Does Paul Hogan get enough respect?

[Plugger35]

I ask that question because Ricky Gervais is considered the put down king of US awards shows but Paul Hogan was putting down pretentious US celebrities and actors back in 1986.




That was a tough audience back in 1986 too, you had Dennis Hopper and Dustin Hoffman in the first few rows and they weren't up for a joke like Brad Pitt and Leo DiCaprio are these days.

And don't get me started on The Paul Hogan Show, that was Australian comedy at it's finest back in the late 70s and early 80s.

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Benny Five-0




I hated it when Hoges went to Hollywood with Crocodile Dundee, I just wanted him to do more Paul Hogan shows.

 

[rocker_oz33]

He's got a new Dundee unsure when it willbe released.

 

[rocker_oz33]

 

[Kram]

At swimming lessons last summer a kid about 8 years old told us that his favourite movie was Crocodile Dundee.

 

[Plugger35]

I saw an ad in a San Diego paper back in 1999 for Australian extras to appear in a Paul Hogan movie in LA, seriously thought of driving up there for it.

I think I dodged a bullet with that one.

 

[Plugger35]

He's back

 

[rocker_oz33]

My brother done some work on the new Dundee movie.
All behide the scenes but he wishes he was in the movie.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

He's back

He's back and with traditionally hard to sign up to movies stars like Cleese and Chase. And is that Wayne Knight I see?

 

[Plugger35]

He's back and with traditionally hard to sign up to movies stars like Cleese and Chase. And is that Wayne Knight I see?

All the all old washed up 80s comedy stars are back and just going through the motions to make some last ditch money before they die.

Steve Martin and Martin Short are milking it for all it's worth with their 2 Amigos Show.

 

[sdfc]

All the all old washed up 80s comedy stars are back and just going through the motions to make some last ditch money before they die.

Steve Martin and Martin Short are milking it for all it's worth with their 2 Amigos Show.

Lucky Day and Little Neddie Nederlander.

 

[Richard Cranium]

At swimming lessons last summer a kid about 8 years old told us that his favourite movie was Crocodile Dundee.

Did you end up learning how to swim?

 

[Plugger35]

We got sent Billy T videos from our relos in NZ, he was the Kiwi poor man's equivalent of Paul Hogan back in the 80s.

He wasn't as funny as Paul Hogan but my parents would force us to watch Billy T videos.

I had to fight for my right to watch Paul Hogan and Kingswood Country.

Even as a kid I knew OZ comedy was better than NZ comedy.

That was before Flight of the Conchords though.

 

[raskolnikov]

Paul Hogan is a campaigner.

 

[rocker_oz33]

What did he do to you Rasko ?

 

[Broken]

John Cornell doesn't get enough respect. He was as much a part of Hoges success and bagged Delvene Delaney to boot.

 

[raskolnikov]

What did he do to you Rasko ?

Not to me but left his wife and 5 kids for some bimbo he met on set.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Not to me but left his wife and 5 kids for some bimbo he met on set.

That's a Kent move.

But he's not the first nor the last to do that.

 

[Plugger35]

Not to me but left his wife and 5 kids for some bimbo he met on set.

Hoges kids were in their 20s when he left, he married young, he didn't leave behind a bunch of ankle biters.

He looked after his ex-wife Noelene and got a bit on the side with Linda Kowolski, they aren't together now.

He has a great line about marriages in his comedy show, like Cleese, I'm only doing these shows to pay off my ex wives.

 

[Kram]

Hoges kids were in their 20s when he left, he married young, he didn't leave behind a bunch of ankle biters.

He looked after his ex-wife Noelene and got a bit on the side with Linda Kowolski, they aren't together now.

He has a great line about marriages in his comedy show, like Cleese, I'm only doing these shows to pay off my ex wives.

They had already divorced once before 5 years earlier as well so it's not as if it was a perfect marriage that he randomly decided to abandon..

 

[Reynolds Number]

His variety show was before my time but I found this a while back and enjoyed it.

 

[Kram]

 

[Plugger35]

The Paul Hogan Show back in the 70s was pretty easy to get a laugh,

Strop did a lot of the heavy lifting, underrated straight man.




I only remember The Paul Hogan Show in the early 80s when Strop had called it a day.

 

[Plugger35]

Dennis Lillee has taken the Ayatollah Khomeini's head off with an absolute hand grenade in the World Series War.




That was back in the good old days of the Iran/Iraq war, simpler times back in the early 80s.

 

[Plugger35]

John Blackman did a lot of great work with Hoges in the late 70s and early 80s, went on to become Dickie Knee on Hey Hey It's Saturday.

He took the piss out of Red, Wilbur and Molly too, "Shut up Blackman" they used to say, those were the days.

 

[footyfan1978]

John Blackman did a lot of great work with Hoges in the late 70s and early 80s, went on to become Dickie Knee on Hey Hey It's Saturday.

He took the piss out of Red, Wilbur and Molly too, "Shut up Blackman" they used to say, those were the days.

That does not seem right. As a little kid I used to watch Hey Hey It's Saturday on Saturday mornings when it was a 3 hour show.
Blackman already was on there. He was already doing skits like the Angel and Dicky Knee from memory.
He probably just did some work on Hogan Show on the side too, as both were channel 9 shows.
The Hogan show did not produce him. He made himself via Hey Hey It's Saturday.

As a little kid used to love seeing the Dave Allen show and Paul Hogan show. They were so late 70's and early 80's in touch with the times and what to take the piss out of. But people could not watch them now as a lot of what was funny on them was current for that time of life then. Some people that too young to live those times just would not get the comedy of that time. Similarly if I watched some shows now, that were current then, I would also miss why some of it was so funny then as so much has changed in four decades. But those shows were finishing up in early 80's. Once you hit about 1986, the world had changed. Hogan was not doing his regular shows by then. I think all he did was some rare Hogan specials, like Hogan in London or something. I do not remember the more regular Hogan Show being on tv in mid 80's. I do not remember when he started doing movies but that was the end of his life as a comedian with Australians.
Doing a movie made him money and breaking up with his wife meant there was a perception he was no longer the regular knock about bloke. But also now his movies were not anywhere near as funny as his characters of his regular show. It is what it is though, cannot blame him for doing more movies as it was way better money that what he was doing before even if nowhere near as funny. God, there was some crap movies made though. He should have made maybe his first two Dundee movies and left it at that.

Unlike people that actually grew up in the 70's I did not even know Hogan's origins of just being a construction worker that channel 9 used because he was funny. They gave him a Show when he was still a working man. I thought he had been doing those Shows for years when I was probably watching in late 70's and early 80's, but he had started on tv here when it probably black and white television in nearly 70's from what I understand.

His type of show and Dave Allen show of that late 70's and early 80's just worked perfectly because both men were very very funny and could do great creative shorts skits for tv. But they could also just sit in front on camera and talk to audience. That style of show and type of comedian I can't even think of today.
The tv itself was the major source of entertainment in households, the captured people's attention. The internet age and the zillions of streaming and channels means the tv itself is only one of many sources of entertainment.

I imagine Dave Allen does not even live anymore. He probably died long ago from alcohol.