John Clarke and Bryan Dawe have a laugh at the IR laws

[saklav86]

lol, the US flag behind Clarke.. a brilliant touch by these comedic geniouses

[ocarina2boy]

"We control both houses of parliament, any other argument can root it's boot"

I wonder if this was a reference to the shadow government, the illuminati network.

[CDotMitchell]

@ocarina2boy uuuuuum no, it was a reference to the face that the liberals controlled both the senate and the house of reps, they could essentially pass anything they wanted

[Franwella]

Brian: "Why didn't your use real workers?"

John: "We don't know any"

Comedy GOLD!

[LyfeIzLike]

@Franwella / Lol hell ya.

[david552]

"It doesn't matter if there's another argument - we control both houses of parliament, any other argument can go and root it's boot!" < Westminster system of Government in a nutshell....

[GanEdenAustralia]

Fuck Labor

[DCdabest]

really badly.....

[madchallax]

and productivity's gonna suffer?

no Brian no, people get fired if that goes down

[McFrosty2014]

This is eerily reminiscent of the last 18 months in New Zealand Politics. Just as much fuck-wittery, not even half the opprobrium. Fucking typical.

[peterbkrogh]

I love the Queen and the Stars n' Stripes in the background... :-)

[saklav86]

@peterbkrogh u got a good eye mate ;).....

very clever touch i might add

[hjordo]

Some of these malingerers ring in sick... They get paid!!

[pauljaros]

"Trust me" ..." We dont know any..."Classic *LOL*

[pauljaros]

"Trust me" Classic *LOL*

[1dschamp]

gold

[freddiedread]

"trust me"...lol

[jez1232]

"Have you seen our other legislation, we're terrified of everything" :-)

[Stephen19852009]

This was pretty much what was actually happening at the time...

[zo1dberg]

Union? What's a union? Oh well, i guess they're irrelevant...

[Prod1Kh]

So, who were the six Big-L liberals who voted this down?

[Prod1Kh]

We control both houses of parliament, any other argument can root its boot!

[TheOutlawfan]

...You can get a job in security...LMAO These guys are wonderful

[DeltaOne60659]

what did he say?...you're fired LOL

[Mercury888]

lol soo true

[jkino78]

..real workers? LOL

[hyrenata]

lmao the poli says "trust me"

[grasshopper818]

"The last hundred years have been a bit of a dark time for Australia." I'm still wiping away the tears of laughter.

[jwdundon]

damm shame, its MORE TRUE THAN funny....

[Emoskins23]

John Clarke, that name sounds familliar ..... Oh yeah its me !

[mattblack77nz]

God bless you John Clarke; you are a shining beacon of honesty in a sea of fuckwits.

[robdotcom71]

@mattblack77nz HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[GanEdenAustralia]

@mattblack77nz Both sides?

[slycef]

Shining bacon @mattblack77nz

[MrWolfandfox]

They are NOT funny.

Move aside old fools.

Let the new talent in, it cant be worse!

[MrWolfandfox]

So do these old bores make any jokes about Rudd? It should be easy to make fun of Rudd, he is so hopeless!

Now the unions run our country, is that democracy?

[Bushmansmeg]

clearly you havent seen all their stuff, they do make fun of Rudd.

... and you're tosser

[Laqez]

It doesn't matter if there is another argument. We control both houses of parliament; any other argument can root its boot!

[AsanineAssassin]

'yeah well I mean employers tend to fund our election campaigns'.

Epic win.

[carddj]

As always Clarke & Dawe are brilliant, even funnier in the tv series, The Games. Even funnier still is Bryan Dawe as Rolly Parkes in his Letter From Kalangadoo!

[AntifaAustralia]

Typical Dirty "I don't give a ****!!! " Howard talk, Hilarious!

Yeah Juliano69 (two comments down!), looks like a happier society now with Ruddy in office, surely unions and human rights advocates are calmer now.

Antifa Australia, is Understanding and Unity just too much to ask for?

[trazzy69a]

funny buggers

[juliano69]

To True, thank god we don't hav to deal with Howard's reign of terror anymore.

[Xezlec]

Awesome. How come we don't get any Aussie TV here in the states? I mean, we have our own BBC channel now. Why not Australia?

[Qtyled]

"hey peter, do you reckon you could start tuesday?"

never happened hah

[monstajopps]

"root its boot" :)

[BeatlesVideoHistory]

Superb duo of Australian/New Zealand comedy

[leapoffaith20]

I judge you when you use all caps.

[JustinFromSydney]

His post didn't start with caps.

[grl8862]

From personal experience with Workplace Ombudsman's Office sorting out several issues I have. The Law or Act is very weak if you do not work under an Award. IR = Award Free. Just try enforcing anything under Award Free. This sketch is spot on, and very very very funny. :) Companies exist to make money WITHIN the guidelines of the Law. If the LAw allows them to make more money doing something which would be considered Bad Form, they will. It's the nature of the beast. End of story.

