Prats in the ranks: Darradong Local Council
Darradong Local Council is technically an all-new series but you could slap the titles for Housos on it and no one would spot the... Read More »
Tag: Paul Fenech
Australian Tumbleweeds Awards 2022
We announce the winner and losers of the Australian Tumbleweeds Awards 2022, honouring the best and worst of Australian... Read More »
Oh yeah, Housos: The Thong Warrior
It’s taken us a while – okay, a full month – to get around to Housos: The Thong Warrior, but we’ve got an excuse: is this show even a comedy any more? And for once we don’t mean our usual hilarious “haha, this shit ain’t funny” take. After five weeks it seems increasingly clear that... Read More »
Vale Wednesday Night Comedy just in General Really
So Fat Pizza: Back in Business ended on yet another knife-edge cliffhanger that’ll be desperately written out of continuity if the series ever comes back. What, you thought just because Paul Fenech has two series for 7Mate next year that he’d actually wrap this one up? Housos: The Thong WarriorFrom the suburbs to the outback,... Read More »
They’re Big and They’re Cheezy
Fat Pizza is back! Well, kind of. There’s a pizza shop, Bobo (John Boxer) waves around a chainsaw, Sleek the Elite (Paul Nakad) is shown in a couple of clips that quite possibly could have come from last season, and there’s yet another version of that “subwoofa” song. What more do you need? Before anyone... Read More »
The Fart of Storytelling
The decision by Seven – well, 7Mate to be exact – to show Housos vs Virus and Regular Old Bogan back to back has provided us with an exciting opportunity to examine how storytelling works in the Australian sitcom. Because they sure as shit didn’t give us anything to examine as far as comedy goes.... Read More »
Fully Sick
Fat Pizza is back, and… yeah, who ordered this? Fat Pizza (formerly just plain old Pizza) has been running in various forms continuously since 2000 – especially once you add creator Pauly Fenech’s other series Housos and Swift & Shift to the mix, as they’re all basically the same show set in the same universe... Read More »
Online (da da da da da da) Goes Through My Mind
Press release time! Hope you brought a lunch, it’s a big ‘un: Seven edgy stories supported through Screen Australia’s Multiplatform Drama program Friday 13 March 2015 Screen Australia will fund seven unconventional series through its Multiplatform Drama program. The program supports risky projects with unorthodox formats. They utilise non-traditional platforms for distribution – making them... Read More »
Fat Pizza vs Housos: Whoever Wins We Lose part 42
From just about every perspective that doesn’t involve writer / director / star Paul Fenech cashing in, bringing the worlds of Housos and Fat Pizza together makes no sense. And not just in the traditional “ugh, Aliens versus Predator really messed up both franchises” way that bringing different worlds together in the one movie is... Read More »
Taxicab Confessions III: Going Home In a Body Bag
Ok, now this is getting weird. Remember yesterday we posted about some alleged incident allegedly involving alleged comedy figure Paul Fenech? THE ‘‘mishap’’ Fat Pizza actor Paul Fenech suffered two weeks ago, ending his stint on Dancing With The Stars before it even began, was allegedly the result of a violent altercation with a taxi... Read More »