The spring series grinds on — and I do mean grinds — with friend of the pod, satirist Mark Humphries.
In this episode we do talk about the thing that happened last week — the Trump thing — but we also talk about edible underwear, North Korean soldiers, British comedians Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, and Steve Coogan, whether straight people can do camp, and pixellated genitals.
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Mark Humphries was born on 2 October 1985 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a writer and actor, known for Adult Learners (2009), Lowering Awareness (2016) and The Chaser's War on 2020 (2020).
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[4 May 2023] In the first Pubic House Forum episode of the The 9pm Edict since 2018, I was joined by Sydney Morning Herald cartoonist Cathy Wilcox and satirist Mark Humphries at Sydney’s Royal Exhibition Hotel in Surry Hills with an enthusiastic live audience.
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[12 July 2024] Mark Humphries has officially joined the Seven Network, putting an end to weeks of speculation.
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[8 November 2024] Mark Humphries has finally landed the most coveted timeslot on TV and social media: the 6:57 pm News. Join Mark as he uses the universal journalistic language of the piss-take to unpack the stories of the week.
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[25 June 2021] Barnaby Joyce returned to his party's leadership this week, ousting Michael McCormack. That also marks the return of the colourful Nationals MP Barabbas Loins, as brought to life by 7.30's resident satirist Mark Humphries and his co-writer Evan Williams.
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[8 November 2024] Mining magnate Gina Rinehart met privately with tech billionaire and Donald Trump backer Elon Musk in the days after the US election, discussing government spending cuts, freedom of speech and the fate of internet sensation P’Nut the squirrel.
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[9 November 2024] I knew most of the moms were more conservative than me, but it wasn’t until the onset of COVID-19 and the 2020 presidential election that it became apparent most of my new friends were either Trump supporters and/or entangled in QAnon conspiracy theories.
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[22 October 2024] One Nation candidate for the Gold Coast seat of Southport, David Vaughan, posted to Facebook on May 13 with a caption signed off as "Q" and hashtags including "The Great Awakening", "NCSWIC" and "Future Proves Past", all terms used by the movement's followers.
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[8 October 2024] In a post last week shared with her 1.2 million X followers, the US House representative from Georgia wrote: “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”
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Alex Antic, the South Australian conservative, tweeted this morning his claim that “Labor knows that the next generation of young people are being red pilled by social media and are turning away from their bleak world view.” Social media bans for minors and “misinformation” laws will ensure that young Australians only get a corporate left wing message bricking in a new generation of Labor voters.
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[11 November 2024] United Australia Party senator Ralph Babet has posted a series of slurs online after sharing a video of misogynistic internet provocateur Andrew Tate crowing about Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, prompting condemnation from the Greens.
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[24 May 2022] United Australia party prepares legal challenge in one seat after candidate allegedly follows and records electoral officers.
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14. Jon Stewart on Trump’s Win and What’s Next w/ Heather Cox Richardson | The Weekly Show - YouTube[9 November 2024] In the aftermath of 2024 election results, Americans are rightfully worried about what a second Trump administration may bring. This week, Jon Stewart is joined by Heather Cox Richardson, author of “Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America" to explore what our past can teach us about the resiliency of our democratic institutions as we navigate an uncertain future.
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Australians watch how the US do democracy with a mixture of confusion and surprise. Why does no one seem satisfied with how government works? Casey Briggs examines a democracy that many people have deep reservations about.
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Following the success of Ben Elton’s critically acclaimed sold-out Australian tour in 2021, the undisputed godfather of modern stand-up is returning to our shores next year with a brand-new live show – Authentic Stupidity.
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Benjamin Charles Elton AM (born 3 May 1959) is a British comedian, actor, author, playwright, lyricist and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on the sitcoms "The Young Ones" and "Blackadder", as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television. His style in the 1980s was left-wing political satire. Since then he has published 17 novels and written the musicals "The Beautiful Game" (2000), "We Will Rock You" (2002), "Tonight's the Night" (2003), and "Love Never Dies" (2010), the sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera". His novels cover the dystopian, comedy, and crime genres.
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Ben Elton Live From Planet Earth was an Australian comedy television series produced by FremantleMedia which aired on the Nine Network in 2011... After critical reviews, hostile social media reaction and poor ratings, the Nine Network cancelled the show after three episodes had aired.
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Richard Michael Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English actor, comedian and writer. He formed a close partnership with Ade Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University, and was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the 1980s.
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Drop Dead Fred is a 1991 black comedy fantasy film directed by Ate de Jong, produced by PolyGram and Working Title Films and released and distributed by New Line Cinema, starring Phoebe Cates as a young woman named Elizabeth Cronin and Rik Mayall as her imaginary friend, Drop Dead Fred, with Marsha Mason, Carrie Fisher, Ron Eldard, Tim Matheson, and Bridget Fonda in supporting roles
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Stephen John Coogan (/?ku???n/; born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for creating and portraying Alan Partridge, a socially inept and politically incorrect media personality, which he developed while working with Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris on On the Hour and The Day Today.
