''Today Today'' was a drivetime radio show on
Australia-wide radio station
Triple J
Triple J (stylised in all lowercase) is a government-funded, national Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners of alternative music, which began broadcasting in January 1975. The station also places a greater emphasis on broad ...
, broadcast between 3:00pm and 5:30pm weekdays during 2004 and 2005. The title is a
parody
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of the Australian current affairs program ''
Today Tonight
''Today Tonight'' is an Australian current affairs television program produced by the Seven Network. It aired from January 1995 to November 2019 in Adelaide and Perth. Editions in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne were previously produced befor ...
'' on
Channel Seven.
It was hosted by
Chaser members
Chris Taylor and
Craig Reucassel
Craig Bruce Reucassel is an Australian television and radio comedian. He is best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser. He hosted the Australian version of ''Balls of Steel'', which premiered in April 2011. Since 2013, Reucassel ...
("Chris and Craig"). The theme music to the show was the opening riff to the song "
She Says What She Means
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*She (pronoun), the third person singular, feminine, nominative case pronoun in modern English.
She or S.H.E. may also refer to:
Literature and films
*'' She: A History of Adventure'', an 1887 novel by H. Rider Hagga ...
" by Canadian band
Sloan
The show combined
political satire
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, comedic discussion of the days events, and talkback from listeners with funny anecdotes on a given topic. Reucassel and Taylor also create satirical skits to play between program segments which lampoon commercial radio stations, current TV shows and topical world events. Other regular segments included the Small Talk Challenge, Two Types of People, Marketing Makeover and Pisslame Puns of the Week.
One of the shows recurring segments, 'Coma FM', was a parody of many aspects of Australian commercial radio. These included radio hosts' nicknames, a low-pitched Americanised accent, strange noises (such as the station's callsign), forced laughter at poor jokes, an emphasis on playing new music and not repeating any tracks, segments that play the "greatest hits from the 80s, 90s and mid-90s", large amounts of advertising and competitions – especially those that give away "cold hard cash". 'Coma FM' also mocked the target audience of commercial radio with the use of callers and comments on many controversial issues such as the
Bali Nine.
In late 2004, Chris and Craig took six weeks off to rejoin
The Chaser
The Chaser are an Australian satirical comedy group, best known for their television programmes and satirical news masthead. The group take their name from their satirical newspaper, a publication known to challenge conventions of taste. Th ...
team to produce an election special, ''
The Chaser Decides
''The Chaser election specials'' are a number of Australian political satire based comedy programs produced by The Chaser. The shows, which have run under various titles, provide commentary on Australian federal election and has been produced s ...
'', during the
2004 federal election campaign. The fill in hosts were Jason Whalley and Lindsay McDougall, aka
Jay and the Doctor
Jay and the Doctor are the on-air names of Australian radio duo Jason Whalley and Lindsay McDougall, on radio station Triple J.
Best known as members of punk band Frenzal Rhomb, they performed occasional late-night shifts on Triple J until 20 ...
, who went on to become Triple J's breakfast show hosts from 2005 onwards.
On 6 December 2005, Chris and Craig broadcast the final ''Today Today'' program, and announced they and the rest of the Chaser team would be back on television in 2006. The show was ''
The Chaser's War on Everything''. The new host for Triple J's drive timeslot was
Robbie Buck
Robert Buck known as Robbie Buck is an Australian radio announcer.
Career
Robbie's radio experience began in his home town of Lismore where he took up a late night shift on the local radio station. Once he moved to Sydney he began doing gra ...
.
Chris and Craig returned to the airwaves in 2015 as part of
Triple J's 40th birthday celebrations on sister radio station
Double J.
Bloody Sunday
On 16 July 2006, Chris and Craig returned to Triple J for a temporary run with their show ''Bloody Sunday''. They replaced
Roy and HG's Sunday afternoon show
This Sporting Life
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for four weeks. The show's first episode listed a single banana on
eBay
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.
On 10 December 2006, the program resumed in the same slot for 9 weeks over summer, billing itself as 'non-ratings period radio at its most desperate.' Listeners could often hear a TV in the background of the studio, as Chris and Craig liked to have the cricket or CNN on during the show. On the first show of 2007, Craig ran about an hour late for the show, illuminating the team's undivided devotion to the Sunday afternoon slot. The pair also predicted
Naomi Robson's appearance on dancing with the stars in 2007.
'Today Today' podcast
from 7 January 2007.
See also
References
External links
{{TheChaser
The Chaser
Triple J programs