WHO WE ARE: Standout comedy

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A column about Australia by David Dale, published in The Sun-Herald, 11/5/2008
Whenever Australians are asked to describe the core characteristics of this nation, two phrases keep coming up: "laidback attitude" and "sense of humour", which together add up to an eagerness to laugh at ourselves. It's no surprise, then, that the most successful locally made programs in the history of television have been comedies.

In recent weeks this column has been trying to bring some order to the chaos that is Australia's taste in entertainment. I've chronicled our favourite movies, most successful actors and most watched TV shows, and sought your votes on whether the most popular were necessarily the most significant. After last week's column, which identified the top dramas of all time as Homicide, Blue Heelers, All Saints and Home and Away, many readers complained that I had left out, in order of importance, Wildside, The Sullivans, Phoenix, Flying Doctors, Bellbird, Matlock, MDA, Love My Way, Cop Shop, Stingers and Blue Murder.

No doubt there will be similar outcries about what's missing from the list below, which is an attempt to rank the comedies which had both high ratings and long life. Once again quantity is not necessarily the same as quality, but this is designed to get the conversation started ...

The most watched Australian comedies of all time:
1 Hey Dad (1984-94)
2 The Paul Hogan Show (1973-1982)
3 Kath and Kim (2002- )
4 The Comedy Company (1988-1991)
5 The Normal Gunston Show (1975-79)
6 The Mavis Bramston Show (1964-68)
7 Fast Forward/ Full Frontal (1989-1998)
8 Mother and Son (1984-1994)
9 Thank God You're Here (2006-)
10 The Chaser team under various titles (2002-)
11 All Aussie Adventures (2001-03)
12 Frontline (1994-97)
13 Summer Heights High (2007)
14 Kingswood Country (1979-1984)
15 The Naked Vicar Show (1977-78)
16 The D Generation (1986-89)
17 My Name's McGooley, What's Yours (1967-69)
18 Acropolis Now (1989-1992)
19 The Aunty Jack Show (1972-75)
20 The Games (1998-2000)

(I sneaked the last one in because I'm hoping John Clarke will do a version for this year, although the Olympics are probably too close now for it to be feasible.)

It's interesting to note from the chart that Australia's favourite form of TV comedy leans more towards sketches than to sitcoms (which we tend to leave to the experts - America). Even series that purport to be sitcoms were mostly born out of sketches and are structured as fast scenes rather than continuous narratives - Kingswood Country grew from The Naked Vicar Show, Kath and Kim from Fast Forward, My Name's McGooley from a Gordon Chater character in The Mavis Bramston Show, Acropolis Now from Wogs Out of Work on stage.

This may lead you to the view that Australians should add a third quality when they are attempting to describe the national character - along with our laid back attitude and our sense of humour, Australians have a terribly short attention span. Which is no bad thing, since it gives us an ability to multi-task and an enthusiasm for new ideas.

If you'd care to discuss that, or nominate other shows that deserve a place in the Australian TV comedy hall of fame, go to Comments

David Dale is the author of Who We Are -- A snapshot of Australia today (Allen and Unwin). To discuss Australian attitudes, go to http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/whoweare.

COMMENTS

So there you go. Hey Dad at the number one spot and you still can't buy it as a seasonal DVD collection. Says a lot about the typical Aussie 'laid back' attitude of the folks in charge of that department doesn't it?

by Graeme on May 10, 2008 at 07:02 PM

Mother & Son at No. 8?? Oh please!
I'm sure Hey Dad ran for so long because the writers in Australia at the time just couldn't come up with anything better; is there a fourth rate?

by Paul Rosman on May 10, 2008 at 07:40 PM

Fat (I think) Pizza on SBS out in front by a country mile!

by rt boy on May 10, 2008 at 07:52 PM

The Micallef P(r)ogram(me).
Little watched, short lived, yet exemplary Aussie comedy

by Suzanne on May 11, 2008 at 12:13 AM

I'm surprised The Late Show (D-Gen) is not in that list. Champagne Comedy!

DD remarks: The list is only about the shows that were most watched, not necessarily the shows that were best.

by Greg on May 11, 2008 at 12:20 AM

I cannot believe, that you left The Late Show (ABC - circa 1992) and We can be heroes (2005) out. The first one brought the 'Working Dog' (Frontline, The Castle, etc.) production team together, while the latter is the craddle for Chris Lilley's lovechildren. Despite this thanks for the list.

