[FAST FORWARD] ABC News - Straight Mardi Gras

ABC News covers the Melbourne Straight Mardi Gras.

[@handlethatnooneelsehas]

Fond memories of watching Fast Forward with the family back in the day ☺

[@terriquinlan7683]

Gina taking the piss out of Kerri-Anne is still priceless! 💋

[@thedolphin5428]

Jane Turner -- exquisitely playing the tensely repressed straight reporter.

[@anEyePhil]

Gina Riley - pure talent and that voice!

[@ForeverBennett]

She's brilliant.

[@amandadixon905]

She's funny gina riley

[@BabylonCentral]

...the jokerrrrrrrrrrr...is meeeeeeeee

[@mushy111]

I love how Michael Vietch got a part in the Straight March as well as being the sassy Queen. 😅

[@chloehughes292]

Love it too! 😂🤣

[@Evilushka]

He always did camp so well. 😂

[@gravy2973]

he played that stuck up character so well.....the cultural ABC host was the best ....with Magda thigh slapping as his face man so funny and such a goo childhood family memory Aussie sketch comedy was next level

[@dicruz8536]

It would be a total hit if they were doing political and social satire today. They were such incredibly talented people. Even the less funny clips were still funny. I miss them.

[@doctorbohr1585]

There's no more satire today; it'd be regarded as hate speech - or at least something too controversial. Satire and parody contracted back to ABC talking heads (like Sammy J and the Chaser), who used it as a vehicle for their particular politics. Its a shame, because comedy was once a way we laughed at our own society, and there is so much to take the piss out of now.

[@JingoLoBa57]

@@doctorbohr1585 let’s start a list…

[@doctorbohr1585]

@@JingoLoBa57 it's gonna be long! You can start with reality tv shows

[@James-kv6kb]

The television stations worked out if they just say that it's offensive they can get away with not putting it on, knowing that all the young ones will agree with them because generally they don't think for themselves but just follow trends, especially the trend of destroying everything that they didn't invent

[@nevadatan7323]

Satire works when you believe in the integrity of the writers and performers. Nobody trusts anything anymore, and that sucks

[@ZulcanPrime]

Bring back this wonderful cast from Fast Foward. Fond memories from Aussie shows in the 1980s.

[@presntnow]

CLASSIC Australian Comedy Series! Fast Forward Full Frontal D-Generation Late Show Totally Full Frontal

[@James-kv6kb]

basically now we have a bunch of reality shows playing on stereotypes and endless new programs it's just not the same

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

The Comedy Club!

[@pebblepod30]

And Blackburn's! Esp Dex Opinion "from the A B Frigging C"!

[@thescranline]

This is a masterpiece from start to finish.

[@Jentheledge100]

they are such talented people...... what a shame they all dont have a reunion

[@peteb1206]

It has never happened because, as I understand it, one of the producers drafted up contracts in which all the cast unwittingly signed over all the rights to any characters they created for the show. This is why you have never seen Kelvin Cunnington, Margaret Bland, Pixie Ann Wheatley etc etc etc appear in anything else ever. It is also why, in the Kath & Kim credits (Kath and Kim being characters created for Big Girls Blouse, not Fast Forward) it always states that the character of Sharon Strzelecki was created by Magda Szubanski, to differentiate that character from a similar one she played in Fast Forward. It's a legal horror story which has deprived these talented people of garnering a great deal of further income from their iconic work on this show.

[@suzanne5807]

@@peteb1206 that's so sad. They are such amazingly talented people and I just adored some of these characters.

[@peteb1206]

@@suzanne5807 Oh by the way... the producer was also a cast member. I won't mention names.

[@suzanne5807]

@@peteb1206 I googled it. I know which cast member you are talking about.

[@princess-pumpkin]

I would love to know which cast member it was. I can't find anything online :'( Please ease my curiosity!

