The Chaser is a satirical media empire which rivals Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp in all fields except power, influence, popularity and profitability.

The Chaser is the group behind ABC TV series The Election Chaser (2001), CNNNN (2002) and CNNNN Live (2003) which together have lost a host of Australian and international TV comedy awards. However, their credibility-building run of losses ended in 2004 when CNNNN tied with Kath & Kim to win the Logie for Most Outstanding TV Comedy. In 2005 they won the Logie for Most Outstanding TV Comedy with the hugely popular, The Chaser Decides (ABC).

In 2007, the team returned to ABC TV with The Chaser's War On Everything, which won them two AFI Awards (Best Comedy and Best Comedy Performer for Andrew Hansen), as well as one pending trial.

The Chaser was founded in 1999 as a fortnightly satirical newspaper produced out of a spare bedroom by initial editors Charles Firth, Craig Reucassel, Julian Morrow, Dominic Knight, who were later joined by the far more talented Andrew Hansen, Chas Licciardello and Chris Taylor. Since those humble beginnings, the Chaser team has lost its humility and has produced Classic™ comedy in all media, including print, online, radio, television and Christmas crackers.

The Chaser team also produced the official Sydney Olympics parody site www.silly2000.com and have brazenly recycled material in a series of books: The Little Read Book (2000), Bradman: The Cremated Years (2001), The War on Error (2002) and most recently Embedded with The Chaser (2003). The War on Error received the Outstanding Humorous Book prize at the inaugural Australian Comedy Awards in November 2003.

From 2001-2003, The Chaser had weekly radio programs on Triple M Sydney and the Austereo network. They also produced the weekly Chaser Report for Mike Carlton’s program on 2UE (2002) and are regular attention seekers on a host of other radio and television programs.

[Article]About The Chaser team riddler    September 14th, 2006 - 10:16 PM   I cannot believe no-one has commented on this article

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[Article]About The Chaser team YellowPages    September 23rd, 2006 - 10:53 PM is this all 100% true??

[Article]About The Chaser team Chas' Cheer Girl    September 28th, 2006 - 5:05 PM Does anyone know where they come up with the name "The Chaser"?

Re: [Article]About The Chaser team squiggleyak    September 28th, 2006 - 5:16 PM well wiki..(googlectual cap ON!) says the following are all meanings of "chaser"... A chaser can be:     * Somebody who chases somebody     * A player in the fictional Harry Potter sport Quidditch     * Toyota Chaser, a car     * The Chaser, an Australian comedy group     * Chaser (video game)     * Captain Chaser, the English localized name of the One Piece manga series character Smoker.     * A piece of music played or an inferior vaudeville act or motion picture presented to induce an audience to leave     * Someone that follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled -- also called a frogger     * A horse trained for steeple-chasing     * A ram that has only one testicle     * A type of dragonfly     * A tool used for cutting the threads of screws     * One of the edge-wheels which revolves in a trough, to grind substances to powder Shipping     * In the form bow chaser or stern chaser, naval cannons pointing forward or aft and used in ship chases     * A ship which chases another     * A small, light, usually single-seated aeroplane of great speed and climbing power, used in repelling hostile aircraft Slang     * Someone who is not a bear, chubby, or otter (slim, hairy gay man), but is sexually or romantically attracted to them     * One who chases women, a woman-chaser     * (1990s) A frequent user of crack-cocaine     * A prison guard     * A usually either a non or lesser alcoholic drink consumed immediately after drinking a potent liquor, to dull the harsh taste of alcohol As you can see, there are so many wonderful options to choose from! I've highlighted my favourites I always thought it was a reference to 'ambulance chaser' - a satirical swipe at the journalistic style of the daily terror  et al. but i'm just pulling that out of my arse and have no idea really  i kinda like the 'ram with one testicle' meaning though

Re: [Article]About The Chaser team gregor    September 28th, 2006 - 8:18 PM Quote from: Chas' Cheer Girl on September 29, 2006, 09:05:39 AM Does anyone know where they come up with the name "The Chaser"? I remember Charles pitching the name to me waaaay back when I was working as a designer on a local newspaper in Bondi. I can clearly remember the first, single page mock-up of the paper. This was back in 1996 - 1997, I think. I can very clearly remember asking Charles 'What the fuck does the name of the paper mean?' I cannot remember his answer.

Re: [Article]About The Chaser team blue    October 2nd, 2006 - 5:48 AM Quote from: squiggleyak on September 29, 2006, 09:16:07 AM     * A usually either a non or lesser alcoholic drink consumed immediately after drinking a potent liquor, to dull the harsh taste of alcohol I've heard that it's that one. Because you read it after reading the 'proper' newspapers... Fits with their logo having a glass on it anyway.

Re: [Article]About The Chaser team squiggleyak    October 2nd, 2006 - 5:50 AM Quote from: blue on October 02, 2006, 09:48:53 PM I've heard that it's that one. Because you read it after reading the 'proper' newspapers... Fits with their logo having a glass on it anyway.  hahah you know that's the first time i've ever actually looked at the logo properly? i always just assumed it was a top hat for some reason ahhaha no idea why

Re: [Article]About The Chaser team Holmes    October 2nd, 2006 - 6:29 AM Quote from: squiggleyak on October 02, 2006, 09:50:44 PM hahah you know that's the first time i've ever actually looked at the logo properly? i always just assumed it was a top hat for some reason ahhaha no idea why  It might have something to do with the way it is drawn -- liquids stay level in a glass when the glass is tipped.

Re: [Article]About The Chaser team squiggleyak    October 2nd, 2006 - 10:18 AM Quote from: Holmes on October 02, 2006, 10:29:52 PM It might have something to do with the way it is drawn -- liquids stay level in a glass when the glass is tipped. maybe it is level. maybe it's just been sketched from a strange perspective

[Article]About The Chaser team King Sir Doogie    October 6th, 2006 - 2:17 AM hi i don't care what it looks like but i hope it's not stalking me

[Article]About The Chaser team Megglen    November 22nd, 2007 - 1:07 AM Yeah I remember that! I loved CNNNN and The Election Chaser! They were all great and of course last years season of Chaser! Great stuff!