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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:00 PM
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Why aren't there any funny Australians?
What's with that?

More seriously - I cannot think of one comedian from New Zealand. What is with that?
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:02 PM
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1. Have you forgotten Yahoo Serious already?
What? Oh,then you didn't forget him.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:04 PM
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5. Swede - your sig line is making my nipples stand at attention
can we do battle?
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:07 PM
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9. Hey CST,just a short passage from H.G. Wells' "Food of the Gods"
Just re-read it awhile ago.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:07 PM
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10. Oh..............ok
:(
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:03 PM
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2. Oh my God - Wat_Tyler doesn't have some obligatory hero of a genre from
NZ - oh no!

:cry:


I hate you!
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:03 PM
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actually, Barry Humphries is Australian
Edited on Wed Feb-09-05 10:04 PM by miss_kitty
but for the most part, the Aussies are a selfish people, and keep all the good comedians to themselves. Kiwis-no sense of humour, obviously.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:03 PM
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3. You know who's even less funny?
Andorrans. I've never met a funny one.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:06 PM
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8. For a moment I thought you said Angoras
And I was with you
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GHOSTDANCER Donating Member (550 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:03 PM
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4. Thats not a post!!!
Now thats a post!!!

<>

actually I did meet him once and he didn't seem all that funny. good spirited but not exactly funny.
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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:05 PM
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6. I think they make hilarious movies - Muriel's Wedding, Strictly Ballroom,
The Gods Must Be Crazy and on. They have a very quirky sense of humor and I love it!
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:07 PM
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11. The Gods must be Crazy wasn't Australian...
it was shot in Africa somewhere.
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:06 PM
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7. There are quite a few funny Australians.
They tend to ply their trade in the UK where the humor is a little more cerebral than the Al Bundy / SNL kind of humor that plays well in the USA.
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:14 PM
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14. I don't think so.
I think they're too busy skinning crocodiles, trying to find a new lead singer for INXS and being descended from criminals to be funny. Shame really.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:09 PM
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12. I always found the Bee Gees funny.
Well,not really.
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:10 PM
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13. Who cares? They have hot accents.
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-05 10:45 PM
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15. You call that a KNIFE???
That's the only funny thing I can think of.
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