[@audrablue515]

I remember reading a while back that Kerri Anne Kennelly was insulted by Gina Riley's portrayal of her. Word is that KAK actually does randomly break out into song in real life and has quite a large personality and didn't like how spot on Riley copied her.

[@sheebathefunnyrescuedog692]

KAK released an album in 1995

[@MeMe-tt5rw]

We were so lucky to have such talent.

[@philthy903]

Yeah the tokenism kinda wrecks today's Aussie comedy, and when we exchange the tokenism for a whole show based on what used to be a token, it seems overdone. Dunno, give me the 90s any day. And get off my lawn!

[@goldenerafanatic4042]

Me Me PC culture wouldn’t even let a show like this run anymore

[@Ravaloxianthunderbird]

I love this. Gina Rileys voice is amazing, and this character always had me laughing at "I love you!"

[@TerrenceBosworth]

Exactly Gina Riley such an exceptional voice

[@silentdogfart4892]

God could you imagine this being aired today? Peoples heads would explode.

[@1953beetle]

Bring it on!!

[@knight2425]

Yep, the thought of straight people celebrating their heterosexuality would be outrageous wouldn’t it! How sad the world has become that we can’t laugh at ourselves anymore

[@crystalgem351]

Just thought EXACTLY the same thing. But I did make that comment myself a couple of years ago. 🤣😂😳. What’s good for the goose .... see you there. 🤗🌹

[@1953beetle]

@@knight2425 Try doing Blazing Saddles now.Imagine how many people would be offended.😂

[@fan9775]

@@1953beetle Remember who was bitching about it when it came out?

[@robertbarnier45]

Pure talent on this show. Sorely missed

[@runnyhunny786]

Australia's got some great comedy classics. I prefer these older one's. Much funnier. 👍😄❤

[@runnyhunny786]

@Muckin 4on Too true. They don't have the same touch and style...

[@gailmarks3472]

Because it’s not PC.

[@JeaneGenie]

Over the years I had forgotten about this show. It was so funny !!

[@jub8891]

i was still a kid when this show was out so i wasn't allowed to watch it.. but looking back the humor was so much better than most of what's available now

[@thescranline]

Everything about this clip is perfect lol

[@philthy903]

Golden age of 'strayan com'dee, the noinees. We miss you as a collective, but love that you still have your own great careers. Thanks for all the laughs!

[@James-kv6kb]

Unfortunately your comment says it all Australians want to be dumb now where we were never dumb before we had bad dress sense but we were never dumb . I'm not saying you are I'm just saying that we seem to rejoice in stupidity as opposed to intelligence which you need to be able to appreciate comedy

[@toddles9]

So kids, this is something we used to have when we were younger. It's called 'comedy'. You won't find it now.

[@88njtrigg88]

@trapd00rspider Don't take it to seriously.. this is KZbin. tbh.

[@justinrocks8724]

🤦 I'm sure your elders/parents found this hilarious at the time 🙄 Did you find comedy from the 60s hilarious back when this was airing?

[@unbiasedcobra6672]

​@@justinrocks8724yes actually and I still do. That's what's good about actual comedy. It's timeless.

[@Despond]

@@justinrocks8724 Good humor is timeless it just comes in different forms and delivery. What they should have said is the freedom of comedy, creativity not being restricted by social politics. The base of humor has been the same, 60s 70s, 2020s, and will be when we are gone.

[@acoulthardclark]

Phone books. Records. And ABC stores. Three things, besides stetches like this, that don't exist anymore.

[@warheadrecordsaus]

Don’t forget one and two cent coins. How fuckin old is this sketch, they phased those out in the early 90s.

[@Me-qp8vz]

@@warheadrecordsaus 1991.

[@UnitSe7en]

30 years ago it was jokes. Today it's real. Never thought I'd say it, but fuck I miss the 80's.

