The Chaser's War on Everything
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File:Chaser's War Season 2.jpg Opening title screen | |
Starring | Andrew Hansen Chas Licciardello Julian Morrow Craig Reucassel Chris Taylor |
Country of origin | ![]() |
No. of episodes | 39 (as of June 20, 2007) (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Running time | 26 minutes per episode |
Original release | |
Network | ABC TV |
Release | February 17, 2006 |
The Chaser's War on Everything (often shortened to The War by The Chaser cast, or simply "the Chaser's War") is a satirical television comedy series broadcast on ABC TV in Australia.
The series is produced by satire group The Chaser: Chris Taylor (who is also the show's script editor), Julian Morrow (now acting as executive producer), Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen and Chas Licciardello. Dominic Knight is a writer, but does not play an on-screen role. Charles Firth does roving reports for the show from the United States.
In December 2006 The Chaser's War on Everything won an Australian Film Institute Award for 'Best Television Comedy Series' and Andrew Hansen won an AFI Award for 'Best Performance in a Television Comedy.'[1]
In May 2007, the program was nominated for the TV Week Logie award "Most Outstanding Comedy Program".[2]
The program currently airs on Wednesday at 9pm on the main ABC TV channel; it is repeated on Friday evening at around 11pm and again on Saturday on digital channel ABC2.
Show concept
The show's studio segments are performed panel-style in front of a live audience, on a set reminiscent of where the group used to meet. These segments are interspersed with pre-produced location items and fake advertisements. The series looks at all issues and attacks a wide range of current topics in politics and the media. Series one aired late on Friday evenings where it developed a cult following, prompting a move to a more high-profile slot on Wednesdays at 9pm for season two.
DVDs
A DVD of the first thirteen episodes of Season One was released on August 17 2006. A second DVD with episodes 14-26 was released on November 1 2006. The Second Series' first 13 episodes is to be released on August 14 2007.
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Season Two
In the lead up to Season Two, now aired in prime time,[3] The Chaser team produced a live webcast of people counting down to the first episode of the season. New segments have also been developed and the opening sequence has been reworked. The new timeslot of 9 p.m. (AEST) on Wednesday evenings has resulted in an increase in the show's ratings.[4] Despite being in direct competition with regularly high rating shows on commercial networks, weekly ratings of close to 1.5 million viewers have been achieved.[5] The success of the show has particularly hurt the ratings of Channel 7 time-slot competitor Heroes.[6]
Part One of Season Two of the series has now fully aired and the Chaser team is currently taking a break of ten weeks, so the usual production quota of twenty-six episodes per year does not conclude before the 2007 Federal Election.[7] The show will return in early September, and conclude the second series with 13 more episodes, with elections specials.
Segments on the show
Segments in orange were in Season One, but so far have not been in Season Two. Segments in green denote a new segment introduced in Season Two. Segments in black have been in both seasons.
Primary Segments
The primary segments form the backbone of the show. These segments normally focus on key issues in a range of topics. They are normally presented by the cast members, live in front of the audience, and can be accompanied with pre-produced stunts and sketches relating to the topics.
- "What Have We Learnt from Current Affairs This Week?" – Presented by Hansen and Licciardello, the segment pokes fun at programs Today Tonight and A Current Affair; keeping scores for every story matching a category such as "Menace To Society", "Old People Screwed Over" and "People Cheating The System". Most segments feature a lesson on their reporting techniques. Subjects covered include how to spot 'dodgy' guys, how to identify the different types of experts (including those who "flip pages" and "click mice"), and the art of network cross-promotion. They also make fun of both shows' tendency to come to fast inaccurate conclusions. In one of the episodes they held the What Have We Learnt From Current Affairs This Week? Oscars and in the final episode of Season One, they presented the "What Have We Learned From Current Affairs This Week Awards". Andrew and Chas also presented A Current Affair with the "Slightly Less Crap Than Today Tonight Award". In Season Two, there has been a reduction in the frequency of this segment, in favour of new segments, such as "The News According To Fox" and "What You Missed on Cable".
- "In Other News..." – Julian and Craig look at the news for this week and put forward their point of view on the issues. The segment also features various stunts relating to the mentioned news items. In Season Two, "The Fixers" has shown to replace this segment.
