Fast Forward | Sale of the Century

[@T00L337]

I never realise how much I really, really miss these guys until I go back and watch some old clips. Every time. Every god damned time.

[@James-kv6kb]

People abandoned Australian television for the internet not realising that it wouldn't be there when they came back

[@Borella309]

Australia has always been blessed with great satirical comedy. So lucky to have seen so many of the great young talents that emerged in the 1980s.

[@crispytendies1433]

Indeed We have been blessed with satirical comedy , just look at our entire government. That alone shows we have a sense of humour 😏

[@brucekilby9957]

They are better than the real people. That's Jo,That's Tony and that's Jana.⚖🇦🇺🙂

[@Me-qp8vz]

To be honest it started going downhill after the D Generation. Nothing held a candle to D Generation.

[@mattmc9812]

Political Crapness wasn't a problem back then

[@James-kv6kb]

So sad everything is now Google and American

[@menocat8353]

Back when Australian television had imagination, instead of renovation, fishing and cooking.

[@erb1998]

And repeat BCF ads 😐

[@GlideYNRG]

Very true cobber. It’s just shit these days

[@gayemayles5613]

and people crying all the time

[@user-wp5fe8ec6l]

You're forgetting Peter fucken Russell fucken Clarke

[@peteraristidou7075]

Don't forget the bullshit dating reality shows...

[@andrewjerome6573]

I love how Marg Downey impersonates Jana Wendt better than Jana Wendt does

[@theprinceoftides6836]

Lmfao 😂🤣😅 Truth.

[@beardymcbeardface69]

Jan-aye Went-ed-ed

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

A few really talented actors have a gift of perfectly replicating other people. I know because I've watched Whose Line Is It Anyway, and seen Ryan Stiles impersonate both Carol Channing and John Wayne brilliantly.

[@The_Trinity_Effect]

100%

[@pwrrpw319]

I'm pissing myself over the Sir Joh impersonation , absolutely brilliant ! , & yet he was just as funny and stupid in real life! Sir Joh that is LOL ! :)

[@sonycans]

I was at Channel Seven as the studio audience. The woman at the right was one of the studio audience.

[@gregellis9995]

I Bet it will be Forever,, A Favourite Memory, For Life...

[@martinkuliza]

i think we all gathered that

[@TheKaiTetley]

You were the entire audience? WOW!

[@rightwingnucleararmedaussi1544]

Oh wow I was wondering who she was so thanks for the update...

[@rippi37]

For some time there , this was the BEST show on TV...this and Full Frontal and several others were just GOLD !!! Thank you Gary86 xxx

[@anrit5972]

I remember a real interview Jana did with Joh and he said “stop putting my words into your mouth Jana” I had to check I was watching a current affair and not fast forward Joh was hilarious.

[@chrissherlock1748]

Corrupt bastard. Happily good and gone now.

[@chriskennedy7534]

And something about ants on her pretty face I was young, but this show did a great send up of the silly old Peanut farmer

[@chriskennedy7534]

@John Dory But Flo's Pumpkin scone recipe was pretty good 😉

[@chriskennedy7534]

@John Dory As I acknowledge you were spot on Just trying to find the lighter side As these guys would have done I do mis my mum knocking up a bunch of hot fresh scones though

[@dhenderson1810]

@@chrissherlock1748 My family was living in Queensland in the 80's when Joh was Premier. He set up a way to make sure he never lost government. It was called a "gerrymander".

[@homebrandrules]

You bloody beauty! This is TIME TRAVEL How I lament the absence of this culture of Australia

[@Shell6424]

This takes me back…..couldn’t stop laughing at Michael Veitch cavorting all over the place. And how does Marg Downey keep a straight face? She never flinched when she was the SBS lady.

[@rightwingnucleararmedaussi1544]

There are some classic outtakes on KZbin where she pissed herself laughing with Magda Szubanski!!

[@beardymcbeardface69]

Later tonight we'll be airing a tragic love story from Bulgaria, about a blossoming young guppy and her goat boyfriend. A tale of love, heartbreak and betrayal from a forbidden interspecies romance. I'm bursting at the seams, struggling in anticipation for that one.

