It’s been really quite marvellous to read the retrospectives to The Late Show, 30 years on from its debut. Is it really that long ago? | Gareth Parker | OPINION
, 30 years on from its Saturday night debut on ABC TV. Is it really that long ago?, but uproarious anything-goes ensemble of Mick Molloy, Tony Martin, Jane Kennedy, Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, Jason Stephens, and Judith Lucy, who between 1992 and 1993 put on a show that to this day is part of the lexicon for a certain generation of Australians .
Sitch did perhaps the first and definitive impression of Bruce McAvaney, as well as a memorable Jeff Kennett and John Hewson But there was also blackface renditions of Imran Khan , Desmond Tutu and Yasser Arafat that would not pass muster with modern standards. Sitch: Listen here, you have to see this from the soldiers’ point of view. There’s a large group of demonstrators demonstrating towards them, what would you do?Gleisner: No I said I’d let them march past.Sitch: The crowds were prancing and chanting. They were singing Sting songs! There is only so much you can take of that.Gleisner: What, over their heads?It finishes with Sitch in character asking, “Do you want to know what the F.W. stands for?” amid uproarious laughter from the live audience.
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