- "Firth in the USA" – Charles Firth, now living in America, performs some kind of stunt or conducts some kind of interview. Segments included Firth trying to get into Yale University's 'Skull and Bones' secret society), attempting to be thrown out of more corporate headquarters in one day than Michael Moore has in his entire career and flirting with a male Christian fundamentalist from Westboro Baptist Church. A more famous segment is when Firth met Hillary Clinton during campaigning and offered to be her intern; an obvious satire of Monica Lewinsky [8]. He also once went to Africa to see if products that stated they were "world famous" really were. The episode where Firth promotes to the Americans that many "famous landmarks" are located in Australia has attracted acclaim [neutrality is disputed], as it showed that the Americans interviewed had believed that the Great Wall of China is a town called China located ouyside of Darwin, and that the "real" Mount Rushmore is in Australia as well.
- "The Ad Roadtest" – The team recreate situations shown in advertisements to see if they would work in real life. Examples include the confidentiality of Oral-B dentists, if the use of Lynx 'Clix' deodorant really does attract more girls, if Godfrey's vacuum cleaners really can lift up bowling balls, and whether dancing can result in getting a job, as evident in the Carlton Draught commercial, and the Nicorette commercial featuring male cheerleaders[9].
- "The Fixers" – Julian and Craig take on tough problems and offer an easy fix. Such problems include David Hicks, Chas' smell and recycled water. It can be seen as a replacement for the "In Other News..." segment from Season One.
- "Citizens' Infringement Officer" – Julian gives out fines to people for absurd reasons. He has given fake fines to parking inspectors, people with "wanker" number plates, bad mobile phone ringtones, inappropriate baby names and unattractive tattoos.
Supporting Segments
The supporting segments are usually pre-produced stunts and sketches, supplementing the primary segments of the show. These segments are usually much shorter than the primary segments.
- Surprise Spruiker – A shop "spruiker" (Andrew Hansen) attempts to help various institutions sell things, such as Giorgio Armani suits with the call "$1000 madness", WorkChoices outside the offices of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, or Dell laptops satirising the battery controversy or satirising the takeover of the South Sydney Rabbitohs. His wireless speaker is generally carried out of range of the microphone by security, and he is escorted away. In the final episode of Season One, the Crazy Warehouse Guy and the Surprise Spruiker had a stand off (using special effects to create the situation, as they are both played by Hansen), in which the Crazy Warehouse Guy crammed the speaker over the Surprise Spruiker's head, with the order that his surprise spruiking was "never to be repeated.
- "Pursuit Trivia" – Julian Morrow tests the general knowledge of a politician or celebrity by asking a Trivial Pursuit question from a game card in his hand at an interview or press conference. As yet only three people have successfully answered a question: Kevin Rudd (debatable, as he happened to mention the answer in a long speech, although Morrow told him he was correct), Shannon Noll, and Helen Clark (carefully avoiding the commonly-ridiculed New Zealand pronunciation of "six"). In a deleted scene on the DVD release of the show, Alex Lloyd repeatedly asked for more questions, until he also got one right. Occasionally Morrow will tell them the answer is for a piece of pie, holding up a very big wedge.
- "Scenes from the Life of the Crazy Warehouse Guy" – A stereotypical announcer (Andrew Hansen) from a warehouse television advertisement uses his unique speaking style in everyday situations such as ordering McDonald's, asking for help in a public library or talking on a mobile phone in a crowded tram. It is hinted he is unaware of his unusual speaking patterns when he screamed about how everyone else was being too noisy. He is Christian and was even a priest for a brief amount of time. Most of this segment for the first season was shot on the same day near the start of the season. In the August 11 2006 episode the Crazy Warehouse Guy appeared in the studio, playing the piano and singing a duet with Emily Taheny from Comedy Inc. The song was a modified version of George Gershwin's "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off". In the final episode of the first series, the Crazy Warehouse Guy met with the Surprise Spruiker (Andrew Hansen's other recurring character) at the Rug Warehouse and had a stand-off. A recent episode featured the a documentary about the Crazy Warehouse Guy's previous jobs, including voice for a prototype GPS and a prostitute.
- "Mr Ten Questions" – Andrew Hansen shows up at a press conference and proceeds to ask ten questions (which vary in degrees of relevance) without letting the interviewee speak until he has read out the list. So far Anthony LaPaglia and Kerri-Anne Kennerley are the only people to successfully answer all the questions, however LaPaglia did get prompts from Andrew, and his final answer ("Yes," in response to "Why is it called "Without a Trace" when all you do is find traces and find them?") made no sense.
- "A Message From Osama Bin Laden" – An existing video of the infamous terrorist Osama Bin Laden is subbed with incorrect and humorous subtitles, often declaring a Jihad on various people for arbitrary irritations. Videos of Saddam Hussein, Abu Bakar Bashir and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have also been used in a similar manner.
