Earlier in the week I snuck in a link to a video of an “interview” about the sub-prime mortgage crisis NOT affecting Australia.
The sketch is by a comedy pair named John Clarke and Bryan Dawe who are a regular feature on the Australian ABC1 program “The 7:30 Report”. It’s not a comedy news show like “The Daily Show”, it’s an actual news program, but Clarke and Dawe appear typically once a week with these interviews.
As I was learning more about them, I found this older clip at YouTube that ranks right up there with any Monty Python or SNL sketch for sheer brilliance:
There are a bunch of their interviews on YouTube as well as on the ABC’s own website. They remind me a lot of Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding, especially John Clarke, who seems to be channelling Ray from the Great Beyond. Bob & Ray practically invented this comedy premise and remain the undisputed masters, but these Ozzies are a wonderful modern version.
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