Shameful Joy

Just a quick reminder that there’s only a week or so to go until nominations close for this year’s Aussie Tumblies.  So what, you might be thinking. After all, there’s only so much crap comedy to go around – surely the shows you know and loathe will turn up somewhere on the ballot for you to vent your spleen. And maybe you’re right. But consider this: Triple J’s Robbie, Marieke and The Doctor breakfast show is winding up at the end of this year. Which means this is your last chance to give it a good solid kicking.  But what if it doesn’t make it onto the ballot – because, as always, the radio category isn’t exactly short of deserving winners – and you’re left seething with bile and no-one to splash it over? What if the radio ballot is full of people – Kyle Sandilands, Hamish & Andy, Dave Hughes – who are going to be there until the friggin’ end of time itself, but because you couldn’t be arsed nominating Marieke Hardy and her Innocent Bystanders your last chance to hate on her radio career goes begging?

Okay, perhaps that’s wishful thinking. And it’s just one example out of many. But the point remains: unless you let us know who you want nominated for a Tumblie, your most loathed Aussie comedy figures might just get away scot free. Especially with the usual Xmas media shuffle pushing at least a few despised figures off into the abyss already…