Hey Hey it's Saturday | Francis Greenslade | Red Faces 1987

[@_desertwalker_]

Just before we went down to the Espy, The Chevron, or Chasers we wouldn't leave home until we watched Hey Hey it's Saturday. It was part of the Melbourne culture.

[@castlemania08]

How Francis handled the heckler was great!

[@trevorhands4380]

If this isn’t the most 80s thing I have ever seen. Love it. Good times. If only we could have a fraction of what this show brought to Australia back again.

[@CraigBarron-z4f]

You'll never see it again in Wah!! Woke World!!!!

[@dwblurb]

Racism, the celebration of mediocrity and a dirty old man giggling in the background. You're welcome to it.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Classic 😂 Thank goodness for old replays 👏

[@M1cha3lP]

Francis Greenslade's act was literally my favourite act on Red Faces ever. So memorable!

[@wades9327]

One of the best ever!

[@MsPoppsie]

Francis - A precursor to the wonderful Mad As Hell. Love him😂😂

[@xymonau2468]

I also loved that mad poet guy who ended up introducing on RocKwiz.

[@markwegner6821]

I grew up with this show. Now I'm a lot older and you put this on, I'm growing up again. Brilliant 💎

[@66secularist]

Do you remember when they played cartoons?

[@Josette93]

@@markwegner6821 Me, too. I lived in Perth till I was 13. This show and "Home and Away" were my favourites. You can't get those shows in America. I don't even know if they're still on. Have a nice cup of Milo for me.

[@MySteamChannel]

I went to scouts with Francis Greenslade in the 1970s!!!

[@matthewcullen1298]

was he funny back then

[@retroray58warby98]

Peter O’Brien sporting a fantastic mullet👍😸

[@AnnSanders-j6r]

Wish life was still like this. Great memories

[@pauledmiston4883]

... I agree...

[@littleblackcat2273]

Wow! I remembered the "worms, worms, worms" guy from back in the day, but didn't realise he was Francis Greenslade (later of McCallef show fame)!

[@Water_Rabbit]

Francis Greenslade, now a respected actor and mates with Shaun Micallef.

[@mataph7805]

He nailed it. 10 levels above the rest. Still funny today

[@brettchristensen7382]

Ah, *that's* where I've seen him. Thanks. (I must've also watched this episode: I remember the worms song.)

[@JohnBloggs-m8l]

​​​@@mataph7805 yeah but it was a low bar to begin with, Francis was guaranteed to win after that lot, they audition these people obviously before they go on for real and they probably deliberately put Francis on at the end cos they knew he was the best of a shit bunch, the two man act was terrible, Daryl gave them a chance to get to the point and they just kept dragging on.

[@johncoops6897]

​@@JohnBloggs-m8l- ROFL. The *whole* idea of that segment is to find the _worst_ acts who want to embarrass themselves on AU national television. . Note that name of the segment is *"Red Faces"* ? It is the complete opposite of a "talent show". The producers find the worst they can, then they perform and the judges score them.

[@JohnBloggs-m8l]

@@johncoops6897 yeah no shit, and Francis was the best of a shit bunch so they held him til the end, it's still tv dickhead it's got to have some entertainment value. I knew someone who auditioned dipshit I know exactly how it works.

[@Kim-gv5bw]

I grew up with Hey Hey and when 3 I relocated from Sydney to Canberra where there weren't as many TV stations I missed HHIS so much I'd drive to Batemans Bay-whère they had more channels-check into the cheapest decent motel available just to get my fix of HHIS!!Jeez,how fked up is that?.😂Thanks guys ❤

[@66secularist]

I moved to Canberra too and suffered terribly at the loss of HHIS. It came good in 1989 though when WIN began transmitting into Canberra.

[@AnthonyP73]

Peter O'Brien, that's a magnificent head of hair my friend

[@cjod33]

Who else remembers when this was actually a kids show on Saturday mornings.?

[@josiequintela199]

Meee !!! 🥰

[@dwblurb]

It wasn't quite so bad then, because much of the show was filled with music videos.

[@66secularist]

And in the very early days they played cartoons.

[@janemacintyre9801]

Not at this time! I think this was Saturday night. I won a prize on the Sat morning one!

[@truetierra]

Far out I miss these days of proper TV.

[@hwd7]

The last act was worth waiting for.

