The War on 2020 live show premieres tonight
Dear Reader,
Tonight and tomorrow night (11th and 12th), we will be presenting a series of all new sketches in front of a live studio audience.
We had planned to take this show on the road. At the beginning of the year, while the bushfires raged, we organised a 13-city national tour. The shows, we thought, would be all about the bushfires. Nothing could be worse than that in 2020.
Then 2020 fell apart.
Prince Harry announced he was retiring (from what, nobody quite knew). America's favourite talk show host turned out to be not as nice as she appeared to be onscreen. And worst of all, a shopping mall Santa told a kid he couldn't have a Nerf gun. It's been a shocker of a year.
Oh yeah, and there was that pandemic thing. We should probably mention that in the show.
As a result of these terrible events, we were forced to cancel our live show tour. Thanks to principal funding by Screen Australia, we were able to take the show online.
The result is the War on 2020 - Live Show. It's a great show. It features some of Australia's top satirists, including AWGIE award winners Mark Humphries (7:30), Jenna Owen (The Feed) and Victoria Zerbst (The Feed) plus Steph Tisdell, Nina Oyama, Sami Shah, Nat Damena, James Schloeffel (The Shovel) and Charles Firth (that's me).
And today, we're very pleased that we've managed to book the ABC to host the show. (That's ABC Total Landscaping in Redfern, NSW). It will be filmed in front of a live studio audience. Unfortunately, tickets to be part of the studio audience are now sold out. But you can still attend via Zoom. So why not buy a ticket and instead of enjoying a night out, spend a night in, hovering over a Zoom stream. What is more 2020 than that?
LIVE VIA ZOOM
6:30pm (Sydney time) tonight (Friday)
And 8pm tomorrow night (Saturday)
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Please note: we will harnessing the full capabilities of the internet, and doing audience interaction during the live stream, so please make sure you're not naked when you tune in.
Charles Firth
Managing Editor
The Chaser
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