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The Chaser's War on Everything
2006 · TV series · 25 min episodes · 3 seasons
Created by Charles Firth, Andrew Hansen, Dominic Knight, Chas Licciardello, Julian Morrow, Craig Reucassel, Chris Taylor
The Chaser's War on Everything was an Australian television satirical comedy series. It has won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Television Comedy Series. The cast perform sketches mocking social and political issues, and often feature comedic publicity stunts. The series is produced by the Australian satirical group, The Chaser, consisting of Chris Taylor, Julian Morrow, Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen, and Chas Licciardello. Fellow Chaser members Dominic Knight and Charles Firth are not part of the regular on-screen cast. However, Knight is a writer, and Firth compiled roving reports for the show from the United States, until he left the group to start a satirical newspaper in mid-2007.
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For a truly ridiculous example of this, see this "Chaser's War On Everything" clip is which the same guy films a few different sites dressed as an American tourist, and later as a Saudi (in a thobe and gutra - had to look up the terms).
The security response is hilarious in how differently they react when the clothing changes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxq4Y7QUdPA
(Bonus, watch the same clowns hire a limo + guys in suits jogging alongside and use that to get into a 'secure' conference site in the related video in the sidebar. Comedy gold.)
> Huh? You said that there was a growing anti-American sentiment. While I agree, how does what I said prove that?
Well, I'll give an example - theres is/was fairly popular show (I don't watch TV all that much, so I'm unsure of its current status) here in Australia called CNNNN that satirised fox news/cnn. The guys who created it have since gone on to create a tv show called the Chaser's War on Everything"
Here's one of the more popular clips from CNNNN entitled "Stupid Americans"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4iI59BfpQ
What I gleamed from your comment was the attitude of "Americans dont need anyone else, fuck the rest of the world"
In the above clip, particularly pay attention where they're placing pins in countries that these people want to invade.
These people more than likely vote and apart from 2 of them, they don't look like political radicals or crazy people.
>> For the record: I thought the Americans and the Aussies were allies?
> So?
That is the exact attitude I am talking about.
Semi related - A little anecdote I thought was absolutely hilarious (but also tragic) at the time was that in the early stages of the Iraq war the media was doing lots of broadcasts from that media center they set up.
One of the popular media outlets (I forget which, it was Fox or CNN) had a large map of the world which their reporters stood in front of to make broadcasts. It was just a general outline of continents.
They actually removed Australia from the map because it was where the reporters were supposed to stand and it was interfering with the shot. What a fantastic way to treat one of the 2 allies that sent military support :)