- "If Life Were A Musical" – Members of the cast go to the public, targeting a specific person with a problem, and behave as though they are in a Broadway-esque musical. The segment is referred to as a "Taylor Hansen Morrow" production.
Occasional segments
These segments support the show, however do not feature prominently.
- "Famous Face Off" – Two "masters" in a particular field compete to be the best in an endeavour such as tongue-twisting newsreading or "blocking" reforms in the Senate by Barnaby Joyce and Steve Fielding.
- "The 2:30 Report" – In this segment Chas and Julian review the worst of late-night television, such as late night game shows such as Quizmania and Christian programming.
- "What Have We Learnt From History?" – In this segment the cast test whether people today have learnt a lesson from events in the past, for example the invasion of the Trojan Horse, the story of Genesis or the German Invasion of Poland in World War II.
- "The News According To Fox" – In a similar fashion to "What Have We Learned from Current Affairs This Week?", Chas and Andrew satirically criticise the bias of the popular American Fox News Channel.
- "Clive The Slightly-Too-Loud Commuter" – Clive (Andrew) goes onto public transport and begins to talk extremely loudly on his mobile phone about very personal issues, such as drugs or genital health to "Dr. Beaty".
- "What You Missed on Cable" – An occasional segment which shows the oddities of some programs on cable and sometimes comparing them to bland programming on the ABC. Talk show Maury features prominently in this segment.
- "Anna Coren's Segue of the Week" – Integrated into "What Have We Learnt from Current Affairs This Week?", looking at Coren's extremely unrelated and fast transitions between stories on Today Tonight.
- "Nut Job of the Week" – The team takes a look at the "special people in our society" - people who have "alternative views". For example, The Secret's theory on how to acquire your deepest desires by the Law of Attraction was tested in the general public.
Recurring themes
- Songs - Andrew Hansen performs songs with a humorous theme. Some include Prolix Songwriter (a songwriter who is prolix); Hill$ong (a parody of Hillsong); boyBand (a parody on boybands) and Scottish Comedian (a parody of Billy Connolly) & The Filler Song. Although all the music and vocals are by Andrew, the other members often appear to be singing or playing but they are in fact miming or pretending to play. The songs are usually written by Andrew or Chris. [citation needed]
- Television Advertisements - Throughout the series the team create satirical television advertisements. These advertise a false item or mock existing ads. Some notable ones include 'sandy' toilet paper, toilet paper made out of sandpaper; and a parody of the government ad, 'Violence Against Women - Australia Says No', in which they changed it to, 'Appearing In Government Ads - Australia Says No'. This was also used to promote the new season (2007) of the show on the ABC, where they changed it to state that they had no new material.
- Movie Trailers - The team creates parody trailers for existing movies. Some include When a Telemarketer Calls (When a Stranger Calls), Brokeback Mountain: Christian Edition (Brokeback Mountain), American π (American Pie), and Carlton United 93 (United 93).
- Vox Pop - One of the team members conduct vox pops with people on the street asking for their opinions. One vox pop includes Craig asking tourists about the new Australian tourist campaign, 'So where the bloody hell are you?', which has the subject of much media attention of the use of the word "bloody". Instead, Craig asked opinions on 'new' campaigns, including; 'Don't be a prick, visit Australia,', 'Australia, it shits all over everywhere else' and 'F**k, Australia's f**king great so why the f**k aren't you here motherf**ker?'. In another segment, Julian asked people if they thought iPods were anti-social, while listening to an iPod himself.
- Door to Door - One or two members go door-knocking around the neighbourhood. Some sketches include asking people if they want to join Al-Qaeda, if they can keep homeless people at their house for the duration of the Commonwealth Games and door to door spam.
- Chas' Challenge - A challenge is put forward to Chas. Some include boneheading at the Logies and achieving the world's shortest taxi fare (under 20 metres).
Controversies and well-known stunts
Some of the events on the show have received significant news coverage.
Julian Morrow's novelty cheque
On February 8 2006, before the first episode of the show had screened, Julian Morrow approached Australian Wheat Board executive Charles Stott with a fake novelty cheque, made out to Saddam Hussein, and asked Stott to sign it. Stott's lawyer said his client felt intimidated by the stunt,[10] and the footage of the stunt was not shown in the first episode as scheduled due to "legal reasons". In the first episode to go to air, Julian Morrow responded, by raising the point that Charles Stott has done business with Saddam Hussein, a brutal dictator, yet he is intimidated by a large novelty cheque. The footage of this stunt does appear as a bonus on the show's first DVD.