DD replies: The list reflects what Australians most watched, not necessarily what was best.

by Stephen Oroszvari on May 11, 2008 at 02:00 AM

Oh Dear. Read this and was so disappointed.
IMO, the two best comedy programmes in Australia, both on ABC, were "The Gillies Report" and later the brilliant "Backburner."
Agree with Mavis Bramstne Show in the list though...

by AndrewJ on May 11, 2008 at 02:29 AM

while not wanting to come on like a pedant ,and while allowing that the ladies all worked on the comeday company , the first kath and kim shows were from a series of skits called 'kims wedding' from the short lived but much missed ' big girls blouse ' ...

by stephen hudson on May 11, 2008 at 06:26 AM

Best 2 of all time: Frontline and BackBurner. Qantas is showing re-runs of Frontline on in flight entertainment and it almost makes the flight worthwhile!

by Jan on May 11, 2008 at 06:43 AM

The only good comedy in Australia has always been on the ABC, when is it coming back?
Hope Rudd can help out the ABC on budget night, after the Howard govt turned the ABC into a waste land of boredom. SBS is the only free to air channel worth viewing at the moment!

by Rod Hall on May 11, 2008 at 06:45 AM

For me. The Paul Hogan show. I have the best of on DVD. I loved the characters. I thought his send ups of Indiana Jones and Phantom were hiliarious. One of the very few comedians Australia has produced that could hold his own against the British and the Americans.

by Mitchell Hall on May 11, 2008 at 07:11 AM

Australian comedy? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?

by confused on May 11, 2008 at 08:24 AM

Like others have mentioned, I'm surprised BackBerner is not on the list. Although not wasted, Peter Berner's talent on TEF is certainly not used to its potential like it was on BackBerner.

by Steve on May 11, 2008 at 08:46 AM

I caught a couple of episodes of Hey Dad! recently - possibly the most unfunny, unoriginal, poorly-scripted, poorly-acted Australian comedy of all time.
Agree that the D-Gen represents an odd absence from that list...

by BB on May 11, 2008 at 08:50 AM

I really liked The Dream with Roy and HG..but I guess it hasn't been running long enough to qualify for hall of fame status.

by nlite on May 11, 2008 at 09:23 AM

Frontline deserves a spot in the top three. One of the greatest Australian satires ever made. Perhaps even in the world.

by Saranga Sudarshan on May 11, 2008 at 09:36 AM

Don't forget The Big Gig - Wendy Harmer, Glyn Nicholas (Pate Biscuit), Jean Kittson (Candida) and company

by Dave Clarke on May 11, 2008 at 10:21 AM

It would have to be 'Kath & Kim', my favourite comedy of all time. I think Jane Turner, Gina Riley & Magda Szubanski are the funniest people in the world. Pure genius (and I'm originally an American).

by Paul from Newtown on May 11, 2008 at 10:23 AM

Hey Dad at number 1? Bloody idiotic. Frontline at number 12? Bloody shameful.

DD remarks: I am only going to say this once more. The list is not a ranking in order of quality, but in order of the size of audience combined with length of time the show was on. So it demonstrates the judgement of australians at different points in TV history.

by The Don Q.C. on May 11, 2008 at 10:32 AM

Mother & Son is the pinnacle of Australian comedy, which I agree is usually a contradiction in terms.

by Ijon Tichy on May 11, 2008 at 10:56 AM

Pretty sure the Late Show used to get top ratings. It was mandatory watching every Saturday for everyone I knew.

by Bob on May 11, 2008 at 11:01 AM

Jimoen, if i was to highlight one show above all others as an example of unique and pissfunny australian comedy it would be the Jimoen show. Despite it being an Irishman and an Englishman.

by HyperBrendan on May 11, 2008 at 11:16 AM

Micallef does it best for me: self-deprecating and socially incisive.
Of the oldies, Norman Gunston was a classic. GMcD was absolutely brilliant in improvising while in character and took the piss out of so many prominent people at the time before it became a fashion

by carlos on May 11, 2008 at 11:29 AM

"Hey Dad" at number 1? That's the unfunniest thing I've ever heard.

by Andy on May 11, 2008 at 11:32 AM

"Hey Dad" was never a good comedy. "Mother and Son" was brilliant as is "The Chases War on Everything". I would add "The Glasshouse" to the list.

