1. ‘A ringing endorsement in the pub test’
Clarke and Dawe’s most recent segment, which aired on the ABC last Thursday, took on Scott Morrison’s preparations for the budget.
2. ‘Have you measured the 100m track, Mr Wilson?’
Preparations for the Olympics run into a number of unexpected hurdles in this episode of The Games.
3. ‘The oleaginous Sorenson’
A series of monologues about the fictitious sport of farnarkeling, from The Gillies Report. On his website, Clarke explained: “Farnarkeling is engaged in by two teams whose purpose is to arkle, and to prevent the other team from arkeling, using a flukem to propel a gonad through sets of posts situated at random around the periphery of a grommet.”
4. ‘A huge miscalculation by the prime minister’
Clarke reports from London on British politics in the lead-up to Brexit, which sounds eerily familiar.
5. ‘We don’t know how lucky we are’
New Zealand-born Clarke created the character of Fred Dagg as a satire of the Kiwi everyman. A farmer, Dagg often appeared on television to express his opinion, often in song, and regularly accompanied by a dog.
6. ‘We do hop into them a wee bit on the credit rate’
Explaining how the banking system works at the time of the global financial crisis.
7. ‘It’s all a bit of a blur, to be honest’
Clarke as Scott Morrison sorts through the chaos of the night that Tony Abbott was deposed as leader of the Liberal party.
8. ‘The nearest jail in a foreign country might be miles away’
Lionel Dropout, consultant, runs through the ins and outs of Australia’s asylum seeker processing system.
9. ‘It’s going to be good for all workers’
Australia’s longest-serving prime minister, John Howard, introduced a number of deeply unpopular industrial relations laws. Clarke explains the thinking behind Work Choices.
10. ‘They’re struggling a bit, aren’t they?’
Clarifying the ramifications of the eurozone crisis.
