Great fun to be part of Alasdair & Andy’s 400 sketch idea generating session for their podcast ‘Two in the Think Tank’. I’m on with Pat McCaffrie from about 3 hours in. All 4 of us wrote for ‘Mad as Hell’ once upon a time.
They’re on Patreon too btw.
DMG
The other night I joined Dave Mclennan and Casey Cumming on their podcast Dave’s Video Graveyard. I’ve been a fan ever since I stumbled upon their old show on Adelaide’s WOW FM in the car many years ago.
We talked about childhood video stores, Hungry Jack’s, ice creams, our best drive-in double features and go through my 10 favourite films of all time.
A couple of corrections while I’ve got you. I had to double check the map and the Video Mania / Civic Video / Movieland video store I was thinking of was actually on Sturt Road in Warradale (I’m pretty sure it was on the corner of Eucla Avenue – long since knocked down and turned into houses).
Also the 1979 film ‘Being There’ wasn’t actually mentioned in that famous scene in ‘Tropic Thunder’. It was ‘Rainman’ and ‘Forrest Gump’ but you could absolutely put it in that same category.
Anyways, LISTEN HERE.
DMG
I was recently a guest on the excellent ‘Dissecting a Frog’ podcast, where host Luke Morris from Comedy Victoria and I discussed the finer points of writing comedy for radio, TV & online.
Highlights include some things I’ve never told anyone, like how I derive inspiration from the ABC toilets, some behind the scenes tidbits from Mad as Hell, my brief time at Triple M in 2009, fun with autocues and the latest season of VHS Revue.
They’re all good episodes and if you’re interested in writing and/or performing comedy and the mechanics of it, I highly recommend listening to the whole series.
-DMG
Had a great chat the other day with Steve Davis on The Adelaide Show Podcast. Listen to it here.
We talked in depth about writing for Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell. I went into the finer details about how I wrote that Bunnings Conspiracy fake ad and discussed what makes a good ‘out of context footage’ joke.
Also touched on working in radio, Good Afternoon Adelaide, VHS Revue and old Adelaide TV commercials like Southern Music Centre, Force Electronics and Cunningham’s Warehouse.
Enjoy!
-DMG
I’ve made a few guest appearances on radio shows and podcasts this year (and there are more to come) as part of my one man VHS Revue publicity tour. Here are a couple of links.
I joined the folks on Ep 45 of the ‘Champagne Comedy Podcast’ discussing The Late Show, Frontline, Mad as Hell and comedy/TV/radio more generally. Also spent quite a bit of time talking about G-codes.
And really enjoyed talking with Alex Gates about my Goosebumps books and VHS Revue. You can listen to our chat on his podcast ‘Gattsy on Goosebumps’ right here.
-DMG