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Showing posts with label Hungry Beast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hungry Beast. Show all posts
Monday, February 07, 2011
Friday, December 11, 2009
Hungry For More
Just one example why Hungry Beast is the best new Australian current affairs show in many, many years :
And this interview with an Australian soldier who served in Afghanistan is stunning :
Plenty more Hungry Beast clips on their official site here, and on YouTube here.
There was a bit of nervousness, as you'd expect, amongst Hungry Beast producers and ABC executives as to how a show could leap almost instantly from absurd satire to devastating journalism. But it worked. It worked brilliantly.
Hungry Beast returns in 2010.
Just one example why Hungry Beast is the best new Australian current affairs show in many, many years :
And this interview with an Australian soldier who served in Afghanistan is stunning :
Plenty more Hungry Beast clips on their official site here, and on YouTube here.
There was a bit of nervousness, as you'd expect, amongst Hungry Beast producers and ABC executives as to how a show could leap almost instantly from absurd satire to devastating journalism. But it worked. It worked brilliantly.
Hungry Beast returns in 2010.
Friday, October 02, 2009
Why ABC Boss Mark Scott Should Tell The Daily Telegraph To Fuck Off
By Darryl Mason
After only one episode, Hungry Beast looks like a lock to replace The Chaser as the supplier of easy n free content for our tabloid media of Perpetual MoralOutrage! :
And how ironic then that Hungry Beast's first show also featured a segment testing the gullibility of Australia's media.
I liked Hungry Beast. I thought the mix of skit comedy, serious interviews, media japery and WTF? statistics was very interesting. The jump from jokes to a shattering segment on the wife and mother of an Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan was jarring, but not wrong. And one seriously bizarre haircut from a host was not enough to turn me off.
Here's producer Andrew Denton talking about his latest creation :
UPDATE : The Daily Telegraph is crowing now about how it's manufactured MoralOutrage! beat up got the Man Gang Raped By Australian Netball Team skit pulled from repeats of Hungry Beast.
Gee, what a victory for good taste. Society has been saved, yet again, from laughing by the Daily Telegraph, backers of kid-killing wars and co-distributors of made-up stories about children having sex because of coloured wristbands.
You won't see the the skit on ABC TV again, but, curiously enough, the Daily Telegraph is running the 'banned' video on its website, with no adult content warning, generating revenue from taxpayer-funded TV clips, for which they paid nothing to use, as number-one-story-of-the-day content.
Most of the people who bothered to comment on the story at the Daily Telegraph website see it as anything but yet another pathetic MoralOutrage! beat up, and a further denigration of Australia's once infamous reputation for being able to have a good laugh at themselves.
When will ABC managing director Mark Scott stop caving in and finally tell The Daily Telegraph to go and get fucked?
Join Twitter and ask him yourself right here.
Liz Ellis, by the way, doesn't have a problem with the skit at all :
No doubt Liz Ellis would probably find that funny, too.
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By Darryl Mason
After only one episode, Hungry Beast looks like a lock to replace The Chaser as the supplier of easy n free content for our tabloid media of Perpetual MoralOutrage! :
Netball Australia has condemned an ABC Television skit featuring a fake interview with a man claiming to have been sexually assaulted by the national team.Err, yeah. It was pretty obvious the short segment that aired was the skit in full, and not a promo for a longer segment next week. How fucking dim do you have to be to not get that?
The skit, a clear reference to May's Four Corners interview with the woman at the centre of the Cronulla group sex scandal, is due to air on ABC's new current affairs/comedy crossover show, Hungry Beast next Wednesday.
A promo for the skit aired on Wednesday night.
And how ironic then that Hungry Beast's first show also featured a segment testing the gullibility of Australia's media.
I liked Hungry Beast. I thought the mix of skit comedy, serious interviews, media japery and WTF? statistics was very interesting. The jump from jokes to a shattering segment on the wife and mother of an Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan was jarring, but not wrong. And one seriously bizarre haircut from a host was not enough to turn me off.
Here's producer Andrew Denton talking about his latest creation :
UPDATE : The Daily Telegraph is crowing now about how it's manufactured MoralOutrage! beat up got the Man Gang Raped By Australian Netball Team skit pulled from repeats of Hungry Beast.
Gee, what a victory for good taste. Society has been saved, yet again, from laughing by the Daily Telegraph, backers of kid-killing wars and co-distributors of made-up stories about children having sex because of coloured wristbands.
You won't see the the skit on ABC TV again, but, curiously enough, the Daily Telegraph is running the 'banned' video on its website, with no adult content warning, generating revenue from taxpayer-funded TV clips, for which they paid nothing to use, as number-one-story-of-the-day content.
Most of the people who bothered to comment on the story at the Daily Telegraph website see it as anything but yet another pathetic MoralOutrage! beat up, and a further denigration of Australia's once infamous reputation for being able to have a good laugh at themselves.
"I feel sorry for my 8 year old son, because when he grows up Comedy will be illegal."It's an interesting conjob the Daily Telegraph has been running, from the days of The Chaser. Record a clip from an ABC-TV show, whip up some MoralOutrage! the next day, try and get the clip banned from further repeats on the ABC, while running the clip on your own news site, while also pointing out that the fact the 'controversial skit' has now been censored, leaving most readers little choice but to watch the clip at the Daily Telegraph website.
"Oh My GOD! Its official, we are now just like the YANKS. Consumed with political correctness and afraid to laugh at ourselves. WE ARE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE."
When will ABC managing director Mark Scott stop caving in and finally tell The Daily Telegraph to go and get fucked?
Join Twitter and ask him yourself right here.
Liz Ellis, by the way, doesn't have a problem with the skit at all :
And thanks to the Daily Telegraph, the words "Liz Ellis Group Sex" now has a permanent listing in Google search."She knows it was a joke and can see the funny side of it — she doesn't feel defamed at all," Ellis' spokesperson Jessica Ball told ninemsn.
"She is out on the golf course playing a round right now, which shows how concerned she is about this,"
No doubt Liz Ellis would probably find that funny, too.
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