[@steviewondek]

😂🤣😂😂 don't worry there's probably still a vacancy for you to march in the next straight pride march. The gay/ mixed parties in Sydney were absolutely fabulous in the late 1980's I miss them and what a great place to live it was then, not just for the wealthy. 👍

[@kenwatson5562]

Dickhead.

[@guillaumesandmayer7053]

So true - that Mardi Gras skit today would never be greenlit by TV exec's these days. No way.

[@Plethorality]

aussie heterosexual culture: men with men, women with women. (ladies bring a plate).

[@georginajovanovic]

Lol 😃

[@Plethorality]

@@georginajovanovic its still like that in rural areas.

[@mg8642]

This is so true it hurts

[@liftwell]

You forgot to mention that the men "cook the sausages"

[@Lilly-vz2un]

Ladies being a salad, men bring the meat

[@belindahutchinson5333]

Even watching the news as a child Kerry Anne Kennelly would break out in song...all the time. Even making a video clip singing on the morning news ..just her singing.

[@peaceangel-rl2hf]

The quintessential kennel collection...bahaha😂😆

[@BabylonCentral]

Gina had some pipes!!!

[@mhomho1979]

way ahead of it's time

[@dunruden9720]

*momo aus Here we go again. There's a lot of it about!

[@TheShymaster2000]

Honestly from Let The Blood Run Free, to Fast Forward, to Full Frontal - this era is unparalled in comedy genuis, and I'm so bloody glad I was alive to appreciate it!!!🙏💖 There are no Aussie shows nowadays thst even come close - these guys were the bomb!!!💞🇦🇺💞

[@markc65]

Worked not far from there, in Albert Rd. One time at lunchtime a few of us went to Ch7 to sit in the audience to watch the show Bert Newton had.

[@nbucwa6621]

Can't believe these became relevant in 2019

[@VoyageOne1]

A bunch of bigoted clowns in the US actually put on a "straight pride" parade. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Scotty-P]

@@VoyageOne1 "bigoted"? "clowns"?

[@8888k]

@@Scotty-P Get over yourself

[@d818581dd]

@@Scotty-P Yes? That's what they wrote. What's hard to understand?

[@steviewondek]

Not at all, if other people having the right to live in the open, being themselves in public is a problem you are the one with issues. how sad.

[@tamacotamaco]

Can imagine "Jane Turner" doing Julia Gillard😜👏🏼

[@janhall5659]

They were all so bloody funny.

[@JingoLoBa57]

The best slap in the face you can have on a Friday night!

[@darkhawk1979]

Back when even the shit sketches in Australian comedy shows were brilliant!

[@peopleddiagram2920]

darkhawk1979 Political correctness destroyed satire and speech. It also destroyed a real laugh.

[@MrMojo23100]

RIP the Aussie humour and the ability to laugh at yourself without taking offense.

[@ozlass7778]

Then you read through the comments, and here's a few whinging bitches. Onya, killjoys!

[@shortangel333]

I love how this relates to Straight Pride, good to know its always been looked down upon because a true straight pride parade is of course a traffic jam.

[@tanjaseeder1645]

a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. ... when political satire was legal and mainstream

[@overthinker_overanalyser]

This is gold!!!!!!

[@fredsalfa]

Used to love that show

[@chrismckell5353]

I like the rainbow shirt guys, nothing for us here ,okay as long as they try to ram it down our throat. A shame writers and audiences don't appreciate irony as much.( too worried someone might take offence).

[@jeffgreen7629]

These two are so talented, I didn’t get too many references, what with me being a Pom, but I think their talent makes them funny. 🤣

[@carolynnicholson3113]

I know this show is old but it's so good and so funny I just love it I even laugh today. it's that good the TV shows try to copy it there just don't have it .

[@maussie9462]

A fool on the hill 😂 love this show ❤

[@gamingguruoz]

these were the good old days 🤑

[@floopyboo]

Stunned at the number of people here not realising they are the people Fast Forward was taking the piss out of here.

[@nicolajane7389]

Watching in 2024 and shaking my head thinking the same. How can they be so dense that they can’t understand satire?

