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“This,” according to Mike Goldman, “is how Tim Campbell and Anthony Callea get dressed every morning.”

Yes Friday Night Live makes another witty remark that shows it is really on top of the challenge of live television.

The comment was made during a challenge that required housemates to dress one another in a spy costume using only their mouths.


Goldman did a great job filling in for Kyle Sandilands but this was a case of his mouth in motion before his brain was in gear. Campbell and Callea have copped enough stupid comments in the media without this sort of garbage.

It’s not the first time FNL has dropped this sort of clanger. Last year during an episode when both Fitzgerald and Mike Goldman were shirtless, Fitzgerald commented that it was a “Good thing (gay) Zach wasn’t evicted last week. We’d have been mobbed by now.”

Big Brother 2008 is completely unrecognisable to other seasons?

I don’t think so.

18 Responses

  1. These comments don’t change the fact that this show is woeful. It past its used by date 8 years ago, its about time something fresh was created in its place.

  2. Settle down, It is not compulsory for everyone to tread carefully on issues like sexuality, Would you have been offended if he made the comment about a straight couple?

    Gay people make jokes about straight people all the time, heck Rove makes jokes about that notorious incest couple but do you get all up in arms about that?

    Begs the question, if you get upset over this how do you watch any comedy or late night talk show like Leno who consistently make jokes like these?

  3. The only apology warranted is for Channel 10 showing Big Brother at all after so many years of agonizingly bad television.

    Can’t they replace it Channel 9-style with something at least mildly more entertaining – “Celebrity When Paint Dries”, perhaps…

  5. I don’t think it’s offensive to gay people at all, I just think it’s Mike Goldman’s 58,786,756th bad joke – THAT is offensive.

    Mike has a fixation on making jokes about gay people – he used to make comments like that all the time on Up Late. I think the poor guy is just so uncomfortable with who he is (not suggesting he is gay) that he picks on others so that the forced laughter makes him feel better.

  7. Seriously, you’re wasting breathe on a harmless joke when there are far more serious problems in society for the gay community?

    Wasting your energy in this instance.

  8. Cathy-1 – I am 100% sure at least one gay person out there didn’t find it offensive and, rather, then it was just another silly joke by Mike himself. Gay people aren’t different to straight people, meaning jokes can be thrown either way.

    Mikes comment wasn’t rude, offensive or remotely homophobic, so what is the issue?

    This is one of the first times that I have read TV Tonight and though the article was plain stupid.

  9. I was too horified in seeing Teri tonguing Travis to hear that. But I think you’re being a tad over sensitive about it.

    FNL is aimed at young kids/families and it was the type of nudge nudge wink wink humour that Hey Hey it’s Saturday filled. I don’t think there was any homophobia intended.

    But then again, I must have missed the Campbell and Callea jokes? Footy Show i presume?

  10. To those who think this news is laughable should perhaps stop to think about why these consistent instances occur on television, and how it makes not only, say, Anthony Callea feel, but every gay or lesbian Australian?

    How is it that in this day and age we can still let this sort of homophobia slide?

  11. Pretty pathetic tacky comment on Goldman’s part. This one of the reasons why gay people chose to not come out, if they continue to be ridiculed by Mindless people in the TV/media who think they are funny.
    Why would gay people dress differently to a straight couple can I ask that question, so why not name a high profile celeb straight couple to comment on.
    Time to Go Big Brother.

  12. apologies? c’mon! getting a bit hypersensitive about nothing in particular aren’t we guys? Gay used to mean ‘happy’ but seems some have lost their sense of humour?

  13. I didn’t watch the show, but it sounds a pretty tacky excuse for a joke to me. I guess that ‘humour’ like that is aimed at the target audience though.

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