The Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2009 – and the categories are…
WORST NEWCOMER
WORST NEW COMEDY
WORST ACTOR
WORST ACTRESS
WORST ENTERTAINMENT PERSONALITY
WORST ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME
WORST SITCOM
WORST STAND-UP
WORST GAME OR PANEL SHOW
WORST FILM
WORST SKETCH SHOW
WORST OVERALL COMEDY
WORST OVERALL CHANNEL / NETWORK FOR COMEDY
WORST RADIO COMEDY
WORST RADIO PERSONALITY
WORST PODCAST OR CD
WORST BOOK OR ITEM OF SPIN-OFF MERCHANDISE
WORST DVD
MOST USELESS PANEL / TALKSHOW GUEST
THE ROBERT FIDGEON MEMORIAL AWARD FOR WORST CRITIC
MOST OVER-RATED COMEDY
MOST UNNECESSARILY OVER-EXPOSED COMEDIAN(S)
LEAST HOPED-FOR RETURN
MOST DISAPPOINTING COMEDY
MOST DISAPPOINTING COMEDIAN
THE ‘PISSING ON THEIR LEGACY’ AWARD
MOST IRRITATING OR POINTLESS CAMEO
MOST HYSTERICAL TABLOID HATE CAMPAIGN
THE ‘MMM RE-ALLOCATING RESOURCES’ MEMORIAL AWARD FOR BIGGEST MANAGERIAL COCK-UP
MOST BLATANT PLAGIARISM
THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR CRAP COMEDY
BEST NEW COMEDY
BEST COMEDY
Not sure you can remember all the awful comedy (and the occasional decent one) released in 2009? Don’t worry, we’ve done the remembering for you (though if you think of anything we missed, please let us know):
Television:
*Laurence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure
*The Chaser’s War on Everything series 3
*Thank God You’re Here series 4
*Beached Az
*The Urban Monkey with Murray Foote
*The Librarians series 2
*Dave in the Life
*Spicks & Specks
*AD/bc
*The Squiz
*Good News Week
*TV Burp
*Double Take
*Hamish & Andy Specials
*Rove
*The 7pm Project
*John Safran’s Race Relations
*The Gruen Transfer
*:30 Seconds
*The Jesters
*Whatever Happened To That Guy?
*The Merrick & Rosso Show series 2
*Hey Hey it’s Saturday Reunion Specials
*Takin’ ‘bout Your Generation
*Raw comedy final
*Ten’s Comedy Festival gala
*jTV
*The Pam Ann Show
*Chandon Pictures series 2
*Thank God You’re Here series 4
*Clarke & Dawe
Radio:
*The Hot Breakfast (Eddie McGuire, Tony Moclair, etc) (MMM)
*Pete and Myf (MMM)
*Hamish & Andy (Fox/Austereo)
*Ryan, Monty & Whippa (Nova)
*Hughsie & Kate (Nova)
*Tom Gleeson & Bridget Dulcos (Mix 101.1)
*Kyle & Jackie O (2Day FM)
*Sam Simmons (JJJ)
*Scott “dools” Dooley (JJJ drive)
*Robbie, Marieke & The Doctor (JJJ breakfast)
*The Matt & Jo Show (Fox)
*The Life with Roy & HG (MMM)
*Lime Champions (RRR)
*Two Tones (RRR/ABC Melbourne)
*Thank God It’s Friday (ABC Sydney)
*Dylan & Cal (Nova)
*Dicko, Dave & Chrissie (Vega Melbourne)
*Rabbit, Amber & Cosi (SA-FM)
Movies:
*Stone Bros.
*Charlie & Boots
*Guru Wayne
*Going Down Under (AKA Meat Pie)
Books:
*A Nest Of Occasionals by Tony Martin
*Friendly Fire by Wil Anderson
*Handling Edna by Barry Humphries
*Warwick Todd: Up in the Block Hole by Tom Gleisner
*Free to a Good Home by Catherine Deveny (not out until 01/12/09)
*Marieke Hardy’s m-book.
*Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humour edited by Fran De Groen and Peter Fitzpatrick
*Don’t You Know Who I Used To Be by Julia Morris
*Kochie’s Bumper Joke Book
*The Night My Bum Dropped by Gretel Kileen
*The Chaser 2009 Annual: The Email Eunuch
CDs:
*My Generation (Shaun Micallef)
*Justin Hazelwood’s latest one
*Matt Tilley’s Gotcha Calls: The Final Call
*Rabbit’s Fluffy Tales – The Gotcha Calls
DVDs
(covering stand-up, releases of pre-2009 material, and – in The Chaser’s case – DVDs with a massive surplus of deleted material)
*Chopper – Make Deadshits History (Heath Franklin)
*Wilosophy (Wil Anderson)
*Dave Hughes Is Handy
*Tim Minchin: Ready For This?
*The Chaser’s War on Everything – Series 3
*Clarke & Dawe – The Full Catastrophe
*Graham Kennedy’s Coast to Coast
*The Games – series 2
All angried up and want to nominate your least liked shows and personalities? Glad to hear it – we’ll be taking your nominations for the next week or two (we’ll let you know when the end is near), and then we’ll announce the final nominations for you to vote on.