Jan 30 2012

Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports Fever! (SSESF) S01E01 Ratings

source: au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7

Well, after a few false starts with the scheduled time (originally 10;30pm, then moved to 10:45pm, only to have Jason Segel and Neil Patrick Harris still teasing the kids about how their dad met their mother), Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports Fever! finally got the ball rolling a few minutes before 11pm.

The show was an exact image of Cup Fever! when on SBS, minus the soccer. Covering a hour long broadcast in front of a live studio audience who were quite close enough to the stage, that you could nearly touch Ed Kavalee‘s knees, the desk was similar to The Panel desk used, give or shave off a few centimetres. A cozy studio setup, Santo Cilauro, Sam Pang and Ed sat together comfortably like an old pair of shoes, and the jokes started flying nearly straight away.

It was amusing where some funny incidents were shown during some sporting events (John Newcombe‘s oriental accent, Miley Cyrus and the tennis), but not being too sure if some scenes were legit or not, still made for a funny grab or a ‘me no rikey!’ moment. With special guest retired basketballer Vlade Divac who gelled in quite well for a first guest, and Seven Sports journalist Chris Jones giving a part-serious summary of a sports wrap coverage, Sports Fever! did a decent 236,000 viewers – considering the late start.

A few sports tragics have noted that rugby wasn’t covered, or barely touched at all, as well as a few other sports, but as it is still finding ground and the season hasn’t started yet, the show will still grow and develop more content as it goes.

Hot tip: If you can’t stay up until late and DVR the show, make sure you give about 5 minutes to start recording before hand, and about 15 minutes of extra end time.

If you missed the show, watch it online for the next seven days here.

Love it / hate it / dizzy stuff / cheap, nasty & downright boring / not enough for Snato fans? Leave your comments below or sign up for free in the forum.

Jan 30 2012

AQFB Article: Location, Location, Location

Source: smh.com.au

The articles and reviews are being laid on thick with Any Questions For Ben? due out in cinemas February 9. Sydney Morning Herald‘s journalist John Mangan talks to Working Dog frontman and AQFB Director Rob Sitch about their new feature, and how precise the locations needed to be to film their newest work of art. Melbourne looks like it is the place to be.

Sitch, who directed and shares writing credits with his fellow Working Dogs Santo Cilauro and Tom Gleisner, also has a crucial acting role, playing the jolly headmaster who utters the film’s title line, as Ben (Josh Lawson) cataclysmically discovers the students at his old school think his life is boring. Instead, they’re dazzled by attractive but shy foreign-aid worker Alex (Rachael Taylor), who starts looking pretty dazzling to Ben as well.

We’re in Mr Tulk, a funky cafe in La Trobe Street attached to the State Library, having a coffee before a city walk that will take in numerous historic churches, laneways and fashionable restaurants, culminating high above Swanston Street at the Rooftop Cinema in Curtin House.

While his engaging gaze and assured voice can’t help but remind you of Mike Moore, the vacuous current-affairs host in Frontline, or Tony, his scruple-free government operative in The Hollowmen, the real Rob Sitch is more interested in talking about town planning, church architecture and the minutiae of professional camera equipment.

”I guess it’s a rom-com,” Sitch says, getting back to the film. ”But it’s not the Katherine Heigl sort of pure rom-com dominated by the question, ‘Will they, won’t they?’ It’s really a comedy about a guy with a crisis and he’s completely clueless. It’s what the Greek philosophers were on about 3000 years ago, saying that a life has to be examined to be lived well. It’s funny – with various quotes by the great philosophers, if you hid their names you’d think they were said by your grandfather.”

You can read the full article on Sydney Morning Herald’s site here.

Jan 28 2012

Judith Lucy – Nothing Fancy Interview

Source: SMH.com.au

Judith Lucy, the “Fifth Beatle” to The Late Show in 1993, is on tour with her latest show Nothing Fancy.

In a recent interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Lucy talks about her previous stage shows, her 2011 TV show on the ABC Spiritual Journey and her 2008 book The Judith Lucy Alphabet.

Here’s a tiny excerpt below:

Her new stand-up show, Nothing Fancy, is just that – plain old joke-telling. No song-and-dance routines, no leaping out of a coffin as she did a decade ago for Colour Me Judith, which opened in Melbourne just months after her father died. This time it’s just gags on stage – a situation where Lucy is, quite possibly, at her happiest: ”Despite the fact that I might fight it, stand-up does continue to be the backbone of my career.”

She may love telling jokes to an audience but Lucy has an on-off relationship with touring. During the 2006 tour of I Failed!, her anxiety brought on eczema. Midway through her last tour, in 2009, she ”went a little crazy”.

”Even though I really loved doing the show, it was a really long tour,” she says. ”I also got really sick and I cancelled a show for the first time ever, in Melbourne. It was just so much time on my own and I thought, ‘This is a bit nuts’.”

The answer for Nothing Fancy is to reduce the number of performances per week in Sydney and deliver short seasons in large venues for the rest of the tour.

Read the full interview here.

Judith Lucy – Nothing Fancy is at the Sydney Comedy Store from February 2 to March 25. Purchase tickets online at www.comedystore.com.au

Jan 26 2012

Happy Australia Day!

