There were dancing poodles, cute kids, elderly comedians and Kylie Minogue, but it was Opposition Leader Tony Abbott sitting beside openly gay Entourage star Rex Lee on Red Faces that seemed to encapsulated live television.
Abbott tried hard at being relaxed on the light entertainment show, constantly upstaged by the Hey Hey team with a phony “worm”, funny photos of him and cartoons from Andrew Fyfe. But what else would you expect when attending the show?
Some in the crowd booed his entrance.
He even kept up the smiles as Entourage star Rex Lee dropped several gay references in his judging comments.
When Abbott judged the dancing dogs and said “I love animals,” Lee added, “I love men and I love animals!”
He even repeated it a second time.
Abbott has previously said homosexuality challenges the right order of things.
“I probably feel a bit threatened, as so many people do. It’s a fact of life,” he once told 60 Minutes.
As if Abbott hadn’t already felt upstaged, sour judge Red Symons gave just 1 pt to a quartet of tiny girls, branding them “Untalented” and “Precocious.”
Great show.
Yes, Rex should have asked Abbott about feeling threatened, as commented “Mark” says!!!
I looked into this. Producers have denied it, but I believe Red may have done it as a gag nonetheless….
Word is going around that some of the the audience were asked to boo Tony, so that Red could make some sort of a joke about a guest getting more boos than him, but for whatever reason Red didn’t make the quip.
Blah blah blah all the quips about hey hey being past it are as tired as you say the jokes are
I didn’t watch this. I stopped after the 2nd reunion special.
But … isn’t it time that someone at Ch9 with an ounce of intelligence put this
show to rest … permanently?
It’s not funny.
It stopped being funny many years so long ago … it’s just sad now.
Yes bogan pride, Tony got just as many cheers as he did boos. It would be the same if Gillard went on. It’s going to be a close race.
Come on Melbourne – you are better than this! No-one else in the country is watching. Step away from the duck.
Yes, Kay, money and surgery will do that for you…
” i like the julia gillards accent” hahahahha Good one Tony. I think Abbott was great. And i bet for every boo, from the audience. There was a thousand yays, from the millions of people watching hey hey.
And red judging those girls was priceless. vintage symonds. When i saw the kids walk out. i thought’ ” Well they’ll win.” But red came through,
Isnt it funny how kylie hasnt aged a day in 20 years!?
I loved the Red Faces segment, particularly with Red’s treatment of the final act. It was true to an extent (the girl on the far right was show boating quite a bit).
@Craig, it should hopefully be up soon here: fixplay.ninemsn.com.au/heyheyitssaturday
I loved the 7:30 report last night when Kerry O’Brien got stuck into Tony Abbott about a last minute change not turning up to his show to speak as he was supposed to and instead he appraered on hey hey and sent Joe Hockey instead. It was just perfect.
suprisingly funny episode tonight throughout. Moving it to saturdays would be a good move, time will tell if the ratings fair better
i always wondered if those “boo”, “laughs” and “cheers” were computerized?
Any YouTube clips? I didn’t watch it last night.
Rex Lee you are a star !!
sigh…just once I’d like to see Daryl Not reminisce about the good old days.
And please stop handing out those ‘Honourary Cast Member’ plaques.
Car crash telly at it’s best (or worst)….. hmm, reminds me of the Logies. Clearly, if anything he should have done “celebrity heads” instead… although his first question probably would have been “Am I Julia Gillard?” and the game would be over and won very quickly.
I only watched the show for Kylie too… (David, don’t suppose they do a ratings breakdown by sexuality do they?
)
And I think it was a bad move for Tony to be on the show with the queen of gays, an audience full of gays, and Rex Lee…
The audience booing Mr Abbott was the highlight of the show for me (Along with Rex’ comments)… Well, until my mate ended up running on stage, hugging Kylie, and standing behind Daryl Somers with the cast as he announced the show was coming back on Saturdays…
Yes.
looking at the comments below, has there been an announcement that the show is going back to Saturday nights? I know it’s been speculated, and Daryl said in a radio interview that he’d like to go back to Saturday, but is it actually happening?
thank god i was cooking at the time. next thing you know Julia will be a guest judge on dancing with the stars…you heard it here…and if it don’t hapen. you didnt hear it.
congrats to “loretta”
she’s a good friend of mine and she auditioned the same time as i did… she got in, and what a show! WTG!
Honestly, as a swinging voter unlike the other people above, I think Tony tried hard and did a good job considering his treatment
Really good episode tonight and so so happy that it will be back on Saturday Nights, away from all the competition the rival networks have offered and back on the night that suits everyone. There will definitely be a lot of people that will be happy with this announcement and I am sure that the ratings for the first Saturday show will prove how much people really do want the show on Saturdays.
Kylie was amazing on Hey Hey tonight – awesome performances.
She looked stunning too.
I was lucky enough to meet Kylie before the show, she’s so lovely
@Daniel – Comm Games this year? Who would know – I’ve seen zero hype re: this…. It’ll be a nasty pill to swallow for whoever has the rights….
Only episode of Hey Hey I’ve watched all year. Tonight was a reminder why. At least when it gets moved to Saturday it won’t feel like a rude interruption to my week. Tony Abbott (who deserved every boo he got) should fire whoever in his team suggested he go on Red Faces. Too many chances for him to offend someone or to have jokes made about him. Complete moron.
I love Red Symons and what he did to those kids was just hilarious and on the money. I do miss him on Australia’s Got Talent
Good on ya Lloyd!
Performing animals belong in the last century. As does this show.
I only ep of Hey Hey I watched all the way through. I could’nt help but smile whe the audience booed Tony Abbott.
…and Kylie’s Get Outta My Way performance was amazing.
those dogs freaked me out.. they looked like little fury people!! haha
And some people say Hey Hey isn’t funny …
…if ever that was going to be proved correct, it was tonight.
Another bad move by the Liberal Party campaign machine. On top of the Entourage star Kylie Minogue was on the panel and many of her biggest fans (i.e. gay man) were in the audience so gave Tony plenty of booes. Not a great look.
This is going to return on Saturdays after Commonwealth games 2010!
And it’s going back to Saturday nights!! W00T!
Hey Hey back to its best and best of all it’s back on Saturday night when it comes back on at the end of the year.
How funny was that… laughed my head off.
And what about the four little girls performing… could have sworn they were Brendon Favola’s kids…
Spooky.
Abbott should have been gonged for being boring and unfunny and not even remotely entertaining..I wished Rex Lee had asked Abbott if he feel threatened sitting next to a gay man?
Rex Lee FTW! What a champ!
It was one of the most funniest Red Faces ever! Abbott, silly man.