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Originally Posted by Satchmo
The segment should never have gone to air in the first place . Boot polish send ups of black American musicians on air on Australian TV in 2009? Would the segment have gone to air if it was a send-up of Commercially successful 80's aboriginal band Yothu Yindi? Hardly . Shows what the the Hey Hey programming team think about their target audience..Lowest Common Denominator as always.
I thought HC was very gracious and I think Hey Hey were very wise to give him some air-time and defuse things a little. I don't watch Hey Hey but I was certainly offended and appalled by the video clip. I think Darryl could have apologised not only to HC, but to _all the viewers that may have been offended also_ which would have been some admission at least that the clip was in genuinely poor taste.
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Agreed. The decision to put this act on was ill-advised and poor.
However, to give it some context, it was a revival of an act many years ago which appeared on HHIS. I suppose they thought that it would be a nice touch to revisit the act, given the entire Reunion was one (or 2) giant acts of nostalgia.
I do wonder whether it would have assumed the same level of notoriety if Harry hadn't made an issue of it???
But again...a poor decision. I'm certain it wasn't a deliberate act of racism, as some are claiming. Just a clumsy and naive attempt at humour