[@Shell6424]

@@beardymcbeardface69 🤣

[@TechNed]

@@beardymcbeardface69 "a case of mistaken identity"

[@malalford]

Jana Wendt was on ch9

[@The_Trinity_Effect]

I stopped watching TV once reality TV took over , seeing this takes me back to the days the whole family would sit around the Tele together for a good old laugh 😂

[@The_Trinity_Effect]

SJP that’s right ! I’d prefer to watch two snails fuck then watch that crap 🤣

[@The_Trinity_Effect]

Jason Delarosa maybe you should think about changing your last name to Delirious, because with a comment like that you actually are or maybe that clip was the only piece of fast forward you’ve ever seen lol

[@The_Trinity_Effect]

Jason Delarosa I’m glad you still watch those cartoons ! Keep livin the dream bro

[@tamelalowery9892]

I did too. These were the good old days 😍

[@ikarikid]

Reality TV took over?

[@TheVestini]

Ahhhh TONY with his “little” run out 😂

[@carolyndee4565]

We need this type of comedy back

[@derev84]

That will never happen. Too many people would get offended, plus the TV station would have to put some intelligent thought and effort into making a show like that.

[@48tilt]

Just watch BIDEN

[@rippi37]

Yes !!! The sooner the better !!!!!!

[@longtallshorty5791]

@@derev84 wah wah. Have a cry, you little sook.

[@fireskycam9889]

Too many nancies complain of being offended about anything, just to they can claim the fame of having a show taken off air as their greatest achievement in life.

[@GlennLittleford]

The impersonation of Jo was spot on!

[@pbrstreetgang7935]

Gerry Connolly was always pitch perfect as Joh Bjelke and he did a pretty damn good Bob Hawke as well

[@xr6lad]

Then when they disappeared so did his career……

[@jho2646]

And the Queen too

[@ericheinelt4295]

And a very good impression of sleepy Joe Biden.

[@marilynwentworth6973]

I have a feeling one other. Thinking…John cain?

[@starpawsy]

He also did a very good King CHarles and Queen LIz

[@rightwingnucleararmedaussi1544]

The Sir Joh impersonation was spot on. Perfect!!! Well done. Such a funny voice. I actually remember watching this show. I also remember watching the famous Jana Vendt interview "You're wrong Jana wrong wrong wrong"!!

[@phoarey]

I was introduced to Joh and in Flo in 2000. He asked 'were you around in my day son'? I replied 'yes Sir Joh I was a street marcher (protestor)'. Joh almost 90 was slightly shaken. Flo got the joke and smiled broadly.

[@hcrun]

Modern society cannot understand why we oldies prefer to watch this type of classic variety instead of "reality" programmes. They have been brought up on a TV diet of utter crap.

[@shanewilson398]

G’day ken, I also think it’s a case of cheap programming. All they need is a concept, which can be easily acquired from o/s, find a bunch of nobodies and there is a show. With luck one or more of the nobodies will become a celebrity and the money will keep rolling in. I’m also sure it’s a generational thing. My parents thought that the shows I liked were shit. My grandmother loved Bell Birds and she had no time for my parents’ tastes.

[@jayebuss5562]

There's a real dumbing down of T.V of late, kinda reflects on the audience.

[@wellfit1511]

@@shanewilson398 exactly right, commercial tv can’t compete with KZbin, Netflix etc etc. a lot of shock value stuff too, big brother, love island, married at first sight. Unfortunately it has bled over into journalism and now it is all about shock value and number of clicks.

[@buggulugs]

Spot on. You nailed it.👍

[@wellfit1511]

@Al-zein Kusmantoro I like what project Veritas do. Peoples own words used against them. That is journalism.

[@beaugunn2632]

Done as only we Aussies can do.Thanks for the upload!

[@beaugunn2632]

Cheers mate!

[@beaugunn2632]

I don't know, but we do have such a unique sense of humour, matched only the Irish. Thanks for the love mate!

[@dabble778]

Michael Veitch, so much energy!

[@BaMenace]

That's his imitation of Tony barber on coke

[@marilynwentworth6973]

I worked with Michael for awhile. Despite his brilliance... very humble guy. By an amazing coincidence, I then went on to work with his brother at Ansett head Office.

[@paulgerrard9227]

His sonny hammond from skippy was good

[@miked.1647]

Fuck me this show is absolutely hilarious. Best Aussie comedy sketch show ever. Will have to crack out the dvd's. GOLD!!!

[@Chapps1941]

Shaun Micallef was even better

[@James-kv6kb]

They certainly didn't stop Australian television because no one was watching. certain computer companies paid them i believe

[@dalnat70]

Michael, Marg, Jane, Magda, Steve, Gina and rest of them..... just brilliant.

[@MrVarvarVoom]

What a crack up, hilarious! Haven’t laughed so much in ages, thank you!

