AUSTRALIAN TV NEEDS A RETRO BLOOPERS SHOW WITHOUT ANY MODERN DAY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS BULLSHIT

Ever since the 1990s, the media has taken care to uphold the cliches of political correctness as far as TV presenters are concerned, in place of programs like TV BLOOPERS AND PRACTICAL JOKES there is practically a complete void in the entertainment world of any program touching on like-minded themes of real life behind the scenes stuff-ups that made this program a major hit on US TV for many years.

In Australia, there is currently not one program on TV which is dedicated exclusively to providing us viewers with some laughs by watching newsreaders, TV anchors, actors, socialites and entertainment wannabes stuffing up, getting tongue tied behind the camera and being caught out saying things thinking the camera is off, when it is on. 

I bet one hundred bucks that the former Brisbane Channel 10 newsreader Glen Taylor, who was fired after saying something on air (hot mic moment) in 1998 about hanging a criminal by his testicles on-air when it supposed to be off air, wishes to this day that he could have paid his penance for his unintended gaffe without getting the bullet.

Honestly, it was ridiculous to the extreme that he got sacked for saying that, every newsreader is a human being and it was the producers fault he was caught saying it and not his.

I am quite sure that behind the scenes in television and film there are many opportunities for stuff-ups and gaffes to take place, a more recent trend in film has been to tack on some bloopers of the making of a film at the end of the movie, one such example is the comedy DUE DATE featuring Robert Downey Jr, a movie I just saw about a week ago. 

DUE DATE is a fun film all round, but in quite a few cases, the blooper trails at the end of the movies has been a lot funnier than the movie itself. I have to wonder why the really big Hollywood film companies don't allow the bloopers arising from films to be packaged into a TV program format to make commercial use of all the things that occurs when making movies which no one ever gets to see. All the old bloopers programs only ever covered television, not Hollywood movie bloopers.

In Australia, we can still watch and get a laugh out of watching real life skits and accidents on FUNNIEST HOME VIDEO SHOW, where anyone can send in their own home videos where viewers get a massive belly laugh at the expense of someone else, but I believe the concept of having a bloopers program covering gaffes and stuff-ups in Australian film and TV has to be instigated.

For that to happen, the whole culture of political correctness in the Australian media and entertainment business has to be replaced by a much more casual attitude by the newsreaders, actors and everyone else who might become the star of a bloopers program when they least expect.