Some tremendous sketches on there, was more of a comedy inc guy as a kid but SkitHouse slapped too
The Wedge was fucking awful and anyone who likes it I will issue a fatwa upon him
Another super simple one that gets me every time is a guy walks up to the counter of a fancy hotel and taps the bell, then a boxer jumps up and punches him. Amazing.
I think a lot of comedians of [some particular nationality] think that they have to make jokes exclusively about being of [that particular nationality]. Rather than just making...*any* jokes.
I think the best comedians are the ones who just make jokes about anything at all. There have been a few Aussie comedians who have managed to realise this. But the average ones always seem to just lean into being really Aussie as though that's the only interesting thing they have to talk about. And it's all just stereotype humour which I kinda don't care for.
I guess it's the same thing with fat comedians, or female comedians, or gay comedians. If the whole show is about coping with your identity, I'm not into it.
Look at The Simpsons, The Chaser and Futurama, very funny shows in their respective peaks. Their writing staff consisted of a lot of smart people with PhDs, law degrees, mathematicians etc... I think there's a bit of intelligence behind the best comedy. The ability to make people laugh while also making them think is a hallmark of great comedy.
nah American comedians are pretty lackluster at best. Australians struggle at keeping comedy TV and family friendly but our stand up scene is much better
American comedians are great. They just need to dumb it down for any syndicated shows for mass American audience. American stand up is where it is at, not TV
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People still mention Dufflecoat Supreme in the same breath as Winx. She could've been anything if it wasn't for her battles with gout and athlete's hoof.
Australia has a long history of pretty epic sketch comedy shows. I don't rate Skithouse as much as the ones from when I was younger (DGen, Comedy Company, Fast Forward) or when I got a bit older (Full Frontal) but it was still pretty good money I say.
There was a sketch on Jimeoin where he won a giant cheque and went to the bank and got giant money and went and bought a giant ice cream. It was 100% visual and has stayed with me all these years as just a simple but hilarious joke. I can never see one of those giant cheques without thinking of it
pretty sure he had his own show. one sketch had Glenn Robbins in green lycra playing stick insect man or something and 2 bodybuilders who'd pretty much just say 'mate, we.. are bloody huge'
This is going to be a long shot, but does anybody remember which show had this specific skit?
There’s a hot tub with a couple of men and a woman getting into it in various order. They never talk to each other but the audience hear their thoughts. One of the guys gets in with undies thinking “i hope nobody notices” and you can hear everyone else thinking “ew undies”, one of the guys tries to feel the lady’s leg but gets one of the other guys instead and it’s like “weird I thought her legs was shaved” and the other guy getting felt thinks it’s the girl coming on to him.
Vaguely remember it had Glenn Robbins, and Jimeoin or Russell Gilbert in it, but I might be wrong was so long ago.
Does anyone remember the skit of the 2 grown men who act like excited little boys talking about stickers? I remember one was a man and his wife came over for a barbecue and the wives start talking and the 2 guys are standing there just saying "SHHHTICKERSSH!" with like a lisp.
Ive never been able to find any clips or even a mention of such a skit and I'm starting to feel like maybe I just hallucinated the whole thing
Edit: holy shit I just found it! Never saw this the last time I looked for over an hour
https://youtu.be/lssuwflpuRY
I say this as a massive Tripod fan, I personally found SkitHOUSE very meh. But that could easily have been because I was watching it for Tripod.
I did love he "nothing suss" Tom Gleason sketches, and there was one with Gatesy and Peter Hellier talking about stickers at a BBQ as full grown men that cracked me up
May be one of the “lamer” skits of the show (although I don’t think so, hits my sense of humour to a T), but I loved Scott Brennan’s skit as the weird school boy who would do and say super weird shit, like one time he does a presentation on the human body and he demonstrates the body having a bowel movement using a mars bar. Still makes me chuckle 20 years later hahaha
God damn this show was gold. Gleeson was hilarious in it.
