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.

Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan clawed their way to national attention largely through the unprecedented word-of-mouth success of their web- based The Katering Show. If this follow-up project is any indication, their ultimate goal in this enterprise was to eventually squander that goodwill through an ill-conceived and unpleasant "satire" of media values.

Even accounting for difficulty in adapting to a half-hour format, the hit-and-miss results of Get Krack!n might be considered charming if the duo hadn't decided to adopt an incessantly preaching tone throughout. In the place of disarming humour, each episode is dominated sour judgments of predictable PC targets, often delivered sneeringly directly to camera. The overall effect is nasty and unredeeming.

This was on the telly after the show I was watching but I couldn't change the channel cause I lost the remote so I turned the telly off at the wall.

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.

It's not the funniest show on television, but it's also better than a lot of other junk with laugh tracks like Big Bang Theory.

I think a lot of people misinterpret the type of parody this is supposed to be. It's supposed to be over-the-top, hammed-up parody that looks staged and forced. It's supposed to be a bad parody. It's supposed to be a bad representation of morning television in the eyes of those who are too busy to watch morning television.

Don't approach it like a traditional parody or a tradition sketch comedy and you'll be entertained.

Having said that, the show doesn't have a long life and a lot of the material is repeated in similar ways. No surprises it's only lasted 2 years.

It's not the type I'd go back and watch, nor did I make time to watch it, but it was a light-hearted 30mins of entertainment to pass the time.