Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Powerstufff]

I maintain Australians can't make really good comedy ....

More that we can't make stuff that translates well outside Australia/NZ or that is good to look back at decades later. In their time Aunty Jack, Naked Vicar, Paul Hogan, Fast Forward, Kath and Kim have all been very good. The first Chris Lilly series (We Can Be Heroes) was really great - subsequent ones sadly awful.

 

[finbarr]

Okay, but you asked for it...



Seinfeld is the greatest sitcom of all-time.

Ok, you got me there.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

...Fast Forward....

No.

Just no.

 

[Powerstufff]

Mother and Son? ....

Clever, worthy, well written/acted. But not effortless viewing and never a big hit. Sort of like other recent ABC comedy such as Upper Middle Bogan.

 

[Powerstufff]

No.

Just no.

Fast Forward died a slow painful death but it started well. Comedy Company the same, slightly later.

 

[El_Scorcho]

No.

Just no.

Um fast forward is incredible.

I think we do sketch comedy reasonably well but sitcoms very poorly

 

[NoddyHolder]

Start a `Raise The Pension' party; self-interested boomers couldn't vote for you fast enough.

I think you've nailed it for me.

No further suggestions required.

 

[scottjr]

Lano and Woodley?

Not sure if they were funny or l just liked them.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Fast Forward died a slow painful death but it started well. Comedy Company the same, slightly later.

Um fast forward is incredible.

I think we do sketch comedy reasonably well but sitcoms very poorly

Same shit joke repeated every week is not comedy.

Gay flight attendants.

Revolutionary.

Rug salesman almost saying ****.

Visionary. (If Graham Kennedy hadn't done it 20 years earlier)

Bogan/Skinheads being mocked.

Comedy gold.

 

[finbarr]

The original D-Generation, which spawned fast forward, was funny when it came on in 1985 or whatever. I watched a bit of it recently on YouTube and barely raised a giggle though. So much of that undergraduate humour is very specific to a certain time period.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

The original D-Generation, which spawned fast forward, was funny when it came on in 1985 or whatever. I watched a bit of it recently on YouTube and barely raised a giggle though. So much of that undergraduate humour is very specific to a certain time period.

I've got the D-Gen stuff on dvd. Hasn't aged as well as I would have hoped.

Still, D-Gen>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>infinity>>>>>>>>>>>>Fast Forward.

 

[NoddyHolder]

Not sitcom or sketch comedy but I don't think there's ever been anything funnier on Australian tv that Graham Kennedy's Blankety Blanks. I've revisited it on youtube a few times and not been disappointed - but maybe that just says more about me

 

[Powerstufff]

Lano and Woodley?

Not sure if they were funny or l just liked them.

Never quite worked. But the effort was there to try produce a quality show, which I respected. Like "It's A Date" on the ABC now.

 

[raman]

The original D-Generation, which spawned fast forward, was funny when it came on in 1985 or whatever. I watched a bit of it recently on YouTube and barely raised a giggle though. So much of that undergraduate humour is very specific to a certain time period.

The original D-Generation also spawned The Late Show... which still stands above anything before or after it in Australian sketch comedy.

And it has aged in a way that's more charming than embarrassing.

 

[raman]

Also, why are we talking about the mediocre world of Australian TV comedy, when we could be talking about the positively abominable world of Australian TV drama.

List of good Australian drama:

- That Blue Murder miniseries from the mid 90s.

That is all.

 

[Trewth]

Wentworth is one of my favourite shows.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Wentworth is one of my favourite shows.

Prisoner was good.

 

[Dylan8]

There's probably a lot of untapped potential but broadcasters would rather produce the 54th season of The Block or Dancing With the Washed Up D Grade Australian Stars.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

There's probably a lot of untapped potential but broadcasters would rather produce the 54th season of The Block or Dancing With the Washed Up D Grade Australian Stars.

No industry in the world celebrates mediocrity like Australian TV.

**** me drunk we have the Logies.

 

[tribey]

No industry in the world celebrates mediocrity like Australian TV.

**** me drunk we have the Logies.

The year Ray Martin and Jana Wendt won best male and female talent respectively, said it all.

 

[Portia]

Also, why are we talking about the mediocre world of Australian TV comedy, when we could be talking about the positively abominable world of Australian TV drama.

List of good Australian drama:

- That Blue Murder miniseries from the mid 90s.

That is all.

love is a four letter word (still listen to the soundtrack)
East West 101

Does Rake count as drama? I think it should.

 

[Dylan8]

The year Ray Martin and Jana Wendt won best male and female talent respectively, said it all.

This is supposed to be one of, if not the biggest Australian TV awards. No wonder Scotty ****in Cam won with that competition.

 

[bomberclifford]

At the time D-Gen came out it was such a break from the monotony of Australian comedy. Taping it on VHS was a must so you could watch it again straight afterwards. A lot of their stuff wouldn't even be aired today. I have a fuzzy memory of one sketch inside a womb that ends with the 'baby' being yanked out with a wire coat hanger. Imagine pitching that to the ABC now!

Some of Magda's characters in D-Gen and Fast Forward were hilariously vile but, like most sketch comedy shows, suffered from repetition and over-exposure.

Fast Forward started off well but was killed in the end by Vizard's pissweak writing and reliance on blunt repetition of one liners that were only slightly funny the first time you heard them. (Gervais' show, Extras had a great pisstake on the whole character 'catchphrase' epidemic of TV comedy.)

The Chasers are probably the closest we've ever got to the output of D-Gen/Late Show since then.

 

[tribey]

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This is supposed to be one of, if not the biggest Australian TV awards. No wonder Scotty ****in Cam won with that competition.

I hate that fake campaigner and I hate his repetitive drosspot show. I hate the way channel nine advertise it as being on at "7 o'block" more.

 

[bomberclifford]

Does Rake count as drama? I think it should.

Rake as a show is so good that it even makes up for Roxburgh's ridiculous overacting.