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Hello all, and welcome back. Since I've been gone I discovered an Aussie television program that I have, quite literally, become addicted to. The show is red hot brilliance.
It is entitled The Chaser’s War On Everything, and was discovered while doing research on YouTube, for next week's strip. I was looking for interviews with Shirley Phelps-Roper and I stumbled across this brilliant clip of Charles Firth attempting to converse with the nutjobs at the Westborough Baptist Church.
The show, which is an offshoot of C Quadruple N, satirizes both Australian news (which I mostly don’t get) and American/International news (which I do). There are several different sketch formats, where the troop goes about Australia, and converses with the public in strange and amusing ways. One segment (called "Mr. Ten Questions") has a journalist ask some public figure ten questions consecutively, to see if they can remember and answer them all. Another has one of those announcers from carpet store fire sales, ("Scenes from the Life of the Crazy Warehouse Guy") narrating his own life in the similar announcer style, by hollering everything. And yet another ("The Ad Roadtest") takes adverts to task by acting them out in real life, to see if the products actually work as advertised.
The show is sort of like The Daily Show, except on crack. The similarity is, that the main focus is on politics and popular culture. And, you can download it for free.
The quality is, I would argue, on par with The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. And aside from the cultural news misunderstandings, I have not laughed so hard in years. If you are too lazy to download them, you can search it out on YouTube. I’d suggest you give it a shot.
It is entitled The Chaser’s War On Everything, and was discovered while doing research on YouTube, for next week's strip. I was looking for interviews with Shirley Phelps-Roper and I stumbled across this brilliant clip of Charles Firth attempting to converse with the nutjobs at the Westborough Baptist Church.
The show, which is an offshoot of C Quadruple N, satirizes both Australian news (which I mostly don’t get) and American/International news (which I do). There are several different sketch formats, where the troop goes about Australia, and converses with the public in strange and amusing ways. One segment (called "Mr. Ten Questions") has a journalist ask some public figure ten questions consecutively, to see if they can remember and answer them all. Another has one of those announcers from carpet store fire sales, ("Scenes from the Life of the Crazy Warehouse Guy") narrating his own life in the similar announcer style, by hollering everything. And yet another ("The Ad Roadtest") takes adverts to task by acting them out in real life, to see if the products actually work as advertised.
The show is sort of like The Daily Show, except on crack. The similarity is, that the main focus is on politics and popular culture. And, you can download it for free.
The quality is, I would argue, on par with The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. And aside from the cultural news misunderstandings, I have not laughed so hard in years. If you are too lazy to download them, you can search it out on YouTube. I’d suggest you give it a shot.