Hey, Warner Brothers Movie World!” becomes a staple quote every time you visit the Gold Coast theme park.
we’re also introduced to everyone’s favourite superdog – Charlie The Wonderdog featuring The Pissweak Kids and Charles (Bud) Tingwell. Read the interview with the Anderson Brothers about their experience as a Pissweak Kid.
Meanwhile, to ‘impress’ Judith’s first day on the show, Tony, Mick and Jason try and convince her about their time away in .. New York.
After a few padded sketches, the story of cult leader Cliff Thompson was shown. This was topical as only a few months beforehand the infamous Waco seige with David Korseh was still fresh in the headlines.
Toilet Break returned, but instead of the marvellous song and dance routines of The Natural Seven, Tony dives into the archives to show the best-of-the-best of talent show – Pot Luck. First off the rank, David Thai – with the amusing critique of the late Bernard King with host Ernie Sigley playing the straight man host.
and naturally, our ol’ spurring partners, Graham and The Colonel return, to follow the script, only to throw it all out the window.
Last and least, Season 1 ended with a montage under the closing credits. Season 2 upped the entertainment value with Tony requesting Mick to have a well known band or musical performer to close the show with a well-known song of theirs. Mick, always heard the names wrong, which resulted in someone else totally inappropriate to perform (full list here). First off the rank was meant to be US band Van Halen performing Jump and Panama. Mick heard it as Syd Heylen – aka Cookie from A Country Practice.
Hilarity ensues… turns out later on Syd had no idea what he was meant to do either.
From the scrivener’s ink of Ed Kavalee comes the sizzle that has been making traction and cut-through for years.
First, we copped a dosage of delicious filler from Scumbus… now here’s Kavalee’s second film:
The trailer has just been released, with appearances by Peter Helliar, Ryan Shelton, Dave Hughes, Ash Williams, Andy Lee, Ryan Fitzgerald, Lachy Hulme, Josh Lawson and some guy named Tony Martin.
Ed Kavalee and Tony Martin. (Not to be confused with KD Lang and Andrew Denton.)
View the 2 minute 53 second trailer here. No word yet on release time, but if you follow Ed on Twitter, I’m sure he’ll update us all in due time, and we’ll update the details on here. To find out more on the cast, hit up IMDB.
Yay, we have finally shifted ten years’ worth of posts to a shiny new-look forum! It needs a facelift and a few tweaks here and there, but the content has been retained, including all your old posts, private messages and login details. Find it at www.champagnecomedy.com/newforumwww.champagnecomedy.com/forum(we’ll eventually change it back to /forum).
Regular visitors to the Champagne Comedy forum are probably noticing the database errors that show up when you try to access it. This is because our host recently upgraded the database software on our shared server (PHP), and our forum (which has not been upgraded in a while) is incompatible with it.
During the “donation drive” a few months ago, we raised enough money to pay for the year’s hosting although not quite enough to pay for an upgrade to our current forum software, hence the delay. The fact our forum is down now means we urgently need to upgrade it no matter what – we are considering trying out free forum options in the short term and seeing how they go. Our host has kindly offered to migrate us to a server that has not yet upgraded the version of PHP, so the forum would keep running, but it is not a long-term fix. We know that it will need to be done eventually. In the meantime thanks for your patience and understanding – we are not coding experts so it’s a bit tricky – and huge apologies about the inconvenience.
Justin Hamilton, Santo & Steele – Letters To Green Guide
If you’re a Melbournite, you’d be aware of the Green Guide lift-out in The Age newspaper, which is usually full of amusing letters written in to critique the state of the Australian television landscape – positive and negative.
Comedian Steele Saunders has taken one step further for his love of these letters – turning it into a highly popular podcast. With various comedians who come visit and share anecdotes. Tony Martin and Santo Cilauro have been previous guests.
Check out the most recent episode with Santo as a guest, telling the origin story of Jane Kennedy joining the D-Generation, as well as a bit of fiasco with Tony’s beloved Warren Perso sketch, and even the classic Wheel Of Fortune sketch from back in the D-Generation days.
I Love Green Guide Letters is heading to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival stage from March 30 to April 20, 2013. Check out I Love Green Guide Letters for more details, tickets and previous podcasts now.
Hosted by Brian Nankervis, who also hosted the TV show, will bring various and popular comedians to the stage, to talk about the pictures that represent a time in their life. From child birth, to teen years, and until most recent, each show will be unique to the comedian at subject.
Pictures of You Live:
Tuesday 2 April
Fiona O’Loughlin and special guest
Wednesday 3rd April
Andy Lee & Genevieve Morris
Sunday 6th April
Merrick Watts & Felicity Ward
Sunday 7th April
Dave O’Neil & Celia Pacquola
Tuesday 9th April
Jimeoin & Julia Zemiro
Wednesday 10th April
Shane Bourne & Anthony ‘ Lehmo ‘ Lehmann
Thursday 11th April
Lawrence Mooney & Glenn Robbins
Friday 12th April
Colin Lane and special guest
Saturday 13th April
Josie Long plus Hamish Blake
Sunday 14th April
Paul Foot & Jane Turner
Working Dog are even encouraging audience participation where you may appear on stage with a photo from your past. Details are on the MICF Pictures Of You site.
