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January 2009 Highlights www.comedychannel.com.au JANUARY 2009 HIGHLIGHTS 1. Graham Kennedy’s Blankety Blanks (Part of AUSSIE GOLD) 2. New Year’s Day Animania 3. Australia Day South Park Marathon GRAHAM KENNEDY’S BLANKETY BLANKS Part of AUSSIE GOLD CHANNEL PREMIERE Fridays at 7.30pm from January 2 The King of Australian comedy Graham Kennedy is joining AUSSIE GOLD, THE COMEDY CHANNEL’s television BBQ of the greatest and timeless Australian comedy favourites! Graham Kennedy is at the height of his irreverent hilarity, whilst pushing the boundaries of acceptable taste with an armada of jokes about Cyril and Dick, in this legendary television hit. Despite, or perhaps in part thanks to, being labelled “vulgar smut” by the press, BLANKETY BLANKS quickly became the highest rating show on Australian television. In the late ‘70s there was simply no other place for Australian viewers to be as Kennedy turned the game show format into a 30 minute tour de force of double entendres and outrageous comic brilliance. A game show, in theory, but one that places the contestants in distant third place behind the hilarious antics of Gra-Gra and his regular cast members Ugly Dave Gray, Stuart Wagstaff, Noelene Brown, Carol Raye, Barry Creyton and Noel Ferrier. In addition to being presided over by legendary producer Tony the Moustache Twirler and with anonymous contributions from the enigmatic Peter the Phantom Puller, BLANKETY BLANKS rotates through a roster celebrity guest stars forming a who’s who of Australian ‘70s entertainment - Abigail, Delvene Delaney, June Salter, Peta Toppano, Mark Holden, Tommy Hanlon Jr, John Paul Young, Debbie Byrne, Marty Rhone and anyone else who was up for the ribald fun. 1 NEW YEARS DAY ANIMANIA Thursday January 1 - 6am to 12 Midnight Hold on tight Animaniacs for a full speed New Year’s Day Animania! Our day of off-beat cartooning starts with the SOUTH PARK SERIES 10 MARATHON at 6am with all the episodes back-to-back. Also featured in this animation explosion are the demented pop culture of the Emmy Award winning Robot Chicken, hosted by creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, winged-avenger turned two-bit lawyer, HARVEY BIRMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, the world’s most surreal share house in DRAWN TOGETHER and HEADCASES, the only show celebrities are desperate not to appear on. Rounding out the day is another chance to catch the SOUTH PARK SERIES 10 MARATHON from 6pm. Get your year off to a great start with NEW YEAR’S ANIMANIA on THE COMEDY CHANNEL. AUSTRALIA DAY - SOUTH PARK SERIES 11 MARATHON Monday January 26 – 5.30am to 12.30pm, repeating from 12.30pm – 6.30pm After 10 seasons of sick, wrong, brilliant, subversive, and groundbreaking humour, South Park just keeps getting a little more sick, a little more wrong, and a lot more funny! In our special Series 11 marathon Cartman sets a new town record for the most number of homeless people jumped over on his skateboard and fakes having Tourette's syndrome in order to get away with saying whatever he wants at school. Stan gets pulled into a bizarre Da Vinci Code-like conspiracy surrounding Easter, Butters is sent to a camp to "pray the gay away" when his dad suspects he's sexually curious and South Park gears up for a visit from Hillary Clinton. Also featured is the trilogy Imaginationland, where the boys have the entire contents of the world's imaginations, religions, and superstitions laid before them; for better or worse. So call your Accountabilabuddy and spend the Australia Day holiday with the potty- mouthed residents of SOUTH PARK. RICK & STEVE (SERIES 1) Part of ANIMANIA AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE SERIES Wednesdays at 9.30pm from January 7 Welcome to “the gayest of gay ghettoes”, West Lahunga Beach, where Rick (voiced by Will Matthews) and Steve (Queer As Folk’s Peter Paige) make their fabulously decorated double-income-no-children home. That is until Rick’s lifelong lesbian friend Kirsten (Emily Brooke Hands) asks him to be the father of her child. There’s just one catch, Kirsten’s wife Dana (Taylor M. Dooley) and Rick’s husband Steve are mortal enemies. The insults fly, nothing goes unspoken, but the ugly, bitter truth about domestic bliss never looked so cute. Also included in the cast are comedian Margaret Cho and Alan Cumming, Wilson Cruz (My So-Called Life), Lori Allen (Family Guy) and Lorna Luft (Judy Garland’s daughter!). Loaded with snappy comebacks, outrageous one-liners and absurd situations this stop- motion animated sitcom became an instant hit on the American Logo network. RICK & STEVE is propelled by a defiant disregard for political correctness and a low-budget aesthetic that combines Day-Glo pastels and primary colours with Playskool anatomy. 