ABC now reporting.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-10/john-clarke-dies-aged-68/8430174
Just thinking, there’d be huge numbers of Clarke & Dawe I haven’t seen. But it’s the kind of comedy that needs the topical context of the day.
Fred Dagg goes to town.
Now I am crying. I love his humour so much :(
A true genius.
I’m sure he could do a great skit on the need for a Royal Commission into hiking.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m sure he could do a great skit on the need for a Royal Commission into hiking.
He was somewhat skittish
If you only watch one Fred Dagg retrospective, make it this one. 45 minutes long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_gTaRM9UU
It was made recently, some commentary by the recent John Clarke, but contains sizable segments from just about everything still surviving from the early years of 1972 to 1977.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m sure he could do a great skit on the need for a Royal Commission into hiking.
As a tribute to the The Games episode, they could bury him five and half feet under.
the front fell off :(
party_pants said:
the front fell off :(
classic
Clark-: They’re going to have another quantitative easing, a QE2.
Dawe-: For Cunard?
Clark-: It wont be easy Brian.
Are you sure the track is 100 metres?
Peak Warming Man said:
Clark-: They’re going to have another quantitative easing, a QE2.
Dawe-: For Cunard?
Clark-: It wont be easy Brian.
That was an absolute classic.
sibeen said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Clark-: They’re going to have another quantitative easing, a QE2.
Dawe-: For Cunard?
Clark-: It wont be easy Brian.
That was an absolute classic.
gold
:(
I presume it was a heart attack?
Peak Warming Man said:
I presume it was a heart attack?
Internal revenue probably caught up with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbFlstJ4u8E
CLARKE, John, Dip Lid, PhD in Cattle (Oxen). Advisor and comforter to various governments. Born 1948. Educ. subsequently. Travelled extensively throughout Holy Lands, then left New Zealand for Europe. Stationed in London 1971-73. Escaped (decorated). Rejoined unit. Arrived Australia 1977. Held positions with ABC radio (Sckd), ABC Television (Dfnct), Various newspapers (Dcd), and Aust Film Industry (Fkd). Currently a freelance expert specialising in matters of a general character. Recreations: Whistling. Address: C/– the people next door. Or just pop it inside the door of the fusebox. Should be back Friday.
Bloody!
:(
John Clarke was more than a satirist.
With the keenest eye and wit he understood the very essence of Australia.
He was not born here, of course, but over time he became one of us.
His laconic wit was rarely wide of the mark. I should know. With lethal accuracy he made politicians and prime ministers his prey.
With Bryan Dawe, his weekly takedown of the absurdity of political life became required viewing. In this guise, his strength was the underperformance – that canny knack of saying just enough to hit the target, and no more.
In this sense, his satire served a noble purpose. It spoke truth to power. It made our democracy richer and stronger. It kept politicians on their toes.
And best of all it made us laugh along the way.
We’ll wait a long time to find another John Clarke.
In fact, we never will.
Lucy and I send our condolences to John’s wife Helen and his children at this sad time.
Very sad. A rare talent indeed.
I am sad about the loss of this “celebrity”. He really is a great loss :(
Speedy said:
I am sad about the loss of this “celebrity”. He really is a great loss :(
Of all of the people to die recently, I’ll miss John Clarke the most.
“NSW used to be a great place to bring up children. You’d get a quid for a child in those days.”
“Little hard to start, runs like a haunted shithouse for a bit, but once she warms up, hell, there’s a lot of grunt under here, I wouldn’t be surprise if you got the ton out of this, you know, on a decent downhill run, you know with a brisk northerly up your freckle.”
dv said:
“Little hard to start, runs like a haunted shithouse for a bit, but once she warms up, hell, there’s a lot of grunt under here, I wouldn’t be surprise if you got the ton out of this, you know, on a decent downhill run, you know with a brisk northerly up your freckle.”
haunted shithouse :D
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-10/john-clarke-remembered-by-max-gillies/8432246
A nice video tribute.
