The Chaser and Laughing Stock present The Chaser finally goes commercial
(Scroll down this page to skip the guff and get straight to the tour dates. Otherwise, here's the guff...) After heeding Today Tonight’s complaints about the outrageous waste of taxpayers’ money on their show The War On Everything, the Chaser team has decided to take some time off from TV in the first half of 2008. The Chaser will adopt a purely user-pays approach next year, mounting a national tour of a new live production, The Chaser’s Age Of Terror Variety Hour, from March to July 2008. Like The War On Everything, the Variety Hour will include a diverse range of short segments, some of which will be kind of okay-ish. It will combine sketches, songs, presentations and interactive audience segments ranging from the satirical to the just silly, and be constantly updated to incorporate up-to-the-minute insensitive gags about the latest celebrity deaths as they happen.
War On Everything co-conspirators Andrew Hansen, Chas Licciardello, Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel will appear in the show. Chris Taylor has opted not to tour while under the cloud of a fatwa issued by the Irwin family, and will remain in an undisclosed location developing new television projects for the team. His irreplaceableness will be demonstrated by the inclusion of Dominic Knight, one of The Chaser’s founders and a writer for the War.
The Age Of Terror Variety Hour will be receiving formal complaints from audiences in Adelaide, Ballarat, Brisbane, Canberra, Cairns, Darwin, Geelong, Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne, Newcastle, Parramatta, Perth, Sydney and Townsville. The Chaser team is still in negotiations with the ABC about future TV shows. Their negotiations with commercial networks of late have mainly been over Supreme Court injunctions. NEW SYDNEY SHOWS AS FOLLOWS Penrith - $40 tix for phone bookings Evan Theatre at Panthers Friday 4 July Bookings: Phone 1800 061 991 (no booking fee), or... Click here to book online Blacktown - All tickets $40 Blacktown RSL Saturday 5 July Bookings: Phone 02 9622 5222
Kingsford - All tickets $40 Souths Juniors Sunday 6 July Bookings: 02 9349 7555 (no booking fee) Click here to book online (0) Add a comment |