Janet is right, Roy and HG are marvels. Oh how I miss them.

We actually got a bit of olympic comedy over here, a special on Channel 4 presented by Australian comedian Andrew Denton. It wasn't brilliant, in fact the best bits were a sketch about how American TV networks wanted to fly ugly Sydney residents to Brisbane or Melbourne for the duration of the games so that Americans wouldn't have to endure them on their TV screens and Denton wondering how a commentator would talk about the swimmer whose surname is Hymen, if she broke.

Ah Denton...1999 Logies...Rob Sitch and that dumb blonde chick - LEGEND!!!

Watching The Panel as I type Bean. Santo is talking about soccer. What the??

Australia is alive with altenative names for gymnastic manouveres.
The "battered sav (slam onto the mat on the front - thus battering the sav), the "hello boys" (leg kicked coquettishly back), " and the "Dutchman's wink" (leg kicked up high to the side - referring to Amsterdam, girls in windows...).
The method behind the men's pommel, apparently, is to "pretend you're spray-painting it from the date".
"And here he goes HG: date, flute, date, flute, date-flute-date...half a date with a flute to the side...a slight hello boys - should save that for the mat really..."

Fencing was a hoot
"Roy, tell me about fencing - the art, the mastery."
""Basically HG, it's all about wanting to kill the other bloke, but not being allowed to."

For other forum contributors, stylistically Roy and HG ARE commentators, not comedians playing characters. Peerless comedy.

Yeah, I've seen Roy and HG on a couple of late night shows over here, but unfortunately I'm still too drunk to remember what show they were on! Whoops!

>Yeah, I've seen Roy and HG on a couple of late night shows over here, but unfortunately I'm still too drunk to remember what show they were on! Whoops!

They were regulars on the Ben Elton Show.

Hey Janet, do you remember Berylina Stumpy?

No, what the hell/who the hell was that?

(Stumpy? Is this a lizard thing?)

>No, what the hell/who the hell was that?
>
>(Stumpy? Is this a lizard thing?)

Berylina Stumpy was a send-up gymnast that Jane Reilly did on Fast Forward. Very funny.

Oh, and by the way HG and Roy have their own mascot: Fatso the fat arsed wombat - a marsupial with prominent buttocks.
When the men's 4 x 400m relay won gold, Michael Klim was waving him about.

www.olympics.com.au has an HG and Roy bit.

Jane Reilly?
Aha - caught you out, you mean Jane Turner (or maybe Gina Reilly)

I remember! Very amusing.

PS. We seem to be online at the same time. This is almost like chat only slower.

Fatso rocks - go Roy and HG!

Channel 10 have an interesting Olympic strategy. When a major race is on, they pause programming and have a thing called The Gap, which is filler material and competitions hosted by Rove McManus. When the race is over, they resume the programme. Pretty smart, I thought.

>Jane Reilly?
>Aha - caught you out, you mean Jane Turner (or maybe Gina Reilly)
>
>I remember! Very amusing.

Sorry! Jane Reilly is an Adelaide newsreader. What with her, Jane Turner and Gina Reilly I get very mixed up.

>PS. We seem to be online at the same time. This is almost like chat only slower.

Yep! I'm supposedly working. Hah!

Oh yes, they think Australians are hard-workers, but we're just cunning.

"And there she goes HG, spin the date, spin the date, twinkle, battering the sav and an oops I'm dead."
"I haven't seen a date spun like that since Nadia Comenacci in Moscow"

(Where are you working)

You're so right about people thinking we're hard working. If I'm hard working how slack are the English?!!!

Anyway, I "work" in an office (BORING).

Melbourne. Sigh. I was there for most of April. I miss it a lot more than Adelaide sometimes.

>(Where are you working)

Don't tell her! She's level 8 EVIL!

Nice incorporation of another thread Ailie! It's a gold medal for you.
Hey Bean, what did you see in the Comedy Festival?
(Did you come to MY gig??)

Janet, at the Melbourne comedy festival I saw:

Tony Martin - very funny, even though I was slightly offended by his Adelaide joke

Wil Anderson - Sublime as usual.

Damian Callahan in Speech Night - Not bad, but not brilliant.

Rod Quantock - Not bad but the poor guy's got nothing to say now that Kennett's gone.

Scared Weird Little Guys with the Melbourne University Choir - Very good show, most enjoyable.

Which show was yours then?

It's a weekly standup night called The Planet at the legendary Prince Patrick Hotel, Collingwood. I compere it ('cos it's cheaper that way). Everyone who's anyone has performed there (it's where Wil honed his craft, Lano and Woodley's did their first gig, Morgs, Fleety, Judith Lucy, Doug Anthony Allstars, Flacco, etc)
Did you hang around the Festival Club or the Town Hall bar? I was a fairly visual constant fixture, sporting gear such as zebra print coat, PVC corsetry, dumb teased hair, etc.
And if you saw the Scaredies band at the Fest Club, I was the one who did Toni Basil's 'Mickey'.

Damien is doing a Fringe festival show based around the footballer character from Speech Night. That was my favourite bit, so I'm thinking it'll be a corker.

Hang on, most of those shows were at Adelaide Fringe. What did you see there?

>It's a weekly standup night called The Planet at the legendary Prince Patrick Hotel, Collingwood. I compere it ('cos it's cheaper that way). Everyone who's anyone has performed there (it's where Wil honed his craft, Lano and Woodley's did their first gig, Morgs, Fleety, Judith Lucy, Doug Anthony Allstars, Flacco, etc)

Hey cool! I was talking to this guy who reckons that Wil Anderson used to be rubbish and that Judith Lucy stole her sarcastic mannerisms from some other lady. Was he full of shit?

We have a picture of Judith Lucy on our Fridge, coz she's GREAT!

>Did you hang around the Festival Club or the Town Hall bar? I was a fairly visual constant fixture, sporting gear such as zebra print coat, PVC corsetry, dumb teased hair, etc.

Alas not. I was too busy going back to my friend's place in Vermont and co-organising a Goodies convention to hang around the Festival much.

>And if you saw the Scaredies band at the Fest Club, I was the one who did Toni Basil's 'Mickey'.

Didn't see that. But have you see Toni Basil on Kenny Everett? With the ballerinas? That is quite something.

>Damien is doing a Fringe festival show based around the footballer character from Speech Night. That was my favourite bit, so I'm thinking it'll be a corker.

Sounds good, that was a good character.

>Hang on, most of those shows were at Adelaide Fringe. What did you see there?

Umm...Wil Anderson (in a different show to Melbourne), Stewart Lee and some bloke who's big on the Sydney footy show, but that I thought was a sexist git.

not exactly comedy, but Olympic Grandstand tied to get into the spirit of things just before the beach volleyball with

"now let's go and watch the shielas on the beach"

*groans from entire population of GB*

Went to the opening of this club thing in Manchester last night, and who else was there but Richard O'brien.. opening it..
Clint Boon and Mark burgess out of the Chameleons.