Bloody glasses got all foggy…bloody humidity.
Stupid death.
(shakes fist at death)
sibeen said:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-10/john-clarke-remembered-by-max-gillies/8432246A nice video tribute.
Bloody glasses got all foggy…bloody humidity.
And I’m crying again :(
That twinkle he has in his eyes. The little grin.
sibeen said:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-10/john-clarke-remembered-by-max-gillies/8432246A nice video tribute.
Bloody glasses got all foggy…bloody humidity.
Yes, it was a good tribute.
night night you lot
“People always feel that they owned a bit of John”.
That’s it! I am feeling ripped off today.
Speedy said:
“People always feel that they owned a bit of John”.That’s it! I am feeling ripped off today.
aye
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-10/john-clarke-remembered-by-max-gillies/8432246A nice video tribute.
Bloody glasses got all foggy…bloody humidity.
Yes, it was a good tribute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4OW62ko7po
Intersting comment from an NZ politician…
“For us here in Palmerston North it’s really a time to reflect and celebrate one of the most influential people to have come from our city.
“He was the ultimate antidote to John Cleese.”
Neophyte said:
Intersting comment from an NZ politician…“For us here in Palmerston North it’s really a time to reflect and celebrate one of the most influential people to have come from our city.
“He was the ultimate antidote to John Cleese.”
I don’t think this politician actually get comedy.
sibeen said:
Neophyte said:
Intersting comment from an NZ politician…“For us here in Palmerston North it’s really a time to reflect and celebrate one of the most influential people to have come from our city.
“He was the ultimate antidote to John Cleese.”
I don’t think this politician actually get comedy.
Yeah, no.
Maybe this politician is being funny?
Neophyte said:
Intersting comment from an NZ politician…“For us here in Palmerston North it’s really a time to reflect and celebrate one of the most influential people to have come from our city.
“He was the ultimate antidote to John Cleese.”
I wonder if that will be interpreted as a silly walk?
“This official sign was put up at the Palmerston North refuse tip in 2007. 18 months earlier the English comedian John Cleese had dubbed Palmerston North the ‘suicide capital of New Zealand’. He reported that he had had a thoroughly miserable time in the city: ‘We stayed in a little motel, the weather was grotty, the theatre was a nasty shape and the audience was very strange to play to.’ New Zealand comedian John Clarke, well-known for his comic persona Fred Dagg, originally came from Palmerston North. Clarke quickly suggested that the city’s landfill be named the ‘John Cleese memorial tip’. A year later the city obliged.”
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/37117/mt-cleese
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/blunt-instrument/john-clarke-gone-to-the-great-farnarkling-grommet-in-the-sky-20170410-gvi38w.html
So very sad to have John Clarke’s incisive take on the world gone from us.
We went for a bushwalk after we heard, and it was quite fitting that it was grey and showery, but we found a quite delightful waterfall in full flight. I felt it was all appropriate after hearing that he went out doing what he loved.
He will be sorely missed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJm5XU83ieA
BRYAN DAWE: Premier Lennon, thanks for your time.
JOHN CLARKE: Good evening Bryan, very good to be with you.
BRYAN DAWE: As Premier, I’d like to talk to you about Tasmania?
JOHN CLARKE: Yes, well, I’m always very happy to talk about Tasmania, a great place, Tasmania, Bryan very happy to talk about it. What particular aspect of it interests you?
BRYAN DAWE: Well, the administration, how it all works. You run the Government, is that right?
JOHN CLARKE: Sure, Bryan. Do you want to talk about the people who run Tasmania or do you want to talk about the Government?
BRYAN DAWE: Well… they’re different?
JOHN CLARKE: Yeah. We’ve got a bicameral system.
BRYAN DAWE: Yeah, two houses, sure.
JOHN CLARKE: No, there are plenty of houses, Bryan, it’s just that we got a bicameral system of administration in Tasmania.
BRYAN DAWE: What are they?
