THE DREAM IN ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games Roy & HG 2 dvd

  I first became aware of Rampaging Roy Slaven and H.G. Nelson sometime in the second half of the 1980s, with their Saturday afternoon radio show This Sporting Life on 2JJJ. Roy is the former sporting legend from Lithgow, and H.G. the sports commentator par excellence. Their witty take on sports of all types became a cult show. Their skewering of the sporting realm was often hilarious, and I can recall much discussion of lesser sporting legends like Peter Oosterhuis. And then there were Roy's rants against the hierarchy of the NSW Rugby League, Ken "Arko" Arthurson in particular, and their lengthy discussions on the failings of the Shark (Great White). They would provide alternative commentaries on major sporting events like the various Festivals of the Boot: the Rugby League State of Origin and the NSWRL and AFL Grand Finals; as well as the Melbourne Cup and the Wimbledon finals.

    They first appeared on television on the ABC series Blah Blah Blah, backlit so that their features were obscured, as if giving faces to the familiar voices would destroy the illusion they had created. Soon though they had their own show, which showed up in the TV schedules as Roy and H.G. but was known as Club Buggery. It was followed by The Channel 9 Show (a reference to the rumour that they were heading to that station).

    As usual, once their talents and personas had been honed to a fine level on the ABC, a commercial network stepped in. For a time their show The Monday Dump was compulsory viewing. During the 2000 Sydney Olympics, their nightly late show The Dream was a huge success. This was followed by The Ice Dream during the Winter Olympics, and again by the The Dream in Athens during those Olympics.

    So to the The Dream in Athens, filmed on location at The Sparta Club in the birthplace of the ancient Olympics. The format of the show is quite simple: a few interviews with athletes, some commentary on the more obscure sports like Graeco-Roman wrestling and synchronised swimming, and a few well chosen words on the performances of Olympics "go to man" Jacques Rogge and drugs el supremo Dick Pound, as well as Australia's own Kevan Gosper and John Coates. Each show featured a different take on the medal count, a brief selection of images of things not going quite right for athletes called As It Athens, and a lot of plate smashing, Greek-style.. it goes without saying that by this time, the boys had their Olympic shtick honed to a fine art. There is some hilarious stuff here...notably the gymnastics and weight lifting commentary... but it's ALL bloody funny!!!

    This two-DVD set contains almost six hours of material from The Dream. The first disc contains 118:35 of excerpts from the first week, plus 56:06 worth of extra material in the form of full interviews. The second disc has 127:25 from week two plus an additional 28:15 worth of longer excerpts.

    There is a lot of material here and we have the best of this excellent series on these two discs. If you plan to purchase just one souvenir of the 2004 Olympics, this should be it.

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