[@TheReevessss]

Bloody Brilliant! Those were the days! Superbo acting!!!!! REALLY superb. Much Well appreciated.

[@jamesfrench7299]

His attention to detail is something to behold. It's like he channels JBP's thought processes.

[@MrZerohour1967]

This was a work of pure genius.

[@personofearth5076]

I so forgot about this. I was laughing like crazy all over again. Thanks for making this old persons life.

[@blueenglishstaffybreeder6956]

Absolute gold, takes me back to my teen years

[@JohnJohnson-hk7cj]

Faark!! how funny was fast forward? Sir Joh down pat 😂😂😂

[@drillcream]

Why people choose to watch over sensationalised, so-called reality drama shows over comedy is beyond me

[@craigedwards2940]

It's what they are fed by the media.

[@Andy-dz7us]

Australian television died a long time ago.

[@chuckselvage3157]

They have no choice.

[@drillcream]

@@chuckselvage3157 they do but they don't know anything else

[@chuckselvage3157]

@@drillcream Sad.

[@Brissieskater1]

Michael Veitch ha performed a scathingly brilliant parody of Tony Barber.

[@pauljordan4452]

Agreed.

[@stupendous1068]

And I think Glenn Ridge was hosting Sale by this point.

[@g1annzz]

Has me in fits of laughter

[@Electricshrock]

@@stupendous1068 No Tony Barber saw out the 80s.

[@stupendous1068]

@@Electricshrock I'm sure this was the 90s. Glenn Ridge was hosting the show by then.

[@xaero76]

I remember this like it was yesterday.............. How sad is it that I remember it soo clearly...

[@gomenos54]

Marg Downey you're a gem!!

[@SusanBarkle-ik9ne]

People wee so open & themselves . Hilarious Australian comedians. Just Gold. Live the oldies.

[@sharonvincent1427]

It still makes me laugh. Most of the characters from this show are timeless.

[@fantomghost6213]

Brilliant. That original interview on Fast forward was hilarious, almost as funny as the real interview between Jana and Joh

[@alanm6454]

I'd forgotten how funny this show was and how it made me laugh. It still does. Great show. Nothing like it on TV now of course. Just surprised it was in my feed today for some reason.

[@FionaEm]

As good as Gerry Connolly was, Marg Downey was the brightest talent in Fast Forward. Always completely in character, and bloody funny too.

[@stupendous1068]

And great looking too.

[@twentyrothmans7308]

@@stupendous1068 Smouldering.

[@xr6lad]

How time changes. Most under 40 wouldn’t know who Sir Joh was yet at the time he was larger than life and a big part of Gerry Connolys career.

[@anneshaw9681]

So bloody Australian. Bet Tony had a good laugh

[@iamgod6464]

Pitty we don't have Comedy Shows and Comedians like this anymore. Could do with a good laugh at the moment.

[@peteraristidou7075]

To this day I can't help saying...No Jana. You are wrong wrong wrong...whenever someone is not right!!!

[@user-wp5fe8ec6l]

I'm gonna say this to someone the next chance I get. Tremendous!

[@peteraristidou7075]

@@user-wp5fe8ec6l Please do it....in the Sir Jo voice and you won't be able to help yourself.

[@ivorgoodlife8114]

Before Australia and the world turned in to a bunch of sooks and whingers and we could all laugh at ourselves

[@shanewilson398]

I don’t know Ivor. As soon as I clicked on this I knew I’d see lots of comments whinging and sooking about the good old days and how the world’s gone PC. Times change. Harden up folks. In fact, I think entertainment has gotten less PC, and far too explicit.

[@shanewilson398]

@Persephone kajira I reckon there is also a political aspect behind this. They like to say that all the PC stuff is ruining free speech and that the left is bla bla bla. Go to all these KZbin clips of old comedies and there are the same comments. I guess they don’t watch TV now.

[@Harkeilla]

Laugh at ourselves - and everyone else.

[@MichaelTavares]

Are you whinging you sook?

[@AngryTurds]

You're only allowed to complain about straight white males. Everybody knows that. 🙄

[@alankemp2415]

Suppressed smiles. "Jana" is just holding it in parts of this. Just! 😁

[@redimade]

i just hurt my stomach from laughing, havent seen it for ages

[@ruthparks7199]

The Great Barrelo Oil Reef 😂😂😂😂

[@seancyco9446]

Classic Aussie Humour, Not much on the TV these days!

[@nicholaskocis8513]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I miss this show. It was so funny back in the 80's.

