The Chaser's War on Everything

So last night I went to the filming of the final show of the above; it's very popular over here (2m+ viewers) and has just started showing in the UK on BBC4. Sian is on the production team (she was at Sydney Uni with them), so not only did I get a seat for the show, but I also got to go to the pre and post show parties in the Green Room. The show itself was brilliant - I'd heard about it in the UK, but hadn't seen it before - there's loads of their stuff on YouTube. They basically do political satire and stunts; it's not too dissimilar to Dom Jolly or Chris Morris (remember the new dangerous drug called 'cake' that he convinced Bernard Manning and Paul Daniels to warn people about). I think my favourite sketch last night was when they went to a red-neck golf club that had recently been made to pull down it's discriminatory sign ('no Jews, whites only' etc) and started playing the greens dressed in KKK outfits, claiming they were just trying to fit in. Their most well known stunt was their successful breach of APEC security where they managed to get within a few metres of George Bush's hotel using a Canadian flagged limo with one of them dressed as Osama bin Laden - click on the title for this post (above) to see the YouTube clip of it. It made headline news here. Tonight they broadcast the final ever episode, on ABC1.

So last night I met Sian's friends who are all great (many of whom are not, in fact, 'in media') so I think I may have doubled the number of people I know in Sydney to about ten. And I got to speak to people of my own age. Hallelujah.