How Saddam Hussein saved The Late Show, and helped shape Australian comedy
Plain text size Larger text size Text size is very large It is impossible to imagine Australian comedy – or indeed Australian film and TV – without Late Show . Front line and Castle , Did you pay attention? Martin and Molloy’s stage and radio antics, Judith Lucy’s biting stand-up, even high-end drama productions like Lamb of God (co-produced by Jason Stephens) all owe something (and in some cases everything) to the eight-member team who wrote, produced, directed, edited, and appeared on ABC’s one-hour comedy show, which ran for 40 episodes across two seasons on Saturday. night in 1992 and ’93. But it is quite possible to imagine the world in which the show is no happen, because for a very long time it’s unlikely to happen. By the time the first episode aired in July 1992, the crew – without Lucy in season one – had had a lot of stab at translating the relationship they displayed on stage and on radio (some of them first appeared together as part of the Melbourne University Revue in