Girt, soil, toil… Ladies and Gentlemen – take a bow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8MBIS2XlzI

Jan 24 2012

Santo, Sam & Ed are goooooo!!!

Source: facebook.com/sportsfever7

UPDATE: SPORTS FEVER WILL BEGIN AT 10:45PM MONDAY JANUARY 30, instead of the previous 10:30PM time.

Get your Diego Maradonuts out and park your bum on the lounge for a late night live show tradition you haven’t done for 20 years!

Sadly, I’m not talking about The Late Show… It’s Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports Fever!

Beginning Monday January 30 at 10:30pm 10:45pm on Channel 7, the show will be broadcasted live directly into your living room. Covering sports around the world and close to home, it’ll be a ‘no holds barred, no beg your pardons’ (whoa.. flashbacks!) where Santo Cilauro, Sam Pang and Ed Kavalee will stay up all night to wits end to come up with news and jokes that hopefully don’t all end up in the trash.

Even if you’re not a vivid sports nut, it’ll be highly entertaining.

Hopefully we’ll see a few cameos from the Working Dog crew too.

Watch the commercial below – if it doesn’t show, view the video here and “like” the official Sports Fever! Facebook page.

Jan 18 2012

Meet The Filmmaker: Any Questions For Ben?

Are you based in Melbourne?

Do you have January 27 2012 clear in your diary?

Got some extra cash?

Cinema Nova are presenting a screening of Any Questions For Ben? – the new film from Working Dog. The extra bonus seeing this special session is that you will meet (or at least be in the presence of the same room as..) Rob Sitch, the Director of AQFB, who also directed The Castle and The Dish.

Writer/director/comedian Rob Sitch (The Dish, The Castle, Frontline, The Panel) makes a special appearance at Cinema Nova to introduce his new film, Any Questions For Ben, before an advance screening. Join Rob as he shares some stories from behind-the scenes, talks about the joys of working on an Australian film, and tells us what is was like teaming up again with partners in crime Santo Cilauro and Tom Gleisner. From the Working Dog Team who brought you The Castle, and The Late Show, Any Questions For Ben? is amongst 2012’s most anticipated comedies featuring an all-star cast including Rachel Taylor (Red Dog), Daniel Henshall (Snowtown) and Alan Brough (Spicks and Specks). For 27-year-old Ben (Josh Lawson), life couldn’t be better. He has a well-paying job, good friends and nothing to tie him down. But when he is invited back to his old school for a student Q&A about their personal achievements, Ben is the only speaker not to be asked a question. This triggers a year of soul-searching and looking for answers in all the wrong places with hilarious results.

Tickets are available now through Cinema Nova’s website now. Get them while they’re hot.

Jan 16 2012

Remembering: Super Challenge

This year marks 20 years since The Late Show was broadcasted on our analogue TVs  Saturday nights at 10pm (July, 1992) and using our 8 & 1/2 cents a day very wisely.

Every fortnight, we’ll try and post a reminder about various segments spanning over the two years of this classic series in which this website is based on.

To begin, how about we avoid the obvious segments and go with more obscure parts of the show… such as an irregular fill-in game show “Super Challenge”. Appearing in Season 2 Episode 12 and Episode 17, it was created to fill in a gap to pad the show so it reaches its hour time limit. Tom Gleisner was the quizmaster, with the teams made up of the cast and two members from the audience. The questions, while topical in some areas, the answers weren’t 100% accurate – with mainly inside jokes happening and Tom accepting them if they were close enough… depending on who wrote the joke question and answer.

There was no clear winner, but the rawness of the quiz was pure gold. Here’s the first Super Challenge from Season 2 Episode 12.

 

Jan 14 2012

Have You Ever Rented A “Best Bits” That Wasn’t Quite Right?

If you own the Champagne Edition of The Late Show (which I’m sure you would!) then you would have noticed on the second disc “Some More Bits“, which acts like a fourth video if one were released with the other three volumes.

Thanks to Flemishdog, “Some More Bits” has been donned a cover, which is good enough to become one if “Some More Bits” was released on VHS – for retro sakes.

 

Have you made one yourself? Post it up in the forum and we’ll throw it up on the site and on the Facebook page for all to gander.

Jan 05 2012

Heckle! Show us your tusks!

If you ever went to a recording of The Joy Of Sets, you’d know that the entire studio audience was primarily made of Get This listeners. (Weekend listeners were registered to go, but they never turned up as it was filmed on a Friday). During the early days of filming, Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee realised that they were going to be heckled by the audience with quotes from Get This. So, Ed and Tony gave the audience time to let it all out.

Credit to ACTrailor who filmed it from their upskirting shoe.

Did it floor you? Totally floor you?

Dec 21 2011

Seasons Grindings / Greetings

On behalf of site owner Kim and every member of the Champagne Comedy forum, Seasons Greetings from the largest site based on The Late Show and related items on the world wide web.

For your regular attendance and hit rates, we cannot offer much legal media of The Late Show, so we can supply you with this legal item instead:

Going Down Under / Meat Pie / Australian Pie – starring Tony Martin‘s former Get This co-host, Ed Kavalee.

Feel the wheels of steel.

Warning: Contains… umm… disturbing humour and people from Big Brother Australia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5jvNuPfxAM