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Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is one of the brains behind The

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Speaker 2: Chasers War on Everything. He's teamed up with his old

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Speaker 2: mate Chris Taylor, also from The Chaser, to create a

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Speaker 2: new comedy series. It sounds incredible. It's called Australian Epic.

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Speaker 2: They retell some of our most defining stories by turning

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Speaker 2: them into a musical Stephen Bradbury, Chappelle Corby, We're going

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Speaker 2: to see it all in musical form. Andrew Hanson high

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Speaker 2: here he.

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Speaker 1: Is, Hello, Jennvy and Amanda. Are you ready for some

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Speaker 1: toe tapping to historical retelling this evening?

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Speaker 3: Well, I just love what you do. You know when

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Speaker 3: I see you on the piano just playing a word

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Speaker 3: scale look at him out.

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Speaker 2: You're right excellent satire. How much fun has it been

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Speaker 2: to take the piece out of Australian folklore?

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Speaker 1: Oh it's great, Amanda, because we like doing that. You know.

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Speaker 1: We wanted to know we all laugh at ourselves in

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Speaker 1: Australia a bit, do we? So you know, Chris and

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Speaker 1: I thought, let's tell up what's an old story of

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Speaker 1: some of these big Australian moments. Do it in a fun,

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Speaker 1: silly way by singing you know, sort of make fun

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Speaker 1: of things about ourselves, like our relationship with Hollywood celebrities.

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Speaker 1: For example, in the story about Johnny Depp's dogs gets quarantine,

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Speaker 1: you know we turned them into a musical. Excellent. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: We've got the story of Chappelle Corby as you as

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, and you know that that's partly a story

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Speaker 1: about our attitude to what we do when we go

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Speaker 1: on a massive Bogan holiday to Barley.

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Speaker 3: Actually something else we like to do, so and Andrew,

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Speaker 3: not that I'm going into your wheelhouse, but almost the

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Speaker 3: Chappelle Corby story could be sung to the theme of

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Speaker 3: Gilligan's Island. It's got that same sort of cadence.

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Speaker 1: We are thinking alike here Jones, Yes, we should have

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Speaker 1: had you in on the show.

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Speaker 3: Well, I just like, sit right back, You're not to you,

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Speaker 3: you know, it just works out.

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Speaker 2: And you're also having to go with Mary Donaldson. I

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Speaker 2: love this about how you know she met a prince,

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Speaker 2: you know Sydney pub.

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Speaker 1: He isn't an extraordinary ordinary woman from Hobart just runs

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Speaker 1: into a Danish princess. Was like Hambler meeting Hamblet at

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Speaker 1: the brewery or something. An incredible story. So you know,

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Speaker 1: we turned that's our love story of course in the series,

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Speaker 1: the Princess Mary story.

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Speaker 3: That was funny someone was telling me on the weekend.

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Speaker 3: We were just talking about the whole slip in thing

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Speaker 3: and it wasn't as accidental as everyone would believe. That

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Speaker 3: Mary actually knew that he was there and it was

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Speaker 3: like a real yeah.

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Speaker 2: But having said that, you can't kill the story. That's

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Speaker 2: where she met him, though it's not quite a million

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Speaker 2: girls could have taken us.

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Speaker 3: Like she just walked in there and met a prince,

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Speaker 3: is what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Where she had to beat the other girls, a bunch

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Speaker 1: of them. She was out with her mates, we discovered

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Speaker 1: the big night. I think, you know, I think maybe

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Speaker 1: lots of them were hoping to hook up with.

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Speaker 3: Princey and that this was before the Bachelor, so really.

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Speaker 1: She was ahead of her time. Yeah, so we got

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Speaker 1: a look. That was a great opportunity to have. The

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Speaker 1: Danish Queen was very suss about Mary. She didn't trust her.

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Speaker 1: So you know that we wrote a musical song for

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Speaker 1: the Queen of Denmark and that's called you didn't say

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Speaker 1: she was Tasmanian. That's the Queen's main main issue. Well

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Speaker 1: at least in our version of the.

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Speaker 2: Story, have you rhymes Tasmanian?

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Speaker 1: We wouldn't believe in rhymes with aliens, rhymes with all

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Speaker 1: sorts of things, and just you wait and see.

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Speaker 3: And that is the genius of you.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Will you be able to wend in succulent Chinese meal?

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Speaker 1: Now that should be a music, shouldn't he that? That

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Speaker 1: man with the We thought of a lot of story

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Speaker 1: we wondered. We were originally thinking of turning the invention

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Speaker 1: of the dual flush toilet, and I still regret that

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Speaker 1: we didn't have room or budget for that one.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even know that was Australian Australia.

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Speaker 1: It was an ass the invention, you know. Although the

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Speaker 1: problem is we wanted to interview a lot of these

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Speaker 1: people too, and the dual flush toilet man no longer

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Speaker 1: with it. But we did talk to the real Stephen Bradbury,

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Speaker 1: so you know, it was a great chance to hear

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Speaker 1: him tell his amazing, jaw dropping, blood soak story of

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Speaker 1: even getting onto that Olympic ice in the first place,

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Speaker 1: and then I get to pretend to be Stephen Bradbury

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Speaker 1: bursting into song as well. It was a joyous show.

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Speaker 1: To make. Really did you wear the lycra? I did

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Speaker 1: for every scene? Well, we thought it would be funny

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Speaker 1: that Bradbury's wearing his lycra for his whole life story.

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Speaker 1: So even when he's cool, I'm dressed up in his

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Speaker 1: Olympic and I've got his blondeard.

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Speaker 3: This is going to be great. Australian Epics starts tonight

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Speaker 3: at nine o'clock on ABC TV and ABC I View.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Hanson, thank you, Thank you, Jonesy and Amanda. I

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Speaker 1: hope you enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it sounds great. Thanks Andrew,