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In the opening segment of The Naked Vicar Show, stars Ross Higgins, Kevin Golsby and Noeline Brown talk about political figures of the day.
Curator’s notes
This opening panel segment was a standard feature of The Naked Vicar Show and echoes the segment that opened The Mavis Bramston Show (1964–68), in which Noeline Brown also appeared. It is also a carry-over from the show’s earlier incarnation as a radio series, which usually began with a fake news segment. The radio show was recorded before a studio audience. Brown notes in her autobiography, Noeline: Longterm Memoir (2005), that performing radio for a live audience was rare at the time and producers made the audience and their laughter 'very much a part of the show’. In the TV incarnation we also see the deliberate integration of the studio audience for a live feel.
These opening and closing segments often make fun of the parochial qualities of Australian political parties and politicians – here Queensland and its politicians are the butt of the joke. This example shows a light-hearted mockery of politicians that revels in verbal play, rather than being deeply satirical or critical.