[@travisskuff]

awesome, glad too see births of talent via HHIS

[@cjod33]

The shoulder pads, this is definitely peak eighties fashion 😂.

[@paulbradley705]

One of Australia's best comedians.

[@xymonau2468]

Magda Szubanski was also on Red faces with a group from one of the unis, I think. There are a few household names now that got their start on there. I didn't know about Francis Greeslade unti today.

[@fins59]

Francis Greenslade I liked your confidence, dress sense and guitar skills.

[@janemacintyre9801]

I would love a "where are they now" special!

[@planetX15]

Thanks for your uploads!

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

I liked it when Francis played "Piano Man" on the guitar.

[@hedonismunderstands2469]

'87 pinnacle of the mullet..? but what a master, even at that age..!

[@BundyToo]

Bloody Brilliant!

[@NeilCooper-ij1gw]

Look how far Francis Greenslade went 😂

[@paulbradley705]

Mad as Hell 😮

[@CaptainSensibleJr]

Completely chaotic but hilariously funny.

[@sierrahp]

The judges' hair. 🤣

[@johnhaydock1577]

It was super fashionable in 1987 - the big hair days! Forty years from now people will be laughing that everyone was walking around looking like Ned Kelly in the 2020's :)

[@JohnBloggs-m8l]

You're obviously not Australian, Red Symons always had long curly hair, he shortened it a bit in the 90s but it was always curly.

[@DianneMankey]

Happy times when single parent,with my kids, bought mattresses out to lounge room,we had good time 😂❤❤

[@bretthernan7589]

That guy ought to be on TV!

[@shockno1]

He was.

[@ChrisJensen-se9rj]

First Act.. Q; Where's your brother? A: Wilcanya..(scratches his crotch) Such magic television moments!😅

[@126Swanky]

Sooo damn good :)

[@Horus71]

The first act got 5+7+2 = 13 🤣🤣🤣

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

Epic classic mullets here.

[@anthonyscully2998]

Those mullets will never go out of fashion

[@JohnJullien-w4t]

He is such a great actor.

[@mataph7805]

Rated M. For high Mullet content.

[@khuti007]

LOL

[@palladen1933]

Mullet heaven 😅

[@JohnBloggs-m8l]

Let's be honest it was a low bar after the first three acts dragged on so badly so he was guaranteed to win, no Shaun in the audience clapping him though, wonder where he was. This has to be the earliest red faces I've ever seen, red wasn't even in the shirt and tie he became known for in the 90s when this segment hit its peak popularity.

[@johnwalsh3520]

Hollywood and Disney are recycling so many stories. It's time to recycle Hey Hey It's Saturday. Such a great time in Australian history.

[@Bohemiahotrodandcustom]

Already been done and it failed. The audience is too politically correct and people get offended very, very easily.

[@latenightlogic]

Wonder if he tried convince Shaun Micallef to join him on one of these gigs.

[@howardcroft3748]

Red .... the hair .... GONG!!

[@bloggaloggs]

7:28 STOP THAT!

[@jonesy3million26]

What a mullet!

[@James-kv6kb]

Shame where not allowed to make Australian television anymore so everyone's on Google lol also did we notice the older gong plate ?

[@quizmaster85]

They had a different gong because they were in Adelaide that night.

[@James-kv6kb]

@@quizmaster85 That certainly makes sense. Auditioned in that studio to go on Red Faces

[@JohnBloggs-m8l]

Oh but they do still make Aussie tv as long as it's all vacuous brain-dead reality shows, talent quests (which aren't ironic like this one) or game shows.

[@James-kv6kb]

@@JohnBloggs-m8l Ironic or iconic ? But yes everything is designed to be cheap and nasty that's the whole idea so we will give up on TV on all traditional entertainment and look to Google for every possible thing so in the future we will be totally 100% reliant on Americans for everything

[@JohnBloggs-m8l]

@@James-kv6kb well the idea is to make money from streaming, when people pay for a streaming service there's an instant kickback to the company, when a tv station on old fashioned free to air broadcasting makes a program they rely on ratings from viewers to get money which is alot harder than just making a load of content or buying it for streaming and then making people pay upfront rather than waiting on ratings figures to decide the fate. And yes I meant ironic cos red faces is taking the piss out of talent shows as was the American show it was based on the Gong Show.

