The Chaser
Political Humor / Parody / Comedic Writers
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Satiristes sans frontieres
Male
90 years old
Sydney
Australia
Last Login: 6/1/2009
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The Chaser's Comedian Bio
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| Bio | See us live when we tour nationally in the first half of 2008 with The Chaser’s Age Of Terror Variety Show! Click the link for locations and other details.
The Chaser is a satirical media empire which rivals Rupert Murdochs News Corp in all fields except power, influence, popularity and profitability. They are currently producing The Chaser’s War On Everything and The Chaser website.
The story of how The Chaser team all met is already the stuff of television legend. (If you don’t know the legend, go to Google and type “chaser” “team” and “underground toilet” into the search box.)
In 1987, an ABC comedy producer attended a university revue and was impressed by what he saw. He nurtured the young writer/performers and soon offered them their very own comedy series on the national broadcaster. That series became the D Generation, whose work was ripped off by The Chaser team who came along years later.
Unlike the D-Gen, the members of The Chaser primarily cut their teeth in print media. Their first venture together was the online web magazine Stoop. Founded in 1989, the website folded after just two weeks since the internet hadn’t yet been invented.
They next launched their infamous
men’s magazine HGQ, which later turned into FHGQM, which then became a series of letters so unreadable that newsagents refused to stock it.
The team’s breakthrough came in 1998 with the publication of Quarterly Bacon Busters Essay, a monthly periodical which came out weekly in which an pre-eminent Australian intellectual would discuss his love of shooting pigs.
Then came the phone call that would change their lives forever. “Good evening,” the voice on the other end of the line said. “I wonder if you can spare a few minutes to participate in a survey.” Six years on, and that phone call is still going.
But somehow between survey questions The Chaser team has managed to produce a string of hit television shows, including the popular children’s quiz show Australia’s Brainiest Non-Asian Kid and the classic North Korean comedy Kath and Kim Jong-Il.
The team has won numerous AFI and Logie Awards, but then so has Shane Bourne, so it’s not really anything to brag about. | | Website | chaser.com.au | | Members | Charles Firth, Andrew Hansen, Dominic Knight, Chas Licciardello, Julian Morrow, Craig Reucassel, Chris Taylor, James Edwards, Richard Cooke, Tim Brunero, Shane Cubis, Gregor Stronach, Lisa Pryor, Dave Stewart | | TV Shows | The Election Chaser (2001)
CNNNN (2002-3)
The Chaser Decides (2004)
The Chaser’s War On Everything (2006-7)
Today Tonight (2007) |
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The Chaser's Interests
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| General | 
 | | Television | The Chaser's War On Everything, Order In The House, Guthy-Renker |
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The Chaser's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Body type: | 0' 1" / More to love! | | Ethnicity: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus |
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About me:
This is the 'official' Chaser MySpace page. Thanks for stopping by.
For the War On Everything official site, click here. For news satire, a discussion forum, online ticket bookings, merchandise, event calendar and other stuff, visit our main website.
Because we're so soddingly busy at the moment, we can't guarantee a reply to MySpace messages. Sorry! You can hit us on the guestbook at the ABC site above if you like.
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