7 April 2010

Hungry Beast out of ideas, making lame Canberra song and dance numbers?

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Hungry Beast has since its inception last year been best described as “patchy”.

But tonight the show rolled out the above hackneyed cliche about Canberra.

One supposes we should be flattered there are so many things we’re known for.

What do you think of it?

Hungry Beast's Canberra song and dance number

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Wow! that clip will permanantly tarnish the image of Canberra in the minds of the tens of intelligent people that watch Hungry Beast…

dannybear said :

Hmm telecom tower and fireworks..? they should get their facts right next time

I think it was just based on the last time Denton and his mates spent any time here.

Hmm telecom tower and fireworks..? they should get their facts right next time

SolarPowered11:31 am 09 Apr 10

gospeedygo said… “As opposed to the brain-custardefying televised festival of outrage that is TT/ACA. “

Yeah, because you can work out from my comment that is what I watch. You are some new kind of psychic genius.

numberonebbqer said :

They did a better job at promoting us than Canberra Tourism Corp ever has

yep – “Feel the Power of Canberra”…

the canberra skit was lame, but the pope card up first was briliant – as their openers often are (the wayne carey fragrance skit [wan-kery] last season is one of the sharpest wordplay skits i’ve seen for a long time…)

as holden notes, the gulf between the good and not good bits is a chasm, but the highlights overall make it worthwhile.

21# Grail +1 Mickey Mouse Town lol

Pretty lame, but it could have been oh so much worse.

Maybe it’s lifers (or serial returners) who are more able to laugh at ourselves, even the lame, cheap easy shots.

I agree that ABC is to be roundly applauded for letting heaps of different edgy and experimental stuff. Just how worse that skit would have been if Channel Nine had been let loose on it.

I haven’t been able to see hungrybeast for the last couple of weeks, but I reckon it’s up there with the best viewing during the week.

Try-hard retards. Is this the ‘cutting edge’ of the ‘in your face’ youth of today?
It’s kind of spooky how spastic this is.

Give up you losers. *CRINGE*

sexynotsmart9:07 pm 08 Apr 10

eh_steve said :

That brunette chick is pretty hot though.

+1

I asked LoveBumps to get her, Virginia Haussegger and Frisco Furniture Ad Lady for my birthday. Sadly they didn’t magically appear when I opened my Man vs Wild DVDs.

Aurelius said :

So those who managed to watch the whole skit: tell me, in the second half, did the “jokes” become funny?

No

SolarPowered said :

Comment #16 “I keep waiting for the Brainspace segment by Tim and Debbie” …Now that takes me back!

I thought the Hungry Beast sketch was pretty funny. Not very clever, but still funny.

I hate the show. It is made for the SMS/Twitter generation who can’t handle thinking about one thing for more than 60 seconds. I watched it a couple of times and it made me feel old.

As opposed to the brain-custardefying televised festival of outrage that is TT/ACA.

It may not be the best show but I find it entertaining and fun.

I use to watch this show, until they ran their survey on Internet censorship in Australia. The Hungry Beast commissioned survey showed 80% of Australian’s support Mr. Conroy’s planned filter. Of course people will support anyhthing when you totally mis-represent the facts to them when asking them the question. For details: http://www.geordieguy.com/?p=32

So the comedy in the show isn’t worth watching it for. The ‘journalism’ is questionable. Doesn’t really leave much of a reason to watch the show…..

Thoroughly Smashed6:06 pm 08 Apr 10

Yeah, real edgy.

SolarPowered12:55 pm 08 Apr 10

Comment #16 “I keep waiting for the Brainspace segment by Tim and Debbie” …Now that takes me back!

I thought the Hungry Beast sketch was pretty funny. Not very clever, but still funny.

I hate the show. It is made for the SMS/Twitter generation who can’t handle thinking about one thing for more than 60 seconds. I watched it a couple of times and it made me feel old.

I agree with Deece, this town is absolutely hilarious!

Plaques every 100m in the parks, art on every major road, bunches of paranoid chumps pretending they are super important. There is nothing normal here at all!

