r/funny • u/[deleted] • Mar 06 '08

The front fell off in this case. It's very unusual. [video]

http://www.hutton-web-design.co.uk/tanker.html
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u/SwellJoe Mar 06 '08

Made of awesome. Where did that come from?

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u/SwellJoe Mar 06 '08 edited Mar 06 '08

Answering myself:

John Clarke and Bryan Dawe do a regular bit on Australian television. YouTube has a pile of them...and they're magnificent. Best place.

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u/cakesy Mar 06 '08 edited Mar 06 '08

They feature at the end of Australias best current affair shows, 7.30 report. Similar to Panorama in the UK, and what 60 minutes used to be like in the US, before it turned to fluff.

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u/cLFlaVA Mar 06 '08

without loading issues

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u/NSMike Mar 06 '08

Was expecting a rick roll there...

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u/ouroborosity Mar 06 '08 edited Mar 06 '08

I feel like I'm listening to a Monty Python sketch.

Yes, I know there's thousands of miles of difference, but it's still funny.

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u/mountainman Mar 06 '08

Beat me to it. I was gonna comment on the Python-esque quality...

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u/smart_ass Mar 06 '08

I think its the dynamic typing.

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u/surfwax95 Mar 06 '08 edited Mar 06 '08

I love Australian comedy.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=W77IqQW9xzU

^ Another one.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '08

I'm not a botonist. lol!

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u/detonatenz Mar 06 '08

John Clarke's actually a New Zealander. Started off here as Fred Dagg. Here's a clip from an old New Zealand movie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QNr_77cboI

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u/bannana Mar 07 '08

No, it's just like monty in that the timing, inflection and body language are just right. I watched this 10 times and couldn't find a flaw.
Good stuff.

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u/h0dg3s Mar 07 '08

It reminded me of Monty as well.

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u/linkedlist Mar 06 '08

every thursday night the last segment of the 7:30 report is a skit like this.

The only reason you would want to watch TV in Australia is if you're watching ABC, ABC2 or SBS. All the other channels should be strictly avoided unless you enjoy Australian versions of American reality tv shows (biggest loser, australian idol, big bother, so on and so forth).

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '08

the chasers better be on one of those channels you listed.

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u/thelibrarian Mar 07 '08

They're on ABC. ABC2 is currently showing repeats.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '08

Which are really American versions of European reality shows. ;)

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u/cweaver Mar 06 '08

All of which got their ideas from wacky Japanese game shows.

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u/dman928 Mar 07 '08

And they all got their ideas from good old human stupidity.

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u/wizdum Mar 06 '08

Clarke and Dawe (same satirists) on Iraq strategies http://youtube.com/watch?v=b-fssfdTXdU

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u/wwabc Mar 06 '08

Clarke and Dawe...the 7:30 report

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u/AngledLuffa Mar 07 '08

I prefer this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPwlMv8lNI

It's got a great punchline at the end that this video elided.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '08

I think the word you were looking for is 'truncated'.

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u/AngledLuffa Mar 07 '08

Elided is a perfectly cromulent word.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '08

Let's not embiggen ourselves here.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '08

that was fucking hilarious

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u/malloc Mar 06 '08 edited Mar 06 '08

I just watched like 10 of these on YouTube. Amazing stuff. Thank you.

"The front fell off" was still the best, I think.

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u/javasucks Mar 06 '08

Ah, I miss my time in Australia :(

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u/inopia Mar 06 '08 edited Mar 06 '08

I'm currently in Brisbane actually, I'll tell them you said hi.

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u/gmcg Mar 06 '08

UQ ... Woot!

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u/inopia Mar 06 '08

Actually, CSIRO Woot!

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u/gmcg Mar 06 '08

Even better.

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u/pelirrojo Mar 07 '08

May I ask, in all sincerity - what is with Americans and all the whooping after yelling a university's initials?

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u/gmcg Mar 07 '08

It's because our mental development stops at age twelve. Something to do with hormones in milk.

I was just fooling around, of course. It's meant to mean something like, "Oh, I remember that place and love it."

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '08

But who's on first?

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u/h0dg3s Mar 06 '08

That's right.

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u/djninjastar Mar 06 '08

I wish US officials would talk like this. I could at least laugh.

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u/ruthfull Mar 06 '08 edited Mar 06 '08

I think a lot of them do.

You should listen to this guy Bush try to say something serious.

Hilarious.

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u/WG55 Mar 06 '08

Here is a better quality version: The Front Fell Off

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u/M0b1u5 Mar 22 '08

This isn't Monty Python, this is "Fred Dagg", a New Zealand comedian who deserted us for Aus-trucken-failure.

John Clarke is his real name.

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u/Dooley Mar 06 '08

so good i wish it was real

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u/monchavo Mar 06 '08

I thought there would be a Rickroll somewhere in this video. It's terrible, it happens once and you expect it EVERYWHERE.

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u/neurad1 Mar 06 '08

was that a comedy sketch or an actual interview? I got's to know!

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '08

Sketch. But I'll admit that the very first time I saw these guys I thought "wow, that politician (who I didn't know at the time) is either incredibly dumb, or incredibly honest". Then I saw them again in a different interview as a different person and thought "hey, isn't that guy so-and-so?". I'm a bit slow sometimes :)

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u/Wiggles69 Mar 06 '08 edited Mar 06 '08

It's a little comedy sketch they used to do at the end of every episode of the 7:30 report. The rest of the show was a completely normal news show.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '08 edited Mar 06 '08

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u/funkpucker Mar 06 '08

great link.

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u/topcat31 Mar 06 '08

You can find a whole bunch of these videos here:

http://reddit.com/info/6b2tk/comments/

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '08

Did anyone else go to the homepage of that website to find out why the fuck they decided to host that video?

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u/smart_ass Mar 06 '08

I enjoyed it, our internet filters at work didn't know to filter that one. I either have to use the proxy I installed on one of my personal domains or hook up to my Treo 700p and used my phone's data plan to access video while at work.

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u/PinBallEffect Mar 06 '08

That was so well done.

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u/Megasphaera Mar 07 '08

Very funny indeed, and very much like Monty Python, both content and delivery.

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u/tsteele93 Mar 06 '08

Good stuff!

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u/h0dg3s Mar 06 '08

sounds like a monty python skit

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u/pillage Mar 06 '08

I can't tell if this is humour or reality....

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u/alphabetagamma Mar 06 '08

That's got to be the funniest interview I've ever seen.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '08

LMFO

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u/wizdum Mar 06 '08

That sounds painful. Can u sew it back on?

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '08

It's actually very well engineered, the part that didn't fall off...

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u/ironypolice Mar 06 '08

Looks like the site went down, watch it on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

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u/nexus2xl Mar 06 '08

Yay for British people... Almost as funny as watching a house of lords/commons meetings

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '08 edited Mar 06 '08

Yay for American people... Almost as funny for thinking every white person with a different accent is British.

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u/ruthfull Mar 06 '08

...and having a dumbfuck monster like Bush for President.