> gg wrote:
> I can't believe that's real, but it's funny: "well cardboard is out"
>
The video does not depict the real Senator Collins or any other actual
government spokesperson. Instead it is one episode of a long running
humour segment delivered by Australian comedians John Clarke and Bryan
Dawe. The "Front Fell Off" episode first aired back in 1991. For a
number of years, the duo has delivered their bitingly satirical take
on Australian politics and society first on radio and later in regular
TV segments. They currently appear on ABC current affairs program, The
7.30 Report. Clarke has played a variety of "newsworthy" Australians
including prime ministers and other politicians and prominent business
leaders while Dawe plays his hapless interviewer. Information on
Clarke's website explains the pair's approach:
In the interviews, John makes no attempt to look or sound like the
person he is pretending to be, but deals with matters as he sees fit.
Bryan persists with dignity and strives for understanding.
Clarke and Dawe are well known in Australia, and, when the
"interviews" are aired in their original context, most viewers would
very quickly realise that they are only for entertainment and feature
an actor just pretending to be the high-profile "interviewee" named in
the episode.
However, in this case, it appears that some unknown prankster has
removed the segment from its original setting and tacked on title and
ending captions that imply that it shows a genuine news interview with
the real Senator Collins. Senator Bob Collins did serve as Federal
Minister for Shipping between 1990 and 1992 but he never gave an
interview even remotely resembling the one portrayed in the comedy
piece. Collins died in September 2007. Moreover, the oil spill
incident lampooned in the Clarke & Dawe segment occurred in 1991 not
2007 as suggested in the email.
The original and unaltered version of Clarke & Dawe's "The Front Fell
Off" episode is available on Clarke's website.
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