What do you call a person who is completely laid back; for whom nothing is sacred, nobody too big? You might use a 17 letter tongue-twister or you might use a simpler and more accurate word - 'Aussie'.
Have a listen to this Gotcha call for some first hand proof. Some background information, before you go though...
Dr. John So is the Lord Mayor of Melbourne city. The man I have heard is probably the most famous of Mayors Melbourne has ever had, and was named World Mayor in 2006.
My first memory of him is from the closing ceremony of 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne. On stage in company with the then Victorian premier Steve Bracks and the Australian Prime Minister, John So beat both of them hands down in the appreciation showed by the Melbourne crowd. At every mention of his name, the applause kept increasing, and after the completion of the games, there were even some John So for PM t-shirts seen around the city. So, you might say he is one of the most influential men in the country.
Gotcha call is a rather famous section in the breakfast show of Fox FM in Melbourne. It is the equivalent of candid camera, for radio. People give information about their friends, usually some queer thing about them, and Matt Tilley, the co-host of the show, calls them up and torments them with the information, usually impersonating as someone else. What keeps the show interesting is Matt's quick wit and the many variety of voices he can impersonate (He does a great Indian accent, the character Ajeeb he does has achieved near cult status).
Last friday Matt decides to call up the Lord Mayor's office impersonating, president of a local football team, who was going to run for Mayor, but withdrew at the last minute because of his commitment to the Hawthorn football team. The poor unsuspecting Mayor is in for some shock!
Warning: There is some coarse language. It can be noticed that John So, being of Chinese origin is not fluent with his english. So, go have a listen. Look for the one titled Gotch Call - Matt gets Melbourne's Lord Mayor John So singing. Here, the link again.
Only in Australia! If it had happened in India, the radio station would have been history by now!
2 Responses to "Gotcha !"
October 9, 2008 at 5:16 PM
I love stuff like this!
Rick Dees (famous for that stupid 70's song, Disco Duck) is a syndacated radio personality in the US that has been doing something similar called Candid Phone, for over 20 years.
You can even buy albums of his best pranks on CD.
But since it's American radio, you won't hear the swearing (and there often is lots of it)..they bleep it out.
People also occasionally call in and give live play-by-play of nasty pranks they are doing on friends.
Once a guy called in, whispering, while his friend was sleeping, and took all the listeners on a laughing trip, while he shaved all the hair off his friend.
His friend woke up during the part where his eyebrows were getting shaved off, and you could hear his screaming & yelling in the background.
Then you heard the caller getting the crap beat out of him...then the phone line went dead.
It's always good stuff. So if you run out of the Aussie version to listen to and want to hear some of the American style, his site has some recordings online you can listen to.
Now all we need is some people from UK and Canada to comment with links to their country's version of this kind of thing.
October 14, 2008 at 7:55 AM
Oh my God! Shaving eye brows off a friend on air?? Cruel, but hilarious all the same. :)
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