Get Krack!n

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.

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.

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.

After their hilarious skewering of the cooking show in 'The Katering Show' the Kates (McLennan & McCartney) have turned their satirical eyes towards Breakfast TV. More specifically, Breakfast TV hosted by plucky women who "speak for all ladies" and cram their near-misandry feminist ideals down the gullet of their audience.

The Kates are the two hosts of a show so bad it's been given a 3 AM time-slot. They are polar opposites of each other. McLennan is full of vim, vigour, and likely an unhealthy dose of caffeine, with a giant smile on her face at (almost) all times. McCartney is tired, bored, and looks like she wants out of this show as soon as possible. Yet they both endure to create a show, probably just so they can get their pay-cheques. In both their characterization and their dialogue, they portray self-aware, satirically over-the-top versions of themselves, lampooning the falsity of the typical hosts of this kind of show, and they consistently bring up "girl power" ideals at inappropriate moments, much like the shows they're parodying.

Not only is this show funny because of the hosts and the satire, but the actual gags are top-notch absurdist humour. Firstly, the ridiculous obstacle course of a set, the amount of segments they seem to try and cram into each episode, the bizarre guests ranging from normal people with strange jobs to just weird people in general, and the people outside the street view window (once again, at 3 AM). Not to mention the constant goofs from the people behind the camera, from the camera mistakes, to the editing/vision mixing mistakes, graphics, timing, and just generally a crew who has no idea what they're doing, especially their unassuming intern.

This is a show where both the subtleties and the not-so-subtleties work to their advantage. The two Kates know what they're doing in terms of absurd satirical humour. I look forward to watching the rest of the series.

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.