02.24
Part current affairs satire, part investigative journalism, part sketch comedy, all graduate student self-importance. Hungry Beast: It’s a little bit completely bullshit.
I don’t get this show. I don’t understand what they’re supposed to be doing. They try to be serious and intelligent, but come off as snooty and condescending with a real sense of superiority because they attended a couple of politics classes while completing their arts or media studies degree and landed a job on television.
I’ve had this show described to me as “The Chaser 2.0”, an opinion I find to be completely incorrect. This is nothing like The Chaser. The Election Chaser was sharp, topical and well written. CNNN was a sublime parody of the over-the-top agenda pushing cable news networks (*cough* Fox News *cough*). While the quality of the production fell away during The War on Everything, I still hold it higher regard to Hungry Beast.
The current mix of actual journalism, satire and absurdity combined their holier-than-thou attitude just leaves the program lacking focus and direction.
While I applaud the attempt, I think it needs a bit more work and a bit more of an idea of what they want to be. It needs this because at the moment: it’s shit.
So true, I hate it so much. I want Denton to fire them all and just present the show himself.
Well said- self important, poor taste and truly under-graduate ‘humour’ with no apparent redemptive value.
They’re graduate, or undergraduate? Also, why is being educated an insult?
That has been something I’ve been wondering about. Every time I hear someone criticize Hungry Beast online, they mention the fact that Hungry Beast is run by people who have university degree as if it is a bad thing.
If a degree from university is so bad, next time you need a doctor to operate on you, why not give your mate a shot. After all, according to some, nobody needs their university degree in order to be decent at their career. Put your money where your mouth is!
If you have a structured reason for not liking Hungry Beast, I’m more than happy for you to flout your opinion as much as you like. Just don’t say that they are self pretentious because they have university degrees. That just proves your own stupidity.
I would have to say that this blogs reasoning: It’s completely bullshit!
What you said. We’ve discussed this on Twitter as you know