[@Sean-me4fv]

Any relation to Tosh Greenslade?

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

Where is Darrel today ? ❤

[@lisasmith4296]

80’s version of Australia’s got talent

[@lindsandkev]

Life was so good back then, now it is depressing 😢

[@thegreata.m4590]

Someone can't add. The opening act got 14, not 13.

[@redrobyn8316]

This feels like an early one?

[@RandomAds]

I wat hed this live when it came out, if i remember correctly they got a perfect score of 30 from all three judges. It was also the first time Red gave a score of 10

[@iancampbell3980]

5 + 7 + 2 = 14 Goose

[@jonjonjonjonjonjon]

8:11 Note 5 + 7 + 2 doesn't actually equal 13

[@gregsullivan7408]

Sorry Big Backyard Quiz - this is better. A lot better.

[@bloggaloggs]

Is Jane Clifton a gridiron player?

[@WWAWHTR]

From the land of the mullet.

[@jcee6886]

It's in d plays a c chord 😅

[@jackinabox8497]

But it was a joke also.... As in a "D" composition (decomposition) per se rotting and worm ridden. Bob. Australia.

[@janemacintyre9801]

A bit Aaron Chen there!

[@petesmitt]

roping calves.. you have to start at the bottom.

[@iamthebroker]

That “good bad” skit was excruciating and the the bib and braces bloke had a massive attitude for someone so inept….

[@deMc-ud4tp]

Original yobbo show -

[@James_Bowie]

Mullet days.

[@cjod33]

Agros cartoon cnction, comedy company, Steve vizard, uncle Doug Mulray etc. A far better time in Australian media.

[@mickhoward1091]

I don't care if I never see or hear Daryl Somers ever again

[@cookie5335]

I wasted soo much time watching this rubbish, but i luved ut then

[@samsly8464]

22 minuets I will never see again...

[@littleblackcat2273]

22 minuets, but "I could have danced all night..."

[@westernfrontproductions]

Fix your damn video settings! Every single video on your channel doesn't allow playing on my TV. I dont want to sit around watching in a crappy phone screen. No one else uses that stupid setting where the video owner restricts this.

[@heyheytv]

I believe you are the only one having this problem as we have asked around and it works fine on everyone else's TV's.

[@westernfrontproductions]

​@@heyheytvThanks for the reply. Was a bit frustrated as I'd tried so many times and lack of sleep. I guess different people have different set ups. When I try to cast to watch on the TV it just says "Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner". Have never had that from any other channel on KZbin.

[@johncoops6897]

​@@westernfrontproductions- sounds like somebody doesn't understand how to operate their own electronic appliances, eh?

[@westernfrontproductions]

@@johncoops6897 Why are you making a confession on a topic unrelated to you? I'm a computer systems engineer, you're out of your depth buddy. This channel has an unnecessary setting on their videos restricting playback, and they haven't tested it on enough devices to verify it.

[@johncoops6897]

@@westernfrontproductions - well good for you... Good luck with getting the Channel Owner to change a setting that protects their You Tube content against being embedded into other websites. . If you are such a good "Computer Systems Engineer", then you would know that the first step in solving a problem is to diagnose the problem. Considering that this problem only affects ONE User, we can determine the most likely place that the problem is occurring. . Hence, as even somebody who isn't a "Computer Systems Engineer" could work out... why don't you simply change YOUR system settings, so that you can cast from one device to another without involving a third intermediate website or service? 😉😉

[@logic.and.reasoning]

Hey Hey died many years before it ended. It lost laughs by Daryl being a weiner. The rest held him up for the last few years.

[@peteranderson3390]

Well done Red, fucking champion.😂😂😂

[@michaelnaisbitt7926]

I love reality TV particularly the fun I get guessing the pre nomination winner Its all fake the world has gone W OK E and we are worse off FOR KZbin NO HATE MAIL JUST AN OPINION

[@dwblurb]

Everything I don't like is woke. Waah! Nobody is forcing you to watch shit tv, why don't you try reading a book or exercising your brain in some noble endeavour instead of complaining about something you can't even define?

[@dwblurb]

It was shit at the time, but it's so so much shittier in retrospect. John Blackman is that creepy old uncle you try to avoid at family barbecues.

[@bloggaloggs]

No-one's biting, dude.