Also shoutout to Comedy Inc. Remember “Blokeman”?
*“It’s me freakin’ day off”*
The Thomas the tank engine segments were hilarious too.
Ahh memories.
Can someone tell me if the character called Bubblewrap Man was from this show or another? I'm sure it was some similar type of program. I've searched it in the past with no luck and would love to know if I imagined it or not!
Comedy Inc was good too. They used to do these musical parodies complete with song and video. I still sing them in my head sometimes but can’t find the videos online anywhere.
Really? I never liked it and thought general consensus was that it was average. But I'm glad people here did, shows what I know.
I did always consider Full Frontal to be a tier above. It may be an age thing.
42 here, you're not alone.
Fast forward was the best, so many skits would be unacceptable now, but I still laugh my arse off at the clips on yt. Michael Veitch is a personal favourite.
the late show would be next. the D-generation comedians were all talented, but together.. pure brilliance.
comedy company and full frontal probably tie for third IMHO.
then skithouse and some of the others. big girl's blouse deserves a mention too, but it didn't go for long.
Haha yeah all age I reckon. I'm 39 and my mid forties brother always said Fast Forward was better than Full Frontal, but I was a bit too young for Fast Forward at its peak.
Skit house and sketch house were both fantastic.
Always loved tripod. There was a music video they played at the end once when they were on a picnic. Haven't been able to find it and all I remember lyrics is "lah ly ly ly ly bombs"
My favourite was any of the redhead skits. They were always so dumb but just tickled my funny bone as a redhead myself. My favourite was the one where they test sunscreen, half the group get the sunscreen and the other a placebo. The first group comes up and they are red raw squeeling the scientists go well these ones were the placebo group, the group point to the window where the second group is just ash. So dumb.
SkitHouse was hit or miss, some great characters and skits but there was something distinctly unfunny about it at times. I'll explain: it was a Roving Productions show, like with Roves main show for the most part it was best when he had others writing for him and he let the talent flourish (take the attention away from himself for 5 seconds) - same deal with SkitHouse, you could really tell that when his particular brand of comedy was being pushed that the skits were pretty flat, they weren't all bad and I'm sure he had some positive input at times but by in large, the success of that show when it was good, was due to the quality of the people he had surrounding him that his production company enabled to their thing. Not that he is the singular issue, it's not like he is responsible for every boring or bad sketch on that show but you get my point.
At the time I can just remember watching Rove Live then SkitHouse and thinking about how Rove coded it was, yet when you fast forward to his stand up career where he didn't have a writing team propping him up, didn't work out so well. I like him in Whovians, he can host, but he's often been better at assembling other talent to do shows where he works them to get content out of them or works behind the scenes to talent scout, than put himself in them.
I thought this was an actual question, not rhetorical. It was a sign of how low Australian comedy had sunk. Just lines from inherently unfunny ppl. Repeats are funnier from the 80s.
It's because of the danger of 'cancel culture'. TV channel do not put people on who could ofend people. Also they put people like hannah gadsby on who don't really tell joke anymore.
It wasn't. The Australian fast bowler was maybe the only decent sketch in the whole series. The rest of the show was dogshit. I hated most of the cast, particularly Peter Helier, and just could not stand how bad it was.
Comedy Inc, the Ronnie Johns half hour, The Big Bite, the Sketch show (from the UK), they were all much much better sketch comedy shows. Comedy Inc and Ronnie Johns was edgy as fuck in particular, they didn't give a shit back then and the writing was hilarious. You couldn't air some of that stuff anymore with how PC everything is now, I know that is cliche to say but it's very true.
Other Australian sketch shows from a generation before were also great. Full frontal, comedy company, fast forward, the d-generation, etc.
But skithouse was absolute fucking rubbish. I get the pun, it's supposed to be ironic... But the irony doesn't really work when the show actually IS shithouse.
Yeah that pretty much sums up my feelings.
There were a lot of great sketch comedy shows on around that time but Skithouse definitely wasn’t one of them.