2 JUST FOR LAUGHS Showcasing the best of international stand up comedy from the Montreal Comedy Festival. Just as Cannes has its film festival and Edinburgh its arts festival, Montreal has an annualcelebration of comedy, Just For Laughs. JUST FOR THE COMEDY CHANNEL (SERIES 1) AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE SERIES Sundays at 6.30pm from January 4 These specials are made “Just for THE COMEDY CHANNEL” and feature famous comedians such as Dave Chappelle, Janeane Garafalo, Harland Williams, Jon Stewart, Dane Cook, Jimeoin, Bill Maher, Judith Lucy, Carl Barron, Adam Hills, Drew Carey, Penn & Teller, Wanda Sykes and many more. JUST FOR LAUGHS SPECIALS AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE SPECIALS Thursdays at 9.30pm from January 8 January 8 – Laughs At Great Britain Hosted by and Brit Jimmy Carr it’s the funniest British comedians from the Montreal Comedy Festival including Rowan Atkinson, Caroline Aherne, Bill Bailey, members of Monty Python and more. January 15 – Damned Yankees Hosted by Comedy Central’s Lewis Black we explore the Seven Deadly Sins. Featuring Tim Allen, Joan Rivers, Jon Stewart, Dane Cook, Bill Maher, Drew Carey, Richard Jeni, Dylan Moran and many more. January 22 – Oh! Canada Hosted by Russell Peters and featuring some of Canada’s finest with Jessica Holmes, Glen Foster, Joey Elias, Derek Seguin, Darrell Dennis, Debra Digiovanni and Darryl Lenox. January 29 – Scores The Just For Laughs festival takes a hilarious look at sports with Joey Elias, Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond), Denis Leary, Lee Mack, Howie Mandel, David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) and many more. THE BEST OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PREMIERE EPISODES Saturdays January 24 & 31 Over the last thirty years, SNL has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of a generation and for New Year’s Eve we’ve got the best comedians from the SNL stage. January 24 – The Best of Chris Farley – PREMIERE The Best of Chris Farley features some of the wildly hilarious characters Chris Farley created while appearing in Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s. 3 January 31 – The Best of Jimmy Fallon - PREMIERE Comedian, actor, musician and heir to Conan O’Brien’s throne of Late Night talk in 2009, Jimmy Fallon started on Saturday Night Live in 1998 where he became co-anchor of Weekend Update with Tina Fey and featured with his recurring characters and musical parodies. SCRUBS (SERIES 6) CONTINUIING SUBSCRIPTION TV PREMIERE EPISODES Thursdays at 7.30pm Fill your prescription for laughs with the sixth dose of the Emmy® award-winning SCRUBS. Series 6 cuts deep with developments that are both hilarious and life-changing (not to mention, heartbreaking) for the Sacred Heart staff. Catch the fever with the HBO ONE NIGHT STAND PREMIERE EPISODES Mondays at 10pm Live, unpredictable and very funny, HBO ONE NIGHT STAND showcases leading comedy talents. • Monday January 5 – Kevin Pollack PREMIERE • Monday January 12 – Larry Miller PREMIERE • Monday January 19 – Martin Lawrence PREMIERE • Monday January 26 – Norm MacDonald PREMIERE COMEDY CHANNEL EXCLUSIVES Comedy Slapdown WORLD PREMIERE EPISODES Saturdays at 7.30pm COMEDY SLAPDOWN is where comic improvisation meets Wrestlemania. Five teams compete in a totally unscripted round-robin style tournament set between the ropes in the Slapdown wrestling arena! Each episode sees two teams, consisting of three comic improvisers each, jump into the ring and go head to head in a series of improvised games in pursuit of laughs. The winning team from each episode will move a step closer to the final where the two funniest teams will play off in a title fight finale. The host and ‘King of the Ring’ HG Nelson oversees proceedings and teams include some of Australia’s top comedians such as Julia Zemiro, Tom Gleeson, Corrine Grant, Julia Morris, Paul McCarthy, Matt Tilley and many more. Get ready to rumble, or maybe just laugh as Comedy Slapdown invades your Saturday nights! 4 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE EPISODES Monday to Friday @ 10.30pm THE TONIGHT SHOW is the most watched late night TV show and 3rd longest running entertainment show in US television history, and like the great Johnny Carson before him, finally after 2 outstanding, EMMY award winning decades the reigning King of Late Night television Jay Leno will soon be handing his crown to his worthy successor Conan O’Brien. So until then don't miss a single episode of Jay over the coming months at 10:30pm weeknights for a spectacular farewell party jam packed with hilarious comedy segments and the biggest names in entertainment and politics. Late Night with Conan O’Brien AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE EPISODES Monday to Friday @ 11:15pm Former SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and SIMPSONS comedy writer turned late night talk show host, Conan O’Brien has been signed to take over the reins of the TONIGHT SHOW in 2009. While he’s still at the later timeslot don’t miss this hilarious EMMY award winning comedian with the most active and spontaneous hosting style in the business and an eclectic and entertaining mix of guests this is the edgiest and funniest Late Night Talk Show on TV.
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