CNNNN Returns

[Haggis]

Biggest Haggis laugh from the newsbar for the previous episode:

"New Star Trek enterprise boldy goes where the other five series have already been before."

Or something like that. They haven't updated the online newsbar yet.

[Munchkin]

The CNNNN boys are on the cover of the next issue of Bent www.bent.net.au

[Beckslee]

damn me i think i'm going to have to take a subscription out on this magazine *purrs at the pretty chaser boys*

[Munchkin]

from Sydney Comfidential

Timing's all wrong for boys of CNNNN

23aug03
COMEDY, they say, is all in the timing – what was hilarious one day can be downright disrespectful and tasteless the next.

Just ask the boys from superb satire show CNNNN. The eagerly awaited first episode in the new series that aired last night was not the one planned.

The original one zeroed right in on the Iraq imbroglio as a subject, but the bombing of the UN headquarters this week gave the ABC the jitters.

"While the content of the program due to air is valid and in line with the expected level of satirical content from this show, the network feels that since it focuses on Iraq, it would insensitive to screen it this time," a spokeswoman says.

[Laney]

Originally Posted by Munchkin

"... the network feels that since it focuses on Iraq, it would insensitive to screen it this time," a spokeswoman says.

meh, i still thought it was very funny.

gotta rewatch for the scrolly bar

[Mythor]

I think the article means that the episode with the Iraq stuff wasn't aired, they aired the one with the Fungry's stuff instead and will presumably air the Iraq one later in the series?

[Laney]

basically the same thing...


Somewhere on the smh site:

CNNNN BOMBS OUT

Last night's maiden episode of the new CNNNN series was something of a compromise. The ABC and CNNNN's creators agreed to reshuffle the first few episodes because they feared the one slated to screen first would offend people after this week's UN bombing in Baghdad. Instead, the usually un-PC show, which featured a Baghdad gag, will be screened later. "While the content of the program that was due to air is valid and in line with the expected level of satirical comment from this show, the network feels that since it focuses on Iraq it would be insensitive to screen it at this time," the ABC said.

i watched my tape of cnnnn tonight.

it's ok. i don't think it was as good this episode as last year's stuff but.

the three best parts were definitely the john howard posing thing, that McDonald's pickle and LAMEASS!

i hope they have heaps more lameass and boggs (the beer).

it's also good to see a little less of craig. i don't think he's nearly as good as julian, that lameass guy or the band leader but he always seemed to be doing stuff last year. but this episode they gave him a little less and that was good.

now i'm going to watch the scrollbar!

[Mythor]

Can see why they delayed tonight's episode instead of playing it last week.
Very funny... But it wouldn't've been the right thing to show it right after the bombing and stuff. A week later is a different matter.

(thanks to nug for the image attached to this post)

[Beckslee]

when they switched to the black thunders i was expecting a kind of "Good morning baghdad!"

i liked the busking poor andrew

[Laney]

Siamese siamese cats *giggles*

For the "Meal, or no Meal" section, i was in that audience you can see in the background, and i *KNOW* that i didn't sit through them doing that.

[wickedsoulrebel]

Originally Posted by Beckslee

i liked the busking poor andrew

i would've given andrew money... especially if he started singing fan les material!!

[it's SPAM-tastic!]

I didn't get to see last weeks ep due to being at sleek geek, but I loved last nights one. Which is the first one, so I can say I saw the first one, but I didn't see the second one because I was out on the night it came back....

*wanders off muttering about the vortex that she has trapped herself in*

[Laney]

SMH
By Greg Hassall
September 4, 2003

CNNNN

ABC, 9pm tonight

CNNNN got off to a bumpy start this season when a skittish ABC management pulled what should have been the first episode after the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad . OK, there's nothing to be gained from upsetting people unnecessarily, but it seemed an overreaction given the offending episode aired just a week later to no great alarm.

Better safe than sorry, you might argue, but it sets a worrying precedent. If you're going to satirise current affairs these days, a) you can't avoid the topic of terrorism and b) horrible events will continue to happen.

You're inevitably going to offend some people and you might even make some jokes that, in hindsight, were deeply regrettable. But that's why satire is risky. Timid satire just isn't worth the effort.

Not that there's any indictation of timidity in tonight's episode. It's as sharp and funny as ever, and Julian Morrow 's latest trip to the US has turned up another bonanza of frightening vox pops. I'm not sure the live band and audience add anything but other new segments particularly the Sunrise breakfast show and the cosmetic ads from Esteem ("because you need it") are magic.

Hopefully now the ABC will leave them alone to be as offensive as they want.

[hails]

okay, which one of you submitted this to the online CNNNN Newsbar?

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