Original title
The Chaser Election Collection
Released
10/23/2001
Origin country
AU
Genre
Comedy, News
Production companies
Zapruder's Other Films
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
6
Number of episodes
21
The Chaser election specials are a number of Australian political satire based comedy programs produced by The Chaser. The shows, which have run under various titles, provide commentary on Australian federal election and has been produced since 2001 for ABC TV. The first show, The Election Chaser in 2001 was the first ever television production of the Chaser team. In 2004 and 2007 they produced The Chaser Decides which won the Logie Award for "Most Outstanding Comedy Program" for the 2004 series. In 2010, the Chaser team produced a 5-episode series about the 2010 election, called Yes We Canberra!. A new series was produced for the 2013 election, called The Hamster Decides. The Chaser's Election Desk aired in the six weeks prior to the 2016 federal election.
On the 3rd of December, 2010, a DVD titled The Chaser Election Collection was released. It contained every election special The Chaser had screened to date, as well as special features including the never-before-seen The Election Chaser pilot.
Extras from the Yes We Canberra! DVD
The show was the first television production of The Chaser team, which had been running their satirical newspaper The Chaser since 1999. An ABC personality, Andrew Denton, offered the Chaser, as a collective, a contract with the ABC and they went on to produce The Election Chaser, which first aired on 23 October 2001. It was based around the 2001 federal election and was presented in the form of an election tally room, similar to the regular ABC election coverage. The presenters (panelists) were Charles Firth, Julian Morrow, Chris Taylor, Craig Reucassel, Chas Licciardello and Dominic Knight. The show was nominated for "Most Outstanding Comedy Program" in the 2002 Logies but lost to The Micallef Program, which also ran on the ABC.
Mal Award: Philip Ruddock
Mal Award: Jackie Kelly
Mal Award: Natasha Stott Despoja and Mark Latham
Mal Award: John Howard
Since The Election Chaser, the Chaser team had gone on to produce CNNNN, a spoof of various 24-hour news networks, which ran in 2002 and 2003. CNNNN won the 2004 Logie for "Most Outstanding Comedy Program". With the 2004 federal election looming, The Chaser team decided to produce another series based upon The Election Chaser. The show was titled The Chaser Decides and ran at the timeslot of 9:00 pm Thursday from 24 September 2004 to 14 October 2004. The show was presented again in a National Tally Room, but only had four presenters in Morrow, Reucassel, Taylor and Andrew Hansen. Licciardello and Firth did reporting roles while Knight stayed on as a writer. The show was hugely popular and won the 2005 Logie award for "Most Outstanding Comedy Program".
The Chaser team provide a humorous commentary of the week's events including the contenders Head to Head, The Ease the Squeeze Challenge, The key seats, The Greens Campaign, Save the Democrats and the Mal Award.
The Chaser team return with a humorous commentary of the week's events including Under a bus, Crean of the crop, Supersize Me + Pork Thunder, The Firth Files and the Big Prop Guarantee.
The Chaser team with a humorous commentary of the week's events including Medicare Old, Glamour photography, Baby stunt and the Janette Howard plate.
The Chaser team's final episode covering the 2004 Australian Federal Election, including Hewson's History of the Liberals, How to Beat the Flyers, Bond Election Highlights, Firth on Fox, Satan Visits Family First, Quentin Crashes the Chaser Decides and The New Senate under Howard.
Following the second series of The Chaser's War on Everything, the Chaser crew produced two episodes of The Chaser Decides based on the 2007 federal election.[6] The two episodes replaced the War on Everything in its timeslot for 21 November and 28 November 2007. The format took the same as the 2004 series.
Mal Award: Lisa Milat and Tony Abbott
Mal Award: Jackie Kelly
For the 2010 federal election, The Chaser appeared in five episodes of the retitled Yes We Canberra!. Four episodes aired before the election date on Wednesday's at 9.45 pm and one episode after the election in that timeslot. This was the group's first television production in almost a year after the third and final season of War on Everything in 2009. The show premiered on 28 July 2010, with the election to be held on 21 August. The shows context was supposedly part of news program Lateline with the Chaser team being there to warm up the crowd for Tony Jones or Leigh Sales. To this effect the show was held on a set with the same design as Lateline (whereas the real Lateline set does not feature an audience) with Jones and Sales making guest appearances. This was changed for the final episode when the show preceded At the Movies, so that set design was used with guest appearances by hosts David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz.
Julie Bishop appears in a staring contest with Chas Licciardello.
Special Guest: Tanya Plibersek Mal Award: Steve Fielding
Special Guest: Maxine McKew Mal Award: Kevin Rudd
Mal Award: Karl Bitar
In March 2012, the Chaser announced the 2013 election series, tentatively called The Election Hamster. It was announced that it will be called The Hamster Decides and the first of five episodes was to air on 21 August 2013. When Kevin Rudd announced the change of election date from 14 to 7 September, the first episode was brought forward one week to 14 August. The show was run at a timeslot of 9:15pm on Wednesday. The set used was the same set as The Hamster Wheel.
Special Guest: Bob Katter
Special Guest: Doug Cameron
Special Guest: Sarah Hanson-Young
Special Guest: Anthony Albanese
Special Guest: Jaymes Diaz Mal Award: Kevin Rudd
The 2016 series, The Chaser’s Election Desk, began on 8 June 2016. New cast members that joined the series included Zoe Norton Lodge, Ben Jenkins, Kirsten Drysdale, Alex Lee, Scott Abbot, Mark Sutton and Hannah Reilly.
Westeros. Daenerys Targaryen. Dragons. White Walkers. The Night's Watch. The Starks. Tyrion Lannister. Now we've got your attention, here's The Chaser's Election Desk.
Harold Holt and Kevin Rudd join The Chaser's Election Desk this week for a forum on Australia's foreign policy. Mandarin with English subtitles. Frequent coarse language.
Delta Goodrem & The Voice judges stormed parliament this week after a contentious decision went in favour of The Madden Brothers team. Catch up on the latest analysis of constitutional law with The Chaser's Election Desk.
Andrew Bolt explains his views on race relations to a group of Syrian refugees while sailing a catamaran around Sydney Harbour in the ABC's latest politics/lifestyle crossover program, The Chaser's Election Desk.
Members of the Richmond Tigers join the team to provide indepth analysis of the Senate count and remind everyone that sport is more important than politics.
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