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This week’s Chaser controversy (!) centres around the Eulogy Song that Andrew Hansen performed last night.

Press and radio are already pointing the nasty finger accusing the team of tasteless humour.

In the song, Hansen sang about celebrities who were elevated after death.

It was quite a roll call: Steve Irwin, Princess Diana, Stan Zemanek, Peter Brock, Kerry Packer, Don Bradman….as he reached the name Belinda Emmett the song (deliberately) ended abruptly.

The chorus of the song had the line,”Even wankers turn into top blokes after death.”

UPDATED: Even Kevin Rudd and John Howard have weighed into the debate. Rudd called the spot “absolutely disgusting” and Howard “totally distasteful and despicable.”

Sources: Herald-Sun,
The Age

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  2. OK firstly, Andrews last name is spelt HANSEN! EN not ON,
    really annoys me when they dont spell it right,
    well i think it was a fantastic song they hit the hammer on the nail so to speak! 🙂

  3. In life (& death) all I ask for is fairness.

    You need to look at both sides of the coin.

    I wonder if the ratings would be so brilliant if there was a 4 min ditty about how Kerry Packer donated multi-multi millions to medical research.

    Or how Peter Brock’s foundation supports & assist hundreds of handicapped & underprivileged young people.

    Or that (through media & with his own money) Steve Irwin was able to raise awareness of the plight of many different animal species.

    Sex (& black-humor) does sell, there is no doubt; but there are lines that should not be crossed.

  4. I don’t see any problem with the song. Everyone bagged Stan Zemanek when he was alive yet they can’t when he is dead?
    Luke “Everyone who finds chaser’s funny can’t deal with their show being critcised”
    Well you could say that anyone who doesn’t find the Chaser’s funny will just keep on getting excuses to bag the show in an attempt to be “attention whores”

  5. why are people offended with the song?
    I think i see worse on Today Tonight Daily, i guess there’s no offensive language..

    the media are beating it up again

  6. LOL Anonymous. fashion reviews on ACA.

    Well I do admit I sometimes watch A Current Affair but I have no interest in fashion what so ever.

    🙂 thanks.

  7. I found the song very clever and absolutely hilarious.

    The Chaser boys used the song to make the excellent point that all sins are forgotten at death.
    The way they delivered the message, in a pretty damn catchy song, was awesome. Luke, I’m sure you’re one of those people who watch fashion reviews on A Current Affair and gossip about celebrities.

    ‘It’s not the truth.’

    Do you think that people like Packer and Zemanek were wonderful, flawless people? Because their rose-tinted eulogies suggested it.

  9. Why would they doing it for *more* ratings? It’s already the top show on the ABC for god sake and crushes most commercial networks with 1.5 million viewers! If anything they would lose viewers by offending people!

    This type of dark comedy will always divide audiences but is a very common trait in Australian self deprecating humour. People who interpret it seriously would never be able get this sort of comedy but then it’s not aimed at them! I respect many of the people the song was about and even lucky enough to attend the Steve Irwin memorial and still found it all darkly hilarious!

    Heck the song had a dig at his own grandfather, John Lennon & Jeff Buckley and no big headlines about that!

  11. Yes, get over it. They didn’t say anything about Stan Zemanek, or Kerry Packer, or any of the others that they wouldn’t have said while they were alive. That’s the joke. The furore surrounding this whole thing proves the point of it – that people cannot handle speaking ill of the dead, even if they were acknowledged deeply flawed human beings in life. It’s an uncharacteristically clever and witty joke in an otherwise bland programme. I hope they keep it up.

  12. Get over it? hmm what if it was you or your mother, father, friend, favourite celebrity up there getting “bullied” by the chasers.

    You wouldn’t like it would you?

    Chasers are just going too far to win the ratings…

  13. I thought it was by far the best thing they had on the show last night, people are sensationalizing simply because of the idea that it is the chaser.

    Get over it!

  14. Yeah calling dead people “sluts” and “pricks” is very funny.

    It’s not the truth. The chaser’s are just out there to be famewhores (as I call people who love media attention)

    Everyone who finds chaser’s funny can’t deal with their show being critcised so they call people who don’t find the show funny “people have don’t have a sense of humour”

    we have a sense of humour it’s just we don’t find these kind of people funny.

    It just makes the chasers haters like myself roar with annoyance and want to dis the show more and more.

    sorry for the language david.

  18. I myself am not a fan of song parodies but that one last night was excellent only cause it was very very true.

    Also it gives talk back radio something to talk and whinge about, you know there’s nothing much else going at the moment, is there?

    The whole show last night delivered and this song was just the icing on the marijuana laced cake.

  19. This song is actually from Chris Taylor’s play “Dead Caesar”, which Andrew Hanson wrote songs for. It was played on Triple J in late January this year to promote it.

    Funnily, noone had a problem with it until it appeared on one of the most popular and newsworthy TV shows in Australia.

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