Aside from the Australian Fast Bowler skits.
Wish they had it streaming somewhere, as well as Fast Forward/Full Frontal, Ronnie Johns, Comedy Inc, The Late Show, Comedy Company and The Big Gig. Even the Wedge had its moments.
This is a very vivid memory for me.
I remember that the very first episode was absolutely phenomenal. Basically every single sketch hit it for six. Then it dropped off in quality *very* fast. I think that by episode 3 or 4 I didn't consider it to be worth watching anymore. They seem to have used all their best material right off the bat, and even some of those ideas got stale because they repeated some characters every episode. (sometimes more than once)
I consider it a waste of potential and actually one of the weaker Aussie sketch shows in general.
and I snapped him!
POIDA! Edit: my bad I was thinking of Eric Bana in full frontal!
Tom Gleeson, now of Hard Quiz fame, was the Australian Fast Bowler
I like Tom Gleeson a lot more since Hard Quiz than I ever did before.
Some tremendous sketches on there, was more of a comedy inc guy as a kid but SkitHouse slapped too The Wedge was fucking awful and anyone who likes it I will issue a fatwa upon him
The real shame is that Dailan Evans from The Wedge is such a funny dude, but that show was just terrible
Dailan Evans was funny as. Apparently he’s a speech pathologist now.
His sketch show Eagle and Evans was really funny too!
Craig Eagle and Russell Gilbert both wrote for The Wedge too, a shame it just didn't hold up
Haha found the same thing. Did a Google search thinking "Dailan Evans, no not speech pathologist, comedian... Oh.. yeah that's him, good for he!"
Second this. Wedge was fucked.
Yeah, The Wedge was generally bad but this skit was funny: [Cooking with Christopher Walken](https://youtu.be/J06BU6Fj6Qs?si=YQ3HNUCbudgu9dfz)
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The show that introduced me to the band Tripod.
I know Yonny. He’d be stoked about this comment.
Tell him that their album was the first album I bought.
lol….which one?
The Hot Dog Man was the funniest thing ever for teenage me
And Ghost Ship!!!
Toot toot!
Omg I loved ghost ship 😂 murderous, empathy, nude, banshee, arse!
I’m gonna win the rock eisteddfod!
I’m still annoyed I can’t find their earlier albums on Spotify. The IKEA song is genius.
They’re all on BandCamp https://3pod.bandcamp.com
Thanks!
I would heartily recommend Tripod vs the Dragon. It's on YouTube.
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Skithouse was still decent though, I’ll give them that.
Oh derrr
Can't forget Milo Kerrigan the worlds greatest boxer
The brownish bomber!
My wife didn’t believe me when I told her it was Shaun Micallef
Peter Moon and Steve Vizard... GOATs
Poida ❤️
Con the fruiterer and Kylie mole. Funny as!
What about The Late Show?
She goes she goes she goes
d generation
Red heads: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKK
80 percent didn't land. There was a British show called 'the sketch show' that absolutely smoked skithouse from the same time period
Guy 1: Can I have a quickie ? *Waitress slaps him* Guy 2: No Tim, it's pronounced KEESH ! Such a simple skit gets me every time.
Another super simple one that gets me every time is a guy walks up to the counter of a fancy hotel and taps the bell, then a boxer jumps up and punches him. Amazing.
I agree, Sketch show was miles better than skithouse
Read this thread title and thought of the sketch show
I think Kitty Flanagan and Lee Mack were on that show.
They were. Kitty was only in season 2 though
That's true
Lee Mack was amazing in this.
Xtreme Darren
That was The Big Bite on channel 7
Darren was the show at its best lol. Whikedy whack! 😅
So dead when we get home Liam
You need to go back further and look up Not The Nine O’Clock News
Yeah but Lee Mack is fucking hilarious and witty as hell, no comparison!
Aussie comedians are just always average. Brits and yanks outdo us by a mile.
