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HUGE guest in the studio this week, with the voice of television, the one the only MR PETE SMITH!!
Fantastic special guest. We delve into just a small sample of his incredible, four decade career.
Plus News, Quotes, Raines, good and bad cooking shows, factual inaccuracies, blah, blah, blah
but Pete Smith!! Wow.
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More to my report this week on the Chaser’s serious complaint, I came across a little something in the Australian which I’ve not been able to find in their online version.
It started out talking about their pranks being newsworthy and finding their way into the nightly bulletins before they get a chance to air them on the show proper – this happened with the West Coast Eagle mascot more than a week before it turned up on the Chaser.
The article goes on to talk about the Chaser podcast being number 1 on iTunes Australia and how the download doesn’t include a number of items from the version that went to air:
The Marcus Einfeld sketch is missing due to him being subsequently charged for 13 criminal offences;
The Qantas ad pisstake; and
Andrew Hansen’s musical tribute to Naomi Robson, Goodbye Plastic Face.
The article also talks about the Mercedes Corby suit against TT, et al., stating that Jodie Power has been named in the suit and that Stuart Littlemore QC is Corby’s barrister. Did I mention this could get interesting? As a former host of Media Watch (before it was a crippled piece of dross), with a particular focus on the ethics of tabloid TV, Littlemore’s involvement should make it even more so.
Updating the story about a new show coming up in the US but didn’t have the details to hand:
Melissa George has signed on to a new US drama called In Treatment, from Entourage producer Mark Wahlberg and Noah Tishby. She’s departed the new project from Sex & the City author Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle, after her character was re-written as a 40 year old.
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And on the back of the Quotes segment this week:
Eboni Stocks, the winner of the second series of Australia’s Next Top Model, was removed by security from a Darlinghurst, Sydney bar after allegedly punching a female patron in the face. ANTM isn’t a show I’ve had the pleasure to partake in but, having heard Josh’s offering, now I’m not so surprised to hear about this.
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Rove, Quotes (from Australia’s Next Top Model), Footy Classified, I Don’t Buy It (lite) and the Logies are all part of this fantastic milestone episode.
Don’t believe us? Check it out for yourself.
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I doubt we’re going to be able to cover this in much depth on the show this week so here are the nominations for all the categories in the 2007 Logies.
Just a quick housekeeping update…
I’ve just upgraded the WordPress install to 2.0.10 – from 2.0.4 (who knew if you didn’t pay attention for a couple of weeks they’d release 6 new upgrades?) – but I don’t think there should be too much difference for readers. If anyone has a problem, let us know on the usual email. I think I’ve updated the permissions for all the right directories that need it but I may have missed something – hey, it’s happened before.
The other thing is that I’ve adjusted a setting in the admin section so we shouldn’t be seeing any more pingbacks in the comments sections. Mostly they were spam anyways – with a few in just the last few days so maybe we’d popped up on the radar for those pingback comment spamming arseholes – so there should be very little loss there.
That is all.
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Hot off the Boxcutters production line, where starving, one-armed Pakistani orphan children work their nobbled, spastic fingers raw tying pull strings 18 hours a day, for $0.57US a day, the Boxcutters Talking Coonan Parrot doll.
Be quick because this limited item will be rampaging out the door for just $19.95 from the Boxcutters Superstore o’ Love and, once they’re gone, that’s it.
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So I’ve created a new category for the posts called Southpark v Family Guy. It will show you the posts where all the comments about this topic are as well as whatever we’ve posted about the issue.
After the jump I’ve included a letter from Riley Boxcutter so that no voice goes unheard in this debate.
If you have an opinion, this is where to voice it. If you’ve sent us an email and I haven’t included it, I’m sorry but make me aware of it and I’ll add yours in too.
Enjoy the argument.
Now read the letter(s):
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Dishy challenged South Park fans to try and explain what we found funny about South Park, so here it is. Please excuse the usual spelling and grammatical errors.
Also, please note the plan is to turn all the South Park/Family Guy stuff into one big thread, which Josh is going to do…… Any time now……..[Which you can find here:- Josh]
WHY I LIKE SOUTH PARK
[Check it out after the jump:- Josh]
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Donald Trump has fended off baldness at wrestling tentpole pay per view Wrestlemania 23.
WWE boss Vince McMahon lost the Battle Of The Billionaires match and thus his hair when his ridiculously large steed Umega was felled by first the guest referee Steve Austin then his opponent Bobby Lashy.
Overall the match was marred by introduction of a second referee, use of a steel bin and Trump’s acting.
Trump was even called upon to do some wrestling, clothes-lining McMahon and later receiving a stunner from Stone Cold Steve Austin, neither terribly convincing, proving perhaps he should stick to yelling tasks at sycophants in The Apprentice.
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