Get Ready To Chuckle At This Very Small Business…

One of the funniest shows to premier this year started tonight on ABC1 with Very Small Business created by the same people who brought us The Librarians last year, starring Wayne Hope who has also featured in the moves Boytown and The Castle.

The opening scene I found hilarious as this unknown man stands on a train heading in for a job interview, he is standing up and as the train stops at the station he yells out the station name with all the occupants looking at his as if he is some sort of nut job.

Mitcham -> Nunawading -> Blackburn he yells out, but most people wont know this that the footage shown when stopping at the stations was of Ringwood which is a few stations before those mentioned, just thought I would throw that pointless fact in as it got a little chuckle from myself.

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We then meet Don Angel whose professionalism extends to taking calls while in the toilet, or as he explained on the phone that he is in the kitchen cooking some corn and the loud noise heard was him putting it in the pan. The Lower Croydon News is one of the many publications to come under the World Wide Business Group banner, with Don claiming it has a readership that is close to The Age newspaper.

He spends a lot of his time trying to sell advertising space to businesses which are unrelated to his publication, the best example being a music store he has sold space to in the Railway Union Monthly magazine yet he has another magazine titled Music-Music-Music-Music.

Don isn’t exactly a charitable man, a better description would be cheap offering Ray $12 an hour with the total for the editorial he writes coming to $36. He then deducts anything offered to Ray from his pay starting with a cup of tea for 50 cents, followed by half a chicken for $10 and the funniest situation he had to chip in $10 for a collection for his own birthday present.

The first sign of inter-office conflict came when the toilet flushing policy was worked out, Don found that Ray had not flushed after using the facilities; the conversation went as follows…

Don: “What’s your story with the toilet?”
Ray: “What?”
Don: “Why didn’t you flush?”
Ray: “Well I saw that you hadn’t, so I thought it was some sort of water conservation policy, so I just left mine on top of yours.”
Don: “No, no, no… I don’t want to hear that. Flushing is the policy here at all times. I was actually distracted earlier. So, in future all parcels from that department go express post to Werribee.”

I highly recommend you take a look at Very Small Business, if you missed the first episode check it out on the ABC website, and tune in next week Wednesday night 9:30.

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