David M. Green: Purveyor of fine humour

Category: video

  • TANGS Ep 1-1: Where’s my ice cream?

    The All New Garage Show

    Starring
    Gerald Field-Mann & Kevin Callahan

    Episode 1 – 1: Where’s my ice cream?

    Gerald eyes Kevin’s icecream.

    Another pointless project by David M. Green & Lachlan Cowlishaw

    Hello!

    David M. Green here (obviously). Thanks to everyone who’s distributing kudos in both Lachlan’s and my respected direction with regard to our latest no-budget audio visual garage-themed venture: The All New Garage Show (I feel there should be an exclamation mark after “Show”. Oh well, I’ve established there isn’t one now, so I guess I’ll have to run with it. Or without it, rather).

    The overwhelming concensus seems to be that Lachlan and I have a remarkable on-screen chemistry. I agree. Certainly I can think of no one else whom I share such a comic interrelationship. Watching it back, I think to myself, “you cannot artificially create that back and fourth effect.” I don’t think we could even write it. It just comes naturally. Also, with a script, that just creates opportunities to make mistakes. We’re just making it up as we go along. But enough of this wanky self-indulgent analysis!

    A bunch of these little segments are edited and are trickling online at Lachlan’s discretion. I’ll be posting some more here this week. So won’t you please enjoy TANGS(!).

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Milky treat. It was time to eat it.

  • Two suits, two cameras and a garage

    Hello there!

    This was an odd spur of the moment project championed by fellow RMIT journalism student, TV’s Lachlan Cowlishaw: “Hey, let’s set up a talk show set in my garage and just goof around!” I agreed on one condition: that we’d include cameras in that equation. A sensible decision.

    So that’s the gist of it. Lachlan dressed his garage with a sheet, a couple of deck chairs and a set of bed-side table drawers as a desk. And last Wednesday I caught the 207 bus out to Doncaster in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, wearing my only suit. I arrived at Lachlan’s house, we spent maybe 15 minutes jotting down some ideas. Came up with the name of the show and character names on the day, set the cameras rolling and just ad-libbed for an hour.

    I play host Gerald Field-Mann, a failed has-been TV personality, which in all respects is essentially who I am anyway. Lachlan plays Kevin Callahan: producer, sidekick and garage owner. We also take turns playing other guest characters too.

    Probably the most basic TV show set-up in history. No crew. No lighting. No white balance. No camera operators. No script. Just the two of us making it up as we go along. It was a lot of fun and I think you can see that coming through when you watch the clips.

    We’ve uploaded the first clip to a new YouTube account. Feel free to subscribe.

    Lachlan is handling the editing, and more segments will be going online soon. This really was his idea. I’m just along for the ride. Although, this may end up being our “Televisionman” project. Organising to make a REAL television show is pretty tedious. At least this way we’re in control and can do whatever we want.

    So please enjoy the first of many TANGS segments: What’s ticking off Matthew Newton?

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Is bad comedy the new good comedy?

  • Julia Gillard soundboard prank calls!

    Hello!

    With only two days until the federal election, I thought I’d give Prime Minister Julia Gillard a helping hand by impersonating her electronically and calling some “Working Australians”…

    Julia Gillard prank calls a hairdresser

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cTMjIbaWQ

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    Julia Gillard prank calls Telstra

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    And here’s the entire prank call segment from this morning’s Get Cereal breakfast show on Melbourne’s SYN 90.7FM:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um0mtByVHOU

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    Here’s just the audio:

    Julia Gillard Soundboard Prank Calls!

    It’s been quite a busy couple of weeks getting this stunt off the ground. Thanks to producer Tim Cuthell for begging me to do some more prank calls and getting the ball rolling. Thank you to the team at SYN for supporting my idea and getting the tech guy to come in last week to alter the control panel in the production studio that allowed me to actually make these calls. And thanks to Charles and Luke from Get Cereal. It was a real pleasure this morning. The most fun I’ve had on radio in quite some time.

    My guest appearance is now a regular thing. Tune in every Thursday 8:30am to hear me goofing around and paying my dues with David M. Green’s Community Service! Or go here to listen to past material.

