"Mr Jagger, I've Been A Great Fan Of Yours Ever Since You Were With The Beatles"
Three decades before Borat and Bruno, we had Norman Gunston :
And even better. Norman Gunston interviews KISS at an hilarious press conference.
Paul Stanley : "That would work wonderfully, we could bounce laser beams off your head."Brilliant.
Eric Carr : "Have you ever considered a career as a satellite?"
Norman Gunston : "Come on, guys, these people here respect me. Don't make fun of me in front of them."
One more Norman. How cute. TV channels used to promote the fact they were in colour. Imagine trying to have to convince people to switch to colour TV? I remember some old locals when I was a kid in the mid-1970s saying they preferred black and white and colour TV was a fad, so they would not be "making the switch."
How catchy is that jingle? I don't think I've seen this ad since 1976, but immediately I knew all the words. How deeply those ads you see repeatedly as a kid embed themselves in your memory.
7 comments:
Norman Gunston - GENIUS!
How cool are KISS? Funny too.
All the journos loved Norman didn't they?
Unlike Borat and Bruno Gunston abuse the host's hospitality.
Thanks for bringing Norman back! True satire and ten times funnier than Cohen or Chaser.
God I'm ilitarate.
I meant to say Borat and Bruno have to abuse the host's hospitality for lots of laughs but Norman did not.
You spelled Illiterate wrong. LOL!
I also thought about the comparison between The Chaser and Bruno and Norman Gunston.
But Gunston's genius was being self-depreciating and a real dag. He would put himself down and when the interviewee least expected it he would go for the punch. Borat and the Chaser are being smart arses really.
But of course he was also brilliant with politics who can forget when he managed to be on the steps of Parliament when Withlam was dismissed on the 11th of November 1975?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9hZ7kjgFh4
Also I remember (but can't find it on the net) that he went to the launch of a book in the USA that was written by a couple of people that went to prison after their involvement in the Watergate affair. It was in the late 70's so it was still very fresh and it was very serious. He stood up and asked the authors whether they sent the book to Nixon or whether they would prefer him to see the movie when it came out, amongst the consternation of all.
One of the journalists was quoted later that 'he should have been shot'.
Isnt it brilliant how Gunston was right up there next to Whitlam?
The crowd had gathered at Parliament House but they had to wait and it wasn't organised so there wasn't all set speakers like a big protest today. Gunston got up on the steps and improvised.
If you look closely when old footage of that day is shown in docos and the like you can see Gunston up there.
But Gunston is cropped out of all the historic photos.
Should have left him in.
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