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CNNNN's slogan was "We Report, You Believe.", a parody of Fox News' slogan ("We Report, You Decide.").

In April 2004, CNNNN won a Logie Award for 'Most Outstanding Comedy Program', an award that was shared with Kath & Kim.^[1] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Kath & Kim is a Logie award winning character driven Australian television comedy series, created by Jane Turner and Gina Riley. ...

Themed episodes

The program was presented as a "live" feed from a fictional 24-hour news channel, anchored by Craig Reucassel and Chris Taylor. Each episode had a theme which carried through the episode, examples (from the DVD) included: Craig Reucassel on The Chasers War on Everything Craig Bruce Reucassel (born in 1976) is an Australian television and radio comedian. ... Chris Taylor on CNNNN Chris Thornton Taylor (born 1974) is an Australian television and radio comedian. ... DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

• Lunchgate: A businessman accidentally leaves his lunch at home and is pursued by police and the media in an O.J. Simpson style chase and becomes a suspected terrorist.
• Cadman for PM: CNNNN beats up a comment by minor Australian politician Alan Cadman as a leadership challenge against Prime Minister John Howard.
• Shush For Bush: US President George W. Bush is visiting Australia for 20 hours, and is believed to want to sleep the entire visit. CNNNN exhorts Australia to be quiet so the President can sleep properly.
• Animal Farm: The Chaser "reality show" Animal Farm is a send-up of Big Brother. CNNNN covers the controversy when one of the contestants dies, but is not removed from the house.
• Packer Health Crisis: Live updates on the health of Australian billionaire Kerry Packer.
• Tilt Australia: CNNNN aims to reduce to the water-shortage crisis in inland Australia by tilting the entire continent to drain the water from the Eastern seaboard. Radio announcer Alan Jones was duped by the Chaser team live on air for believing this concept.

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Cast members

The roles of other members of the Chaser team included:

• Charles Firth: played a hard-hitting reporter with highly-controversial opinions presented in a segment called The Firth Factor and another entitled Firth and Friends in which he abuses his guests, doing such things as gagging them and yelling in their face. The character could be interpreted as a parody of Bill O'Reilly, who hosts a program on Fox News Channel called the O'Reilly Factor.
• Andrew Hansen: the leader of the CNNNN "newsband", which would play musical commentary for some stories, and occasionally lyrically interact with the other members of the cast as if actually talking to them. He was also Rudi J Blass, the director of Newstainment, who would create game shows and entertainment pieces based around big news stories: "They say comedy equals tragedy plus time, well I say game show equals tragedy plus now'." Rudi J Blass often appeared in a studio very similar to that of Larry King Live and would commentate on news stories. Hansen was also Simon Target, a reporter with a thick English accent, who appeared in several episodes.
• Julian Morrow: CNNNN's US correspondent. Morrow would appear on a television as if he was overseas, although he did actually conduct a number of vox pops in the USA to highlight American ignorance of Australia, other countries and international affairs in general. He would, amusingly, still speak about stories with no relevance to the US and sit as if he were actually on the news desk, and when the anchors would look at the screen on the other side of the room at other out-of-studio guests, Julian Morrow would do the same.
• Chas Licciardello: hosted Lameass, a parody of MTV's Jackass, with intentionally bad stunts. He also appeared as "Mongoose" in the Sky Chaser 8 news helicopter, as the producer of a new game show (allegedly meant to be "The Block" as a musical) and as a reporter of his own name, occasionally. In the first season, he was CNNNN's Brussels correspondent and whenever the anchors would cross to Brussels, a "Technical Problem" would cut Chas off before he could even say anything, leading Reucassel to say, "Sorry, we seem to have a technical problem there in Brussels."
• Dominic Knight: former weatherman, now a reporter.

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Regular Features

Other regular features of the program included:

• A newsbar, which proved so popular it was made available on the CNNNN website.
• Advertisements for Fungry's, a multinational fast food outlet with a yellow cow mascot (slogan: "I'm fungry!" - "Fungry" is apparently derived from "fucking hungry")
• Advertisements for Boggs Lager, an irresponsible beer company which promoted heavy drinking and even frequently marketed alcoholic products with: "The strength of fifty-four beers in a single glass" (slogan: "[Let's all] Get Boggered tonight!").
• A Chaser Affair, a parody of current affairs shows Today Tonight and A Current Affair
• Advertisements for Esteem cosmetics, whose vague advertising parodied the deliberately confusing manner in which cosmetics are marketed (slogan: "Esteem - because you need it"). Esteem advertisements had a penchant for spurious statistical claims ("an astonishing Impact Factor of 8", "85% more proven", "95% more womanly") and bizarre product descriptions ("Beautelligence", "Scien-sensuality").

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Post-CNNNN

The team created the television special The Election Chaser for the 2001 federal election. Following on from that, they broadcast two seasons of CNNNN, in 2002 and 2003, at nine and ten episodes, respectively. Legislative elections were held in Australia on 10 November 2001. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

A DVD containing five of the episodes from the 2003 series of CNNNN (Lunchgate, Cadman for PM, Shush for Bush, Animal Farm and Packer Health Crisis) as well as highlights from the ad breaks was released in November 2004. November 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: November 2004 in sports November 2004 in science Events Deaths in November • 30 Pierre Berton • 29 John Drew Barrymore • 26 Bill Alley • 24 Arthur Hailey • 23 Rafael Eitan • 18 Bobby Frank Cherry • 16 John...

In 2004, Craig Reucassel and Chris Taylor took over as hosts of Triple J's drive programme. They took a six week break, coinciding with the federal election campaign, to rejoin the Chaser crew to produce a short ABC series, The Chaser Decides. shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Triple J (JJJ) is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ... Legislative elections were held in Australia on 9 October 2004. ...

In September 2005, Chaser News Alerts started running on the ABC's digital TV station ABC2, shown every Thursday night at 7.55pm. Chaser News Alerts are also shown on the ABC's Broadband website. The Chaser's new show, The Chaser's War on Everything, premiered on February 17, 2006, featuring similarly topical comedy to CNNNN. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This Australian channel is not related to ABC1 in the United Kingdom. ... The Chasers War on Everything (often shortened to The War by The Chaser cast) is a satirical television comedy series broadcast on ABC TV in Australia. ... February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

See also

• List of Australian television series
• List of Australian Broadcasting Corporation programs
• The Daily Show, satirical "fake news" program in the United States
• The Day Today, an earlier, British take on a similar idea

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References

1. ^ List of 2004 Logie Winners. Sydney Morning Herald Website.

External links

• CNNNN Official Website
• CNNNN: Chaser Non-Stop News Network at the Internet Movie Database
• The Election Chaser at the Internet Movie Database
• The Chaser Decides at the Internet Movie Database
• CNNNN at the National Film and Sound Archive.