D-Gen

But wasn't the D Gen the name of the group of people that did the Late SHow?

big statement!

and I beg to differ.

Pretty crap actually.

and I even went to some of them at the abc. dreary, although those things are always worse in real time.)

sheik, yes, plus or minus a few cast members/

sister, your vote?

Mother and Son for a start.

hey dad!

norman gunston (original version), aunty jack show, paul hogan show, blankety blanks

teh games.

Ah Mother & Son, yes I'll pay that. I saw Ruth once, at Church! my mum took me there one easter to watch an easter service (educational).

anon, none of yours.

call 777777777

I watched a few episode of Frontline recently. That was a great show. Almost as funny as the real Today Tonight.

the late show was awesome.....i remember not goin anywhere on a saturday night till the late show was over.

all of yours anon.

I concur that the Late Show was one of the greatestest ever shows. Anyone who disagrees with me is wrong.

I have a lot of original episodes of the late show. Many of them are shithouse. Rose coloured glasses and all that. The good stuff is still good though.

A lot of its strength came from the fact that it was live I reckon.

Late Show > D-gen goes commercial etc > D-gen

Best Aussie comedy ever?

Kingswood fucken Country.

d gen was good at the time. I think it was quiet in comedy and it came out? either that or I was young.

I liked vizard too before well you know..he should have been the dave of australia for ever

colin carpenter is even better than D-gen. They were much better as The Late Show.

Personally I'm a bit of a Naked Vicar Show girl.

Bite yer bum Narelle.

struth sister! you can't be serious.

Pigs Arse. ''Skivvies are back'' is one of the greatest sketches ever.

Norman Gunston on the steps of parliament, the day of the dissmissal.

Thread Closed.

Go back and watch the Late Show now. You will regret it.

nah you won't.

i watched all of the 1993 series about 2 years ago, held up pretty good, and there was the bonus of laughing at 1993 fashion, and its a interesting historical record due to the news based stuff.

and it had a nice post george bush/democrat as the president correlation going on.

laughing at 1993 fashion

mick molloy's ceasar haircut for starters.

On the chick front - Jane Kennedy was carried on the Late Show. Give me any Jane Turner/Marg Downey sketch from Fast Forward anyday. In fact FF had the greatest 'characters' overall.

though will admit, maybe its more a melbourne thing.

In fact FF had the greatest 'characters' overall.

I beg to differ:

.....except that was The Comedy Company GA, not Fast Forward.

D-Gen was rad! I still think the sketch with the beached labradors is the highpoint of Australian sketch comedy.

Early Fast Forward was genius too, a lot of the same people from D-Gen and equally as funny.

.....except that was The Comedy Company GA, not Fast Forward.

I know, that's why I was begging to differ that Fast Forward had the best characters.

'the late show' is my favourite oz comedy of all time. where do people rank 'summer heights high?''

Above Late for School.

But below Let the Blood Run Free.

drugshakehands said 43 minutes ago:
'the late show' is my favourite oz comedy of all time. where do people rank 'summer heights high?''

It's No Bingles, that's for sure.

I have a lot of original episodes of the late show. Many of them are shithouse. Rose coloured glasses and all that. The good stuff is still good though.

I was pretty thrilled when I got a hold of both series a few years back. After sitting down and watching it all, I found that almost everything I enjoyed was on the Champagne Edition DVD. Those Commerical Crimestoppers bits still make me laugh. Muckraking... not so much.

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I still laugh at the Happy Birthday Helen clip. ''I've Just Run out of Melbourne Cliches''

though will admit, maybe its more a melbourne thing.

I loved it when I was a NSW kiddy. As an adult, not so much...

How rad is the German Phrasebook skit from D-Genocide. It has ''all seven german phrases''. So Rad.

Best Aussie comedy ever?

Kingswood fucken Country.

Oh fuck yes! Brilliant.

Frontline
The Games
Late Show
Big Gig

frontline for mine.

bad cop bad cop a close second.

Frontline's the best thing the Working Dog crew have done, closely followed by The Late Show. I've got the whole third season on DVD and watched it a few months back, held up fairly well.

The Micallef Program/Programme/Pogram, The Games and We Can Be Heroes are all up there for me too.

I think you're all forgetting a little show called All Together Now?

for what's is worth a guy i know went to the ''rub and tugs'' and saw bruno lucia coming out.

they didn't acknowledge each other.

a guy i know

hhhmmmmmmmm

bruno's looking good these days.

So i'm told

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Has anyone mentioned Ratbags? John Derum before he became the voice of regional Orstralya (Mars Bars recipes), and Rod Quantock in the very early days.