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Norman Gene Macdonald[i] (October 17, 1959 – September 14, 2021) was a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and writer whose style was characterized by deadpan delivery, eccentric understatement, and the use of folksy, old-fashioned turns of phrase.
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Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network (colloquially Dominion v. Fox) was a U.S. defamation lawsuit filed in March 2021 by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News Channel and its corporate parent Fox Corporation. Dominion's complaint sought US$1.6 billion in damages, alleging several Fox programs had broadcast false statements that Dominion's voting machines had been rigged to steal the 2020 United States presidential election from then-president Donald Trump. Fox News argued that it was reporting "pure opinion" regarding what others were saying which, if true, would be protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
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Have I Got News for You (HIGNFY) is a British television panel show, produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC, which premiered on 28 September 1990.
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Have I Got News for You (HIGNFY) is an American television panel show based on the British series of the same name. Piloted by Bravo, NBC, and TBS in 2005, 2009, and 2012, the show eventually premiered on September 14, 2024, on CNN in the run-up to the 2024 United States elections.
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From C-SPAN coverage, Roy Wood, Jr. remarks at the 2023 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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Late Night Lycett is a comedy variety show hosted by Joe Lycett on Channel 4 and first broadcast on 31 March 2023. The show is filmed in Lycett's home city of Birmingham and includes brief interviews with celebrity guests, with questions being asked from regular guests appearing in the audience, as well as recurring comedy segments.
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[13 November 2024] Musk and ex-presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to head up Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
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Originally from BBC’s "That's Life" (1982)
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[21 May 2014] Gloria, a 67-year-old pensioner, from Warburton, Victoria called 774 ABC Melbourne to quiz Prime Minister Tony Abbott over the budget cuts. Gloria claims she has to work as a telephone sex worker to make ends meet.
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Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing or amusing because of its heightened level of artifice, affectation and exaggeration, especially when there is also a playful or ironic element. Camp is historically associated with LGBTQ+ culture and especially gay men. Camp aesthetics disrupt modernist understandings of high art by inverting traditional aesthetic judgements of beauty, value, and taste, and inviting a different kind of aesthetic engagement.
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He's a menswear assistant who always has a tale to tell. Whether it's taking on the role of director or measuring for a jacket, Mr Humphries is usually free.
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[7 November 2024] North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia have reportedly accessed the unrestricted internet for the first time, with many using this newfound freedom to view pornography, according to Financial Times journalist Gideon Rachman.
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[30 October 2024] Observers say some of the troops have already arrived at the front. From the North Korean perspective... these soldiers might not be as miserable as outsiders think. They may, in fact, view their Russian tour with pride and as a rare chance to make good money, see a foreign country for the first time and win preferred treatment for their families back home, according to former North Korean soldiers.
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[24 October 2024] The White House says 3,000 North Korean troops have been deployed to military training locations in eastern Russia. Analyst, Dr Leonid Petrov, tells The World those soldiers may defect and surrender while fighting in Ukraine. He also says he has seen a promotional video which is designed to target North Korean servicemen, in Korean language, which talks about their rights as prisoners of war.
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In Japan, onsen (??) are hot springs and the bathing facilities and traditional inns around them. There are approximately 25,000 hot spring sources throughout Japan, and approximately 3,000 onsen establishments use naturally hot water from these geothermally heated springs.
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The iPod is a discontinued series of portable media players and multi-purpose mobile devices that were designed and marketed by Apple Inc. from 2001 to 2022.
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Baratunde Rafiq Thurston (/?bær??tu?nde?/; born September 11, 1977) is an American writer, comedian, and commentator. Thurston co-founded the black political blog Jack and Jill Politics, whose coverage of the 2008 Democratic National Convention was archived in the Library of Congress, and was director of digital for The Onion. In 2012, his book How to Be Black became a New York Times bestseller.
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Music By John Williams, an all-new documentary on the life and career of the legendary composer, will have a limited theatrical release and begins streaming November 1 on Disney+. The documentary features interviews with Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Kate Capshaw, Gustavo Dudamel, J.J. Abrams, Chris Martin, Ron Howard, Chris Columbus, George Lucas, Itzhak Perlman, Lawrence Kasdan, Yo-Yo Ma, Ke Huy Quan, James Mangold, Alan Silvestri, David Newman, Thomas Newman, Seth MacFarlane, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Branford Marsalis, whose lives have been touched by Williams’ timeless music.
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Join Mark Humphries (ABC, Channel 7), James Schloeffel (the brains behind The Shovel), Charles Firth (co-founder of The Chaser) and – for the first time – Veronica Milsom (Mad as Hell ,Triple J’s Veronica & Lewis) for a night of satire, sketches, sh*t-stirring and … The 2024 Defo Awards for Services to Defamation F-ups.
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