Clive Robertson was good value. He was wonderfully sardonic and languid on the morning shift of 2BL radio, too. He never had an 'on air' personality. He was just his grumpy self, deconstructing the mythology of broadcasting every day.
03:18 I'm a little late to the party with this upload David, but that 7 ID we nicknamed _'The Cocktail ID'_ I thought it was brilliant - it was commissioned to be produced by the same animator (names escapes me) that produced the 7 station closedown with sights and sounds from around each capital city (not the Kangaroo or Tommy Lionetti closes obviously). I always tended to replace the scheduled IDs late night to the 'cocktail ID' just because it was very cool. Hmm, however I don't think management liked it too much, too radicle for the times perhaps, a bit shall we say, _saucy!_
There were TWO afternoon tabloids - and The Sun was the first to fold. The other was The Mirror, which briefly merged with The Daily Telegraph to be the briefly “24-hour newspaper” Telegraph-Mirror.
i like how eventually all of the "cant do that anymore" graphics clips are all Jared. Started off as just one box, and eventually all 4 in this episode.
Oh man, I used to love watching Clive Robertson at work. I mean, he wasn't completely original in a landscape that included Graham Kennedy doing news and current affairs, and Clive James doing similar but he had his own schtick and he was very good.
@@davidthegreenI used to. I was the face of “Cartman” when SBS ran the little ads between double episodes, to tell you to stick around for the next episode.
@@davidthegreenYep if you track it down, I could tell the whole story of how I was lured into the staff kitchen at 8pm to do a cameo piece to camera, and ended up “exceeding expectations” so to speak. It was so successful they ran it for years and for that time I was getting calls from people I hadn’t talked to in a decade. The SBS Promos department (coolest kids in the building) lost their copy, after having a good dig around for it. I had access to some very luxurious digital video equipment for the day, but never took advantage because my archivist instincts hadn’t developed yet - and the ad was super prolific, in a way that you can only tell yourself at the time. It might yet be in the massive drawer of VHS tapes I have, many of which are in line for some top-tier preservation with the expensive equipment I can now afford. This is probably where I should append to my previous answer, that I’ve stayed in the consumer technology industry and as a hobby (because it doesn’t pay bills, only creates them) I now specialise in doing very high-end 1970s-1980s video restoration. There’s a lot of the finer details of broadcast engineering knowledge disappearing now, and it’s always sad seeing a TV network fall back on a rubbish digital video uploaded to the internet where 80% of the detail was removed out of laziness or ignorance more often. But I focus on 70s and 80s because the HDR revolution of the 2020s actually gives a sense of the CRT “look and feel” back, after the flat panel revolution took it away. Gen Z never knew what real television looked like in the 1980s - spoiler alert: the realism was incredible. But only if you tweaked the antenna obsessively.
@@davidthegreen Clive Robertson on Newsworld as per the start of this vid. I must have still been in high school, and I would try to catch him reading the news because I thought his droll delivery was hilarious
Clive Robertson was good value. He was wonderfully sardonic and languid on the morning shift of 2BL radio, too. He never had an 'on air' personality. He was just his grumpy self, deconstructing the mythology of broadcasting every day.
03:18 I'm a little late to the party with this upload David, but that 7 ID we nicknamed _'The Cocktail ID'_ I thought it was brilliant - it was commissioned to be produced by the same animator (names escapes me) that produced the 7 station closedown with sights and sounds from around each capital city (not the Kangaroo or Tommy Lionetti closes obviously). I always tended to replace the scheduled IDs late night to the 'cocktail ID' just because it was very cool. Hmm, however I don't think management liked it too much, too radicle for the times perhaps, a bit shall we say, _saucy!_
Got me with Robbo on the thumbnail
There were TWO afternoon tabloids - and The Sun was the first to fold. The other was The Mirror, which briefly merged with The Daily Telegraph to be the briefly “24-hour newspaper” Telegraph-Mirror.
I just realised... the guy at the front desk of the Homestead Motor Inn directed The Roly Poly Man.
No way!
i like how eventually all of the "cant do that anymore" graphics clips are all Jared. Started off as just one box, and eventually all 4 in this episode.
Someone finally noticed!