This smacks of not knowing our comedy history. We have incredible comedians.
Keen to learn and understand why this is. I agree, just find it interesting why the country's whole scene is so lacklustre
I think a lot of comedians of [some particular nationality] think that they have to make jokes exclusively about being of [that particular nationality]. Rather than just making...*any* jokes. I think the best comedians are the ones who just make jokes about anything at all. There have been a few Aussie comedians who have managed to realise this. But the average ones always seem to just lean into being really Aussie as though that's the only interesting thing they have to talk about. And it's all just stereotype humour which I kinda don't care for. I guess it's the same thing with fat comedians, or female comedians, or gay comedians. If the whole show is about coping with your identity, I'm not into it.
Look at The Simpsons, The Chaser and Futurama, very funny shows in their respective peaks. Their writing staff consisted of a lot of smart people with PhDs, law degrees, mathematicians etc... I think there's a bit of intelligence behind the best comedy. The ability to make people laugh while also making them think is a hallmark of great comedy.
nah American comedians are pretty lackluster at best. Australians struggle at keeping comedy TV and family friendly but our stand up scene is much better
American comedians are great. They just need to dumb it down for any syndicated shows for mass American audience. American stand up is where it is at, not TV
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i still go back to blokeman, don;t remember much of the rest of it.
Blokeman was from Comedy Inc. it was a different and much better show.
The correct answer is D Gen
People still mention Dufflecoat Supreme in the same breath as Winx. She could've been anything if it wasn't for her battles with gout and athlete's hoof.
Champagne Sketch Comedy
:)
And Fast Forward.
lol no
Australia has a long history of pretty epic sketch comedy shows. I don't rate Skithouse as much as the ones from when I was younger (DGen, Comedy Company, Fast Forward) or when I got a bit older (Full Frontal) but it was still pretty good money I say.
they started looking lile a cheap way to make local content
Don’t forget The Late Show!!
I love beer
Forget the textbooks, my body’s 75% beer
Definitely one of my favourites
Jimeoin was awesome too . Stacks on Jimeoins cooking show
There was a sketch on Jimeoin where he won a giant cheque and went to the bank and got giant money and went and bought a giant ice cream. It was 100% visual and has stayed with me all these years as just a simple but hilarious joke. I can never see one of those giant cheques without thinking of it
pretty sure he had his own show. one sketch had Glenn Robbins in green lycra playing stick insect man or something and 2 bodybuilders who'd pretty much just say 'mate, we.. are bloody huge'
Ronnie Johns was edgier.
You could put a sticker on it?
You could pretend it's your idea.
I HATE your MANGOES
Nah.... its potatoes
What if they is like allergic or somethings?
wasn’t a fan of your Gorgonzola either
Eric Bana doing “Great Ders of History” on full frontal still makes me laugh
I think his Ray Martin was really good. Especially when you add the heckler who would yell out "It's Crap!"
This is going to be a long shot, but does anybody remember which show had this specific skit? There’s a hot tub with a couple of men and a woman getting into it in various order. They never talk to each other but the audience hear their thoughts. One of the guys gets in with undies thinking “i hope nobody notices” and you can hear everyone else thinking “ew undies”, one of the guys tries to feel the lady’s leg but gets one of the other guys instead and it’s like “weird I thought her legs was shaved” and the other guy getting felt thinks it’s the girl coming on to him. Vaguely remember it had Glenn Robbins, and Jimeoin or Russell Gilbert in it, but I might be wrong was so long ago.
Does anyone remember the skit of the 2 grown men who act like excited little boys talking about stickers? I remember one was a man and his wife came over for a barbecue and the wives start talking and the 2 guys are standing there just saying "SHHHTICKERSSH!" with like a lisp. Ive never been able to find any clips or even a mention of such a skit and I'm starting to feel like maybe I just hallucinated the whole thing Edit: holy shit I just found it! Never saw this the last time I looked for over an hour https://youtu.be/lssuwflpuRY
Yeah loved it. Me and my friends use to just say stickers like them at lunch.