Chris Taylor on Sunrise
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On the ninth episode of the show, Chris Taylor announced that he planned to break-up with his wife of seven years, but he didn't want to ask her "the usual boring way," but do "something special, something she'll remember". The segment shows several of Taylor's attempts to "pop the question," including hanging a sign over a freeway, and "proposing" on a big screen at an outdoor festival. For the finale, Taylor introduces the interview of him on the morning television program, Sunrise. In the interview, Taylor asks the host if he can send a quick message to his partner, he then proceeds to tell her to "Get the f**k out of my life". This finale from the segment was leaked onto the internet and has been widely distributed by email. Many viewers believed the segment was actually real but Taylor admitted on national radio station Triple J that it was set up. It was actually filmed after Sunrise went to air and shown on The Chaser's War on Everything only at this time. [citation needed] Channel Seven also edited the footage and edited in all the onscreen graphics before giving them the footage. The hosts of Sunrise admitted it was a set up. However, they did not know what Taylor was going to say because he only asked if he could do a bit for the show. [citation needed] Sunrise replayed a censored version of the clip on August 21 2006 when they had the Chaser team on the show promoting their new DVD.
Chas Licciardello's Bulldogs incident
On July 14 2006, Chas Licciardello was charged with offensive conduct after attempting to sell fake Canterbury Bulldogs merchandise outside an NRL game.[11] The merchandise included plastic knuckledusters and balaclavas in the Bulldogs' colours, and was supposed to satirise recent violent clashes between rugby league fans. Several Bulldogs fans took offense and attempted to attack Licciardello, and as a result he was charged for offensive behaviour.[12] On the broadcast following his arrest, Licciardello appeared onstage in handcuffs and within an iron cage. On that same episode, he apologised for his actions, claiming to understand why the Bulldogs fans were offended: because Canterbury Bulldogs fans much prefer to use their fists. This statement was accompanied by footage of Bulldog's supporters assaulting opposing team supporters during a match. After appearing in court with co-star Julian Morrow, Licciardello pleaded not guilty and the matter was adjourned.[13] On January 23, 2007, Licciardello was found not guilty of the offensive behaviour charge.[14] He was interviewed after the case draped in an Australian flag, and said he would appeal "to the Supreme Court, to the High Court, to the UN, to the Jedi Council and the Snickometer." After being reminded he had won, he said "I didn't actually prepare any material for the off-chance that we won." He then said he was going to the Big Day Out.[15]
Craig Reucassel's axe stunt
On 2 August 2006, Craig Reucassel responded to a news story about a private school student who had hugged Prime Minister John Howard while holding a screwdriver during one of the PM's morning walks. To test the Prime Minister's security arrangements, he approached John Howard during a morning walk and asked for a hug while holding a large plastic battle axe. Reucassel did receive the hug, but a later approach while holding a running chainsaw was not so successful. There was much debate surrounding whether or not to turn on the chainsaw and whether they would be shot at for doing this.[16]
Cut out from this segment was the attempt between the axe and the chainsaw, in which Reucassel was holding a four-point-star mace. He did not achieve his hug on that occasion, either. Anybody who listens to the DVD commentaries of the Chaser's War on Everything will know just how difficult it was for them to actually find John Howard at all.[17]
Julian Morrow's Virgin Blue ticket prank
On 16 August 2006, Julian Morrow purchased two airline tickets on the Virgin Blue airline under the names "Al Kyder" and "Terry Wrist", checked in using the automated check-in at Sydney Airport, and then did not show up for boarding, so that the names would be read out in a final boarding call over the public address system.[18] The prank was acknowledged by Virgin Blue who criticised the use of taxpayer dollars in the "childish humour".[18]
Craig Reucassel's Speedos
On March 19 2007, during a campaign appearance for the New South Wales State Election, the then-opposition leader Peter Debnam was confronted by Craig Reucassel wearing nothing but Speedos and a baseball cap [19], making fun of Debnam's campaign appearances in the swimwear. When TV cameras remained focused on Reucassel rather than Mr Debnam, he said, "Sorry, I'm not Peter Debnam, he's over there. Just because I'm wearing this doesn't mean I'm Peter Debnam". Reucassel stuck around for the press conference but failed to draw a response from the opposition leader, and was again ignored when he went to shake Mr Debnam's hand. Although he wasn't quite ignored by a security team as he attempted to enter Mr Debnam's car replying whilst being pushed away from the car, "Oh sorry I'm not Peter Debnam I forgot".
Andrew Hansen at Sophia Loren's press conference
On 1 June 2007, during the Mr Ten Questions segment, Hansen created controversy when he asked visiting movie star Sophia Loren ten questions, including "who let the dogs out?", "is that you doing the voice of Cartman on South Park?" and "this is all something we secretly wonder; because you're such a refined actress, do you ever fart?" [20] Loren seemed confused as to what was going on, and when Hansen was removed by security, she stated "That man was just silly. Silly, silly, silly!"
