I have just finished listening to the five episodes of The Chaser’s new radio show The Blow Parade. While the short series is now finished you can buy the episodes and additional disk of full length songs from the ABC Shop.

I sure hope The Chaser boys do another series, these days radio is a rather dead medium with the exception of being stuck in traffic. However, this series shows that you can still have a lot of fun with comedy without needing visuals. The whole premise of the series is based on a mockumentary of various bands and ages of music.  Each episode focuses on the life of a different fake band which is styled on an actual real band.

The Five Episodes/Bands were:

• Luke Deuteronomy – Pink Floyd
• Egg Zagar – Led Zeppelin
• The Fatcocks – The Clash
• Me Me Me – U2
• Funkalicious – The Jackson Five

I have no real clear winner for favourite episode, the first episode Luke  Deuteronomy was great, however Egg Zagar being killed by a beached whale was rather fantastic as well, not to mention Me Me Me’s Tuesday Slightly Inconvenient Tuesday.

The video clip from Good News Week below shows just how brilliant The Chaser are at good comedy.