David M. Green: Purveyor of fine humour

Tag: C31

  • Merry Christmas from 31 Questions! (select video MOST relevant to you)

    Merry Christmas from me and the team from 31 Questions: The TV game show of that name. Please view the appropriate Christmas message:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3v23l8BkG0

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V72Nkx6Tq94

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-dQCGkMsTU

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=371W84T_tYA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuoz0oKX-nQ

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6VdemGVKoI

    If you live somewhere other than Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney or New Zealand, just try to imagine your favourite message without any geographic references.

    Happy holidays,
    David M. Green

  • 31 Questions Season 3 is made by YOU!

    The 31 Questions Season 3 Crowdfunding Campaign is over! Well actually, it was over 7PM last night. I would have posted about this sooner but I only just got up. Was out pretty late last night (Racked up a huge bar tab! Just over 3 grand, from memory…). And thanks to our 69 crowdfunders across 7 countries and a favourable exchange rate, we raised an astonishing AUD$3,262!

    Special thanks are in order for the following fabulous Indiegogo individuals:

    Julian Jones (Melbourne, VIC)
    Kimberley Seeto (Bankstown, NSW)
    Nick Gates (Cambridge, UK)
    Ellen McCutchan (Mitcham, VIC)
    John Whitaker (Brunswick, VIC)
    Luke Fincher (Brisbane, QLD)
    Daniel Braid (Melbourne, VIC)
    James Sablinskis (Wantirna, VIC)
    Ryan Vickers (Newmarket, ON, Canada)
    Ben Hayes (Warrenville, IL, USA)
    Aaron Hayes (Warrenville, IL, USA)
    Blazenka Brysha (Mount Eliza, VIC)
    Sean Campbell (Doonside, NSW)
    Elliott Klein (Elwood, VIC)
    Robert Newbury (Stawell, VIC)
    Rhys Barnard (Davoren Park, SA)
    Hugh Macdonald (Cheltenham, VIC)
    Pam “Drunk Mum” McCutchan
    David Dower (North Perth, WA)
    Tony Lee (Glen Waverley, VIC)
    Matthew J. Smith (Somerton Park, SA)
    Daniel Picton (Hemel Hempstead, UK)
    Matt Meiklejohn (Miranda, NSW)
    Alison Richards (Melton South, VIC)
    Sam Hodkin (Manchester, UK)
    Emma Raverty (Beaumaris, VIC)
    Michael Doyle (Darley, VIC)
    Mark Humphries (Crows Nest, NSW)
    Rachel Delaney (New Plymouth, New Zealand)
    Jessica May (Donvale, VIC)
    Jason Hatcher (Kensington, VIC)
    John Surace (Somerville, VIC)
    Ruth Richards (Hoppers Crossing, VIC)
    Anne-Marie Manolas (Murrumbeena VIC)
    Patrick Bosher (Mitcham, VIC)
    Kate McKenzie (Parkdale, VIC)
    Faye Pettinella (Wantirna, VIC)
    Scott Bryant (Brisbane, QLD)
    Gerard Kotlowy (South Brighton, SA)
    Ross Purdy (Mooroolbark VIC)
    James Gormley (Melbourne, VIC)
    Andrew Sullivan (Halifax, UK)
    Kellie Elson (Grange, SA)
    Zarya Volya (Brunswick, VIC)
    Chris Legg (Joondalup, WA)
    Samantha Moline (Mount Lawley, WA)
    Adrien Buso (Besançon, France)
    Casey O’Brien (South Yarra, VIC)
    The Ultimo Bachelor Pad (Ultimo, NSW)
    Karen Dennerley (Docklands, VIC)
    Kristen Rogers (Hazelwood Park, SA)
    Zoe Dekker (Croydon, NSW)
    Justin Dalaya (Port Adelaide, SA)
    @TravisButler (Hurstbridge, VIC)
    Shane Dunlop (Brunswick, VIC)
    Josh Mahoney (Melbourne, VIC)
    Rudi Martin (Chermside West, QLD)
    The Swedish 31 Questions Fan Club (Lund, Sweden)
    Max Pfitzner (Warrandyte South, VIC)
    Stephen Coote (Queanbeyan West, NSW)
    Paul Mavroudis (Altona North, VIC)
    Craig Faulkner (Semaphore Park, SA)
    Hayden Faulkner (Semaphore Park, SA)
    Sky Ingledew (Reservoir, VIC), and
    Daniel Guglielmin (Ottoway, SA)

    And specials thanks also to anyone who made an anonymous donation, shared the link, liked a status, subscribed on YouTube, sent a tweet or did some other intangible task that’s assisting us in making 31 Questions. I couldn’t make this TV game show without you.

    Here’s the final arrangement of the 31 Questions Season 3 Crowdfunder Map. Welcome to the club, France, Sweden and New Zealand:


    View 31 Questions Season 3 Crowdfunders in a larger map

    69 donations from 7 countries. Incredible.

