Thank you for watching me, a humble American, react to Hey Hey It's Saturday. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this show, I hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks for subscribing for more Aussie reactions!
The hosts of Hey Hey Its Saturday were Daryl Sommers and Jackie McDonald with puppets Ozzie Ostrich and Dickie Knee the voice over man is John Blackman.
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I remember when the show got removed within the first year there was all sorts of things on the news about people going out and getting pissed in the streets and causing trouble this is what glued our country together
It used to be on Saturday morning, and I think there were cartoons in between the Hey Hey live segments. This was probably going back to the early 80s (maybe even late 70s). Then they later switched it to Saturday night.
G'day mate, this was the most popular show on television for 20 years. It was irreverent, add lib, and suited the Australian taste. The "Red Faces" segment was loosely described as a talent show for people that should not be on talent shows. The judges were nice except for Red Symons, who was evil and had the job of ridiculing and destroying the contestants. In this episode, Red was not mean to the two little kids and that made it the highest scoring act. The show was free to air on Channel 9 every Saturday night, hence the name Hey, Hey, it's Saturday.
Hey Hey started as a Saturday morning kids show. Saturday morning shopping was a thing back then, at least in Sydney, so helping the parents with the shopping would often interrupt watching.
And if for some reason you weren't out partying on a Saturday night, and someone asked what you did instead, saying, "I stayed home and watched Hey Hey It's Saturday." got you a pass.
@@GreenDistantStar haha, in my house, there were fights over whether we were going to watch 'Hey Hey' or 'Young Talent Time'. YTT usually won, and we were lucky to have one of those whizz bang VCR's and taped Hey Hey to watch Sunday mornings!
Technically, Red's job was to go last and usually score low, in order to have final say as to who wins. I've seen a few episodes where he basically vetoed the other judges by scoring someone highly.
Ah Ryan sweetie, you need to watch a whole Hey Hey It's Saturday show to get it , it was a staple in our house every Saturday night and I miss it! Segments on the show I loved Pluck a duck Great aussie joke Red faces Mollies melodrama Then you have the music and international guest who ever was touring our country at the time.
This show was so funny. It was also where all the big stars from around the world came to promote themselves in Australia. There was no internet, Facebook or Twitter back then. The only way to promote was going on this show. There were partly interviewed by a pink ostrich puppet (Ozzie) and a face on a stick (Dickey Knee) They all left loving the crazy show, it was so much fun. The thing that made this show different from so many, especially the so called "late shows" in America is everyone from Superstar to cleaner were always treated as equals.
This show was a classic. Not recorded, broadcast live to air on free TV. Went for up to 3 hours. There's more video's out there and this is only one segment of the weekly show
it was actually filmed on a Wednesday how do I know because I went on the show. yeah it was done in the front of a live studio audience but not on Saturday night
@@jamied8678 Well how come on some segments when they invited people to dress up in - for example - funny costumes to come into the studio on the same night it aired. 🙄
Its definitely worth watching some of the old shows if you can find them. The entire cast worked like clockwork, without scripts. The humour was classic Aussie working-class, and characters like Dickie Knee, Ozzie Ostrich Plucka Duck were like crazy loveable family members. It would be outlawed today, but remains a favourite for most Aussies who are old enough to remember it.
The sad thing is television stations are there to make money and the young people have it all ,so if they're not watching they won't put the show on and the young people simply weren't intelligent enough to understand the humour
It was a family show that started on a Saturday morning for kids, but it went on for so long that the original cast (including a pink fluffy ostrich) graduated to night time TV 😂😂😂 where the adult humour went right over the heads of the kids and we all sat down and watched it before the different age groups went to bed or went about their Saturday night activities. I can honestly say that I was quite honestly moved to tears with the stupid off the wall antics of the cast. Dicky Knee was the pop up back of a head with a cap on top of a stick with comedic voice over. You should have seen World famous celebrities coping with him popping in and out of a segment. There was a floating Angel (looked like it belonged on top of a Xmas tree) with a voice over. There was “Pluck a Duck” that was like a prize wheel with a guy in a duck costume … you would have had to watch it to see the crazy mayhem. Loved it even when they weren’t what you would call PC.
This wasn't late night TV in Australia, it was prime time Saturday night tv just after the six o'clock news and it held that spot for decades against a host of other shows that bloomed for a short time before falling off the radar, but "hey, hey, it's Saturday" was always a constant.
