David M. Green: Purveyor of fine humour

Tag: satire

  • VHS Revue 8 – Wiseguy (1993)

    It’s the 8th installment of VHS Revue! Wow 8 episodes. I reckon that’s enough to call it a proper webseries now.

    This week I took a look through a circa 1993 tape of an episode of the late 80s/early 90s police drama “Wiseguy” – a show I’ve never heard of.

    Highlights include ads for Brunnings lawn seed, Sizzler, Link Introductions, TyreMag (which I think might now be banned?), Bob Moran used cars (who is DEFINITELY now banned), Solver Paints, and another thing. Footage recorded from Channel Nine Adelaide and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes (obviously).

    This is the last episode I’ve got in the can. But they’ve been fun to make and I’ve got a few more tapes with good stuff on them. So keep your lips peeled for number 9.

    Thanks for watching/liking/tweeting/subscribing/etc. It’s always a thrill.

    Big thanks especially to Alexis Kotlowy for the fabulous theme music and opening title sequences. And Nicholas Godfrey for his VHS camera. Though I did spot it in Cash Converters for him, so really, it’s mostly me.

    Keep track of VHS Revue on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

    – David M. Green

  • Mad as Hell wraps for Series 5

    It’s a wrap on another season of Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell. What more can I say? I love the show. I love the team. I love the man.

    By the way, that’s the ACTUAL Godzilla toy (centre) as featured in that sketch from “The Micallef Pogram”. You know the one I mean.

    All 10 episodes from series/season 5 are up on ABC iView. You’ve got until April 29 until they take them down. I had quite a bit of food-related material in this season. Look out for a bit about a pretzel and an edible coffee cup 😉

    Also, see if you can spot me in the final episode. Here’s a hint:

    Something else unexpected I’ve enjoyed since moving to Melbourne is randomly seeing something I saw on TV years earlier. Sometimes it’s the most obscure thing. Here’s one of them. This is the corner of Selwyn Street and Sinclair Street in Elsternwick, just outside the ABC production offices, looking east:

    I thought there was something familiar about that corner. Now take a look at the opening titles to “The Micallef Pogram” (correct spelling), that aired on ABC TV in early 2001… about 91 seconds in:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGWcnlneS-U

    Aha!

    How about that? As you can see, those water restrictions had some impact.

    Or maybe it’s the budget cuts?

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green

  • Mad As Hell Series 5

    Hey you! I’m back on the writing team of Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell for another season. The 5th in fact. So it’s like The Beatles’ “Help” album of television seasons.

    You can enjoy the topical news-based comedy at the slightly different time of Wednesdays 8.30pm on ABC TV. Or there’s ABC iView and a selection of clips on the Mad As Hell YouTube Channel, like this one:

    By the way, there’s a subtle reference to my webseries “Too Easy” in that clip. But I didn’t write it. It’s just a bizarre coincidence 😀

    Also, here’s a nice article about how the show is made. Spot the writers!

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green

  • Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell Series 4

    Yo! I’m back fulfilling the dream on the writing team for the 4th series of Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell! So if you haven’t already been enjoying some damn fine Australian news-based television comedy, make sure you tune in at one or all of these times:

    • Wednesdays 8pm on ABC
    • Fridays 11:05pm on ABC
    • Thursdays 9pm on ABC2

    Or there’s ABC iView and a selection of clips on the Mad As Hell YouTube Channel, like this one (one of my favourites from this season):

    I’ve also been an extra in a few things this season, so keep an eye out 😀

    Kind regards
    David M. Green
    Happy as Hell

  • 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.