by Redhead on May 11, 2008 at 11:34 AM

Mother and Son is by far and away the greatest Australian comedy of all time. It took a tragic situation and mined it for every humorous moment possible.
Every actor in it was perfectly cast and their timing was impeccable. The two leads are quite simply the best comic actors we have ever seen. Unlike most Aussie comedies which play to stereotype and caricature (some do so very well), but I believe this the reason Aussie comedy seems to date so quickly. Mother and Son was 3-dimensional people and beautifully executed characters - like any great show - you can forgive the look and feel of the day and see it for the well-crafted, tightly written piece of genius that it was.
If you watch Hey Dad, Kingswood Country, Acropolis Now! (or as it is known now - FAT PIZZA) you are left wondering why it was funny in the first place - indeed, if it was. Due to the nature of comedy in THE CHASER, it has the shelf life of an open packet of biscuits. Just a note on THE CHASER - the boys do know that pulling stunts for ratings is not political satire? Just in case anyone still thought that's what they were still doing.
The shining light of Australian Comedy is D-Gen/Working Dog who despite their casual projects (Panel and Thank God) still hold the torch of hope as far as I can see. THE FRONT was brilliant.
Lilley is a genius, and like all genius - he can be a little self-indulgent, but I believe he will create that one memorable show that stands the test of time. I don't think he has yet - but god bless him he will.
Rove, Wil, and all the other modern Aussie comics on TV at present who seem to have been made using the same cookie cutter and are about as funny as drunken member of Toastmasters at a family BBQ - please stop soon.
But back to Mother and Son. Best scene ever in Australian comedy - the oranges at the funeral. Gold.

by Lance Baynham on May 11, 2008 at 11:39 AM

nice list, but two things to clarify
1. We Can Be Heroes was unlucky to miss out
And 2. Is it kath and kim before or after the third series? They were different shows in my opinion.

by Joe McKenzie on May 11, 2008 at 12:01 PM

I wish Fox Classics would show the Mavis Bramston Show just we could know what the fuss was all about. I understand that it was so popular in Canberra, that when the TV station wouldn't switch it from Thursday night, late night shopping was switched to Fridays and so it has remained to this day.

The list has captured everything else I would have nominated, apart from the TV version of Alvin Purple which showed how much TV was changing at that time. Funnily enough, it would probably be too raunchy for today.

by Yuri on May 11, 2008 at 12:58 PM

I think Roy & HG definitely deserve a nod for The Dream - surely that was amongst our highest rating ever?

As is often the case, the best and most interesting comedies never rate very well: Micallef Program, Safran vs God, The Late Show, Club Buggery.

by maestro on May 11, 2008 at 01:04 PM

Was Hey Dad a comedy??
Thought comedies were supposed to be funny or at least amusing.
Shows how wrong one can be!
But, hey, for a nation overwhelmingly populated by sheep . . .
Also, wasn't Kat and Kim a continued documentary from Australian suburbia??
And where is "The Glasshouse' on that list?????

by shonny on May 11, 2008 at 01:19 PM

Hey Dad number one? Now that is embarrassing and un-Australian! Trying comparing that show to the great British and American comedies.

by Andrew on May 11, 2008 at 01:44 PM

Hey Dad number one? Now that is embarrassing and un-Australian! Try comparing that show to the great British and American comedies.

by Andrew on May 11, 2008 at 01:46 PM

The Late Show, Micallef and Backberner...three of the best shows with all too-short runs due to being on the ABC or being too in-depth for many peoples demand for a quick, shallow laugh.

Peter Berner is one of the funniest men going around, and Micallef is a genius, nothing short.

Most watched? Fair enough. You couldnt move in the 80's for Hey Dad! episodes. There's a reason why nobody wants a DVD set. Most watched doesnt equal best.

by Jay-Z on May 11, 2008 at 01:55 PM

Where's the love for Shaun Micallef? Terribly underappreciated.

