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Wednesday Night Fever re-stages the Debate

Here comes a (real) debate with Rudd, Abbott, Clive Palmer, Julia Gillard, Julian Assange and even the Equadorean Ambassador in London.

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election debate wnf_cleanWednesday Night Fever‘s season finale tomorrow night is promising the election debate we never had….

Fake Kevin Rudd and fake Tony Abbott (both played by uber-talented Paul McCarthy) will be joined by un-real versions of Greens leader Christine Milne, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and billionaire and Titanic 2/Dinosaur enthusiast Clive Palmer.

Crashing the debate will be Malcolm Turnbull, ousted Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Assange’s landlord and Equadorean Ambassador in London Fernando Estefania and ‘entirely unbiased’ News Limited political reporter Rhonda Bryant.

“It’ll be just like the real debate” promises moderator Sammy J, “except the candidates listen to each other and are funny intentionally”.

Wednesday August 14 at 9.45pm on ABC1.

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  1. Quite a lot of the late show stands up but the topical stuff doesn’t for obvious reasons. Sophie Formica? Who’s that? Also the best of tapes were obviously edited highlights. There was plenty of average stuff that didn’t make the DVD or VHS tapes. All in all though it was a brilliant series that will be remembered for years to come. WNF will sit with Double Take and Comedy Inc in the discount bin. You can’t make an impersonation show with only two average impersonators. Once Julia became irrelevant it’s been embarrassing to see them try and show horn her in to everything.

  3. The only two people holding this show up are Paul McCarthy & Amanda Bishop. It’s not a good show, but it’s not the worst either.

    Ricoz, you’re looking at the past with rose coloured glasses. It’d be interesting to see a channel like 7Two run repeats of The Late Show just to see how badly it’s dated like most old comedies. I actually thought Married With Children was the funniest show in the world when I was a kid… Until I caught some repeats recently on Go Channel. Man, I must’ve been one dense kid!

  4. @PercyPervis – wow. Unemployed would-be comedy writer much? ‘String of flops’ – you mean the guy’s last show ‘At Home w Julia’. Only ABC’s biggest sitcom in years. But don’t let facts spoil a good trolling.

  7. At first I watched this live, then I recorded it to maybe watch later and now I have stopped bothering. The pain of sitting through the half hour for maybe one laugh is just not worth it. I don’t know what has happened to the ABC.

  9. This poor piece of Television is still on air? Oh. Comedy Inc was C-grade quality and this makes that show seem like genius.

    No surprises, Rick Kalowski has proven he has no comedic bone in his body and his string of comedy flops proves that.

    This show reeks of bad Channel 9, the ABC dropped the ball on this shambolic low quality tripe.

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