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Away Laughing - First Episode
Away Laughing - First Episode
Television () – 1991 Comedy
Away Laughing
Debuting on 6 May 1991, this TV3 comedy show saw...
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This sketch comedy series screened over two years in the early 90s. Many of the Gibson Group show's skits were tested and filmed in a theatre, in front of a paying audience. This first episode sees laughs come from Watties spaghetti and a roll call of emerging comic talent of the era. Danny Mulheron and Hori Ahipene act up, Tim Balme plays Trivial Pursuit, Kevin Smith gets his vernacular on negotiating NZ customs, Peta Rutter crushes on Steve Parr, and Facial DBX comedians Jon Bridges and David Downs are teenage skaters who talk digital watches while wearing day-glo.
It's amazing what you can do with a Motorhead t-shirt and an Anglia roof rack eh?– Dr Hoon (David Downs)
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Acknowledgements
Made with funding from NZ On Air
Topics
- botman
- botty
- caveman
- cavemen
- coffee
- copyright
- customs
- farmer
- flat
- flatting
- invention
- kfc
- mcdonalds
- new zealand on air
- nz on air
- old mcdonald
- passport
- pasta
- pastor
- patent
- phineas o'diddle
- pizza
- post
- priest
- pub
- rachel hunter
- sandwich
- scuzzo
- skateboarding
- skater
- skating
- society woman
- spaghetti
- steve parr
- takeaways
- trivial pursuit
- watties