    Just for a comparison, we raised US$1,846 on our last campaign, which was something like AUD$1,700 (exchange rate wasn’t on our side). And this is where our 72 Season TWO crowdfunders were:


    View 31 Questions Crowdfunders in a larger map

    It really is The People’s Game Show. Having said that, there are people in Africa, South America and Asia too. Probably. You certainly wouldn’t know if by looking at these maps.

    Okay! Now we got the cash…

    LET’S MAKE THIS FREAKING TV GAME SHOW!

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Kids, don’t smoke.

  • 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.

  • 31 Questions S2E06 & Sydney Funtimes

    31 Questions S2E06 aired on C31 Melbourne & Geelong on the 31st day of August. And there is it on glorious YouTube.

    I spent 4 days in Sydney last week. It was the first time in seven years I’d been somewhere that wasn’t Melbourne or Adelaide. And it was fantastic.

    I stayed in the seaside suburb of Sans Souci on the shores of Botany Bay (to my knowledge, the only bay named after a spaceship from Star Trek) with the lovely Barb Badham:

    She’s mother to my good friend and mentor Van Badham. Here’s a photo of her aged 14, which I discovered in a drawer that wasn’t locked in any serious kind of way:

    I forgot that I actually like Sydney. Last time I was there it was for New Year’s Eve 2006 when my Grandma treated the family to watch the fireworks on Sydney Harbour. An unforgettable experience. Back then, I returned to Adelaide via Melbourne. On that trip, I had a much better time in Sydney than Melbourne. To quote my 19-year-old self from my own diary:

    7 January 2007
    “I think I prefer Sydney to Melbourne. Watching this promotional video in the Rialto Tower really gave me the impression Melbourne is an arrogant city. It’s really just a bigger, more disorganised Adelaide.”

    It probably didn’t help I was travelling with my good friend John Timoney and by the time we got to Melbourne, we were well and truly sick of each other. While I’ve got my diaries out, here’s how I felt about Melbourne when I was there again 18 months later:

    12 July 2008
    “Melbourne is great. I can see myself living here more than I could last time.”

    Quite a turn around! And since then, the only news I ever hear about Sydney is to do with traffic congestion, high cost of living and racist electorates in the western suburbs. But I always have a great time when I’m there (I don’t drive and I stay away from the western suburbs).

    Highlights of this Sydney trip include meeting Mark Humphries from ABC2’s “The Roast” at Pizza Hut. We talked comedy and TV and such for 5 hours straight. Didn’t even take a photo with him. But he’s pretty good in this:

    I also caught the train to the Petersham TAFE to be interviewed by Sean Campbell for his “The Sean Campbell Show” on XRLENT Radio. Good guy. We talked about 31 Questions, TVS, RMITV, radio and Adelaide. Here’s the video of our chat:

    On Thursday, after one and a half cancellations, I finally caught up with my old radio pal Matty B at the Queen Victoria Building (or MB at the QVB). Hadn’t seen him in 3 years. Again no photo, but we did do this once:

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    And now for the strangest experience of my trip…

    On Thursday night, to coincide with the broadcast of S2E04 on TVS, I journeyed to Ultimo (a couple of streets back from the headquarters of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), home to the infamous “Ultimo Bachelor Pad” – the self proclaimed (and probably rightly so) biggest 31 Questions fans in, if not Sydney, then the world.

    Now, they are some REAL fans…

    To illustrate:

    Dear God. We must be doing something right with 31 Questions?

    Thanks again to Mike, James, Zoe, Nathan, Mel and (via Skype from Europe) Daniel for a magnificent dinner and cake, as well as their ridiculous amount of support they continue to give to me and the rest of the 31 Questions team. Fans in other cities, you’ve got your work cut out for you if you plan on topping that.

    I’m now safely back in Melbourne. And it’s back to the hyper-reality that is my life.

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    PS. 31 Questions debuts on Face Television New Zealand this Thursday 9.30PM.

  • 31 Questions Season 2 Episode 4

    It was 31 Questions S2E04’s premier on C31 Melbourne & Geelong last Saturday evening. And now available in fabulous web-based YouTubed form (where available).

    Special thanks again to Dan Ilic and Rex Hunt, who both made cameos in Ep 4. And the fabulous editing work from Dan Jones and Anthony McCormack.

    Coming up on tomorrow night’s show, it’s the John Blackman episode with special guest… John Blackman (SURPRISE!), as well as Dicky Knee!

    PLUS our Ep 5 contestants are recently evicted Big Brother housemate Rohan Mirchandaney (CAN YOU BELIEVE THE TIMING!?!?!) AND the wonderful Dani Leever!

    John Blackman was on Melbourne radio station 3AW with Philip Brady and Simon Owens again on Thursday night. He made some downright lovely comments about me and the show:

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    Good on Philip Brady for asking the tough questions. Parking is shocking around RMIT University, especially during the day.

    Couldn’t have done it without an incredible team.

    And in late breaking news, 31 Questions has an ALL NEW time slot for New Zealand’s Face Television. We’re now on Thursdays 9.30PM, starting September 12. Apologies to my Kiwi friend(s) for our ever-changing start date.

    Fortunately, there’s always YouTube.

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Where would we be without YouTube? Though it helps IF YOU HAVE A FREAKING INTERNET CONNECTION…