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Tuesday, 9 June 2009

The Chaser never recovered…

by Firstdog

9 Comments

  1. Vicki Grieves
    Posted Tuesday, 9 June 2009 at 2:46 pm | Permalink

    Oh priceless!!!!!

  2. paddy
    Posted Tuesday, 9 June 2009 at 2:47 pm | Permalink

    Ah FD. It’s *so* good to hear that dogs can appreciate the delights of a nice dish of schadenfreude. (Best served chilled.) :-)

  3. RV
    Posted Tuesday, 9 June 2009 at 3:27 pm | Permalink

    Hey, Chas is the best one!

    Well, he has the most amusing face, at least.

  4. Venise Alstergren
    Posted Tuesday, 9 June 2009 at 5:30 pm | Permalink

    Ooo er! Hells bells, etc. No wonder your cartoon has a slightly vicious cut to it today. I’m all in favour of a large hit of shadenfreude. :)

  5. Chris Johnson
    Posted Tuesday, 9 June 2009 at 8:49 pm | Permalink

    In other words The Chasers were irrelevant humour - a cluster of fairy floss comics blown away by their own stench. Floated by viewers looking for some free-to-air entertainment the Chasers with a hint of commercial endorsement attracted short-term attention. Time to give them the sharp end of the stick. It’s Karma FD…Karma. And thank heaven you surfaced at Crikey. We’re blessed!

  6. Firstdog
    Posted Tuesday, 9 June 2009 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

    No no no! At their peak the chaser is some of the best political satire we have seen in this country. I was just being bitchy to mirror the anti chaser bitchiness. Or something. They wiill he back. And they still won’t use my cartoons.

  7. Venise Alstergren
    Posted Tuesday, 9 June 2009 at 11:29 pm | Permalink

    FD I have to say I think they are pretty terrific. Why they didn’t see your worth is beyond me.
    I think they wet a bit too far with dying kid syndrome. a bit tasteless, that’s all. Everyone has apologized. that should be the end of it. But people are V touchy and wont rest for sometime yet.
    Sometimes I wonder if the citizens of Oz can handle satire. Gotta go.
    Cheers

    Venise

  8. Chris Johnson
    Posted Wednesday, 10 June 2009 at 9:23 am | Permalink

    The political satire was great, agreed FD. But the not very creative Chasers ran out of material and turned to human misery for mirth. Likening Joseph Fritzl’s incest to the Brady Brunch was as bad as creating jollys from cancer sufferers.

  9. paddy
    Posted Wednesday, 10 June 2009 at 11:07 am | Permalink

    FD. Whether you’re a cartoonist, or a political satirist.
    You will fail unless you’re funny.

    You are and they weren’t.

    Perhaps they should employ you as a “comedy editor”. :-)