The First of Darren & Brose's 'Lost Tapes' Announced
Darren & Brose's 'Lost Tapes' will be released for free on-line from this Thursday May 23 via www.darrenandbrose.com and YouTube as part of YouTube's 'Comedy Week'.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, May 22, 2013
The first 5 videos will feature ...Actors - Ian Smith and Kerry Armstrong
TV personalities - Suzie Wilks, Pete Smith, Glenn Ridge, Red Symons, Vesna Tovenska Radio personalities - Adam Richard, Jo Stanley, Billy Pinnell, Tracy Bartram
Comedians - Darren Casey, Sarah Kendall, Dave Hughes, Glenn Robbins,Kenny Kramer
AFL champion and State MP Justin Madden
... and a very special appearance from Australian television legend Bert Newton.
Despite having no budget, this pioneering program became Channel 31's highest rating show, and was the very first live, daily program in the history of Australian community television. As tapes of these live TV shows were believed to not exist and the fact that the programme ended just prior to the rise and domination of YouTube, there has been no public record of this groundbreaking television show since it went off air ... until now. Recently a box of digital tapes was found in the garage belonging to the parent of a technically savvy former crewmember, who recorded most of the shows ... but just forgot to tell anyone.
Produced by the La Trobe Media Group out of La Trobe University and hosted by comedians Darren Chau and Brose Avard, the Darren & Brose shows have since grown a reputation for becoming one of the industry's finest training grounds spawning a stack of talent including the producers of The Footy Show, Before The Game and Millionaire Hot Seat, the director of Deal or No Deal and Dancing with the Stars, the storyliner for Neighbours, the editor of Bondi Rescue, a Foxtel group programming director as well as TV and radio news presenters and producers.
Over the coming months these tapes will be released online for free via YouTube and http://www.darrenandbrose.com from May 23, so that what was once narrowcast on Channel 31 Melbourne and Geelong can now be available worldwide. The tapes are not only a record of the early work of some of the industry's top professionals, but also reveal an innovative, funny and highly entertaining comedy variety programme featuring sketches, pranks, animation, talent competitions, music parodies and hundreds of special guests.
There are dozens of jaw dropping, sidesplitting moments from this revolutionary show that pushed the envelope. There's the time Darren & Brose crashed a 1500-seat event and arrested innocent people for crimes against fashion. There's the time Red Symons handcuffed Brose and shaved off all of his hair. There's the time Kerry Armstrong spontaneously stuck her tongue in Darren's ear. There's Santo Cilauro revealing a film idea he came up with that nearly got him disowned by his colleagues at Working Dog. There's Tonia Todman's anecdote about a dildo. There's the time Glenn Robbins revealed that he ... 'masturbated a lot'. And there's Bert Newton's hilarious tribute on the 100th episode.
The Darren & Brose lost tapes will be released over the coming months commencing Thursday May 23 at
http://www.darrenandbrose.com and http://www.youtube.com/user/darrenandbrose
"Very funny boys...so refreshing!" Bert Newton, television icon
"I love them...I love what they do!" Kerry Armstrong, AFI and Silver Logie award winning actor
"Very funny ... the next big thing" The Age
"They're geniuses...one day they'll pick up that Gold Logie!" the late Stan Zemanek
Darren and Brose are Australian based writers, directors, producers, performers and broadcasters specialising in media, general entertainment and comedy creation, development and production. For further information - darrenandbrose.com