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These two excerpts from Holmes highlight John Clarke's longtime comic partnership with Australian Bryan Dawe, and show Clarke promoting 1990 movie Death in Brunswick. Clarke weighs up who had the most sex appeal on-set in Melbourne: him or Brunswick lead actor Sam Neill. Clarke is also seen in action on Australian programme A Current Affair, with Bryan Dawe. In the first sketch, Clarke plays Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. In the second, he plays Hawke's successor Paul Keating, and satirises Keating's May 1993 meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger.
Classic Clarke and Dawe oil tanker sketch 'The Front Fell Off', Te Ara website
Memories of Aussie PM Paul Keating's first visit to NZ in 1993, The NZ Herald, May 2002
Guy Body cartoon on Paul Keating visiting New Zealand, Truth, April 1993
National Museum of Australia profile of Bob Hawke
Sydney Morning Herald interview with John Clarke, April 2017