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Julia Gillard: The Bas Rutten of Australian politics.

  • Televisionman: Comedy Megaproject!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=632EtPMRvKE

    Hello!

    I’m David M. Green. Well… see ya!

    Oh, right sorry… Behold the sketches above and below! This marks the debut of my latest and Melbourne-based sketch comedy videos I’m creating with TV’s Lachlan Cowlishaw, under the codename “Televisionman”. Hopefully by the end of the year there will be enough to put together some sort of collection…

    At the top of the page is “The Novel Advertising Sketch”, which I wrote last year, originally for Radio’s Sam Mac, but we never got around to making it. It did require a bit of organising. The more people involved the harder it becomes. The stuff in the library with Lachlan was quite easy to shoot, but that meeting room scene took a bit more effort. After a “once-over lightly” version in a hidden-away group study room at the RMIT library that turned out to be too long and poorly shot, we enlisted the help of TV’s Antonio Cafasso as director, and I managed to get permission to film in one of the swish new PhD student meeting rooms in Building 9. Much better. Definitely worth the extra stuffing around. In the sketch, a struggling publishing firm finds an unconventional solution to their cash flow problem… I could continue, or you could just watch it. Up to you.

    Below is a shorter sketch simply called “The Library Sketch”. It was a simple idea I came up with when we were filming the library part of the Novel Ad sketch. We were there. So we did it. Apologies to the people actually trying to study in that part of the library.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgfEAG7bXIs&feature=related

    Things that I would talk about if I were doing an audio commentary on these sketches…

    Think production value. With a budget of $0.00, a sketch can look pretty crappy. However, assuming access to decent equipment isn’t an issue, it’s often inexpensive little things that can add big production value, giving the illusion of money. Girls are great for that.

    Girls add production value. In our case, it was the vocal talents of Radio’s Lisa Pellegrino, whom I previously worked with at Radio Adelaide 101.5FM and who now does breakfast radio on Mix 104.9 in Darwin. She recorded a line for the “Little Women” ad and emailed it down to me here in Melbourne. Without her the sketch would still work, but it’d be a bit of a “sausage fest” if you know what I mean.

    Those 3 novels. Funny story. The RMIT city library didn’t have all 3 of them. They just had Moby Dick. I actually had to get Little Women sent from the Bundoora campus and Breakfast of Champions from their other library in Brunswick! Production value: Gold. And essential to the sketch (One of the joys of being the default producer… all that painstaking pre-production to organise…).

    You’ll also notice a few subtle props. Lachlan, in executive mode, is wearing a pair of reading glasses circa 1995. Hilarious. I’m also smoking a fake cigar. $2 off eBay. On-screen value… priceless! I love that fake cigar. I’ve thought of a couple more sketches to use it in too!

    Oh yes, and I love that opening shot of Melbourne Central Tower. Certainly the most evil-looking building I know of. Great production value. And hey, when in Melbourne…

    So, in conclusion, I do hope you enjoy these sketches. They were a joy to make and very rewarding. Thank you to everyone who helped us out. Full credits accompany each video on YouTube. If you haven’t already, feel free to subscribe to me on YouTube by clicking here.

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    (The) Televisionman

  • Pull up a chair!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lbvWvtaP14

    Hello!

    David M. Green here (who else? It’s my freaking website…). You may recall back in December I mentioned meeting up with Radio’s Sam Mac and Alex “Shooter” Williamson to film a musical-chairs-themed sketch? You don’t. Okay. Well, completely ignoring you and continuing on, finally, it’s hot off the editing room floor (I warned them against the hot coals but you know what artists are like…) and on the Internet for all to see!

    I’m quite proud of this one, and it was a lot of fun to film. Thanks very much again to Mr Mac for gracing us with his presence and thanks to Shooter for an excellent editing job. And thanks to the Battista family for hanging onto that musical chairs footage for the last 17 years! (Yes! That’s REAL footage of me from 1993!)

    Anyway, if you haven’t seen it already, check it out. It’s 3 minutes and 50 seconds you won’t get back!

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Actually, that’s true – I don’t live there any more.