If you’re interested in my quasi-regular reviews of the Hungry Beast show from 2009, you can find them 
here!
NickdMiller ~ Disliked Hungry Beast last year when I had high expectations. Expected crap this year and pleasantly surprised. It’s still BTN meets Chaser. #hungrybeast
Bernietb I don’t know, tbh. It’s just odd. Informative, irreverent, occasionally irritating. WTF is this program? #hungrybeast
Ouch for the poor guy trying to do skiing during implied global warming disaster in Canada…
So, the show returns, with a more formal introduction to its reporters. Desk, office, bland summary… straight-to-business with the investigations. Or maybe the budget could no longer cover the wide-angle shot pan of a rather messy stage and a couch that was best left in the basement. This is 2010 Hungry Beast – with more of a distinction (as Twitter comments have regularly point out with their hashtags) that it’s firmly about current affairs and a mixed lolly-bag of responses, rather than hipster-tilted-LOLs and random wambulance.
Loved the joke about miracle toast being sent in on regular basis to the Vatican. ‘We can only know that it’s a miracle, due to the lack of evidence’. And what a sad way to announce the end of Sun Microsystems, via Twitter.
GREAT to see that they kept the ‘Things We Think are Bullshit’, but I have bad news for those who thought that children’s books aren’t being taught at University (including well-regarded institutions like Cambridge, I should add…) – and where’s the opposing view that was begging to be voiced?
What, some Hungry Beast reporter DIDN’T think that the study of literature would include analysis of texts that target the younger years? Sheesh. Margaret Mahy, CS Lewis, John Marsden, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tolkien and many, many, many more (led by an army of Arts and Education Grads) are dressing as Alice in Wonderland characters and are now hunting you down.
Greetings Australian Government Officials, Members of Local and International Press, and the General Public. We are Anonymous!
Very interesting report regarding the DDOS attack on the Australian government – with a great historical summary of the use of them and for what purpose. That was enjoyable and informative. Operation Titstorm‘s attack on web sites of the Australian Parliament House and the response of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy full response is featured on the HB site. However, I didn’t really learn anything with the fairly simplistic but amusing gaggle of teenage boys showing how efforts like anon private networking, proxy and ‘mere Googling’ may provide a solution to dodging internet censorship. It has been pointed out to me that it is a very simplistic portrayal, although that I expected a mention that China is heading towards giving up aiding censorship in that case.
…I am confused, however, about whether Anonymous has changed its priority (or what I thought was its priority) from challenging Scientology to challenging internet censorship.
I liked that the #1 priority is Rudd’s #1 priority!
Veronica Dynamite’s routines are still probably best left for high-school skits on the school camp – okay, her delivery isn’t bad, but the writing is just not amusing. Mediocre is a better summary. Nothing new there.
The concensus from a fellow viewer whose first-time watching the show was tonight? “It’s something I’d watch if it’s on, but it’s not something I’d make an effort to catch. The moments that are genuinely funny and moments that are genuinely cringeworthy – are sometimes even in the same sketch.
I asked them – is it still a matter of ‘too many people’ on the show? Their response was:
“We saw those who are definitely carrying others. A true ensemble cast should never have you thinking ‘please bring back X to the screen rather than this guy.’ If it was the first episode, rather than the second season, then there should have been a culling by now.”
…I didn’t have the heart to tell them that there were already less people featured this season.
The best bit I saw was on the website that should have been on the show – Daniel Keogh’s Your Orgasm is Classified. Details on the internet filter survey they did is on the official site too.
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