[@onomatopoeidia]

So accurate. They really were that bonkers in real life. What was Tony Barber on?? Wait, I know. Jo didn’t want daylight savings in QLD because he said “too much sunlight...fades the curtains!” Bahhhh!

[@allenjenkins7947]

The real reason that Joh didn't want daylight saving was that he thought that the Sun shone out of his backside and he wasn't getting up an hour earlier for anyone.

[@ActiveAussie2024]

@@allenjenkins7947 lol, good one

[@BaMenace]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug...

[@dhenderson1810]

@@allenjenkins7947 The dumb thing about the "Fading the curtains" thing is, that you are actually not getting any extra sunlight at all. All you are doing is manipulating the clock an hour later, so you can use the summer sunlight when you get home from work, rather than in 5 in the morning, when you are still in bed.

[@mikespearwood3914]

@@dhenderson1810 Yes, we all know that!

[@billygillan821]

This comedy simple brilliant,.

[@TheReevessss]

Too bloody Magnificent!!!!!

[@John-rp2mh]

Well done all round. This taken in context is bloody funny. The bells are ringing & nobodys listening.. ahh daamn, i'm tired of losing cmts so 'no comment'.. Brilliant comedy even Bettina from the audience? had a laugh

[@edwardcatton315]

was in High School!, really miss the 80s! Well done Gerry!.

[@brentonsandercock2926]

Simply brilliant comedy and Sir Joe...saw him do a comedy show in Cairns and was just brilliant!!!

[@ActiveAussie2024]

The good ol days. Not all this shit we have nowadays.

[@ndingo]

Because people get WAY to offend these dayz

[@VideoAssociates]

Great moments, new Australians here now wouldn't have a clue what they're watching

[@justinjameswiddicombe8766]

This hilarious Sale Of The Century send-up on Fast Forward was made a decade after the Sale Of The Week skit on The Paul Hogan Show.

[@rosemaryogilvie6842]

God, I’m old enough to remember JBP and his endless waffling. This is hilarious.

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

Oh boy, that brings back some great memories.

[@enjolras76]

Omg Michael V as Tony B is too too funny

[@toppops22]

Ha ha ha 😂😂😂wow that took me back in time, Sir Joh and JyanaWendt, so funny 😆

[@proscreens2137]

Wow! this is simply brilliant comedy

[@bcgentertainment]

When Australian Comedy shows were funny.

[@Magooch86]

Yeh everyone's already said that

[@arrell]

Do we even have Australian comedy these days...?

[@OriginalPlopsta]

We don't have comedy shows anymore They're too offensive

[@JPH-ow5mq]

haha.. this is the Australia i remember...

[@VoyageOne1]

"From Czechoslovakia in Queensland and Victoria, it's Jann-ay Went-idt" 🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@Andrew.quigley]

So true.

[@Elitist20]

@raymond daubney I only say it's 'PC' in the sense that this is what gets labeled 'PC' by today's RWNJ's who can dish it out, but get an attack of the vapours when they themselves are the target.

[@Elitist20]

@Aussie Arcade Which was exactly my point. And there's enough material in this comments thread for half a dozen Betoota Advocate pieces about 'anti-PC' whingers with hurt feelings.

[@parabot2]

Joh Bjelke-Petersen warned to all what was coming ( and you Laughed and pointed like the clowns you are ) , Now you are flooded with the 3rd world , Somalis , Arabs . Asians are openly saying they have plans for colonization of Australia . But the Football is on .

[@andrewstrongman305]

Absolute GOLD!

[@sharonlo1958]

Best comedy show Australia ever made

[@queenslandborn7110]

Lol just put the money in a brown paper bag 😂😂😂😂😂

[@VoyageOne1]

🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@jayebuss5562]

Bloody hell I miss this type of T.v program, so many laughs.

[@Kimmy-pw8tm]

Omfg, sore tummy from laughing. Classic

[@MrOztrailGuy]

Sir Joe and romper room were the best sketches on fast forward oh yeah and the beautiful fucari rugs With Vizard and Peter moon absolute comedy gold we need this on our TVs these days as every thing in Australia i has gotten too serious and PC bullshit

[@eedobee]

Yeah but at least today's comedy is funny, this is pure shit.

[@lynx318therealone]

aaron marcal Don't forget Vizard and Moon's Fast Forward Kung-Fu parody. This comedy wins hands down over scripted and edited so called 'reality' TV any day!

[@seancyco9446]

Classic Stuff, You had to live through that era to understand the humour..