I miss Hey hey watched it religiously every Saturday night! Loved it. 😍 I have to add not a show for today's Wokeness or political correction gone mad!...it is typical Aussie tounge in cheeky humour 😉 😜 Maddness and fun ! No one was ever offended those were the glory days!
Except the singer (what was his name) who objected to the guys on Red Faces who did a parody of the Michael Jackson with their faces blacked up. We were all stunned to silence.
@@auscop Actually no. I remember who it was now. It was Harry Conick Junior who objected. He said if that was in America the guys blacking their faces would get lynched. Glad we're in Australia. lol
I remember that, having the show on Wednesday night probably didn’t help in Australia but having Americans tear it to shreds on RU-vid and social media really sunk that ship.
3/4 of Australia would be glued to the tv for "hey hey it's Saturday" every week. That was just one of the segments and you NEED to see Dickie and Ozzie. So flipping hilarious
No I will not accept an abbreviation for Hey Hey It's Saturday that is completely ridiculous and so millennial I want to vomit. Seriously I'm sure you spent 12 hours a day on social media but you cant right Hey Hey It's Saturday. And there was nothing wrong with the humour it's just millennials are too soft and got offended by everything so there was no point
In Australia, when you "donate" blood...you don't get paid for it because you donated it (gave it for free). I think all donations of blood in Australia are by people who give it for free.
Yes but unfortunately due to the stereotyping certain members of the community can't give blood despite wanting to . It's ridiculous that gay men can not give blood
It’s not a donation if you get paid for it. Here in Aus we give blood for free. We donate our blood out of the goodness of our hearts to help save others. We don’t need to be paid to do the right thing.
This is Red Faces, which was a segment on Hey Hey. It was just a bity of fun and people came on and did silly things, as you can see here. Hey Hey was an Aussie must watch on Saturday nights. People held Hey Hey parties and I feel comfortable in saying probably half the population tuned in every Saturday night. I also feel comfortable in saying that there has never been anything like it anywhere else. It was (as they say) the goat. BTW Adelaide (AD-EL-AID) is the capital city of South Australia
There has always been talent shows as I'm sure you're quite aware. but one of the originals was new faces run by Bert Newton where Paul Hogan got his start. Red faces was a send-up of that . Now there was a guy called Bernard King who used to tell everybody they were hopeless so Reds job was to be the mean Bernard King
Ohh man this was the best show ever! Miss it so much. Grew up NEVER missing an epp. If i could find full epp's I would watch it again. This was just the talent section they used to do. The guy doing the drawings super fast and flashing them up did that throughout the whole show. Everything in the show was done like that on purpose and made it even more brilliant! Ahhhhh SO DAMN GOOD.
This is just barely a glimpse of the great show that lasted over 25 years! The musical talent, comedy and heart of the show was just amazing, it was a great era I miss, and yes some of the wicked humour would be definitely cancelled in today's culture but it's just a part of history now. I loved Plucka Duck and Chook Lotto, Dickie Knee (the blue hatred puppet), Andrew Fyfe the cartoonist, John Blackman the voice over commentator, and Molly Meldrum the music reviews man! Thanks for bringing back such very fond memories!
"He's being soft on the little boys" Red is never soft, even on kids. He will gong 'em out in the first 5 seconds with no remorse. And a 9 from Red is unheard of. They got him with the Crows song.
Wow...Ripped off!!! At mine we got pies and sausage rolls, packets of original or honey soy chips, Freddos, cakes, juice, Nippies flavoured milks, and More
I worked on this show a couple of times as a singer.. once backing 'Reba' in the 90's, & again in the Hey Hey band for a more recent comeback special. It's a completely LIVE 2 hour show with lots of crazy segments & guests. Most of it was spontaneous improv, which made it more fun to do. I'd love the show to return, but I can imagine the censors would be all over it now days.
Yeah man it used to be a great show i used to watch it as a kid on Saturday morning then it went to Saturday night's and it was a great show for adults to 🙂👍
Australia's health system doesn't run on a for-profit system. When we donate blood, we genuinely donate it, we don't sell it by getting money to do it. Adelaide: Capital city of South Australia.
It started as a Saturday morning cartoon hosting show for kids in the early 70's and later morphed into a Saturday night entertainment show. Ran for decades.
You should also really take a look at two other acts that were on Hey Hey It's Saturday's Red Faces. The bob sled team and the music men. They were absolutely fantastic, so funny
Happy arvo to you, your wife and Jace! Red Faces was a little like the crap auditions in American Idol. Yes, we can give plasma but we don’t get paid (or I didn’t, someone correct me if I’m wrong).