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And here’s Part 2:
If you love the show so much and missed it when it was on TV, you can now purchase all 10 episodes of Pictures Of You on iTunes.
So if your favourite comedian, entertainer or personality was featured in an episode, you can see it all again… plus others.
As of Sunday 3rd March, your weekends are about to get more interesting… in reading.
News Limited, owner of Herald Sun / Sunday and Daily Telegraph / Courier Mail etc, have signed on Jane Kennedy to the new Sunday Style magazine lift-out in the weekend paper.
Source: dailytelegraph.com.au
In lead-up to her weekly column, the mother of five to husband and Working Dogger-in-crime Rob Sitch spoke to News Limited on her thoughts if The Late Show would survive in this modern era of the internet and social media – with the very verbal thought-ridden Twitter which can make or break anything.
“I’m convinced if we released (The Late Show) now, with Twitter around, it would be pulled off the air,” Kennedy joked.
“It’s harder to be a trailblazer nowadays.”
You can read more of the story here, or you can read her first column each Sunday in the Sunday Style liftout in your local News Limited Sunday newspaper.
You now have permission to run down the street and say “I’ve got the PAPER!”
We remember there is a god. A radio god. Obviously with other talents as well, but for this story – a radio god.
In the heart and soul of Anthony Martin, aka Tony Martin – the Martin part of the 90s radio show Martin/Molloy. Not to be confused with an actual guy called Martin Molloy. (Google it!)
The famous comedy drive show, co-hosted with partner-in-D-Generation-graduate-crime Mick Molloy was a landmark radio drive show, broadcasted on Austereo’s Today Network from 1995 – 1998 on 54 radio stations across Australia. The show was full of radio sketches, segments, various famous (and infamous) guests – but it made the nation laugh – spawning 3 ARIA Award winning albums and constantly topping many polls as one of the best radio shows and duos ever to hit the airwaves. The show and pairing even inspired other personalities and comedy teams, such as Hamish Blake and Andy Lee – known as Hamish and Andy, on the Today Network.
Back in the day, podcasts didn’t exist, and the internet was on dial-up. Though they did have a website (the defunct martinmolloy.village.com.au) the general public had to rely on taping the show themselves on cassette tape, or if you were clever enough, on VHS/Beta. Many bootleg recordings are floating around online if you look hard enough. Other than that, there’s only the three albums that were official released – The Brown Album, Poop Chute, and Eat Your Peas.
We all thought that all we had left in memory of the Martin/Molloy days was just that – memories… and bootlegs.
Until today – when Tony himself tweeted this:
Have convinced the NSFA to take my ‘Martin/Molloy’ archive – 185 x 90mins cassettes. Yes, cassettes. twitter.com/mrtonymartin/s…
There was a collective jaw-smacking-the-floor noise across the internet when his followers saw the photo. 185 cassette tapes of Martin/Molloy.
Then more tweets came. We’ve collected the pictures and tweets below.
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This means that episodes of Martin/Molloy, Bulltwang, and elements of EONFM D-Generation Breakfast Show will now be permanently preserved.
So, what is NFSA?
The NSFA stands for the National Film and Sound Archive, with offices around Australia. (official site) This archive has Australia’s media history stored so stories, audio, video, news, entertainment… just about everything – can be preserved for generations to come. It is enriched from common footage to hard-to-find gems. Yes, they even have some bits of The Late Show and other D-Generation items in the archive.
How do I get copies for myself?
Don’t we all… unfortunately it’s not plausible. And we’re not talking about just these tapes – we’re talking anything in the archive. The library is accessible to a point, but it’s not a simple “walk in, swipe your library card, walk out” type of library and archive. The best thing to do is read thoroughly through the site and see what needs are suited for you. Best to start on this page. Any other queries, please ask NSFA directly where they are happy to answer any questions. Though we do encourage you to check out any of their libraries in person. It’s a media junkie dream.
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The most important and coolest thing about Tony handing over his tapes to NFSA is that they will be transferred to digital, restored and preserved for life. You never know what could happen down the track…
Pete Smith speaking (not really).
UPDATE: Tony has also supplied the entire Get This catalogue on CDs to NFSA. This is dizzy stuff folks!
1) Judith Lucy is currently midway through her stand-up tour with other funny woman Denise Scott for The Spiral show.
2) Judith is pairing up with ABC Radio National personality Jason Di Rosso to fill in for Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton on At The Movies for three weeks from July 16.
3) Coming off the success of her series Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey on ABC1 in 2011, ABC have picked up a new show from Judith’s noggin – Judith Lucy Is All Woman.
So if your favourite comedian, entertainer or personality was featured in an episode, you can see it all again… plus others.