[@funeralgothatoo5814]

​@@nicolajane7389Same same. Total lack of media literacy. Also I was reflecting on how Kath and Kim has aged so well. They never were mean spirited to anyone who wasn't a jerk. The episode where Kath is worried Kim may be gay for example... The whole episode is making fun of Kath for being so uncomfortable with the idea of Kim being gay. Everyone else around her is chill about homosexuality. Kim of all people when confronted and asked about her sexuality didn't even get offended. She just straight up said she's not and nothing more.

[@JiggyMcCue]

​@@funeralgothatoo5814lol "media literacy" shut up you midwit.

[@penciljar]

if you watch tv nowadays you would think aussie have a terrible sense of humour, like the project.

[@ladyowl9187]

🤣

[@razorback0z]

Is the project meant to be funny?

[@idontthink]

They’re trying to be woke American now.

[@OcarinaSapphr-]

@@razorback0z Well, it’s definitely a joke...

[@cinemar]

The Project is an abomination of our country.

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

I miss the days when an event was called a Turn. I can't do my "Leave no turn unstoned" joke any more!

[@lakehayden]

iconic tv

[@dennisneo1608]

Great line about having one's lifestyle rammed down eveyone's throat, to the point where we have no freedom of opinion anymore. Well, that's what I gleaned from it.

[@asenseof5722]

We could laugh an laugh n laugh now everythings soo serious.😁🤔😐

[@letsbehonest4221]

Because the left wing side of politics have abuse political correctness.

[@ozlass7778]

Oh shut up, ya whinging old farts. And just enjoy the laughs.

[@foxesofautumn]

You might notice who is the target of most of this video and also notice that it’s still relevant.

[@steviewondek]

@@foxesofautumn BS.. heterosexuals are no danger of becoming extinct any time soon, plenty of heterosexual people still getting married and having kids globally, previously marginalized minorities gaining the same human rights as you under the law doesn't cancel yours.

[@tybaltyrant1]

@@ozlass7778 I'm not old... but I enjoy a good fart, especially in the mouths of Greens politicians to help suck in carbon emissions

[@Westyrulz]

I would love to see a straight Mardi gras.

[@mkdfan]

You’ve got the other 364 days, not enough?

[@leannesmith5818]

This was one funny show, loved it

[@terriquinlan7683]

Wow. I would watch Kennel.

[@user-ep3ck5re4o]

Brilliant / bring it back 💪💪💪👊🏻

[@dianasvan]

absolutely love this amazing duo!!!! what year was this?

[@NoirpoolSea]

I've never seen this show before. Fabulous!

[@extremeconcepts1]

Watching this in 2021....could be reality seeing how things are playing out with cancel culture

[@MarkWhiley]

Does cancel culture lead to straight people having their own pride marches? 😂 Some very odd (or maybe jealous) straight people have been lazily bashing gay prides for decades with "why can't we have a straight pride". I say go ahead, what exactly you want to celebrate or protest about I'm not sure but by all means. I think they did one in Boston, MA in the U.S.

[@VBHB83]

And the best Australia can do now is The Project. How sad.

[@skezburah]

the project is poison

[@cj92akl]

That's Melbourne's entire heterosexual community? Wow!

[@seankennedy5074]

Nowadays it's more likely to be the Somali Mardi Gras...

[@letsbehonest4221]

No thats Melbourne's entire white people community .

[@ozlass7778]

"Somali Mardi Gras"? "white people community"? "Convicts"? What a bunch of uneducated clowns 🤣

[@jessed0308]

whats wrong with being heterosexual

[@SanduTiTa]

@@jessed0308 nothing, really. it's just fun to make fun of them after they've made fun of non-het people for so many years (more than made fun but that's beside the point).

[@jeanhawken4482]

Brilliant talented people

[@Rusty_Gold85]

This could take off these days lol

[@easymacR32]

God i miss this and full frontal

[@notheadmental]

sip moselle with the womenfolk .... classic!