You’re correct, no payment but cup of tea & big cookie is good enough for me! I squeeze my hand hard so that I can get out fast! My fastest is 8 minutes for whole blood!
Is Ryan ready yet for Roy and HG? Is Club Buggery in his future? I say *YES*, and look forward to seeing some reactions to that. And some Clarke and Dawe for good measure.
As well as / instead of Club Buggery, we've also got the Sydney 2000 Olympics commentary. I can't watch the men's gymnastics now without breaking out into childish giggles. And for Clarke and Dawe, "The front fell off" surely has to be Ryan's starting point!
you haven't chosen the best clip but this was the best variety show back in the day and there's nothing like it, i still rewatch the best of clips on youtube
Daryl hosted kids cartoon segment. From memory first as morning segment, possibly Saturdays finally afternoon cartoons. That grew into an evening show that became very popular for the older kids (Adults) with lots of fun.
Try The Jimeoin Show (especially the Cooking Show part), or the original DAAS Dough Anthony All Stars from the 1990s-2000s, or the Umbilical Brothers or Uncle Arthur. All crazy shows/comedy acts that were very popular and off- beat. Australia didn’t have cable/pay TV for ages. Back in the heyday of these shows there were only 3 commercial TV networks, which is why so many Australians were watching the same shows and they were cultural phenomena. Anyone remember watching The Big Gig back on the ABC in the 90s?!
Aussies love to 'take the piss' outta everything. Hey Hey ran between 1971 - 1989 and was very popular mostly for not taking itself - or anyone else- too seriously. {You've probably picked up already that this is virtually a requirement for Australian Citizenship. } Red Faces was a segment that was a spoof on actual talent shows - where they'd pick those who would - often deliberately - but just as often not... get up and embarrass themselves on National TV. Hence "Red Faces'. Red Symonds { a TV & Radio presenter & former member of the much loved Skyhooks band } was the Lead 'Mean' Judge - with rotating other celeb judges from week to week. Yes, Adelaide, Capital city of South Australia, is the home of The Crows Football Club. Car Manufacturing in Australia came to a halt when first Holden [2000] & then the Toyota [2017] manufacturing plants were shut down.
Ahhhh this brings back so many memories. Used to sing for a living way back in the eighties and the group I was in {Confined Quarters} appeared on Hey Hey its Saturday as special guests a couple of times. It was just as crazy being on the show as watching it. Great bunch of people {cast} great fun and great memories. Before I was singing fulltime, we would always watch this having pre drinks before going out clubbing with friends.
Started off as a Saturday morning kids cartoon show in Victoria in 1971, Moved to a Saturday night variety show in 1984 ran until 1999. It was a must watch show, People would watch it before going out for the night.
Hey Hey it’s Saturday was a variety show that ran for 20/30!years. It was on every Saturday night 6.30-8.30pm and everyone would watch it either religiously or from time to time. It was very funny it was a “family” show but the jokes were mostly for the adults.
Ryan you are terrific. I loved when you learnt how to say emu properly. Now the thing you called a porcupine was actually an echidna. And in case you are ever asked a baby echidna is called a “ puggle “ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Guaranteed to give you a good laugh on a Saturday night. Such a fun show and the Red Faces segment was always hilarious whether from the acts, the judges, and the banter between them all.
One of the stage hands was ‘a bit of an artist’. One day he did a little cartoon of something that occurred on stage and the camera flashed on it. The rest is history. Throughout about 10 years of the show the cartoons appeared!!
Happy Arvo! Hey! Hey! was just a staple in so many Australians’ lives. It had an outline with stock characters, international guests, recurring segments and was mostly improvised and went out live. They were fun times.
Hey Hey It's Saturday ran for decades and started on a Saturday morning before going to Saturday night as it's kids audience in the 70s and 80s grew up. It was 'organised chaos' at best. A variety show that was just madness. It was brilliance at the time and religious viewing for every Australian.
DAMN, NOW YOUR TALKING 😁😁OMG, WILBUR 🤣🤣🤣 Damn I miss Wilbur Wilde and Dickie Knee and Ozzie, damn they were funny lol.....Red Symons was one of the band members from "Skyhooks", an awesome Aussie band from the 70s and early 80s - Those were great times
Hey Hey was fantastic! It went from a kids’ show every Saturday morning, to an adult show at 8:30 on Saturday nights, because so many adults were hooked on the comedy! These days, Hey Hey it’s Saturday, is controlled by a club style membership and all their stuff is for members only, I think that’s in case they ever bring it back, because they have tried a couple of times, but only in the short term.
