Bit of cultural cringe mixed with tall poppy syndrome here, classic Australia.
Kitty and Felix are Australian celebrities, both on very successful shows. Australia and overseas. They aren’t Hollywood Celebrities, but it’s an Australian talk show, in Melbourne.
Press junkets are so different to how they used to be when Rove did his show, they don’t need to do those appearances to promote projects anymore, and look at the dire movie industry as well.
Guy Montgomery added to the promos for next week. Maybe why they never intended to promote them is because they weren’t sure who they would have locked in too much in advance??
Wonder if show would have done better if produced by Working Dog. It seems to be a lot of their talent stable anyway****
Sam Pang is on the cover of the latest issue of The Big Issue magazine, on sale through street vendors across Melbourne or by subscription.
The show isn’t bad tonight. A few LOL moments.
The problem still is the lack of atmosphere. Needs a bigger crowd and live band.
Tonight’s second guest is Shane White, former detective superintendent of NSW Police.
Unnecessary.
Looking at guests The Project is able to book, like Patrick Schwarzenegger in the studio tonight.
I guess Sam Pangs guest bookings are lowkey by design?
Guy Montgomery spun the wheel in Wheel of Segments tonight. Unfortunately the outcome was the same: a celebrity pushed onto a Christmas tree (this week it was Shaun Micallef).
You can clearly see the wheel is rigged. How could it back spin that much so the needle stopped on the particular segment?
Patrick on The Project is just convenient since they were in Sydney doing press today and the show is coming from Sydney on Mondays while Pang’s show is filming.
But the show was always Pang & friends which I’ve mentioned before, doesn’t seem like he’s interested in interviewing big stars - it’s not his strong point.
He’s much better bouncing off like minded comedians and friends etc.
It’s certainly better when more people are there. Urzila’s segment had quite a few lol moments tonight. But I suppose this approach risks Sam being out done on his own show- which seems to keep happening, no matter how much it is needed.
I guess the ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’ segment was a tie-in to the special guest tonight. But I was surprised he didn’t pull the stunt out again when interviewing the detective. Bad cop asking the detective about Paw Patrol would have been good I would have thought.
You haven’t figured out that this is the whole joke? It will probably end this way every week. Or maybe as a twist, land somewhere else in the final week.
Not only is it rigged, this week it actually landed just on the other side of the line. Guy must have flicked it over the line because he couldn’t control his own laughter and the audience laughed louder because they obviously saw him do it.
I think they should film one video each of the other segments on the wheel (we saw a sneak peek of beers with Maggie Beer) so that they can be shown over the next five weeks.
Sam seemed more relaxed tonight. The monologue was better, perhaps less frantic and bouncing of Guy worked well. He does seem to work best with other comedians. I liked the floor manger segments. Some great cameos from Maggie and Shaun.
The Project pays big money for guests to be on the show. The starting rate for guest and Panellist is $2000
I doubt Sam’s show could match that.
That’s not unusual.
Even the ones that are part of publicity tours and basically going on as talking advertisements? I mean like the bands and singers that go on to promote a new album or to sell concert tickets, actors promoting an upcoming movie release, etc.
