Category: Videos: Chaser’s War

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Every week on The Chaser’s War on Everything Anderew Hansen has done this segment called ‘Surprise Spruiker’. He describes the spruiker as the guy that stands out the front of $2 shops on a mic yelling “bargains, bargains, bargains”.

He thinks that there are places that could use this kind of salesman, and so far he’s visited; Giorgio Armani, Department of Workplace Relations, Department of Immigration and The Australian Wheat Board with his microphone and speaker.

This week’s episode though, he visited Channel 9.

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This weeks lesson: subtle visualisations

its a bit like being patronised by a farcically inane television presenter

If you missed it, here is week one and week two as well.

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This is my last Chaser post until next weekend I promise, but this face off between ABC veteran news reader Richard Morecroft and Sky News reporter Jacinta Tynan seemed too cool not to share. Its basicaly just a read-off between the two of them over some testing autocue dialogue.

I knew this show would be funny, I loved Today Today, but I just didn’t think it would be this good.

Sorry about the size of the H264 video, but don’t forget there is always a slightly smaller iPod version available through the podcast. I know I’m stepping on enough copyright as it is but I’d upload whole episodes if I didn’t fear the wrath of ABC legal.

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The Chaser did a really funny piece on the rivalry between Sunrise and Today.

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It looks like this is going to be a regular segment on The Chaser’s War on Everything, this week they look at some of the TV conventions used in A Current Affair and Today Tonight, including that generic footage you always see of people while they’re being introduced.

If you missed it, here is last weeks segment too.

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I finally got around to watching the first episode of the new ABC show ‘The Chaser’s War on Everything’ from last friday night.

This clip is of Chas and Andrew looking at what Today Tonight and A Current Affair have been up to.