They tried to bring it back but realised the incredibly soft millennials didn't understand the humour and got offended by everything so it wasn't worth it
Red Symonds was a muso from the band "Skyhooks," notorious for scoring in the 1,2,3's on this segment. James Reyne (sounds like rain) is the front man from the band "Aussie Crawl," Australian Crawl is our own swimming style. Though aussie crawl could maybe mean, a very long countrywide pub crawl. Jimoen is an Irisn born and raised comedian, who sorta decided to stay in oz after performing here. That is your Red Faces judging panel for that night. Hey, Hey started out as a kids show, airing during the day... moved to night tv after it was found to be immensely popular.
The dash through the seven became common here when computer use and data entry became a thing (distinguishing seriffed 1s from 7s - previously a European thing)
Hey hey it's Saturday was great fun to watch every Saturday night. You should look up Pluck-a-Duck that was another part of this show. Plucker was hilarious 😂
PS. I donated blood for most of my adult life and we don’t get paid for it. My sister lived 2 houses from me, my best friend across the road. They both had rare blood groups and I was a Universal Donor which means anyone can have mine. Every time our hospital got low they sent an Ambulance to pick us up. We were supposed to get juice and something small to eat but I didn’t. My sister never had enough blood for herself so they took it anyway and kept her in hospital until she was strong enough to walk. Usually 24 hours of feeding her and liquids was long enough. Once I had to take my 3 year old daughter and she was very intelligent, still is. They put us on high tables and the bag we were filling was underneath us on a hook. She asked what was in my arm and the tube so I told her, then she asked where it was going so I told her to follow the tube to the bag. I heard her scream, she unplugged the tube, stood up with the tube in her hand still pumping my blood out. Her very blonde hair was red and she told me she had saved me before I was empty. Should have see the Nurses face but she told me to bring her. We do that just to help other people. Another Aussie quirky thing we do.
Thank you for the blast from the past. I loved this show growing up. Those days there was no such thing as Cable. Those shows were just on free to air and we had 4 channels: 10, 9, 7 and abc(2).
Grew up in the 80's. in Sydney and yes absolute nostalgia here!!! Fond memories of this extraordinary Aussie program - how times were different back there - one of my high school music teachers actually went ON Red Faces and his act was amazing - he stuck a rubber glove in his trumpet and as he started playing , each finger would expand !!!!! til the whole thing inflated hahaha Couldn't believe that was my year 8 music teacher out of western Sydney!! Anyways, love your channel and brings a tear to the eye as a 40 plus year old having grown up with all this educational entertainment and an insight into the Aussie culture and humour!!! Cheers mate!
The guy singing at the start was the sax player in a band called OL’ 55, the judges were James Reyne from an Aussie band called Australian crawl, Jimeion is an Irish comedian who lives in Australia and Red Simmons is the ex Guitarist from another band who were big in the seventies called Skyhooks, The segment of the show was called red faces for 2 reasons, one because it meant to be a tongue in cheek talent show, embarrassing, and reason 2 was the only permanent judge was Red Simmons, it was Reds segment to star on because he was a member of the backing band.
