Had a great time chatting with the gang at Studio 10 about VHS Revue and showing some of the weird ads I’ve found on old video tapes!
Originally broadcast live on Channel 10, 25 May 2023.
Ads shown included Smith’s Chips Lites (1989), Australian Fresh Orange Juice plus Calcium (2003) and McCain Baby Peas (1994).
More Studio 10 on YouTube here.
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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!
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Highlights from a 2003 VHS tape of the TV cartoon series “Futurama”. Presented by David M. Green.
Featuring:
– Coca Cola TVC with “Everybody wants it” jingle and a young Miranda Kerr
– Bundaberg Diet Ginger Beer TVC
– Pepsi Blue TVC
– Australian Fresh Plus Orange Juice with Calcium TVC
– The Advertiser Sunday Mail Classifieds
– Flight Centre TVC “cheaper than the Internet”
– Joe Millionaire Promo
– Seven News Iraq War Promo
– Olympus digital camera monkey TVC
– Rexona TVC “where is the formula?”
– How Good Is That?
– Comskil TVC
Footage recorded from Adelaide’s Channel 7 between January & March 2003 and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes.
Special thanks to Alexis Kotlowy, John Hnatowych, Nicholas Godfrey, Chad Turner, Annika Samuelsson, Carolyn Lawlor-Smith, Nigel Charman, Zoe Charman and our generous supporters on Patreon.
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Highlights from a 2000 VHS tape of the 1997 film “The Fifth Element”. Presented by David M. Green.
Featuring:
– Video Library cold opening
– Channel 10 promo for Switching Lives and Unreal TV broadcast in wrong aspect ratio
– Hyundai Lantra “it sells itself” TVC
– dstore TVC with Julia Zemiro
– UDL TVC
– Get This S#!& Off The Air! – UDL
– Force Electronics TVC
– A Tedious Anecdote about a zombie ad for Aunty Kath’s Cookie Dough
– A Ten News report about the Howard Government considering a plan to make boat people pick fruit by Samantha Maiden
Footage recorded from Adelaide’s Channel 10, 13 February 2000 and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes.
Special thanks to Alexis Kotlowy, John Hnatowych, Nicholas Godfrey, Chad Turner, Eleanor Gray, Amin Azoor, Annika Samuelsson, Carolyn Lawlor-Smith, Nigel Charman, Zoe Charman, Harrison Engstrom, Tanaya Quinn, the Cert 3, 4 & Diploma students studying Screen and Media at Wollongong TAFE and our generous supporters on Patreon.
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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.
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