JOHN CLARKE: Well, I’m the Government…
BRYAN DAWE: The administration of the state, yeah…
JOHN CLARKE: … I’m very happy to talk to you about the Government Bryan, I’m the Premier. It’s quite interesting.
BRYAN DAWE: You are the Premier.
JOHN CLARKE: If you’re interested in being a Premier.
BRYAN CLARKE: No, no, no, I just wanted to ask you about…
JOHN CLARKE: It’s very interesting work. You need a suit and a tie. Fax machine.
BRYAN DAWE: A what?
JOHN CLARKE: A fax machine, you need a fax machine.
BRYAN DAWE: A fax machine. Why?
JOHN CLARKE: Well, they’re going to need to get in contact with you, aren’t they, the people who need who need the laws passed.
BRYAN DAWE: But don’t you write the laws?
JOHN CLARKE: No, no, we pass the laws, Bryan, it’s a bicameral system.
BRYAN DAWE: Well who writes it?
JOHN CLARKE: I don’t know who writes them, Bryan. We just get them off a fax machine and we bung them through the Parliament. They are very attractive…
BRYAN DAWE: You just pass them?
JOHN CLARKE: Yeah. We just pass them.
BRYAN DAWE: Like, “All of those in favour say aye”, type of thing?
JOHN CLARKE: Yes, all those people go through that door or that door. It’s a bit like panto, Bryan, we enjoy it. It’s a beautiful building the Parliament. Pop in if you’re in the area.
BRYAN DAWE: You’re saying the Government is different from the administration, is that right?
JOHN CLARKE: Bryan, what I’m saying is we pass the laws.
BRYAN DAWE: So who runs the State?
JOHN CLAKRE: I run the State, Bryan, I’m the CEO of Gunns.
BRYAN DAWE: No, hang on, you’re the Premier of Tasmania?
JOHN CLARKE: Sorry, no, the guy who runs the State is the CEO of Gunns, I’m just the Premier.
BRYAN DAWE: Right. Is Gunns your electorate?
JOHN CLARKE: Oh, Gunns is everybody’s electorate, Bryan. You’re mad if you’re not in the Gunns’ electorate.
BRYAN DAWE: You’re the Premier of Tasmania?
JOHN CLARKE: That’s right, that’s my job.
BRYAN DAWE: You were elected?
JOHN CLARKE: That’s right, by Gunns, Bryan, they put me there and I’m doing the job as well as I possibly can.
BRYAN DAWE: Who are Gunns?
JOHN CLARKE: Well Gunns, Bryan, they’re the people who make the laws in Tasmania in the bicameral system I’m trying to explain to you.
BRYAN DAWE: Well what are the laws about?
JOHN CLARKE: Anything, a lot of Tasmanian laws, Bryan, are about trees.
BRYAN DAWE: What about trees?
JOHN CLARKE: Oh, where they are.
BRYAN DAWE: How to get to them?
JOHN CLARKE: How to get them out.
BRYAN DAWE: Yeah. What happens to the trees when you get them out?
JOHN CLARKE: They sell them, Bryan, make them into paper.
BRYAN DAWE: Paper?
JOHN CLARKE: Yeah. Make them into paper.
BRYAN DAWE: Well, what for?
JOHN CLARKE: So we can get the faxes off the fax machine, Bryan, you can’t get the fax off the fax machine if there’s no paper.
BRYAN DAWE: So they make fax paper out of these things?
JOHN CLARKE: That’s right, Bryan. Get the trees out, turn them into fax paper.
BRYAN DAWE: So really, this is all about chopping trees down?
JOHN CLARKE: Well, the trees aren’t going to walk out themselves, Bryan, and turn themselves into fax paper, are they? You’ve got to chop them down.
BRYAN DAWE: Well, are you familiar with global warming?
JOHN CLARKE: No, who does he work for? Get him to call me, I’ll be in the Parliament. Lovely building the Parliament, Bryan, that’s where I mostly work.
BRYAN DAWE: Yeah. Mr Lennon, thanks for your time.
JOHN CLARKE: Is that a Gunns’ fax?
