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6 giorni fa · The Norman Gunston show volume one features highlights from the television series “The Norman Gunston show”, aired in 1993. Comedian Garry McDonald appears in character as Norman Gunston, a guileless interviewer and performer with a variety/entertainment show. Interviewees on this disc include ...
1 9 7 3 - 1 9 7 6 (Australia) Conceived by Aunty Jack Show writer Wendy Skelcher, the Little Aussie Bleeder, Norman Gunston, trooly rooly took on a life of his own. Debuting in Wollongong The Brave, the hapless anaemic reporter tackled the big names in show biz, including a laughing Ray Charles and an unamused Rudolph Nureyev. Norman
Aunty Jack's Wollongong the Brave is a collection of four comedy specials derived from the Australian television series, The Aunty Jack Show. The fourth and final episode was the precursor to The Norman Gunston Show. The episodes were filmed in 1974 and were aired during 1975. [1] The mini-series was released to DVD by the ABC in March 2007.
It was while working on The Aunty Jack Show in 1973, that McDonald first performed the character for which he became best-known, the gauche and inept TV personality Norman Gunston. Gunston's first appearance was in a series of brief sketches which saw him reporting uncomfortably on a "sex-scandal drought" in Wollongong ; a drought he eventually breaks by appearing naked on camera.
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Available on DVD through www.umbrellaent.com.au Buy it here: http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/p-1614-norman-gunston-show-the-vol-1.aspx, http://www.umbrellaent....
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In 1982, the newly-launched 'Channel 4' set out to widen British viewers' horizons by screening two Australian comedy imports: 'The Paul Hogan Show' and 'The Norman Gunston Show'. The former, a straight copy of 'The Benny Hill Show', was more accessible to U.K. audiences ( and paved the way for the comic's 'Fosters' lager adverts and 'Crocodile Dundee' movie ).
