David M. Green: Purveyor of fine humour

Author: David M. Green

  • 31 Questions. The TV game show where YOU can make Season 3.

    With 11 days left on the 31 Questions Season 3 crowdfunding campaign, we’ve raised $1,311 from 33 fantastic people! You’re all outstanding. Thank you so much. That’s 26.22% of the way to our $5,000 goal.

    Now, it might look like there’s no hope in hell we’re going to get to five grand, but I know there are at least a few fans holding out to the last minute to give a SURPRISE donation. You know what would be REALLY surprising? If you donate RIGHT NOW. I for one, sure wouldn’t be expecting it.

    How else can we be expected to make quality segments like “Will It Flush?”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E0PeDTldJA

    Or The Enigma Box?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsKsBXkMr0w

    Hey, that broken glass ain’t free. It’s not like you just find it lying in the street…

    Our crowdfunder map is starting to fill up. We’ve now got donations from FIVE countries, with New Zealand recently joining the team. I think this is awesome. And I hate using the word “awesome”. That’s how much I like this map:


    View 31 Questions Season 3 Crowdfunders in a larger map

    And many people have now received their fabulous merchandise, just like Blazenka Brysha from Mount Eliza, Victoria, who has chosen to display her mug and badges above some sort of antique casserole dish/chamber pot:

    Time is running out.

    Join us.

    Help make 31 Questions Season 3.

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Host, etc.

  • I’M making 31 Questions Season 3… are YOU?

    Yes. Yes! YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!

    We’re back in the crowdfundorium that is Indiegogo to raise some legal tender for the production of our third and most likely final season of 31 Questions – coming 2014 to your local community TV station and/or Internet.

    If this is your first visit to my website and you’ve never heard of 31 Questions, you’re a dull boy, Billy.

    This is what it’s all about:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaUYb1qKVL8

    If you like what you see and would like to help MAKE the TV game show everyone’s listening about, go to our campaign page on Indiegogo and make a contribution. Like last time, there’s also some fabulous merchandise on offer, including badges.

    Did I mention we got badges?

    I’ve never seen my semen under a microscope, but I imagine it looks something like that.

    We also have NEW MUGS! They’re like the badges, but with a larger concavity at the rear, perfect for holding liquids, if you know what I mean:

    Like last time, we’re also keeping track of our crowdfunder locations on this planet of ours (to the nearest suburb). 3 days in and we’ve already had donations from FOUR different countries! And New Zealand isn’t even one of them!

    Check out our fabulous Season 3 Crowdfunder Map as it gradually becomes infected with more and more little blue markers:


    View 31 Questions Season 3 Crowdfunders in a larger map

    As of writing this blog entry, we’ve already raised an amazing $570! The goal this time is $5,000, so we’re already more than 10% of the way there.

    Last season, we managed to raise $1,846 and that was fantastic, but it still left a large gap between that figure and the actual cost of making season 2. And this time we’re hoping to invest in a totally new set and pay some of the key crew members.

    Ahh community television. It’s a low price to pay for total creative freedom.

    Big thank you to all our contributors so far. I’ll post the full list of names at the end of the campaign after December 14, and of course every donor will get a special thanks in the show’s credits.

    And merchandise is, if not in, then on the way to being in, the mail.

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Past tense of Indiegogo? Indiewentwent.

  • Francis Greenslade is Other Famous People

    Earlier this week I caught up with the very talented Francis Greenslade in my favourite Melbourne suburb in terms of pronunciation: Elsternwick. We chatted for an hour about insects, acting, Blue Heelers, Winners & Losers, Shaun Micallef, sketch comedy, theatre, musical instruments and other related things.

    Fortunately, this fascinating conversation was recorded and you can hear it all in the latest episode of David M. Green & Other Famous People. Available on iTunes, as well as in the player embedded below:

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    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Sans Slade.

  • Hooray for student media

    In response to new Education Minister Christopher Pyne’s comments last week RE: again abolishing compulsory student services fees at Australian universities, I wrote an opinion piece for ABC’s The Drum website about my own experience last time it happened and the impact it had on student media.

    Read my thing here: Student media needs student fees to survive.

    The good people at Radio Adelaide – where my media career began – saw the article and invited me onto their breakfast show on Monday to have a chat with Radio’s Angus Randall. It was slightly too early in the morning for me, but you can listen to the audio here.

    Always too happy to give back to Radio Adelaide, the station that gave me everything. Including an award, which they have since misplaced.

    If anyone sees the 2007 South Australian Community Broadcasting Association “Bilby” Award for Best Station ID 2007 anywhere, would you let me know?

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    And good to hear The Empire Times is back up and running.

  • The Good Show Ep 4 – Andrew Bolt Loves Animals

    Hold on to your pants because it’s a brand new episode of The Good Show! The sketch comedy podcast with Anthony’s McCormack and the me guy.

    In Ep 4, we’re joined “live” in Studio Pleasant by special guest controversial commentator Andrew Bolt; Anthony reveals his new brand of Special Water; Babysitting with Michael Wincott; a paid political message from a minor political party; plus we give you the outside scoop on 31 Questions, Big Brother and the flimsy relationship between those two TV programmes.

    It’s also got the most absurdly over-produced intro theme in the history of The Good Show, if not all shows that are good (It took me 6 hours to edit the first 65 seconds!). I’ve wanted to do a ridiculous over-produced “wall-of-sound-esque” intro for a while. Something that just makes fun of commercial radio imaging. Because really, it’s worthy of ridicule. I even blended in a few grabs from some American radio promos circa 1986/87, courtesy of YouTube and some guy with a cassette tape.

    You can listen to Ep 4 of The Good Show, entitled “Andrew Bolt Loves Animals” via this embedded player thing:

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    Or you can listen, download AND SUBSCRIBE to The Good Show on iTunes.

    As hilarious and elaborately edited as our sketches are, I suspect it’ll be the cameo from Australia’s most read political blogger that’ll get people talking. So for your convenience, I’ve taken the liberty of isolating Andrew Bolt’s appearance on The Good Show.

    Here is my gift to the Internet:

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Been hanging on to that one for a while.