by crooklyn dodger on May 11, 2008 at 02:18 PM

Hey Dad went for 10 yrs !! OMG !! one of the worst, most unfunny, pathetic, excruitiatingly painful disastrous comedies series ever invented on the planet. how did it keep people in employment for 10 yrs.???? explains a lot about the pathetic australian understnading of comedy. i put Acropolos Now up there with it, and Rove not far behind. Rove, totally unfunny unnatural, forced but somehow loved by millions. and shows by genuine genuises like McCallef fade into obscurity. go figure.
have to agree Working Dog are stand outs and the best thing australia have,with all their work from Late Show to Panel, up there with Chaser boys.
did anyone mention Hey Hey its Saterday. in its Hey Day in its late night time slot which was short lived, it ws great, even at 6.30 it had many amusing moments. also what about Good News Week, the older version.? Will et al from Glass House was great and how about those very funny dudes and friends at Spicks & Specks?? they're fab too. oh, Rock Wiz pretty good too. hmmm, funny but mostly all those mentioned were all on the ABC. hmmm. Well done ABC.!!

by rodman on May 11, 2008 at 02:45 PM

Micallef by a mile. Aussies these days tend to go for obvious laughs, which is a little dissapointing. He was able to create a whole new world through his humour. I find people that like Micallef are Family Guy fans too.

I wished they brought back Full Frontal. It would be so appropriate given our modern day society. None of this Skit House or Late Shift nonesense.

by braveduck on May 11, 2008 at 03:57 PM

Actually, I reach the exact opposite conclusion - that Australians demand the character development and context that goes with well-written sitcoms, rather than the atomised punchlines of sketches (and I acknowledge the many badly-written sitcoms - Australian program planners working with comedy generally need to go to work with a lantern, spade and garlic). Not only did characters such as K&K emerge from this trend, characters who remained sketch-based such as Con the Fruiterer became significantly more complex and 3-D as their series progressed (while "Frontline" and "K&K" both declined sharply in their third series as Mike and Kim became more like lazy caricatures). It's easy to imagine "Kenny" as a 5-minute sketch, but wasn't the characterisation what we loved about that movie? It's what makes empathy possible, and that's what makes humour possible. For non-fiction comedy, Australians have leant away from empathy to its rebellious twin vicariousness - the humour of TGYH and the Chaser's stunts isn't in the timing or wit but in the squirm-inducing realisation that "My god, somebody's actually doing that". We like to see embarrassment and vagaries in others, seeing that mainstream TV-watching Australians tend to be larrikans in much the same way that North Korea is a Democratic People's Republic. We like what feeds the myth. This is less forgivable than the well-written fictional comedies mentioned above, where we love what delineates (and in the process often punctures) the myth, and does it with heart.

by Nicholas on May 11, 2008 at 04:05 PM

For my two-cents worth, you can't go past the Gillies Report. Good scripts, topical subjects and expert satire that treated its viewers like grown-ups.

by Maria Conidaris on May 11, 2008 at 04:43 PM

The idea that we are imbued with this remarkable, laconic sense of humour and that we don;t take ourselves seriosuly, is about as mythical as the idea that we all live in the bush and wrestle crocodiles. The fact is - apart from the Germans and those cold arsed scandinavian countries - we're about the least funny people on the planet. Any humour we do possess is either fueled by alcohol, or tempered by political correctness.

by Stephen Lacey on May 11, 2008 at 04:55 PM

Ahh the Late Show... indeed it was Champagne Comedy (Heike Dreschner, gee that's a good sounding name...) however never quite got the audience numbers it deserved. I would be grateful if anyone could confirm the rumour that under the Shirty costume was, in fact, Russell Crowe?

by Kate on May 11, 2008 at 04:58 PM

Frontline, The Games, D Generation - champage comedy. Now and again (no pun intended) I flash back to the 'The Glynn Nicholas Show'. Also I can't believe 'The Big Gig' wasn't mentioned in despatches. I laugh just thinking about Pate Biscuit and her 'stories'.

by Shay GB on May 11, 2008 at 06:34 PM

Normal Gunston? Surely Norman. There was nothing normal about him.

by Brett Debritz on May 11, 2008 at 06:36 PM

Hey Dad may have been the most watched, but without a doubt the best comedy show on Aussie tv was The Late Show. Even now, 15 years after its second (and last) season aired, I can watch the DVDs and find myself on the floor laughing!

by Liz on May 11, 2008 at 06:44 PM

what is this "most watched" rubbish. This list has no credibility as you have failed to note how you are calculating "most watched." This makes you look like you're passing off some random selected list as somehow objectively measured. But that is what you're doing, isn't it.

