if you subscribe to their website you could probably identify that yourself?
Found out today from a fan on Facebook that it’s from 1991.
Are these dates correct?
The Best and Worst of Red Faces #1 (May 27, 1992)
The Best and Worst of Red Faces #2 (August 12, 1992)
The Best and Worst of Red Faces #3 (November 18, 1992)
The Best and Worst of Red Faces #4 (February 13, 1995)
The Best and Worst of Red Faces #5 (May 15, 1995)
The Best and Worst of Red Faces #6 (August 10, 1995)
The Best and Worst of Red Faces #7 (February 12, 1996)
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Did we ever hear any announcement?
No announcement has been made yet.
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They were followed by Red Faces Classics 1 & 2 in late 1996, and Gonged But Not Forgotten a longer 30 min series that was shown on Monday night at 8:30pm, and occasionally at 8:00pm, in the second half of 1998, and on weekends over the non ratings summer period of 1999/2000 and 2000/2001.
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The earliest reference I can find for Ernie Carroll, an ad in The Age, 2 Feb 1952.
He appeared on GTV from 1957, The Age guides are showing, though indications are he may have appeared in 1956. So he had a long career with Nine.
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Makes sense why he wanted to retire at the end of '94.
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The 50th anniversary of Hey Hey it’s Saturday will be a behind a paywall on the Hey Hey website, Daryl Somers has told News Corp.
Somers also told News Corp that the program wouldn’t be made today due to “political correctness and the cancel culture”. Presumably meaning they wouldn’t be allowed to be racist, sexist, and make constant jokes Meldrum’s sexuality.
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Good. It doesn’t need another resurrection.
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A lot of the old stuff is hidden behind a paywall.
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So how are the Hey Hey lovers on this forum defending this? A lot of Twitter discussion on this given Somers’ self-serving shit that “cancel culture” wouldn’t let the show get made these days. Looking back at this entire thread on Twitter - racism, sexism, misogyny and more - thank fuck it’s not coming back.
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Gosh Daryl is such an idiot on the show. Incoherent and just completely and utterly useless and the Kamahl scenes would be rightfully pilloried if it went to air today.
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I am not defending this kind of behaviour.
While I’m not condoning or defending any of that footage or behaviour, I don’t always think it’s fair to see things from a past era in the context of the present day. The show was hugely popular at its time and probably a reflection of where mainstream Australia was back then. It’s not a pretty snapshot of us but it’s probably where we were broadly at, sadly.
It is also probably not fair just to single out Hey Hey It’s Saturday then, either. Just about any variety or comedy show of that era was probably doing much the same thing. e.g. in Fast Forward, Steve Vizard and Peter Moon mimicking Indians and having their faces tanned to go along with it, Magda Szubanski doing blackface in a Gone With The Wind parody, and various other comic themes that seemed OK 30+ years ago but unimaginable now.
The problem is that Hey Hey It’s Saturday came back a decade after it was axed and thought it could do the same material and humour from back then, like opening some sort of cultural time capsule, when it was clear that society had moved on.
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I think this is the key point. Magda, in particular, has repeatedly apologised for her blackface and other problematic comedy from Fast Forward.
On the other hand, Daryl blames “cancel culture” for Hey, Hey not being viable any more - and instead of reading the room, doubles down on how he is not the problem.
What I find particularly troubling though about that footage is how Daryl punches down. He did this on Dancing, too, with gags at Chong Lim’s expense. It is troublesome that Seven has seen fit to re-engage him.
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Well at least most of them would’ve moved on by now. By the sound of what Daryl’s been saying in recent years he still prefers to keep the old guard up and do what he did back in the day, when most of us have moved on. Hey Hey (in its last iteration before the revival) would be completely and rightfully condemned if it was on air today.
Also even without the woeful schtick and stunts that were clearly racist, sexist, stereotypical and inappropriate, Daryl was/is still a woeful presenter. That’s just my two cents.
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Finally some one with sense. It doesn’t work today, but don’t go saying it was bad if you weren’t even alive.
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Righto mate. Everyone who raises an issue is too young to know better.
Jog on.
Kamahl sometimes mimed on Hey Hey. One time that he mimed they did a very cruel practical ‘joke’ on him when during the song they constantly changed the speed of the recording, slowing it down then making it go fast. This went on for a couple of minutes, accompanied by John Blackman laughing. Kamahl was perplexed as he tried to sing, and you could see he was totally embarrassed. After the song finished Kamahl looked totally devastated as Daryl was laughing and thanked Kamahl for being a good sport.
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