[JavelinSST390]

You just described the American way of woing business.

Just remember, here in the U.S., where you are, and everywhere else in the world...

Nothing is illegal, until you get caught doing it.

[BackDoorKenny]

what about from behind?

[33mirzz33]

that wass absolutely hilarious

true australian comedian!!

[baghwan]

Typical Australia, always taking credit for New Zealand talent =P

[nashtz]

shut up and go back to fucking those maori niggers

[alanaldasucks]

these guys make my dick soft

[BackDoorKenny]

these guys rock my cock! you must be dummmm if you don't think its funny

[alanaldasucks]

all they do is bitch about bullshit

[BackDoorKenny]

its called satire. do like the IR laws or something?

[alanaldasucks]

maybe i do

[BackDoorKenny]

i'm sorry i didnt realize you were so important...you must be the head of a huge company if you like ir laws...doing wonders for your business i guess...someone should sort that john clarke out.

[alanaldasucks]

so now you hate big companies? you commie

[BackDoorKenny]

i'm not a commie i'm an eco-terrorist. that means i hate the economy. me and my pals have some plans to throw flowers we picked (not bought) all over the economy and sing it songs to give it a sense of nature

and your're a yank yeah? so you dont know anything about ir laws, john clarke, intelligent australian humour or new zealand talent. well i'm yank too so neither do i.

[alanaldasucks]

holy dog shit

[BackDoorKenny]

how would you feel if i solicited you for certain favours?

[alanaldasucks]

i would need the money up front

[leapoffaith20]

"You commie" is not a valid argument.

[alanaldasucks]

its not an argument at all, its an insult.

[littlebeartoe]

I like it!

[crankyticket]

Too close to the truth ...

[fluffyliddiard]

First, this is classic.

Socialism and democracy.blah. Both old and out dated. Anyone reading at the moment? Anyone read about Participation economics and politics and societies. Take all your negative projections from both socialism and capitalism and let them go and read about parecon or parpolity. And be one of the first to even know that a vision and a strategy of organising societies exist.

[Maxprietors]

smug asshole

[takinter]

maxprietors = ignorant asshole

[LRonCupboard]

parecon, parpolity? When you have to invent new words (presumably because Newspeak doesn't allow us the ability to express anti or apolitical thoughts) you are selling snake oil. Politicians have been selling "visions of organising society" since politics was invented. Pity they've all been thwarted by human nature LOL. You are a floon, my friend.

[omegavalerius]

An honourable task you have taken upon there. I wish you luck with it. I still suggest that you go and visit other countries in the world and see how they are solving their problems. It might give you some new ideas to work with.

[omegavalerius]

So your precious democracy inst at all that democratic as one might believe. In that case I suggest you move to another country. The scandinavian countries seem to do quite well for themselves. High social security, high productivity, low crime rate and year after year they top the lest corrupted countries in the world -list. Oh and you can manage with english everywhere in these countries ;)

[Zaemyster]

WRONG, countries with the detah penalty have the lowest crim erates, democracy is the fares tsystem on this planet at th emoment, all other forms are corrupted, any sign of coruption is shunned in a democracy.

[Ninyae1]

Tra la la la. That's what lemmings sing as they head towards the precipice.

[Mothdust666]

I thought Zaemyster had a nice irony ad absurdum thing going on there...

[LRonCupboard]

The USA seems to like the death penalty but 1 in 300 of its population is in prison. Highest percentage on Earth. Oh how I laughed.

[Zaemyster]

Haha.

[omegavalerius]

My advise: vote for a different president and stop whining about him. And by the looks of it the US will get a black or a female president next. Good for you :).

[omegavalerius]

Must be hard to walk towards the future when all you do is look back at history. Nazis are bad, love and peace are good. Lesson learned, now lets try to get along shall we?

[cbr900rrscb1100xx]

The begining of the end, I hope, he wont be voted in again....... WILL HE????

[TheWatcherInTheTower]

Brilliant as always!

[theillusivemind]

Brilliant.

[teamtoken]

AHAHHAHAHAHA GOLD!

thanks for sharing mate!

[arcitup747]

Die Howard.

[fatmeteor]

he already has, they use a complex string and pulley system to manipulate his mouth and arms. One of the strings broke the other day as he was entering a building.

[xShibboleth]

Who do you trust?

[papalazarou99]

Spot on.

[jampt1989]

Haha that's so gold!

[maxla88]

LMAO!!!

[biota84]

I just love the backgrounds... the american flag and an outdated portrate of the queen on john howards side, and an australian anthem on the other side.

[volantare]

"Trust me."

[oOFleurDeLisOo]

Aren't we so lucky to have or country run by "Honest John"?! Lol, what a liar!

[RIProgressive]

very funny thanks