Against my better judgement I tuned into most of the Logies tonight, for want of anything better to watch until the soccer came on and while it was a pretty ordinary affair there were a couple of things that screamed "classic moments" at me.
The first was when Steve Irwin showed up, but in the midst of his pissy dialogue with Eddie McGuire he tripped off the stage and almost took a sick bump right through the Sports Tonight table with a deadly enough looking snake in hand causing Tim Webster to nearly shit himself live on national television. Now, I'm always suspicious that these sort of things might be rigged but in this case I'd rather believe it was all unplanned because anything that makes that idiot Tim Webster look like an even bigger fool than usual is alright in my book.
The second moment of inspiration was when Don Lane was doing his Logies Hall of Fame acceptance speech and suddenly went into a verbal attack not seen on an Australian awards show since, well never. He said that the producers had told him to make it quick but because it was his Hall of Fame induction and because "You had women singing out here earlier with 12 guys dancing, and three of them couldn't even dance and you didn't tell them to hurry up" that he'd do as he liked and then added "Up yours buddy, I'll take as long as I like" to the clear bemusement of the producer wanker on the floor in front of him and the utter joy of the two thousand pissed to the eyeballs television 'celebrities' in the room. It ruled! Sadly they didn't bring up the thorny issue of his coffee table shenanigans or attempt a long-lost reconciliation with his old sparring partner Ernie Sigley. But you can't have everything.
Rove McManus won the Gold Logie which was a surprise to me. His show is amusing enough (even if I forgo it most weeks for more intellectual programming) but if he's the next Bert Newton or Graham Kennedy then I'm the second coming of Jebus. I remember seeing that show he did on Channel 31 years ago called "The Loft" and it was pretty ordinary. Nothing in comparison to community TV's greatest ever show In Melbourne Tonight anyway. The people who did that should rightfully be claiming awards at crappy ceremonies now.
And how completely PISSED was Sam Newman when the Footy Show won it's award? When they were leaving and the dais did it's miraculous 'disappear into the ground' thing he was staring and pointing at it in complete amazement. Sensational.
We also voted several times for the great Les Murray from SBS Sport as the best dressed person at the ceremony (even though we can't be sure he was even there), sadly this attempted stack went the way of our campaign to get him the Gold Logie a couple of years back and the prize went to Delta bloody Goodrem instead. The conspiracy was obvious there. I'm still in the running for some pointless TV Week magazine prize though. If I win it'll be dedicated to Les.
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