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I was out so completely missed the show. The Noam Chomsky talk show sounds brilliiant. I notice the tabloids today are outraged that The Chaser took a few swipes about Michael Jackson, but given how outraged they all were about The Chaser making fun of sick children, the protests this time about how low the swipes are look rather hollow. Almost protesting for protesting's sake.

Every time I read an article about 'The Chaser boys' I can almost hear Mike Moore (Frontline) saying 'Oh, those Chaser boys, they've done it again', complete with fake ho-ho-ing. Anyway, oh those Chaser boys, they've done it again:

The boys from The Chaser comedy team have again applied humour to an inappropriate moment - this time by scaling the walls of a Canberra church attended by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd just before he was expected to comment on Australian casualties in the Jakarta bombings.

The Chaser's War On Everything executive producer Julian Morrow was stopped by Australian Federal Police officers when he arrived at St John's Anglican Church in full mountaineering gear and attempted to scale the spire during the regular Sunday service, The Australian newspaper says.

The stunt coincides with a draft management plan which calls for a ban on people climbing Uluru, which is sacred to local Aboriginal people.

As media waited outside the church for Mr Rudd to comment on Australian casualties in the Jakarta bombings and news of an Australian soldier being killed in Afghanistan, the ABC filmed The Chaser's latest prank.

Australian Defence Association head Neal James told The Australian he found the stunt offensive.

The Chaser's War on Everything was taken off the air for two weeks in June after the top rating program's Make A Realistic Wish skit about dying children caused widespread public outrage.

The Prime Minister and his wife are regulars at St John's.

They were married there in 1981.

Source.

Tasteless, well yes, and very poor timing - timing being all in comedy. But an obvious point well made.

No, it wasn't that great, was it. I missed some of it owing to phone calls - and that includes missing the stingray in the Norwegian swimming pool, dammit! But I did see them trying to nick things from the office of the Norwegian Culture Minister and that was amusing. My favourite bit was the 'war is over' montage at the end. The series basically went out quietly without any final blasts of brilliance (like the Small Talk or Noam Chomsky shows).

Just been over to the website to watch the stingray and got to see them 'correcting' Norwegian spelling too. A lot more amusing than obvious shots at American christians.