BRYAN DAWE: No, no.
JOHN CLARKE: “Thanks for your time”. I get a few saying, “Thanks for your time” from Gunns, that’s all.
BRYAN DAWE: Oh do you? They thank you?
JOHN CLARKE: Yeah, course they do. I’m the Premier of the State.
BRYAN DAWE: Yeah, but they run it.
JOHN CLARKE: It’s a bicameral system, yeah.
BRYAN DAWE: Two cameras.
JOHN CLARKE: Yeah, just like here.
BRYAN DAWE: Yeah, good.
JOHN CLARKE: Give me that, I’ll make it into a law.
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s1977339.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-11/john-clarke-remembered-in-gutwein-tasmanian-pac-debate/8435442
roughbarked said:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-11/john-clarke-remembered-in-gutwein-tasmanian-pac-debate/8435442
It was there to do. Ta.
sarahs mum said:
:(
Travel well down that path, Mr Clarke.
sarahs mum said:
Thanks for sharing that.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:Thanks for sharing that.
Thanks from me too.
My little tribute to JC (2/3 sourced from here):
I’m going to miss him.
:(
Witty and funny.
Terrible thing, he was a clever chap.
I like this clip because they mention me in it.
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3291619.htm
Lord_Lucan said:
Terrible thing, he was a clever chap.
I like this clip because they mention me in it.http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3291619.htm
I saw ya.
The Rev Dodgson said:
My little tribute to JC (2/3 sourced from here):
Thank you for those touches.
Lord_Lucan said:
Terrible thing, he was a clever chap.
I like this clip because they mention me in it.http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3291619.htm
This is for Cannard?
I imagine it is not easy Brian it’s a very big thing to do.
John Clarke took other photos than of birds.
roughbarked said:
John Clarke took other photos than of birds.
I suppose putting proper captions on his photos was something he was going to do in retirement.
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
John Clarke took other photos than of birds.I suppose putting proper captions on his photos was something he was going to do in retirement.
HIs photos were his hobby. Surely he did take a rest at times from being satirical.
He probably left the commenting for us to do.
I wonder if there’ll ever be a vaccine against natural causes.
At least he named his photos. Most of mine only have the number the camera gave them.
Peak Warming Man said:
I wonder if there’ll ever be a vaccine against natural causes.
Yes but it will cause autism.
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I wonder if there’ll ever be a vaccine against natural causes.
Yes but it will cause autism.
I liked the comment from Charlie Pickering; on vaccinations or what Americans call their holidays.
Peak Warming Man said:
I wonder if there’ll ever be a vaccine against natural causes.
There are vaccines against some natural causes.
Indeed, A Small Victory…
How’d that happen?!
furious said:
How’d that happen?!
Well I hardly like to imply you’re a big dumb-dumb but…
furious said:
- No. Got the page on David Dao deleted, on the basis that he was a private person rather than a public figure, and the detailed information on his past violated WP:BLP “The Foundation urges that … human dignity and personal privacy be taken into account, especially in articles of ephemeral or marginal interest; “
Indeed, A Small Victory…
Thought it was Faith No More going by the song title, good old weird Mike Patton
Sam Neill commenting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhDHSXXXLR0
Monday at 8. Thanks or your time.
Love this line from Sam Neill…
“There was a kindness about him that a lot of people really didn’t deserve.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-17/john-clarke-thanks-for-your-time/8446870
“Clean Coal, Brian, is an example of alliteration.” :)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-20/final-curtain-call-last-clarke-and-dawe-episode-released/8459030
Speedy said:
“Clean Coal, Brian, is an example of alliteration.” :)http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-20/final-curtain-call-last-clarke-and-dawe-episode-released/8459030
Ta. It’s one of their jam sessions before they refined the final thing, but still amusing :)
> “Clean Coal, Brian, is an example of alliteration.”
Yes. I liked that. And the bit about Brexit meaning that English financial institutions will be moving to Dublin.
About the best tribute to JC I’ve seen.