[@chrisnewman7281]

Got to rack the mind to think back to the late nineties to make sense of the references to Bob Hawke.

[@emucentral]

Late 80's early 90's for Bob Hawke as PM. This sketch is about 30 years old. I worked on the show, it was a hoot, great cast and crew.

[@chrisnewman7281]

@@emucentral I see you were one of the writers on a few of the episodes of Ff and on Blue Heelers.. Hats off to you

[@mackeymichael]

@@emucentral Hilarious mate. We were really funny before pc came to the party.

[@ianmartin5389]

This was the easiest "Try not to laugh" challenges I've ever done...

[@wobotnik]

Loxton in SA has had a mardi gras for years. They were always careful to mention that it had "nothing to do with the Sydney Mardi gras." 😆

[@petermckernan3661]

It was always going too come too kath and Kim these too ladies are a force of nature brilliant x

[@childrensorg856]

I loved this actually.

[@James-kv6kb]

Back of the 90s there was a massive news event in Adelaide the Clown Wars which of course I was involved in. I was flown to Sydney to appear on the Kerri-Anne show lol

[@AirflowToTheTurbo]

My mum worked on Fast Forward. Such a hilarious show, no limits. I think what might be lost on some of the modern viewers here is that they were making fun of anti-gay people here; I picked at least three actors in this skit who are in fact gay, as were plenty of people behind the camera. And good old Magda. 😆

[@juliangrant9718]

I wouldn't look into it too deeply. Jokes like these were prevalent in the late 80s/early 90s. Straight kids come out to gay parents was an old SNL skit. It's honestly not a commentary on anyone. It's just a ludicrous idea at that time to have "straight pride." It's funny. That's all it is. That line "I don't care what they do in private as long as they don't shove it my face." If they're making fun of straight people, that's a fairly accurate response people had back then. And it really isn't that intolerant. It's just funny to see the reversal.

[@AirflowToTheTurbo]

@juliangrant9718 Oh, I agree with you. It's just that mainstream Australia in 1991 was a pretty solidly homophobic place with all sorts of media attacks on events like the Mardi Gras in Sydney taking place regularly. So flipping it around was pointedly hilarious. My comment was more addressed to people who stumbled into the video and thought "Ah the good old days when you could make fun of gay people", which I thought was funny because a bunch of those actors were gay. It kind of reminds me of the Bill Hicks skit from the same period where he reels in the audience, feigning outrage at a new range of kids' books aimed at explaining the gay lifestyle. He says, "Daddy's New Roommate" is a disgusting book and crosses a line, waits for the applause and hoots, then says "Heather's Two Mummies, on the other hand, is quite a fetching read."

[@s-c..]

There sure seems to be a lot of “woe is me, we couldn’t get away with this now, the LGBTQ+ crowd would be so offended” offence being taken by the pearl clutchers in comments section. Being asked to be nice to their fellow humans seems to have melted their brains.

[@juliangrant9718]

@@s-c.. Coming from people who have been maltreated. It's difficult to not have that position when people are shadowbanned and can't express their thoughts freely on platforms everyone uses as their personal public square. Excluding people from that will cause a schism. I don't personally buy into the perspective that both sides use tactics that are equally applied. I see one side get hit and then watch them push back with unequal force and be accused of engaging in those same tactics.

[@s-c..]

@@juliangrant9718 Maybe it’s too early in the morning, but I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying.

[@grellis6483]

Gawd! Still priceless!!! 😂🤣😂

[@jameswilliam2708]

It’s a tragedy that modern Australian society can’t handle satirical writers anymore . Too offended, too intersectionally oppressed.

[@d818581dd]

Ironic cause i reckon the right-wing anti-woke crowd would find this very offensive. How they dare they mock straight people?

