Genuine interview, or comedy clip?

[Beware_of_Doug]

So they don’t just do maritime-themed comedy?

[Giles]

@Beware of Doug

So they don’t just do maritime-themed comedy?

No – but it does tend to be about politics of one kind or another.

[Robot_Arm]

@Giles

One show that Clarke and Dawe worked together in was The Games, 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.

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.

[Princhester]

@Beware of Doug

Jek? Is that Ozzie for jerk?

Peter isn’t an Ozzie. Nor is he an Aussie.

[maggenpye]

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 one of his more enduring efforts. It’s been updated since I first heard it in the 70’s. This 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.

[Robot_Arm]

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?

[Beware_of_Doug]

@Princhester

Peter isn’t an Ozzie. Nor is he an Aussie.

Now you’re being a jek. :dubious:

[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?

[Stranger_On_A_Train]

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”. Monty Python has nothing on this guy.

Stranger

[maggenpye]

@Robot Arm

I always liked the investigative reporter, Jack Hughes.

Is that Lisa Eilbacher?

Why yes it is. Well spotted that man. She and George Wendt were the US talent brought in to ensure international sales.

[Giles]

@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?

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.