Classic TV Flashback: Big Bite…

A not so classic TV flashback but a flashback none the less, it is the short running Seven Network comedy series Big Bite which revealed the origins of the now famous Mr. G from Chris Lilley’s Summer Height’s High. The show also features Andrew O’Keefe back when he was only starting out in his role as host of Deal or No Deal, other comedians involved are Andrew Dyer, Jo Gill, Melissa Madden-Gray, Kate McCartney, Richard Pyros, Jake Stone and Rebecca De Unamuno.
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The series aired in 2003 and the sketch comedy show would focus on lampooning films, TV shows, current affairs and sport. Some of the most remembered sketches are “The Extreme Darren” who is performed by Chris Lilley and follows a teenage kid making films about “sick stunts” on his skateboard, BMX and scooter.

Back in the day when this show was aired you may remember a show called The Surprise Chef, well one of the skits by Andrew O’Keefe was called “Surprised Chef” where he would play a clumsy Aristos (chef).

One of the weekly segments was a send-up of National Nine News, SBS World News Tonight and community television news. For Nine they would impersonate the Sydney news reader at the time Jim Waley, for SBS Lee Lin Chin and for the community television station someone by the name of Tee Pee Moses.

Andrew O’Keefe got his chance to take the place of Eddie McGuire by hosting Who Want’s to be a Millionaire.

One of the classic sketches from the show is called Undercover Mongrels which was a take off of the Seven Network show Undercover Angels which was hosted by Ian Thorpe. The Mongrels would go around performing good deeds for people in needs, one of them being a boy who wanted a new bike so the Mongrels stole a bike from another kid; this resulted in the kid receiving the bike getting in trouble for having stolen goods.

Finally it is the place where Mr Greg Gregson or Mr G was first introduced, made famous by Chris Lilley in the hit ABC show Summer Height’s High. This time before Mr G becomes head of Performing Art’s he has the task of coming up with a performance in the Rock Eisteddfod, he comes up with a show called Vietwow. The show is based on the Vietnam War and he even gets a Vietnam veteran to talk to the children, while acting out what he was saying behind him.

These are some of the main sketches or the more memorable ones, others include a spoof of the Harry Potter series called, Harry Potter and the Unbelievably Secret Chamber of Secrets, The Secret Life of Us and also the series 24.

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