October 19 2007
Chasers in Trouble Over Eulogy Song
posted by Ana Samways at 5:05 am
Just last month they bumbled into the best moment of TV satire ever by driving a fake motorcade with an Osama Bin Laden look-alike inside into Sydney’s APEC restricted security zone, now Aussie TV satire The Chaser’s War on Everything are in trouble again.
On Wednesday night the show featured comedian Andrew Hanson performing a song about how the flaws of people are forgotten in death. And who better to include but dead celebrities.
With a chorus line: “Even Wankers Turn Into Top Blokes After Death”, the song has a go at Steve Irwin, racing car driver Peter Brock and the Princess Di, but stopped short of making a joke about Belinda Emmet, the late wife of Rove McManus.
Talk-back has gone off; and in election-mode both John Howard and Paul Rudd have come out lambasting the skit and now the widows of some of those mentioned have gone public.
The Chaser team defends themselves here, but what do you think? Good satire or bad taste?
October 19th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Watch what happens folks. Writing and singing this disrespectful song about dead people will haunt the chaser comedians/team for a life time. when someone close to them dies, there mother or fatther or son or daughter they are going they will be reminded about making fun of family members who passed away!… Big mistake guys. I feel sorry for you
October 19th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Woot, you guys are still kings of satire. When will everyone else understand the concept of “satire”?
October 20th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Some months back I went to see Hanson’s play Dead Caesar where this was one of the numbers performed. It brought the house down. A very witty & satirical play all-in-all and this was one of the best bits – I’m so happy it’s been broadcast to offend more people
October 21st, 2007 at 6:23 am
How does it being “satire” excuse it being a piece of shit cheap bad taste attempt at humour? I’m sick of morons using this kind material to ge a laugh. Lets have a laugh at all the people who died in the tsunami now too, Haha, all the kids that became orphans, thats so funny.
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:02 am
Brilliant. Hits the nail on the head perfectly. These guys are fantastic.
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:11 am
I think that this piece hits all the buttons of good satire, but would have been excellent satire if it had made the basic point with more subtlety.
Alas, subtle is something that seems a bit of a stretch for some of today’s “push the boundaries” comedians.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:01 am
That was absolutely brilliant!!!
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Very funny and satirical.
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Great parody on life as we know it
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I didnt know some of the people but still brilliant & refreshing… and so true.
Only the braindead would criticise this type of satire, we need more of it!
October 24th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Funniest thing I have heard in a long time. I really cracked up over it and have watched again 4 times and showed everyone in my family. Who all thought it was hilarious.
October 26th, 2007 at 5:59 am
in reply to ‘what?’ are you really so blinded by political correctness to miss the point of this parody completely? and with your tsunami example im sure there would have been many many murderers and rapists and drug traffickers killed too. but guess what? their just victims and death and lo and behold they become saints that you up and protect now. understand the point of the song now?
October 26th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
get over it
it was funny
a’ight?
December 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pm
OMG the chasers guys are MY HEROES!! oh, and btw, as what “GO CHASER!” said about what “what?” said … TOTALLY AGREED!!! this song is so true it’s funny. and wow… about out of the 1.5 million ppl who watched it, only 30 complained. THIRTY!! and yeah, that stuff about belinda emmett? they weren’t going to say anything about her! she was cool! and that stuff about ‘martin bryant”, well, they were being SARCASTIC!! all those sour-arsed jerks (anna coren) who took offence should all go pull their heads out of their *****. and if anyone didn’t like the song let me tell you this:
…even YOU, will be a top bloke…
…after death