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Logies not quite as rigged as usual (Good News Week 11/2/08: monologue)

The Logies is undergoing an extreme makeover, meaning voters no longer have to have a copy of TV Week to vote. However, given the list of nominees, they still need to have a TV Week authorised brain. / However, you won’t know who the nominees are unless you already buy TV Week.

While you no longer have to buy TV Week to enter, you still need to buy it if you want to know why the nominees broke up with their boyfriends.

The Logies is now open to online voting by anyone. However you still can’t vote for me. Believe me, I tried.

The Logies is now open to online voting by anyone. But you can still only vote for the same tiny hand-picked selection of wanna-bes as usual.

You no longer have to buy a TV Week to vote in the Logies. Although they have introduced a new award, “Best Weekly TV-related Magazine”, for which there’s only one nominee.

It’s great the Logies has finally opened up for everyone to be able to vote. It makes it one degree less totally retarded.

It’s great the Logies has finally opened up for everyone to be able to vote. It’s one more thing that people can do instead of living. / It makes the whole pointless sham more inclusive.

Opening the Logies votes up to anyone makes the whole thing seem a little less like a pathetic attempt by Aussie soaps-stars to feel important for one night, and more like an internet scam.

I can’t believe I’m not up for a Logie. If there’s one thing I really need, it’s a useless paperweight of a prize, decided by tallying the votes of soapy-addicted morons, and presented by a buncha piss-pot C-grade celebrities. It would really bring meaning into my life.

I notice on the form John Howard’s up. Well, that’s the only vote he’ll be getting for a while…

Aah, the Logies. The one night of the year that Aussie celebrities can get together and pretend they’re adding something to society.

Aah, the Logies. The one night of the year that Aussie celebrities can get together, dress up, get pissed, and blow sunshine up each others’ arses.

Sure they’ve broken with 50 years of tradition, but it’s worth it so we’ll finally get a true indication of whether Neighbours is better than Home and Away.

It’s the only poll where moving it online actually improves the quality of the responses.

Moving the poll online means that mr_kinky@gaggingteens.com can finally have his say.

Of course, moving the poll online means that most of the votes will actually be trying to sell cheap Viagra.

Networks are said to be disappointed in the move to online voting. It’s harder to rig than just buying all the TV Weeks.

Networks are said to be disappointed in the move to online voting. It takes so long to make that many fake email addresses.

Bert Newton is said to be disappointed in the move to online voting, as his core demographic keep trying to cut out bits of the screen. / as his core demographic are still trying to plug their typewriters into the net.

The Logies are also introducing a new category, “Best Factual”, between shows such as RPA and Border Security. Either way, they have to prove they’re worthy of the award by pulling it out of someone’s arse. / by finding it in a cavity check.

The Logies are also introducing a new category, “Best Factual”, which means Channel Nine News is out.

Logies organisers say the results are less likely to be skewed by starstruck teenagers, and more likely to see cult shows like Summer Heights High do well. Because teenagers would never have voted for a show about high school.

This is my best chance yet of getting the Gold Logie! Now all I’ve got to do is start a massive spam campaign – much cheaper than buying 10,000 copies of TV Week!

By Wok and Mat

Warwick Holt and Mat Blackwell are long-time writing partners, who created the mega-award winning web series Bruce, and wrote loads of jokes for TV shows including Good News Week, The Sideshow and The Glass House. Several years of their raw material for those shows is posted right here on this blog.

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