Publicity on Current Affairs shows
Australia's two main tabloid current affairs programs, both of which are mocked in the What Have We Learned From Current Affairs This Week? segment, have aired "puff piece" segments about The Chaser.
A Current Affair
On 19 April 2007, Nine Network's current affairs program A Current Affair aired a positive segment perpetuating rumours that the program was defecting to a commercial network.[21] They were getting (and still have) consistently high ratings each week and hence, commercial networks were interested in poaching them. Other ABC shows have defected to commercial networks in the past, including Good News Week, Shaun Micallef, and most recently, Kath & Kim. The Chaser mocked Channel 9 the following episode with a skit titled The Chaser's War On Everything (Except Sponsors), which essentially put forward the message that many of the attacks made on the show are on corporate sponsors of the commercial networks and as such would not be wanted on them.
On May 9, 2007, A Current Affair back-flipped and aired a negative segment about The Chaser, about their jokes "overstepping the mark" and how dangerous their stunts are.[22] A Current Affair aired another segment about The Chaser on June 7, 2007, using the same clichés about them "overstepping the mark" and being criticised by 2UE presenter Steve Price and a random Vietnam veteran. The show satirised this by interviewing their own Vietnam vet: a veterinarian who was Vietnamese. [23]
Today Tonight
On 13 June 2007, the Seven Network current affairs program Today Tonight also aired a segment on The Chaser[24] showing Chas Licciardello admitting to staging some stunts and being reviewed by the ABC's legal team, despite that this was well known among fans of the show. Some of their better known setups include Chris swearing on Sunrise (see above), the Ford Focus Ad Road Test and the Sheik Hilaly/Anthony Mundine sketch.
The reporter met with Chas and Andrew outside the ABC building in Ultimo, where they greeted him with a van that had a 'Meakin Booze Bus' stencil on the side, seemingly unaware of the stunt being pulled on them. Seven's head of News and Current Affairs, Peter Meakin had recently been convicted for a third time for drink driving.[25]
During the segment, Today Tonight attempted to ambush audience members who were outside the studio at the filming of a Chaser episode aired on 14 June 2007. The Chaser had tipped off the audience about Today Tonight's presence, and instructed anyone approached by the crew to bring up the subject of Peter Meakin.[26] Today Tonight only aired one interview with a young boy in attendance who was surprised that The Chaser's stunts were set up.
During The Chaser episode which was filmed, the What Have We Learned From Current Affairs This Week? segment's lesson was about Chaser puff pieces on both current affairs shows, it showed footage of the interview with the Today Tonight reporter, Chas and Andrew constantly brought up the subject of Peter Meakin.
Today Tonight itself has previously come under fire for set-up stunts for their own show.[27][28]
Video podcasting
On July 27 2006 the ABC announced that entire episodes of The Chaser's War on Everything, along with jtv, would be made available for download via a vodcasting system.[29] Just days after appearing on the Australian iTunes podcasting directory, the show took the number one position. The first season vodcast episodes contained all material originally broadcast but some shows in the second season featured copyrighted music (such as the famous theme to Cops, "Bad Boys"), and so had to be removed from the podcast.
As of Season Two, Episode 6, which aired on May 2 2007, the ABC has stopped allowing visitors from outside of Australia from accessing the vodcast. Instead, they receive the following message:
"We're sorry, this video podcast is made available for use by persons located in Australia only. If you are not located in Australia, you are not authorised to use this podcast."
An actual IP-based ban was also instated on the podcast, banning non-Australian RSS clients from getting the podcast. This had the side effect of US Web-based RSS readers, such as Google Reader and My Yahoo, being unable to reach the podcast.
As of June 7 2007, the ABC has reinstated limited access to download episodes of the show for viewers in the United States and Singapore, among others.
YouTube
Hundreds of clips from the show were pulled from video sharing site YouTube after a fake DMCA take down notice.[30] The culprit, a 15 year old Australian boy, has since apologised.[31] The ABC permits its work to be shared. The stunt was referred to at the end of Episode 4 of Season Two, by the Chaser team, with Andrew Hansen saying: "If you're very quick, why not check out some highlight clips on YouTube before some fifteen-year-old kid deletes them all."
Trivia
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- Names proposed for the series which were rejected by the ABC include 'Thank Allah It's Friday!' and 'The Chaser's Age Of Terror Variety Hour' .[32]
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