MarkMyWords

Having been a devoted listener in England to Radio 4 (and occasionally 3 although that's not relevant to this thread) I now listen equally often to ABC Radio National, which, while being a good enough substitute in many areas (and better in some), seems to have no comedy shows. Am I listening at the wrong times? Does Australia not do radio comedy? If it does, where should I look (or rather, listen)?

(Yes, I know I can (and do) listen to Radio 4 on the Web, but that's not quite the point.)

Quinkana

Prefer wit to silly myself, but here it is:

Welcome to Humour Australia!

ace ventura

Comedy in Aus is pretty thin on the ground on tv & radio unless u watch Ray Martin tryin to look street wearin jeans

scotvness

Not sure if its your cup O tea but MMM (104.5 fM Brisbane 'The Cage') gets me laughing in the morning.

Scot

JackTheLad

I can't follow that show, its too confusing their delimiting lines, it seems to go from ads to phone ins to sketches to music to general talk which turn into ads, and more chat, and more phone ins with people who seem to be part of some 'joke' and so on. It will take while to get used to.

I miss 'Mark & Lard'. I enjoy both clever wit (like yes prime minister, blackadder, have I got news for you etc), and moronic childish humour, a la 'Mark & Lard'. But even 'Mark & Lard' have gone from BBC radio, and they aren't a patch on their own. If anyone can suggest anything even half as funny on Oz radio I'd love to hear,

Cheers,
JTL

NJJ

JTL have you seen this page? http://www.cix.co.uk/~lemoncurry/horny.htm It's got most of Lard's classic cuts on. Damn funny.

On the thread subject I also listen to radio quite a bit and do miss Hawksbee & Jacobs from TalkSport. I know it can be listened too over the internet but my connection is not too good so it is not worthwhile for me to do..

JackTheLad

Great Thanks for that, at the bottom of that site is a link to the Mark n Lard webring

Mark n Lard web ring

And from that, loads and loads (sorry I mean heaps and heaps) of clips from their show. That should keep me occupied for a few weeks

This is a particularly good site

Biggedy Bong

Cheers,
JTL

CHnJ

Radio National does buy in some BBC shows - I caught the Mark Steel Comedy Lectures recently ... but yeah, I needed to get an unlimited broadband package to listen to Radio 4 and Radio 7 online

anya4oz

Yes, I'm having to listen to Radio 4 on broadband these days; problem is, I'm soaking up all the bandwidth listening to 'The Archers', 'Today' etc, so there's none left for poor MarkMyWords to listen to 'Have I got news for you'

Think we need an effing enormous pipe (oops, better watch what I say with Bix-the-Pervy-Pastyman around... ).

Anya.