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By: home cooked theory » Blog Archive » MySpace, boys in jackets

home cooked theory » Blog Archive » MySpace, boys in jackets — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:12:44 +0000

[...] What this second clip makes me more aware of, if it was necessary, is the blokeyness of this genre of news-satire show. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, as part of my quest to understand my position re: the ubiquitous Chaser boys. In the past I’ve had a quite personal reaction to what I have taken to be their rich private school boys making a killing by being smart-arses vibe. But the fact that there are definite correlations in subcultures of comedy across the Pacific makes me think there’s something broader at stake. To put it simply, I’m disappointed and disillusioned by the prospect that boys in nice jackets performing an uber urban, over-educated knowingness appears to be the most popular and only remaining voice of derision tolerated, indeed solicited, in the current political climate. Then again, things could be turning. After last night, I’m just so pleased that there’s one more heroine to add to our public service broadcaster trail of portfolio Gen X workers. Imagine: Marieke vs. A Chaser Boy: A Five Week Series. Now that’s a show even I’d get cable to watch. « B(u)y me [...]

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:06:24 +0000

Oh, was it the last one last night! I didn’t watch it. I’m a big fan of Fenella, less so of Megan, but think the two women are fabulous together. Jamie, I’m afraid, is quite annoying. It may be the constantly raised eyebrow.

I’ve often thought that St. Kilda and New Farm are quite comparable. I remember thinking so when I first visited St. Kilda in 96 – presumably before 90s nostalgia set in! Not so sure about Newtown – but then I tend to think comparisons between Sydney and Brisbane are hard to make. Though Glebe still reminds me of what West End used to be like before it became Uber…

By: melgregg

melgregg — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:16:22 +0000

I admit I hesitated to put St Kilda, but Jean makes me realise why it felt apt in the triad with New Farm and Newtown. New Farm is the middle ground of the other two: it has water (tho no beach) hence the cosmopolitan al fresco thing, nostalgia for a 90s now passed, complete with the musos, it’s full of new money, which sends the “authentic” locals crazy and, what I think is key, a rare mix of retirement homes, mental health clinics and short-term gentlemen’s accommodation.

However, I am soon to have two visits to Melbourne in quick succession to update my inner-city knowledge!

By: jean

jean — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:37:22 +0000

Right from the beginning I found Megan insufferably smug on the telly, but never thought so when she was on the wireless.

PS I heard Eddie is sacking a whole bunch of Nine’s news and ‘current affairs’ folks and that both Today and Sunday might go? I would miss Jana terribly, and I’m sure the slot would get filled by Nine’s Big Bumper Sunday of Motor Sports or something.

PS New Farm and Newtown aren’t actually analogous in the first place (self-consciously cosmopolitan shiny furniture-store-yuppiedom vs. unreasonably smug faded 90s grunge chic), so let’s go with St. Kilda anyway.

By: MPPS

MPPS — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 04:58:04 +0000

Oh yeah. I’d go further north Mel. Fitzroy’s a tad yuppified these days. Northcote? Brunswick?

By: MPPS

MPPS — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 04:56:31 +0000

I enjoyed the new Movie Show, for a while at least. But it all got a bit smug towards the end. Megan Spencer’s smackdown in a SBS Insight debate with industry heavyweights was the beginning of the end I suspect.

In the end it was Fenella who grated the least. Odd because at the beginning she was the one I connected with the least. I suppose it’s just old David and Margaret now. That’s show biz.

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 04:37:55 +0000

As a portfolio CI worker who this morning turned down an opportunity to appear on The Today Show as the ‘serious’ talking head alongside Chris “Bloke” Franklin, I say YEAH! to your concluding remarks. (I did, however, say yes to 2UE – I’m not made of stone!!)

Still, I feel as though Melbourne’s equivalent of New Farm and Newtown would surely have to be Fitzroy.