DD replies: It is a rough measure based on ratings achieved at the time multiplied by number of years the program was on. Go to the previous week's column for more detail.

by Harry on May 11, 2008 at 07:10 PM

God is this really the best we can do. I'm embarrassed. Give me the pom comedy any day.

by boganoverseas on May 11, 2008 at 07:13 PM

Australian comedy has always been very skit-sketch-revue oriented, and is frequently unfunny -- as the above list shows.
We can rule out anything with Graham Kennedy, Wendy Harmer or Jean Kitson. Those who can remember McGooley will remember it as pretty maudlin, but saved by the professionalism of Gordon Chater and John Meillon, whose stage skills saved the programme. But at least it was an attempt at a sit com. Others such as Barley Charlie fared much worse.
I must agree that Kingswood Country was an absolute shocker and it is unbelievable that it was on the box for so long.
Most of the other shows had plenty of filler, with too little editorial input -- and this includes Mavis Bramston, which was frequently boring, so don't let the few highlights fool you -- Yuri, you haven't missed much.
For originality, quality and ratio of laughs per show, I would have to pick Norman Gunston. Gary McDonald's brilliant acting created a believable persona who put himself in unbelievable situations, e.g. attempting to drop in on the President in the White House. His interviews, singing and storytelling all required separate skills, and he managed it brilliantly. Kath and Kim follow closely, for their ability to create a storyline through a series, as well as a new take on our comic minds -- same goes for Paul Hogan, who helped us to see ourselves from a new angle.
Mind you, shows like "The Box" steered a fine line between drama and self-mocking comedy.
Naked Vicar, Comedy Company, D-Generation and a swathe of copycats were just rehashes of a tired formula, although had funny moments.
Mother and Son was an excruciatingly dull show in spite of the combined talents of its actors and actresses.

by Professor Rosseforp on May 11, 2008 at 08:28 PM

Newstopia Shaun Micallef. It has to be up there!

by Troy on May 11, 2008 at 09:00 PM

Hey Dad was about as funny as Two and a Half Men. Great comedy tends to be ageless, hence my favs are D-Gen, The Late Show, and Paul Hogan.

by Toff on May 11, 2008 at 09:09 PM

All Aussie Adventures at number at # 9.
My Name's McGooley, What's Yours at at number at # 17.
This list is the bloody idiotic list; as the ranking in the order of the quality. Maybe that list could be like oh I do not know maybe of but in the order of the size of audience combined with length of time the show was on. Could be like demonstrating the judgement of Australians at different points in TV history.
Just my two cent worth.
Oh got to go Prof. Rosse has the new comedy he write the sketch to.
It is called:
The Bestest Driver and The Most Courteous in L'Australie.
It is the Puff Piece with the broad stroking like the self flagelationistically stuff he churn out like a poster on a sabatical or something else.
Episode number # 1
Prof. Rosse explains how to do a yield while in the traffic's circle to the driver that should do the yield and therefore by great courteousness cause the big back-up to make the jam.
This should be the hilarious stuff.
The Prof. always make me do the laugh.
I am thinking he listens to the ABC way too much or he might have eaten too much of a Lobster's Liver.
His show in the USofA (Professor Volvo) was the big flop.

by Canuckie on May 11, 2008 at 09:37 PM

Best (in no particular order): Frontline, Games, Naked Vicar, Life Support (SBS - unwatched but brilliant skewering of commercial attitudes to 'lifestyle' shows, Chaser, Comedy Company (at the time - hasn't worn well) and the great Micallef.

Worst: Good News Week - ran out of steam about 6 weeks into its original run, gained no steam in its revamp. Big Gig - trndies, none of whom were terribly funny (except for DAAS), Glasshouse - ugh. I didn't laugh once. Comedy Company. The second fast forward - full frontal? The live channel seven show. Skithouse. (I think they called it that because they coudln't find a rhyme with totally f*cked), Willin and Abel (remember that? Grant Dodwell and Shane Withington - like the Goodies, except total crap.)

by d l lewis on May 11, 2008 at 10:03 PM

Forget sneaked in at number twenty! The Games deserves to be number one!
As a high school boy in the late 1950s, I used to watch the original Today breakfast show with Ray Taylor, Gordon Chater, Peggy and Enzo Toppano. Fantastically funny ad-libs.

by Mongrel on May 11, 2008 at 10:18 PM

Definitely, Jimeoin!

