Clarke and Dawe
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Since 1997, satirists John Clarke (satirist) and Bryan Dawe have presented a (usually) weekly mock interview covering a topical issue at the end of the 7.30 Report. Dawe is the interviewer, while Clarke plays a prominent public figure, though unusually for satire he makes no attempt to imitate the appearance, voice or mannerisms of the person he portrays.
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7.30 Report Archive
Demonstrating
(John Clarke plays Kevin Andrews, Workplace Relations Minister, and Bryan Dawe the interviewer.)
INTERVIEWER: You've dismissed and huge demonstrations this week against your IR legislation.
KEVIN ANDREWS: Yeah, fairly predictable, we thought that'd probably happen.
INTERVIEWER: Will they have any effect?
KEVIN ANDREWS: No, of course they won't, 95% of people went to work.
INTERVIEWER: So we won't be doing any AIDS research in this country?
KEVIN ANDREWS: AIDS research? Why not?
INTERVIEWER: Well, 95% of Australians don't have AIDS.
Trust
John Clarke plays Peter Costello, Australian Treasurer , and Bryan Dawe the interviewer.)
BRYAN DAWE: Now the Prime Minister says this election is about trust?
PETER COSTELLO: It is about trust. Bryan, I agree with him.
PETER COSTELLO: But doesn't the children overboard mitigate this -
PETER COSTELLO: I think what he means by trust, if I can interpret his meaning, is trust on the big important issues on economic management for example.
BRYAN DAWE: But hasn't the huge deficit announced this week -
PETER COSTELLO: I think what he meant by trust on economic management Bryan, if I may interpolate, is trust on those aspects of economic management that are not affected by the vagaries of monthly trade figures and other bloody bear pits that some bloody clown didn't tell me were there.
In context
John Clarke plays Commissioner for Federal Police(CFP), and Bryan Dawe the interviewer.
CFP: (Commissioner for Federal Police) : Well, I made the statement, Bryan, that I thought Australia's risk of being a terrorist target had been increased by virtue of our involvement in the Iraq war.
INTERVIEWER: And what would you like to say now?
CFP: What I'd like to say now, Bryan, is that Australia's risk of being a terrorist target has been greatly increased as a direct result of our involvement in the Mittagong Begonia Festival.
