Watch The Roast Celebrate Their Last Week By Predicting The Next Terrible Year In Australian Politics
Goodbye, Roast!
Earlier this week, fans of Australian television’s lone daily satirical news show, ABC2’s The Roast, had their hearts broken. Having graced our screens since 2011, right after reruns of Spicks and Specks from when it was good, the announcement was made that the show will not be returning in 2015.
The Roast won’t be back on the ABC next year. If you want a ridiculous parody of a news show, you’ll have to watch the Bolt Report #roasttv
— The Roast (@TheRoastTV) November 3, 2014
After revealing the news on Monday’s episode, the founding members of ‘Team Australia’ posted the news on Facebook:
Starting from humble beginnings as a one-minute show commissioned from a group of people who had never worked in television before, The Roast has moved from Fairfax, to the Comedy Channel, before finding a home at the ABC and becoming the show we all know and love. But before you start reminiscing about fond memories of host Tom Glasson and his team of reporters delivering some of the best comedy writing on Australia television, fear not. The Roast, kind and selfless beings that they are, have got you covered for 2015 with a DVD boxset of stories to come, including 35 discs covering future Abbott gaffes. “It’s The Roast as you’ve never seen it – because it hasn’t gone to air yet.”
The segment covered all the stories bound to happen next year — changing the official term for asylum seekers to ‘expendables’, seeing ABC reporters forced to take up busking to stay on the air, and Tony Abbott happily retiring from politics “after offending the last ethnic minority on his list”. In other news, Gina Rinehart and Rupert Murdoch will finally form their own political party, finding it “easier than pretending they don’t already run the country”.
The final episode of The Roast airs tonight, and one thing’s for sure – ‘Team Atralia’ (that’s Australia without the ‘u’ and ‘s’ which apparently make us seem too welcoming) won’t be the same without you. Showrunner Nich Richardson told Crikey a few days ago that the show will be back, in some form, somewhere – but in the meantime, here’s just one reason why they’ll be missed.