Get Krack!n

I really wanted to like this show because the two Kates' Katering Show was good fun. However, sitting through an entire episode is of Get Krack!n is an excrutiating chore.

Breakfast TV is an easy target for parody, but even then I'd expect something better than what a giggly 11 year old could come up with. And yet they've somehow succeeded in making 11 year olds seem like Voltaire in comparison.

Every episode, for example, has the same psychotic drunk shilling cheap products. Why? Because they couldn't figure out how to do an effective parody of the product placement segments common on Australian breakfast TV. So instead they rely upon us going "Oh look! A crazy woman with apparent substance abuse issue! Bravo!!" That's not parody. It's cheap laughs.

Even when the show gets things right, like today's episode about how breakfast TV hosts have to act like they're enjoying themselves on the road when they're probably not, they tend to stretch that one joke for way too long until it wears thin, and then becomes annoying. By the time you feel like you've been pummeled with the same point enough, they try to break things up with other skits suggesting, e.g., that all small-town males in Australia are rapists. Ha ha ha. (And, really, if you want to make travelng through small-town Australia seem dreadful, why pick a beautiful place like Echuca?)

That aforementioned skit also about how funny rape is highlights the hypocrisy of the show. It's message is "It's okay, because we're making fun of hicks!" But every week we see the same "whites are terrible to aboriginals" joke done over and over again. I don't mind it when jokes are PC, but when it is the same variation on the same ineptly done, heavy-handed joke every episode, delivered in a wooden manner, and it gets juxtaposed with jokes that ironically see no harm in suggesting people who aren't from the white, Melbourne latte swilling inner suburb crowd are somehow worthless subhumans? I find myself starting to react against that PC humour instead of agreeing with it. If their goal is to advance wokeness? They're part of the problem of making it look smug and fake.

It's quite apparent that the sole reason for the success of The Katering Show was its brevity. It is quite clear that the Kates are incapable of anything of substance, and making silly faces will never be a substitute for wit.

The blonde Kate does not let up with her desperate whine, thankfully offset by the others cool detachment.

Together, they take many sharp shots at all types, right and left. Pitiless in their takedowns.

Gutsy stuff.

I read the reviews here when deciding whether or not to give this a try, and I came to the conclusion that I had to see for myself what was going on. I'm glad I did.

Maybe it's because I went in thinking that it might be horrible that I was so relieved it was the opposite. More or less pretty funny throughout, with moments of genius and rarely, maybe a few jokes per episode that would drag on 20 seconds too long. There are also stupid jokes, which I would normally despise, but I tend to find them funny in this. I guess they're doing them better. I have no idea what the negative reviews are talking about. So if you're worried about perspective, I'm male, I'm straight, and I have fairly high standards for comedy and I'm looking forward to watching the other half of the episodes!

I can only reason two theories about the wildly negative reviews; 1) They are planted to make you want to check for yourself and go in with low expectations, or 2) Some people actually believe what they see on TV is real - a thought which is absolutely terrifying...

Oh I also had to rewind fairly often so I could read the screen captions, because usually when I do it's worth it.

With regards to Matt Tighe, I don't work for the show and am not even Australian, but I find the absurdist humor of this show to be quite entertaining. This parody of an Aussie morning show that's on at an absurdly early hour because it is being broadcast to the US, is funny BECAUSE the shows hosts clearly don't want to be there and know that no one is watching. They bring all their off screen personal baggage to work with them and try hashing it out while dealing with guest of whom they could care less. Thanks to the internet for allowing me to find this show and enjoy it from outside of Australia.

Just stumbled on this amazing gem and what can I say I just fell in love with those two funny ladies. Absurd, funny and relevant they will brighten the darkest day with their unique spin on daily topics. To me, they are the Aussie Patsy and Edwina! I wish they could tackle even more topics in an hour show. To all the haters ... You just don't have a funny bone in you or are just to dumb to understand their sophisticated smart funny sass!