# Genuine interview, or comedy clip? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 14, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312 "2008-03-14T00:35:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312/21 "2008-03-14T20:53:11Z")
So they don’t just do maritime-themed comedy? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312/22 "2008-03-14T20:55:30Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] So they don’t just do maritime-themed comedy? [/QUOTE] No – but it does tend to be about politics of one kind or another. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312/23 "2008-03-14T21:29:19Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] One show that Clarke and Dawe worked together in was [The Games](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Games_%28Australian_TV_series%29), made before the 2000 Olympic Games, where they played the parts of two people working for SOCOG (the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games). It’s a brilliant mockumentary, worth seeing if you can get it on DVD. One episode that I particularly liked had a builder who’d just finished building the 100-metre track, but it was 13 metres short, and they explored the consequences, such as a new Olympic record for the 87-metre sprint. [/QUOTE] One of the funniest TV shows I’ve ever seen. If anyone can find me season 2 on DVD, I’d be eternally grateful. JOHN: How long is our 100 meter track? How long is it, Mr Wilson? WILSON: About a hundred meters. Absolutely brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312/24 "2008-03-14T23:35:23Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Jek? Is that Ozzie for jerk? [/QUOTE] Peter isn’t an Ozzie. Nor is he an Aussie. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312/25 "2008-03-15T07:47:14Z")
John Clarke did his early work in New Zealand as Fred Dagg, a ‘stereotypical’ farmer who just happened to have his own TV show. [Here’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvMeT2GC14) one of his more enduring efforts. It’s been updated since I first heard it in the 70’s. [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QNr_77cboI) is a scene he did in the 1988 movie _Never Say Die_. Yes, that is a young Temuera Morrison (_Star Wars_ Jango Fett) **Robot Arm** , great show, eh? Mr Physema from the Tobacco Lobby, Mr _ **M** _ Physema. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312/26 "2008-03-15T18:08:53Z")
I always liked the investigative reporter, Jack Hughes. > [@maggenpye](#): > > This is a scene he did in the 1988 movie Never Say Die. Yes, that is a young Temuera Morrison (Star Wars Jango Fett) Is that Lisa Eilbacher? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312/27 "2008-03-15T18:55:42Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] Peter isn’t an Ozzie. Nor is he an Aussie. [/QUOTE] Now _you’re_ being a jek. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312/28 "2008-03-16T10:21:35Z")
I don’t understand. I was simply pointing out that Peter is not of the nationality you seemed to be implying, however you spelt it. Did I miss the point of your post? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312/29 "2008-03-16T12:35:41Z")
You’re all a bunch of jeks. 😉 You might think it would be hard to confuse this routine for the explanation of a real politician…and then you hear Ted Stevens explain that [“the Internet is a series of tubes”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE). Monty Python has nothing on this guy. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312/30 "2008-03-16T22:43:31Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] I always liked the investigative reporter, Jack Hughes. Is that Lisa Eilbacher? [/QUOTE] Why yes it is. Well spotted that man. She and George Wendt were the US talent brought in to ensure international sales. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312/31 "2008-03-17T19:07:13Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] I don’t understand. I was simply pointing out that Peter is not of the nationality you seemed to be implying, however you spelt it. Did I miss the point of your post? [/QUOTE] Your post seemed to be objecting to the spelling “Ozzie”. As a person from Australia, I perfectly happy with both spellings, “Ozzie” and “Aussie”, and think they are synonymous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-interview-or-comedy-clip/441312.md?page=1)