The national smoke night known as the Midwinter Ball has been rumbled. Of course, you and I can’t go, not without creating a scene anyway, but we did manage to get a glimpse of the frivolity from a ‘leaked’ video shot on one of the more than 600 smartphones in the Great Hall of Parliament House.
With that many phones with functioning cameras, I doubt we can actually call it a leak as the clip had better production values than you might see on Channel Ten at the moment.
There is no truth in the rumour that Malcolm Turnbull clambered back on stage for an encore, ate at a vase full of flowers and sung the first two verses of Eskimo Nell for even more hilarity. And I am yet to establish if, in the latter part of the evening, they got the Crown and Anchor board out and those assembled opened their wallets and went hard.
Maybe my bandwidth is a bit on the slow side (thanks Malcolm), because by the time I got the video to play, all the good jokes might have been lost in the buffering – but in this morning’s spin on what may one day become known as the real death of vaudeville, the Prime Minister’s colleagues emerged to declare him the new King of Comedy… and not in the bad Rupert Pupkin way.
Full column here.
Crikey! Miley Cyrus has quit smoking weed.
No so fast old bean. She was talking about duck weed.
I figured you for a Miley Cyrus fan. I just noticed the header when skimming the news and thought “jeez that’s worth sharing!”
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/miley-cyrus-i-had-a-dream-that-i-would-die-live-on-tv/news-story/ae0a978bd616f08b28e0fd36317a86a8
Strewth! It can only mean Billy Ray Cyrus has finally quit singing Achy Breaky Heart. That song could drive a saint to drugs.
It seems to do something to the girls though. Damn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQIPdHMpjc
The laughter just continues with the funny Malcolm Turnbull, Mr Insider, he’s a real “funster” as he tells us here that “Polls Don’t Matter!”. Strewth Malcolm this is a side splitter from someone who used the dreadful negative Newspoll numbers of ex ousted PM Abbott to stage his “coup” and become PM! . He’s a regular Groucho Marx Mr Insider!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BgrwCj-EMQ
Weak as piss leaking that Malcolm video. A mate says it was Credlin…dunno but it makes some sense. Nikki would know for sure or better still Tonez. Credlin doesn’t like Malcolm…hee hee. Trouble is, it may have stuffed up more off the record material if pollies can’t trust hacks to share a joke.
DEBT:- the weirdest thing about the Looters and their half a trillion is the way they try to snake out of it and blame it on Labor. Christ, Labor had the GFC, sound growth, unemployment at 4.9%, higher investment and consumer confidence as well as a $160billion loss in revenue to deal with and the Looters have still managed to triple the deficit!. Here is what Smokin’ Joe said about those tough times:-
Joe Hockey, October 13th, 2014. “Friends we have spent the last six years dealing with the after effects of the Global Financial Crisis. It has been one of the most dislocating periods since The Great Depression”. And thanks to Labor we were one of only three developed economies that did not go into recession.
The way Scum Morrison screams and rants does not cover up his incompetence. He will not be going to heaven.
Nikki would know for sure . . . .
and she just smile that smile
Poor form from Laurie Oakes.
K of C is a very good movie. Pupkin eventually became a real K of C – maybe there’s a career for Malcolm?
Trump is prolific. Supplying the material for every comedian on the planet.
I love to see Merkel do Trump.
In what sense?
I think a bratwurst would be appropriate. In the sense of Myra Breckinridge and Rusty Godowski.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=biggest+sausage+images&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjuqrXfyMTUAhWBmpQKHbCXA4gQsAQIIw&biw=1314&bih=598&dpr=1.04
A really big bratwurst.
Ach Donald, deine Bratwurst ist also gross!
You have just presented the cue for Donald to revert to his ancestral surname of Drumpf, TV.
Merkel you say, Mr Baptiste, she got the cold shoulder from POTUS Trump didn’t she. Cheers
You mean Trump wasn’t brave enough to shake Merkel’s hand, he just knew she was going to rip his bloody arm off.
“You vant to shake hands Donald?”
she knows about the same warts that Mrs Trump has being trying to avoid, a quick slap and down boy!
Exactly JB. Everyone there thought it was a hoot. It wasn’t offensive either. The Don probably would have enjoyed it too if he had been there.
The Donald would probably just think Trumble was being serious and copying his style. He would be flattered.
yuk.
Ah loved this one Jack, right up your alley. Isn’t it wonderful how Malcolm escaped the lure of poverty and survived, not to mention the hilarity of a publican father and an ultimately absent actress mother which gave him the wicked sense of humour now so easily delivered. Not.
Anyone who started life as a Presbyterian and became a Catholic shows an extraordinary talent for changing sides without anyone noticing. I like the bio comment from an Oxford Uni Don that Malcolm would enter life’s doors without knocking. Maybe he could try that one on the Donald.
My advice would be don’t give up your day job Malcolm. Then again, self depreciating gigs at the journos turned mid winter ball have been the harbinger of doom for many, including Hawke, Keating, Gillard and Rudd. It’s not easy being funny, even if you’re not.
Nice to see a politician be intentionally funny for once (and actually be funny).
Old Laurie was slow off the mark with his post ball leak. Perhaps he has a BPH problem. Most of the MWB attendees were pissing their pants before Malcolm had even finished his performance.
Dissing the Don shows really bad judgement by Turnbull.
What may have been funny to those present, won’t be to a narcissist with a twisted penchant for enjoying vindictiveness.
DT has quite often said he has a ‘long memory’ too.
Oh dear Malcolm T, trying on a few jokes to get your cabinet to like you will only ever end badly once the Don stews on this silly send-up.
My regards Carl, Bella
Nah! Bag the big dumb arrogant bastard. You only get one Donald Trump in your lifetime, so whop it up him Malcolm, make him take it and let the chips fall where they may.
The Donald wont do anything, or we’ll tell him to whack his bloody JSF up his clacker.
Shouldn’t we do that anyways? 🦃🦃
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-05/joint-strike-fighter-jets-grounded-over-lightning-concerns/8326560
A plane for all seasons or as the less charitable would put it, “it’s not your arse and not your elbow.”
Interesting aside, the VTOl version, which we are not getting had a big input from old Soviet designs , Yakolev, from way back when. It appears in spite of the cold war and all the histrionics the Russians and the US designers have been trading military aircraft tech since the 70’s.
Give ’em heaps.
fear not sweet Bella, what you arent seeing is the army of Americans racing around the place, reassuring Australians, and anyone else that matters, that they (the American people) are more than one man, the (war) games are still on, and we still love each other. Trump cant shit fit over this alliance, too old, too ingrained. rest easy.
Just shows how desperate old Laurie is to stay in the lime light.
He has confirmed what everybody else believes – do not say anything to the press that you do not want repeated – present company exempted.
Two questions –
. Why the change of picture from a good looking firearm to what I thought at first was Apple’s new speaker until I put on another pair of glasses?
.I thought you were a journo so how come you did not get an invite to the ball – Has to be where you live 🙂
Looking down the barrel? Much more interesting and curiosity invoking image.
Interrupted internal thread? Hmmn.
As the astute Laurie Oakes commented, Mr Insider, it was only a short time ago Turnbull or Trumble, whatever his name is, was in Washington grovelling at the feet of POTUS Trump. Possibly in November Trump may visit Australia and watch the grovelling ramp up once more. You would have to be fairly “tanked” to find Turnbull at any time remotely funny imho. Great read Mr Insider especially from “So let’s have a crack” onward!
Turnbull does ‘grovel’ like nobodies business.
Weak suck-up that he is.