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I love Green Guide Letters live

The podcast about pesky TV guide letters is headed to the Melb. Int. Comedy Festival.

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2013-03-22_1206If you’re familiar with The Age’s Green Guide TV liftout then you’d be familiar with the passionate letters and the pointed remarks that readers make about scheduling, continuity errors, acting, and more.

It’s a bit like some of the stuff around here….

You may or may not be familiar with the podcasts of Steele Saunders, whose I Love Green Guide Letters, is a very wry take on them. He’s managed to turn his analysis into a stand-alone podcast with more than 6000 devotees.

The Green Guide itself even wrote about him: For Saunders, the letters had been a source of amusement and bemusement for years. ”I’d be sitting in a cafe and I’d look around and want to say to people, ‘Can you believe someone wrote in about something like this?’.” He’d be stunned anew each week at the diversity of trivia that would drive readers to take a stand, among his favourites the pedant’s delight of argument over the pronunciation of words, and whether broadcast sinners were fit to be on the air if they said kilometre wrong.

Last year, he created a podcast built around such eccentricities.

Previous podcast guests include Tony Martin, Wil Anderson, John Safran, Derryn Hinch, Charlie Pickering, Josh Thomas, Santo Cilauro & Paul Dempsey.

Now he’s taking it to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with four live shows on March 30th, April 6th, 13th & 20th at Melbourne Town Hall.

More info here

2 Responses

  1. Dear Mr Knox

    I take umbrage at your sinful omission of the serial comma that should be placed at the end of “Santo Cilauro” in the list of guests, and at the end of “13th” in the list of show dates.

    One is inclined to wonder whether you are truly fit to write a blog.

    Yours etc

    Ann Oying-Pedant
    Perth

  2. I attempted to go to a live Melbourne CBD gig last year, but they held it in a bar that was smaller then my bedroom & I couldn’t get in. Melbourne Town Hall should fit a few more people. Maybe my Green Guide letter that was published yesterday might make the podcast or live show?

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