680:) in five or so minutes. The show parodied the recent debate over whether or not the MÄori people were the first to New Zealand by stating, "ā¦there were some natives here before that, but a giant shark came and ate them". The 'giant shark' excuse was also used about the death of the native birds in New Zealand, such as the Moa and Giant Eagle which were hunted to extinction by MÄori.
651:(played by Darlene Mohekey), a television personality, in two sketches. One involved a show called 'Do the Bizzo' with Matthew Ridge with an ego-boost massage machine voiced by Nikki Watson. The second involved another show, 'Who wants to be an Ex-Millionaire,' where she answered questions by Tony Veitch and tried to sell him a vibrating pillow that was really "cheap tacky shit".
263:, Facelift is a sketch comedy employing live actors in rubber puppet masks. Pulling off the transition from puppet caricatures to human caricatures was a complex and ambitious task. A small group of actors were cast for voice and performance skills. Moulds were then taken of their heads and prosthetic masks created of various New Zealand politicians and celebrities, such as
420:." He used the expression "Marvellous" frequently and ended most skits with a reference to what Jacquie Brown was going to do "after the break", usually something sexually explicit to parody the fact that Jacquie usually does anything for the show. When John is in trouble he often calls on his assistant
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by drinking a glass of wine because he'd had "a bastard of a day" and stated that Pita should cover her face, not because she was female but because he wasn't into red-heads with freckles. Osama also featured on Paul Holmes' Prime show, with Osama stating that he wasn't concerned about being captured
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438:. Many jokes related to the low ratings of the Holmes show on Prime, such as Paul pausing the show while waiting for a viewer to get back from the kitchen. The show's text message system was also parodied, including one message saying viewers should change channels to watch a
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channel. Skits were based on the 'originality of the channel' showing a line-up of what was coming up next with shows that seemed very familiar to
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team were parodied. The All Blacks were shown as being much less tough than they appear and were shown doing such things as training to be celebrities on the New
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based on all the advertisement funds the All Blacks get. Another recurring skit focused on Welsh rugby journalist
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being homosexual together because the real
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