Clarke and Dawe - Murdoch Crisis Deepens Shock

"Hugh Joppertunity, media reporter" Originally aired on ABC TV's 7.30: 21/07/2011
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[ernmalleyscrub]

Great one, this deserves to go postal,er, viral , whatever it is those young folks do...

[CrystalHunter1989]

"Tunneling from an adjacent building, landed on the roof with choppers or they could have been born there."

"Tough work..."

[TheBFiles]

@zdrux gosh, not only did they hack other peoples phones, (such as celebrities and people who through hacking their phones would get great information for articles) they also bribed police. Which is most definitely illegal. They also, through their hacking, misled an investigation into the murder of a young girl. This is all considered illegal believe it or not.

[EJWolff]

@burrerere. Well, both the Flight of the Concords and John Clarke are kiwis. New Zealand humour at it's finest. If only Billy T James were still with us, the line up of comedians would be unsurpassable.

[zdrux]

@shahideurope I don't see how country has anything to do with you explaining exactly how he managed to "intercept" the messages. But whatever makes you happy.. it's cool.

[shahideurope]

@zdrux look you don't understand my country and our laws, I get it. Goodbye.

[zdrux]

@shahideurope And how did they listen to the conversations then? They sat outside their windows and listened in using foam cups? They hacked the Telecom Corporation? How exactly did they intercept these messages?

[shahideurope]

@zdrux firstly, we don't have a written constitution, secondly they did not guess voice mail codes, they listened to messages that were intended for the recipient, that's called interception and is illegal under our laws, section 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.

[SoulReaper1942]

@Honibaz All i am going to say to that is look up Tom Lehrer.

P.S i agree these guys are tops. make sure to watch the front fell off

[zdrux]

I wonder if there's really anything illegal that was done.. does the UK gov have a "freedom of speech" clause in their constitution? Isn't this what Murdoch pretty much did? They didn't even "hack" any phones, since guessing someone's voice mail code is not hacking, and not illegal.

Was it distasteful? Absolutely, but I still don't know where the illegal part comes in, it's not illegal to be an asshole like Murdoch is.

[Honibaz]

The reason why this kind of humour isn't very popular is because a lot of Americans are used to jokes that either involve a certain degree of profanity or sexual innuendos. Even though these two guys use neither elements, they're brilliant at satirizing whatever they want.