Some understandably unused gags about an Age article related to this one: Dockers find humour in Hasselhoff hoax Hasslehoff is just who the Dockers need on their forward line. KITT could be coach. The cybervandals were going to use KITT but couldn’t fit the guernsey on… I’m looking forward to when they start replacing all […]
Some Holt & Blackwell authored material for the trophy segment cut from The Glass House re: a Sydney Morning Herald article “Fitting the Part”. Iraqis living in America are being hired by the US Army to play insurgents and protesters in a new training program that aims to prepare troops for the war zone. They’re […]
A story that made The Glass House script but not the screen: Smelly Swedish herring gets museum Sweden is opening a museum with the world’s finest collection of fermented Baltic herring. That’s right, it’s the fish they collect that makes Baltic Herring Museum the best. Here in Australia, we’re opening the Museum of Flake, Scallops […]
The rest of Europe hates the French according to a Daily Telegraph article that doesn’t seem to be online. A European survey has found that everyone dislikes the French. The British view them as chauvinistic and humourless, the Germans see them as pretentious and frivolous, the Spanish damn them as vain and rude, and the […]
A huge slab of stuff some of which made it to air about the Herald-Sun article “AFFAIRS JUST FOLLOW SCRIPT”, which I can’t find online but which is more or less summed-up below. Two US divorcees have written a new book claiming that they when men cheat on their wives, they always follow a predictable […]
Raw gaggage from Holt & Blackwell for The Glass House about the sniffer dogs that have been trained to track down talcum terrorists… Sniffer dogs kick cocaine for talc Police are keeping their eyes peeled for any members of the force with very tingly armpits. Victorian Police have arrested more than sixty people at raves […]
Joke fodder for The Glass House about an Australian article similar to this one SPEARS BABY TEST SOLD Britney Spears’ urine-based pregnancy test has been sold for five thousand and one US dollars on eBay. Britney’s said to be furious that her latest release has been leaked… Insiders say the new Britney release is to […]
Raw material from the gag workshop of Holt & Blackwell for The Glass House about the article BLIGHTY SNAGS WORLD’S TOP FOOD TITLE They offer bacon and egg icecream, snail porridge, and oyster and passionfruit jelly. You wouldn’t believe the chef’s self-taught… One problem ‘The Fat Duck’ has had is that no-one knows what are […]
So finally this Star Wars thing is coming to its overdue conclusion. And the good people over at SBS’s The Movie Show decided that since Craig and I made “the definitive documentary on Australia’s obsession with Star Wars”, we would be suitable resident experts to discuss the cultural phenomenon. Or something. Maybe they might even […]
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Regular visitors to my house will be aware that I am the “co-author” of some “jokes” that appear on ABC-TV’s The Glass House. The way it works is this. A couple of days a fortnight Mat Blackwell and I get faxed a few news stories. By close of play we send back as many of […]