[@seancyco9446]

So True Budgie Dick... They couldn't keep a straight face through the whole skit....

[@seancyco9446]

eedobee)-Today's Comedy? Name 3 Comedy Show's!?

[@paulharper362]

Jana Wendt, the "perfumed steamroller". 🤣😂

[@KingsleyThomson-j1w]

This was when television shows were entertaining and funny like this one,,now we are bombarded with reality shows and cooking shows and nothing worth watching,,,, Fast Forward was a classic!

[@shuearie6869]

Yana and Sir Jo, love it.

[@sean2val]

they were insane

[@wandawoman8392]

Kath has never looked better.

[@julesknight9504]

When politicians were funny.

[@Onedayilbeok]

I'd love to know what would happen if a show like this came on tele now

[@lumabi25]

The "morally-superior" woke crowd would be offended and insist that it be cancelled. Even ten years off air was enough for Hey Hey It's Saturday to be unacceptable when it returned temporarily.

[@michaelhatton2477]

Well for one thing there wouldn’t be any blackface. And Fast Forward had a looooooot of that throughout its run.

[@itookallthenames]

The right wing sooks at Sky would jump to Johs defence and do a puff piece on what a good bloke he is

[@jackson76724]

We were a better country back then.

[@MichaelForbes-e1o]

Tony Baber was very good at his job and funny and fast forward also funny.

[@DolloLama]

Joh was our Orange Blight. This skit is brilliant. So many people suffered under this Buffon.

[@toobasaurus23]

I was a kid when this was on. Classic Aussie TV.

[@godfreypigott]

Classic rubbish.

[@mikespearwood3914]

@@godfreypigott Yet here you are!

[@godfreypigott]

​@@mikespearwood3914 Watching terrible "comedy" is entertainment in itself, though it only entertains for a couple of minutes. Merely copying someone's mannerisms is not funny - it is lowbrow stuff. True comedy has subtlety. These people are nothing more than mimics, and poor ones at that.

[@irukandji54]

They once asked Joh why do you always answer a question with a question and he replied,Who said that?

[@charlesking4621]

Thats when our leader actually was sir joh and the prosperous times

[@chookinathunderstorm3446]

For those who don't know the real Jana and Joh google you tube ACA Jana Wendt and Premier Joh.

[@Harlan1973]

0:35 me in a mosh pit. Seriously tho some people may not remember but Jana, Joh and Tony were exactly like this. I think Tony Barber was on pingers.

[@francfurian8215]

I loved Fast Forward, that crew were very talented 🤣

[@RoughJustice2k18]

I remember this sketch - it was just as funny as Steve Vizard and his "Celebrity Family Feud" (imitating host Rob Brough) back then. Put the 2 sketches side-by-side and they're equally brilliant. :D

[@davidmitchell2452]

Used to love this. Recorded a lot of them but long gone. Pilled up and on one, it was funny as fk

[@josefbuckland]

Thanks Gaz I tried to upload the complete fast forward and full frontal to utoob but was blocked everytime that is for finding a way to get around it.

[@SharonSmith-sb6xx]

Hilarious...comedy gold!

[@russelblackwell6041]

When Tony Barber hosted it made you want to jump through the tv it should of been called Bored For A Century

[@theranjithjay]

I loved this series !

[@rosemaryissa-interiorwellb5466]

This was so friggin hilarious

[@memsahibproductions]

Back to when television had balls 📺⚽️🏈

[@jstone247]

Creativity and originality have disappeared from our t.v. screens in the last 30 years. Too many survival and"reality " programs.

[@danhemming6624]

Don't you worry about that Jana.

[@phillipmann8863]

I used to run around when I was a kid saying jana's vent and get into trouble

[@azizaziz5621]

Time when Australia was full of life and a happy go- lucky nation.

[@gattingbowledwarne]

Mate, not to sure about that. While the music was better, I remember things being a bit shit in the 80s. If you were a teenager in Queensland you were a chance to get hassled badly by the law if you liked going out to local rock concerts. They plain clothes fellas would be out picking fights. Those were the days when Queensland police weren’t adverse to bashing up people. And the Joh government was really corrupt. I went from being 15 to 25 in the 80s, and I remember the really high interest rates. I think they got up to 17%. My parents were always worried about money and in fear of losing the house. Unemployment was high and there was a bad drought. Sorry, not the peachy time you recall.

[@jho2646]

Veitch was always my fave from this show. Haha

[@AngryTurds]

A bird in the hand gathers no moss.

[@cjod33]

The past is another planet where they do things differently.