I loved the skit. I’m Canberran born and bred, and the only reason I can see for people getting all wound up about it is that the truth hurts. I’ve you’ve lived in Sydney you’ll understand the joke about no traffic in Canberra (have any of you seen a street in Sydney with as few cars on it as ANZAC Parade during the middle of a work day?). You’ll note a common theme between the Canberra and Hobart skits which is most appealing to Sydney audiences.

Ironically, at least two comments here have referred to Veronica Milsom (she plays Victoria Dynamite, starred in the Lady Gaga skit, and was present in the “Brazilian Soap”), but none of the other actors get a mention. People might want to refresh their memory about Veronica’s work, including the Tits Get Clicks skit.

But then you probably wouldn’t get the joke, because you’re actually part of it.

They remind me of those bratty Law Revue types from my Uni days. In other words: complete twats.

I agree with Kidkenosha. i love canberra, and always tell my melbourne friends, tongue in cheek, that it’s because it’s the funnest place in australia… takes a certain kind of person to appreciate this place i think. and you have to laugh at that.

troll-sniffer11:00 am 08 Apr 10

yawn.

There isn’t a joke in there that I haven’t heard before. Surely this show only got a second season because Denton has so much clout around the ABC.

I keep waiting for the Brainspace segment by Tim and Debbie.

I like ABC comedies, they take chances. Some work, some dont. Can you imagine the Chaser on commercial TV ? HG and Roy have really done well since leaving Aunties warm embrace.

Never seen the show. Tried to watch the YouTube link, but halfway thru, decided the singing was so awful I had to stop it.
So those who managed to watch the whole skit: tell me, in the second half, did the “jokes” become funny?

Last night was the first episode I managed to sit through in it’s entirety so I guess that says something. They just seem a bit confused about their target audience; eh_steve is on the money. Not quite the semi-universal appeal of The Chaser.

I am a huge fan of the Lady Gaga skit for some strange reason.

I’ve never seen the show before, but I laughed my a*** off when I saw the Canberra song. Perhaps living over the border gives me a slightly different perspective.

Clown Killer8:09 am 08 Apr 10

I thought that last nights show was one of the better ones. I’ll also admit to laughing along with the Canberra segment, if only for their take on the Canberra stereotypes. I think getting hung up on this sort of stuff or taking offence is pretty lame.

Neither, but it was funnt.

Pure cheese and I loved it! Run with it and show the nation that Canberra can laugh at itself, otherwise we look like a bunch of snivelling, whiney, pouty kids who can’t take a joke. “Muu-uum, he’s picking on me. Whaaaa!”

Personally, after initial disappointment with the show, I started watching the Beast again around episode 8 and was delighted that it had evolved into something much tighter and edgier than those cringe-filled first few episodes. None of the episodes are wall-to-wall genius but there have been more than a few standout moments that make the show worth turning on the telly for.

Gotta be willing to have a laugh at ourselves, but it was pretty lame.

Hey, I love this place, but you’ve gotta admit, there isn’t much in there that isn’t fair comment. I can see the funny side.

Sure it’s lame, but bothering to get worked up about it is lamer.

The show does quite a few things well (some of their investigative pieces are quite interesting), but humour is not it’s strong point. They’re clearly just going for cheap laughs at the expense of cities which have poor reputation amongst the residents of some of the larger places and hence larger viewership (i.e. Sydney and Melbourne).

Another example is the the preview for next weeks show when they took a stab at Hobart… Something along the lines of “a plane crash landed on a busy road in Hobart, we can’t believe that a road was actually busy in Hobart”.

And as far as their “Victoria Dynamite investigates” segments go, the humour in those is worse than the quality of journalism in the programmes it’s taking a stab at.

Or maybe they all wanted to secretly take a trip to Canberra but didn’t have the balls to admit it?

Holden Caulfield11:39 pm 07 Apr 10

Has there ever been a show to have such a massive gap between its highs and lows? A shame its lows usually outnumber its highs.

numberonebbqer11:30 pm 07 Apr 10

They did a better job at promoting us than Canberra Tourism Corp ever has

lame… totally lame

Hungry Beast = BTN for teens.

That brunette chick is pretty hot though.

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