by Beth Riley on May 11, 2008 at 10:33 PM

Australia:You're standing in it - with Tim and Debbie's Brain Space, Rod Quantock shoving mars bars into the tv screen.
What about the Aunty Jack Show - has one of the most well known catch phrases in Oz tv history.
Not sure if Barry Humphries fits into the category with the tv specials.

by laughalot on May 11, 2008 at 11:28 PM

Far and away the best comedy series ever on Australian television, only rivalled perhaps by We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High, was DAAS Kapital. Politically, socially, and religiously scathing absurdism that would make Beckett proud, at times bordering on the Kafka-esque, intelligent, challenging, existing effortlessly in its own alternate reality; and at all times excruciatingly funny. True "Auteur" comedy which belongs to a class many leagues above the also-rans mentioned previously.

by bbBoy on May 11, 2008 at 11:37 PM

Also with out was Gina Riley And the girls from Big Girls Blouse,It was A great send up skech and Also Something Stupid which is still not on Dvd

by simon smith on May 11, 2008 at 11:53 PM

The most hilarious show on Australian tv is Today Tonight. As far as intentional comedy goes, We Can be Heroes, Summer Heights High & Frontline do it for me. The absence of (good) incisive comedy at the moment is a mystery. There's so much material crying out for satire and the Chaser guys are on a break. Hopefully they're taking notes.

by darren on May 12, 2008 at 05:58 AM

Canuckie's comments are apt -- but do lobsters have livers?

by Professor Rosseforp on May 12, 2008 at 07:58 AM

Sadly due its longevity, Hey Dad earns the top ranking by default - de fault of de network executives.
Nice to see some of my faves rate a mention. DAAS Kapital. Aunty Jack. Life Support (the REAL and the FAKE Dr Rudy). D-Gen and Late Show (before Working Dog went all judgemental). And almost anything that Shaun Micallef has done (Welcher & Welcher not included).

by Bereft Skerrick on May 12, 2008 at 09:28 AM

I'm dismayed that "Hey Dad!" got to be No.1 despite, by shows end that they'd lost all the original kids and even Dad!

One wonders whether Frontline and The Games would be higher if they had been shown on Channel 7 as opposed to the ABC. They are brilliant satire and deserve to be leading the list.

I also have fond memories of the News Free Zone that was on the ABC in the mid 80s. That show introduced me to Aunty Jack. I wouldn't rate it in the Top 20, but it deserves to be there more than Hey Dud.

by Ozpuck on May 12, 2008 at 12:49 PM

I'm also surprised that noone mentioned the best comedy winner about 2 years ago, which beat Kath and Kim -- namely Double the Fist. On re-watching, it is a bit slow, and definitely a juvenile-minded demographic, but certainly has more laughs than Hey Dad.
Big ups to everybody who did not mention "The Librarians", one of the crappiest Australian so-called comedies ever.

by Professor Rosseforp on May 12, 2008 at 03:59 PM

'Most watched' does not mean 'best ever'. More eyeballs might have watched but that does not mean the brains connected to those eyeballs derived much enjoyment from what was on the screen or even regisitered what exactly it was they were guffawing away at.

If your favourite show did not rate as well as you would like or did not rate at all it simply means that you are probably of superior intelligence and appreciate humour that the vast masses just don't understand. To prove my arguement - Hey
Dad would have to have been the most moronic garbage ever, but people watched it in droves. Probably those viewers would have been incapable of understanding the jokes in Frontline or Mother and Son.

I don't undersatnd why anyone thinks Micallef is funny in any of his incarnations. To me he's a self-indulgent bore, about as funny as herpes and even more painful to endure.

by meg on May 13, 2008 at 01:47 PM

Better late than never:
Yuri - we loved Mavis Bramston because it was different and irreverent. I'd hate to see it now because it would probably look really amateurish. I keep fond memories.
Lance - the Mother & Son with the oranges at the funeral - Oh My! It was on the night we'd just buried Mum, and we sat there with Dad, just horrified. But we all ended up rolling on the floor in hysterical laughter - it did us good!
I happened upon Mother & Son one day recently while surfing Foxtel, and ended up watching and enjoying it again. An excellent show.
I think Hey Dad is like anything on at 7.30pm at the moment: sheer trash, but keeps the kids quiet.

by Sal on May 20, 2008 at 02:47 PM

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