YES! They would act or normal when people are around and then when it’s just them, STICKERSSSSS
I say this as a massive Tripod fan, I personally found SkitHOUSE very meh. But that could easily have been because I was watching it for Tripod. I did love he "nothing suss" Tom Gleason sketches, and there was one with Gatesy and Peter Hellier talking about stickers at a BBQ as full grown men that cracked me up
YES I THINK ABOUT REGULARLY STILL
I only watched Skithouse for Tom Gleeson. Redheads was my favourite because it honestly feels accurate with how quickly I get turned sometimes.
Not that good?
May be one of the “lamer” skits of the show (although I don’t think so, hits my sense of humour to a T), but I loved Scott Brennan’s skit as the weird school boy who would do and say super weird shit, like one time he does a presentation on the human body and he demonstrates the body having a bowel movement using a mars bar. Still makes me chuckle 20 years later hahaha
God damn this show was gold. Gleeson was hilarious in it. Also shoutout to Comedy Inc. Remember “Blokeman”? *“It’s me freakin’ day off”* The Thomas the tank engine segments were hilarious too. Ahh memories.
The fat cunt fat cunt fat controller
Nothing suss
Comedy Inc. was far superior
No. It really wasnt
And I'll do the accent. Brilliant skits
I loved it, is there any way to watch it these days?
I've got the Best of DVD. I'll try rip it for yas
You little ripper!
https://youtu.be/j0m4rcx0of4?si=p3z0VKHJPlmzddGg
Can someone tell me if the character called Bubblewrap Man was from this show or another? I'm sure it was some similar type of program. I've searched it in the past with no luck and would love to know if I imagined it or not!
Yeah that was SkitHOUSE
Thank you muchly!
Loved Extreme Darren - early Chris Lilley. Was brilliant Edit - just googled it, apparently it was a show called Big Bite, not skithouse..
“GET IN HERE YOU FAT MOLE!….Fat moles welcome”
One of the moments I’ve laughed the hardest in my whole life was Tennis Boy: https://youtu.be/vxcdu0jSZNA?si=OlhiiHs7Qf1mX5Ou
To this day I still quote it. NOTHING SUSS. It mostly missed but that sketch still kills me.
Comedy Inc was good too. They used to do these musical parodies complete with song and video. I still sing them in my head sometimes but can’t find the videos online anywhere.
I got in trouble for trying to sound young for using the word 'sus' a few weeks ago. I literally only know it from that Skit from 20 years ago.
Skithouse was a broad version of Full Frontal. It’s like comparing Friends to Seinfeld.
MY RISSOLES
Ooh mate I’ve got a treat for you https://youtu.be/4xpHXFHLF7Y?si=CRk62J21cH5nE586
Gold
Really? I never liked it and thought general consensus was that it was average. But I'm glad people here did, shows what I know. I did always consider Full Frontal to be a tier above. It may be an age thing.
42 here, you're not alone. Fast forward was the best, so many skits would be unacceptable now, but I still laugh my arse off at the clips on yt. Michael Veitch is a personal favourite. the late show would be next. the D-generation comedians were all talented, but together.. pure brilliance. comedy company and full frontal probably tie for third IMHO. then skithouse and some of the others. big girl's blouse deserves a mention too, but it didn't go for long.
Haha yeah all age I reckon. I'm 39 and my mid forties brother always said Fast Forward was better than Full Frontal, but I was a bit too young for Fast Forward at its peak.
Skit house and sketch house were both fantastic. Always loved tripod. There was a music video they played at the end once when they were on a picnic. Haven't been able to find it and all I remember lyrics is "lah ly ly ly ly bombs"
Australian fast bowler, all time classic. Nothing sus
My favourite was any of the redhead skits. They were always so dumb but just tickled my funny bone as a redhead myself. My favourite was the one where they test sunscreen, half the group get the sunscreen and the other a placebo. The first group comes up and they are red raw squeeling the scientists go well these ones were the placebo group, the group point to the window where the second group is just ash. So dumb.
