Satire of him on YouTube
The Late Show did a fantastic satire of Nick Giannopoulos, and someone put it up on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn1FP6Rtf7Y
The stupid puns, the dumb catchphrases, the one-joke TV show, it's all there!
Here are some interesting facts for you JasonCav. Santo Cilauro who wrote that particular sketch and performed it used to perform a character on MMM radio in the late 80's called 'Gino Monaro'- complete with a big curly wig and a funny 'wog' accent. FACT. He stopped performing it just before the late show started production in 1993 ALSO Santo Cilauro co-starred with Nick G in a production of The Heartbreak Kid which Nick also directed at the Athaneaum Theatre in 1991. So maybe Santo was 'satirising' himself and some of the work HE used to write and perform. If you really want to find out why don't you just write to him, that way next time you make outlandish accusations you have all the FACTS in front of you.
share"So maybe Santo was 'satirising' himself and some of the work HE used to write and perform."
Absolutely not.
It was a satire of Nick Giannopoulos.
All the stupid wog puns were a satire of Wogs Out of Work, Wog Boys, Wog-A-Rama, etc.
Pizza Nut was a satire of Acropolis Now. Jane Kennedy was doing a parody of Effie.
There was even a scene that parodied a time when Giannopoulos and Mary Coustas were accused of ripping off their work from someone else (I remember it from a current affairs show).
The theme of the satire was how pretentious Lou Interligi/Giannopoulos was as he tried to act like he was "breaking down ethnic barriers" and the like. Really all he was doing was making one-joke stereotype shows.
I think the reason Santo Cilauro did the satire was because he would’ve appreciated how tired the wog jokes were getting, being Italian.
As for Cilauro, he’s done plenty of great comedy without resorting to lazy wog jokes. I have the DVD of The Late Show, which is one of the funniest Aussie shows ever.
Plus Frontline, The Castle, The Panel, the list goes on. Check out his IMDb page, it’s not just lame wog and pizza material which nobody watches.
And those are the FACTS!
"As for Cilauro, he’s done plenty of great comedy without resorting to lazy wog jokes"
Hey JasonCav you have COMPLETELY IGNORED what I wrote. Read my reply again...
"Santo Cilauro...used to perform a character on MMM radio in the late 80's called 'Gino Monaro'- complete with a big curly wig and a funny 'wog' accent"
& I've just remembered the catchphrase Gino used to say "Way to go maaaaate!"
...and as for "just lame wog... material which nobody watches" here's another few facts for you...
"Wogs Out Of Work" which Nick co-created with Simon Palomares & Maria Portesi is the one of the most successful non-musical Australian theatre shows ever. It ran for over 3 years and was seen by over 450,000 people.
The sitcom "Acropolis Now" he co-created with Simon P & George Kapiniaris ran for 4 years on the Seven Network and was consistently watched by 2 million people every week.
Nick's follow up stage show "Wog-A-Rama" in 1993 also ran for 3 years and played to over 350,000 people.
"Wogboys" in 1996 ran for 3 years and played to over 400,000 people
AND
"The Wog Boy" is the 13th most succesful Oz movie of all time
I agree that 'The Late Show' was very funny but I think that particular sketch was misguided, ill informed and grossly unfair to performers including Nick who were the pioneers of "Ethnic comedy" in this country and who through their efforts changes attitudes to identity and racism forever.
You obviously don't like whatever of Nick's work you have seen (if any) but as you can see up above lots of others do.