[@jameswilliam2708]

@@d818581dd you have a point mate. Can’t get too picky with clever comedy these days. Having said that, look at what happened to Jonah...wasn’t the RW who cancelled him.

[@d818581dd]

@@jameswilliam2708 you talking about Chris Liley?

[@jameswilliam2708]

@@d818581dd yea his character Jonah. Brilliantly written character.

[@steviewondek]

@@jameswilliam2708 Bizarre really most of us old school left leaning folk loved Chris Lily in the early naughties when people were genuine good sports, more laid back and easy going, not mostly uptight, hostile, sour faced miserable, permanently offended zombies.

[@vcat10]

Awesome!

[@goldenerafanatic4042]

Ahead of its time

[@bencheshire]

OMG I forgot ABC Shops existed

[@markc65]

So true...so true.

[@MM-yi9zn]

This is real comedy. Nothing as great today!

[@KidKenobiii]

Its Marion on the float!

[@markjmaxwell9819]

This show was bloody fantastic.... Before political correctness got out of control.....😂😂😂😂👍👍

[@dwillbecancelledsoon4086]

I miss the old Australia

[@sarah3796]

I heard this was Maggie’s favourite sketch

[@artemisxw8708]

That double hand grip on the microphone....😅

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Milos needs to see this.

[@robert-brydson-1]

back when tv was made in Melbourne

[@fatanicholasiulaiahwalavea9993]

Love Kath and Kim 👍🏾

[@pauljohn8433]

Oh noes, it's Kerri-Anne Kennel. Anything but Kerri-Anne Kennel. Lemme out of here Nononononononononononononononononononono ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@pixl8me]

The Other Side of Your Face! 😂

[@stevebodalenko5286]

Pretty sad that you couldn't even make a skit, or a show like F/Fwd, in Victoria anymore without the appeasers, apologists, and easily offended trying to stop it.

[@RandomAussie89]

That van at 1:53 tho

[@ozlass7778]

Yeah, that's probably how they all rocked up to the Hetero Mardi Gras... in that van 🤣

[@buryitdeep]

This show today would be cancelled after one episode. My haven't we come far?

[@MarkWhiley]

It would?

[@funeralgothatoo5814]

Lmao, no it wouldn't. It just wouldn't even be made because the commerical stations would rather fund easy revenue-return reality tv and competition shows full of thinly veiled product ads than pay writers and performers.

[@JiggyMcCue]

@@funeralgothatoo5814 Midwit.

[@craigjones8558]

We should do this today

[@ozlass7778]

Craig Jones Well, off you go and organize it. No-one is stopping you. 😁

[@pauld61]

Just gold ❤😂😂😂😂😂

[@Lilly-vz2un]

Jump to 1:49 for the straight mardi gras

[@Luvforalll]

Still better than Sydney’s Mardi Gras.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Oh, honey. Get a life.

[@NoChannelChannel]

When comedy was allowed to be funny

[@ka1juhunt3r]

Imagine making this skit in 2024 it would be seen as less funny and just “yeah…” but back then it was funny it was reversing the balance and making tag it a skit… now… man they where simpler times

[@stephencable7655]

The Dr. Daller Method. Otherwise known as the 'the way everyone else does it method'. Well explained though.

[@jayderunelore2617]

I can imagine these people taking the piss out of Waleed Aly and the project...#banfastforward

[@BugsyB1979]

Back when Australians could actually take a joke.

[@gospelofrye6881]

2:48 Okay so if I think about it for a second, I totally get why Marg Downey is sitting on two copies of the Yellow Pages on the guy's lap... but was this a known cultural thing in the 70s / 80s? At church fellowships you could sit on a boy's lap but you'd put a copy of the phone book there first to protect your chastity? Is it a Victorian thing?

[@528hrtz]

is this the 90’s?

[@shaneb3926]

Late 80's

[@breytac]

Ahh the good old days when we laughed at ourselves, lampooned the hell out of everything and no one gave a flying fuck about political correctness I miss those days.