I remember I wanted to stay home from school for being sick and my mother told me to "soldier on" and sent me there anyway, without any Codral.
i assume then the sickness spread to every other kid and family?
Offices were wild in the 80s. The stench of tobacco and influenza.
Oh man, I used to love watching Clive Robertson at work. I mean, he wasn't completely original in a landscape that included Graham Kennedy doing news and current affairs, and Clive James doing similar but he had his own schtick and he was very good.
I. Love. Clive.
I think the bread ad was featured on an old "Carrott's Commercial Breakdown" - nice to see something I'm familiar with, as a Brit fan of yours.
Wow yet another ad compilation show I’ve never heard of. I’d love to get some UK tapes for some international episodes
@@davidthegreen I'm now living in the US, but I'll see if anyone I know has any tapes. I love the really ultra-local ads you get on TV over here, too.
I will never stop laughing at that shot of the red car every single time I see it
It will continue to appear as long as I can keep finding excuses to use it
Greatest archivist of our time.
Totally how I’d do a news show now. We need a new Clive more than ever. We’ll never get one on FTA. And FTA can never be the juggernaut ever again.
Do you work in TV?
@@davidthegreenI used to. I was the face of “Cartman” when SBS ran the little ads between double episodes, to tell you to stick around for the next episode.
@@whophd I don’t remember that. But this I gotta see
@@davidthegreenYep if you track it down, I could tell the whole story of how I was lured into the staff kitchen at 8pm to do a cameo piece to camera, and ended up “exceeding expectations” so to speak. It was so successful they ran it for years and for that time I was getting calls from people I hadn’t talked to in a decade.
The SBS Promos department (coolest kids in the building) lost their copy, after having a good dig around for it. I had access to some very luxurious digital video equipment for the day, but never took advantage because my archivist instincts hadn’t developed yet - and the ad was super prolific, in a way that you can only tell yourself at the time.
It might yet be in the massive drawer of VHS tapes I have, many of which are in line for some top-tier preservation with the expensive equipment I can now afford. This is probably where I should append to my previous answer, that I’ve stayed in the consumer technology industry and as a hobby (because it doesn’t pay bills, only creates them) I now specialise in doing very high-end 1970s-1980s video restoration. There’s a lot of the finer details of broadcast engineering knowledge disappearing now, and it’s always sad seeing a TV network fall back on a rubbish digital video uploaded to the internet where 80% of the detail was removed out of laziness or ignorance more often. But I focus on 70s and 80s because the HDR revolution of the 2020s actually gives a sense of the CRT “look and feel” back, after the flat panel revolution took it away. Gen Z never knew what real television looked like in the 1980s - spoiler alert: the realism was incredible. But only if you tweaked the antenna obsessively.
Codral: Aspirin, codeine, pseudoephedrine. Definitely can't do that anymore.
“And mix it all in a big jug”
The Champagne Comedy podcast brought me here.
The episode that I was on?
@@davidthegreen Yes
I wanna see a Barina jump the Birkenhead Bridge
Wait does anybody else suddenly feel like some Bornhoffen???
Bran…
I thought Clive Robertson on tv was glorious
@@domitiusseverus1 Clive Robertson or Clive James?
@@davidthegreen Clive Robertson on Newsworld as per the start of this vid. I must have still been in high school, and I would try to catch him reading the news because I thought his droll delivery was hilarious
@@domitiusseverus1 Ah ok it’s just you said “on tv” and I thought you might be thinking of a similar show called “Clive James on Television”
@@davidthegreen No worries… sigh I’m old enough to remember Clive James as well… but I never found him that funny, don’t know why.
2023 calling! Ita is still using someone else's money to tell us how to wear pants.
You are David M Green .. And i am fine with that..
You have a red simmons kit!
Borrowed from a friend
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Is that John Howard in the Cosmo ad @ 5m51s?
Looks more like Andrew Peacock
@ 3:56 I'd love to know what lens they're using 🤔 I'v seen it a heap of commercials
@@TVperson1 A wide angle of some kind I guess
Less of all that other stuff, more of Clive, please.
Well you have a search bar
baking non traditional gender role? not in my vietnamese bakery!
So with the baking ad: The guy is only keen for the woman with a pig, but the ad closes off with the pig squealing. Inferred bestiality?
I imagine he used the pig to make a ham sandwich