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==Format== Essentially a blend of variety, talk show, and sketch comedy. The show interspersed interviews with guests, giveaway segments, discussion and comment by Roy & HG, music segments, pre-taped comedy inserts (including a soap opera parody performed by a number of famous sporting personalities including footballers [[Paul Sironen]] and [[Warren Boland]]) and a closing musical performance by a well-known Australasian music star of the past. The guest interviews were often highlights of the show, as Roy and HG honed their often revealing two-handed "[[good cop/bad cop]]" interview style. Typically HG opened by asking some seemingly innocuous questions (some of which had a subtle sting) and he was followed by Roy, who had a much more probing and sarcastic manner and specialised in asking questions that put the guest "on the spot". One memorable interview was with actor/comedian [[Mike Myers]] who jokingly flirted with Doyle and the two danced arm-in-arm afterwards. Other notable guests included actor [[Roger Moore]], singer [[Pat Benatar]], musician [[Nick Cave]] and comedian/writer [[Alexei Sayle]]. One celebrity who turned down an invitation to appear was [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] as his manager was concerned about the show's title. Other regular features included:- * The Nissan Cedrics, a singing duo composed of [[Dannielle Gaha]] and Louise Anton who provided musical links and jingles to introduce guests and regular segments and also occasionally performed full-length songs. The name of the duo was a tribute to the classic 1960s car. They released a self-titled album of cover songs in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.earlydatsun.com/cedtrivia.html |title=Cedtrivia |access-date=4 October 2011 |archive-date=30 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530063955/http://www.earlydatsun.com/cedtrivia.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> * A segment where an Australian sporting or entertainment celebrity would appear in a pre-filmed sketch where they would mime an old classic song. One memorable example was actor [[Andrew McFarlane (Australian actor)|Andrew McFarlane]] who acted out a WW2 movie spoof whilst miming [[Dean Martin|Dean Martin's]] "[[Everybody Loves Somebody]]". * The weekly 'This is Living' giveaway where the couple or party that Roy & HG judged to be the best-dressed amongst the studio audience were given a prize. In the first series, the prize was an over-sized 'Meat-Tray' over which Roy and HG gave a lurid description of how they hunted and shot it earlier that week. In the later series, the prize was a special night-out for the winners to a venue carefully chosen by Roy & HG. Amongst the memorable evenings were a smorgasboard dinner and pokies at an RSL club, a visit to a Greyhound track and front-row seats to a showing of [[Kenneth Branagh|Kenneth Branagh's]] 4-hour movie version of [[Hamlet (1996 film)|Hamlet]]. * [[Ian Turpie|Ian 'Turps' Turpie]] performed as 'Club President' (MC) for all 4 years of the show, being referred to as ''The Giant of the G-Chord'' and he also performed musical numbers. In addition, he starred in several comedy sketches, each of which ran for a number of short episodes. These were;- ''Turps about the House'' in which he played the flat-mate of the Nissan Cedrics, a police drama ''Sam Stain'' which also starred actor [[Harold Hopkins (actor)|Harold Hopkins]] and TV presenter [[Indira Naidoo]] and Star Trek spoof ''Captain Ajax'' which also featured Hopkins (whose character's name was Dogrooter) and a sultry cameo from [[Network Ten]] newsreader [[Anne Fulwood]]. * As already mentioned above, another regular segment was the soap-opera parody ''Ian'' which, in addition to footballers Sironen and Boland, also featured musician [[Col Joye]], athlete and actress [[Lisa Forrest]], cricketer [[Greg Matthews]] and TV presenter [[Annette Shun Wah]]. When introducing the segment, HG usually described the show as ''extraordinary people doing bloody ordinary things''.
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