Gate-Crasher
;OLLOWING a change in his sponsor- . ship in Australia, Jack Davey has disappeared from the ZBs. Except, oddly enough, from the commercial of the programme which succeeds him. This is another Australian product, a panel game called Who Am I?, obviously inspired by the English What’s My Line? and The Name’s The Same, though with some gimmicks of its own. It makes entertaining listening and has produced some surprising people, like Mr. Riff and Miss Raff, and Mrs. Bonzer. But why is it necessary to borrow such a show from Australia? None of the participants is so brilliant as to make his export imperative and much of the point derives from local references. As a New Zealand listener I feel like a gate-crasher at someone else’s party, and I’d rather have my own. I feel the same way, only much more so, about some of the Australian comedy shows on the ZBs. Laugh Till You Cry for example. Frankly, I don’t.
R. D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 912, 1 February 1957, Page 26
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165Gate-Crasher New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 912, 1 February 1957, Page 26
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