13:00 I was laughing like a Loon as you were confused whilst 'Adelaide Crows' was all over the screen. Adelaide. Capital of South Australia. Luv ya work, mate. LOL
"Red Faces" was a small segment on a 2.5 hour show called "Hey Hey, It's Saturday", and aside from a few misses, this show was very funny and generally entertaining even though it was unscripted, largely because the talent were mostly quick witted comedians. The segment was named as a parody of a well known talent scouting show that ran on the same network called "New Faces", hosted by Bert Newton, who was good friends with the host of this show, Darryl Somers, having a good-natured joke at his friend's expense, precisely because the talent was pretty terrible. "Red Faces" is also obviously a synonym for embarrassment, giving the segment name a double meaning, but it had a TRIPLE meaning since the head judge (who always had a sarcastic comment and a low score to give) was named Red Symons, and was the only consistent judge week-to-week. As an aside, Red Symons is not only a funny guy, he is also a talented saxophonist who played with the band (the lead singer and guitarist being Wilbur Wilde - cannot for the life of me remember the name of the band though; maybe "Wilbur's Wilds?), and an accomplished journalist. As to why this was the HIGHEST score ever, Red gave the boys a 9, which was unheard of, he generally gave 3 or less. There was another 27 out of 30 once awarded at a live performance in Perth for an act called "Great Expectations", but Red only awarded a 7, hence I think the title of this clip. Having said that, I DID once see Red write on a card "Enough to win", but I think the bar was pretty low on that occasion. Incidently, the other 2 judges on the panel on this occasion were James Reyne, the lead singer and guitarist of a well known band called Australian Crawl, although at this time he was on his solo career, and Jimoein, an ex-pat Irish comedian. Both of them were guests on Hey, Hey that week, and as such were the 2 extra judges besides Red. There were some genuinely and surprisingly good acts that came on Red Faces over the years, usually because they were actually funny. You need to check out "Red Faces Bob Sled Team", and "Red Faces Crash Test Dummies". Another memorable one was a guy dancer who came on, and during the performance his hamstring went. The twang was audible, and it was immediately obvious what had happened. He came back years later at Daryl's invitation to finish his performance. Anyway, go look at some other Red Faces, in spite of the title this wasn't a good representation. Also, there's a LOT going on in the background in terms of doodles, comments, sub-text, etc, so pay close attention or you'll miss 'em. Pause less, listen more 😉😁
Ermagherd….y’all cracked me up when you said “Adeley dad”….. its “Adelaide” a city in South Australia that is home to the Adelaide Crows.. Keep posting vids, loving your take on us Aussies. Awesome!
Hello Ryan Was the crows is a Adelaide AFLteam name.I hope to hear from you soon. 🙏🏻God Bless you and your family 🌺🦋🌈💖❤️😘😊from Edith in cairns Queensland Australia 🇦🇺.
I laughed so hard at your attempt to say ADELAIDE. Priceless!!! And stop saying happy arvo. Nobody says that in Australia. it is only used in relation to time. eg What are you doing this arvo?
Hey, Hey, it's Saturday (as the name implies) was a regular, national TV show timed at 7:30 pm on Saturday evenings, broadcast on free-to-air TV during the 1980s here in Australia. Commonly called, "Hey, Hey"...
Thanks for the review. There were so many better Red Faces acts than those three; and even some quite famous international judges. In terms of quintessential Australian, you might like "Norman Gunston interviews Sally Struthers".
Yes, we went to Hey, Hey parties (on a Saturday night) and watched the show while trying to impress girls. What could go wrong? I recall Harry Connick Jr voicing his upset at a Red Faces act that used black face. America had a bigger issue with it than Australia at that time. This show was live and out of control!
The original skit from decades prior (medical students, I think) was blackface, but fake Michael Jackson in the later version (doctors, I think) was whiteface. For obvious reasons.
Hey, Hey it's Saturday started in October 1971. It was originally a kids TV show on early Saturday mornings showing nothing but cartoons. I was always glued to the TV when it was on. It ran for around 28 years and evolved into an evening comical variety show. 'Red Faces' was a sling off of an actual talent show called 'New Faces'. Hey, Hey was so popular in the evenings that people would have 'Hey, Hey, it's Saturday parties. You would invite your mates over for nibblies and BYO beer and make a night of it and get absolutely pissed as you didn't have to go to work on Sunday. The voiceovers and drawings were done by John Blackman, a very funny bloke. If you want to know more about the show, look for it on Wikipedia. It was one of the best TV shows of it's time in Australia. Some show characters were Ozzie Ostrich, Dickie Knee and Plucka Duck. Mention Hey, Hey, it's Saturday to any Australian 50-60 years old and you're bound to produce a laugh from them. The shows Host was Darryl Somers and his best co-host in my opinion was Jackie McDonald.
What is A-deli-dad? You should check out IWrocker - he actually learns stuff as he goes. We only have a handful of states (and capital cities). You should learn them.
There were a few car manufacturers in Aus including Mitsubishi and Holden in Adelaide (I think the only one left in Aus now is Ford in Geelong-. The picture that comes up after their performance is meant to be their coach at the time (Malcolm Blight)....
Hey Hey was a kid’s show and started out on Saturday mornings. But they soon realised that more adults were watching than kids, so it moved to Saturday nights.
Hey Hey was such a staple growing up, that was what you watched every Saturday is was a culture shock when it ended. I felt what am I supposed to do now?
Hey Hey was the best show. I was a kid and my parents best friends would come over Saturday night's with their kids and we'd have dinner and have a laugh watching the show.