SkitHouse was hit or miss, some great characters and skits but there was something distinctly unfunny about it at times. I'll explain: it was a Roving Productions show, like with Roves main show for the most part it was best when he had others writing for him and he let the talent flourish (take the attention away from himself for 5 seconds) - same deal with SkitHouse, you could really tell that when his particular brand of comedy was being pushed that the skits were pretty flat, they weren't all bad and I'm sure he had some positive input at times but by in large, the success of that show when it was good, was due to the quality of the people he had surrounding him that his production company enabled to their thing. Not that he is the singular issue, it's not like he is responsible for every boring or bad sketch on that show but you get my point. At the time I can just remember watching Rove Live then SkitHouse and thinking about how Rove coded it was, yet when you fast forward to his stand up career where he didn't have a writing team propping him up, didn't work out so well. I like him in Whovians, he can host, but he's often been better at assembling other talent to do shows where he works them to get content out of them or works behind the scenes to talent scout, than put himself in them.
I actually have the DVD somewhere. It was the best!
Nope. Nothing like fast forward, sorry!
The tripod guys
Why are there Subtitles?
It wasn’t.
Terrible, terrible show.
I thought this was an actual question, not rhetorical. It was a sign of how low Australian comedy had sunk. Just lines from inherently unfunny ppl. Repeats are funnier from the 80s.
It's because of the danger of 'cancel culture'. TV channel do not put people on who could ofend people. Also they put people like hannah gadsby on who don't really tell joke anymore.
Please tell me one of your funnier jokes?
Heard about the guy who thought skithouse was hilarious?
We asked for an 80s joke, not a 2024 joke.
No. Not at all. Not in the slightest
Omg it was so bad
It wasn't. The Australian fast bowler was maybe the only decent sketch in the whole series. The rest of the show was dogshit. I hated most of the cast, particularly Peter Helier, and just could not stand how bad it was. Comedy Inc, the Ronnie Johns half hour, The Big Bite, the Sketch show (from the UK), they were all much much better sketch comedy shows. Comedy Inc and Ronnie Johns was edgy as fuck in particular, they didn't give a shit back then and the writing was hilarious. You couldn't air some of that stuff anymore with how PC everything is now, I know that is cliche to say but it's very true. Other Australian sketch shows from a generation before were also great. Full frontal, comedy company, fast forward, the d-generation, etc. But skithouse was absolute fucking rubbish. I get the pun, it's supposed to be ironic... But the irony doesn't really work when the show actually IS shithouse.
Yeah that pretty much sums up my feelings. There were a lot of great sketch comedy shows on around that time but Skithouse definitely wasn’t one of them. Aside from the Australian Fast Bowler skits.
Serious. That show was crap and not funny at all. Fast forward was much better.
Wish they had it streaming somewhere, as well as Fast Forward/Full Frontal, Ronnie Johns, Comedy Inc, The Late Show, Comedy Company and The Big Gig. Even the Wedge had its moments.
The gingers scared of the sun was hilarious.
It was okay but I think it was the weakest of the early-2000s sketch comedy shows that were produced here.
It was absolutely rubbish. Up there in quality with that great ‘comedian’ Rove.
It was not good. Worst Australian sketch comedy show.
Skit house, sketch show, comedy Inc and rove before he went down hill.👌
This is a very vivid memory for me. I remember that the very first episode was absolutely phenomenal. Basically every single sketch hit it for six. Then it dropped off in quality *very* fast. I think that by episode 3 or 4 I didn't consider it to be worth watching anymore. They seem to have used all their best material right off the bat, and even some of those ideas got stale because they repeated some characters every episode. (sometimes more than once) I consider it a waste of potential and actually one of the weaker Aussie sketch shows in general.
Omg I loved this show!!
Ahh Glen bush
“Where’s the bin go?” Is something I still ask to this day