The Wedge (TV show)
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The Wedge is a new Australian sketch show by Ian McFadyen and produced by Network Ten. The show originally launched on the 30th of May 2006. The show stars Adam Zwar, well known for his HBA 'fwee for fwee' commercial, and Rebel Wilson, famous for playing 'Toula' on the comedy show Pizza, and Jason Gann, two time winner of best actor at Tropfest.
In December 2005, television commercials promoting the program began showing, depicting a stereotypical Australian country town. It is a sketch based format comparable to Fast Forward or The Comedy Company. The only real difference is the fact the following sketch always refers to something from the previous scene. (For example: A scene with Gandalf cooking changes into a scene with someone watching his show on TV while sitting at a bar).
Characters
- Keith and Tina own a business called Keith and Tina's home direct. They sell a variety of products, however they are all bad quality and probably dont do what they are supposed to! For Example, the Demon Sucker 2000 was simply just an overpriced vaccuum cleaner wrapped in tin foil!
- Plastic Surgeon Wives who have undergone so much plastic surgery that they can no longer speak or smile normally. They also are actually very old, as in one episode, an old approx 65 year old woman says to one of the wives "Hi Mum!".
- A transgender crossing guard who has had a violent outbreak against a bike rider for not crossing at the crossing, a woman in a car who slightly went on a line of the crossing, and a young man with a very loud car stereo.
- An anonymous person with scissors appearing randomly in scenes cutting wires from objects other characters are currently using, such as a kite a boy was flying.
- Mark Warey, An athlete who constantly gets into brawls, public sexual acts and other incidents, such as shooting an animal with an unregistered firearm. His scenes always depict him and his lawyer apologising to the public for his latest scandal.
- "Cooking With..."- a show which depicts various movie characters and celebrities doing a cooking show. As of 13 June 2006, in order, the characters so far parodied have been:
- * Australian Idol - Cassie was cooking a "light and healthy" snack. Chocolate mudcake with cream. She started by getting 1kg of icing sugar and 24 eggs, however she was stopped by the "judge" of australian idol. He then tells her numerous, crazy things, and at the end she becomes so bored she sprays the cream into her mouth.
- *Gandalf the Grey - Parodying his temptation to take the Ring from The Lord of the Rings.
- *Bono from U2 - Parodies his work in charity to save the "starvin' children".
- *Robert De Niro - Parodies his role in Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers.
- Art Cooney, a substitute teacher at Wedgedale High who happens to be a hippie. Throughout the dozen or so sketches regarding Art, he regales the students with anecdotes about his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend Dwayne, and in each skit he makes life miserable for at least one of the students by pointing out something about their personal life, such as homosexuality, their father being in prison, or making a big deal out of their aboriginal or jewish heritage.
- Lucy- Character who appears to stalk a boy she likes (named 'Dylan'), and often talks about how she thinks he likes her, but it is implied he is disgusted by her. She also stares in to the screen at him watching her.
- Farmers Jack and Jill- Farmers who own a farm which is suffering from drought. They also have a son, who sometimes appears in the background. Their animals have died, they have lost $50 000 in crops, they have no phones, and possibly no electricity. Jack is also frequently irritated by flies.
- Running Robbie Fowler- A man with a beard who says he is 'running for a reason'. He has currently been running for 1408 days.
- A man with a chainsaw who has unsuccessful attempts on killing people, a parody of Friday the 13th character Jason Voorhees.
- A women TV reporter called Sandra Sultry who strips off while reporting. She is a parody of Network Ten news reporter Sandra Sully
- A crazy saleswoman who, when selling houses, acts out how her ex-husband left her for another woman.
- A man doing his dole, who has lots of stupid ideas like going to the Gold Coast to be the voice of Big Brother. His dole is in a 64-page exercise book.
- 2 ladies playing the pokies that are obsessed with their luck. One of them rubs the other woman's stomach for good luck, but to no avail. She is always on the phone to her "bloody kids", whom she has left in the downstairs car park. The other woman usually wins, and both women do a little dance to match what type of icons they lined up.
- An Indian telemarketer giving advice on people's sex lives. Once a man called in saying that his "Old Feller" had fallen off, meaning his penis. The Indian man thought he meant father and said his "Old Feller was in Mumbai".
- A fat woman named 'Mandi Maple Brown' going to Australia from Britain to go on a reality TV show called "Fat Crackers". Mandi is quite determined to be called "Fat Mandi", not just Mandi. She has tried numerous things to get some more junk food into fat camp, such as asking how to get a cake into a file, and ordering 2 pizzas, only to be disconnected by the fat camp councilers. Fat Mandi also had a bad experience with lettuce, she got it confused with the 2 words, "let us" and annoyed the lunch ladies.
- An idiot Mayor who has so far only been mentioned on the Wedgedale website.
Trivia
- The classroom Wedgedale High art teacher Art Cooney teaches in is actually a classroom at Altona High School.
- Art Cooney is a parody of Art Carny
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