Norman Gunston interviews Cheech & Chong

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9 жыл бұрын

As this clip seems to have disappeared from KZfaq, here it is!!
This clip is an excerpt from The Norman Gunston Show, series 1, episode 7. Originally aired July 1975 on ABC Australia.

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@davidwestray8299 8 жыл бұрын

I was doing second camera ... on Cheech And Chong, over Gary's shoulder. I was crying so much with laughter as he sent them up. It's a shame they cut out the bit about "are you going muff diving on the Barrier Reef while your here?" That broke up Cheech and Chong. They couldn't believe Norman.

@rafmann 8 жыл бұрын

Great experience! Gunston's irreverent humour shocked even the most broad minded people. McDonald hid behind his persona and got away with murder because of it. Comic genius

@ReedBender1 7 жыл бұрын

Classic, thanx for sharing, what a great job you landed !

@TheBonscott78 6 жыл бұрын

David Westray thanks mate!

@Flipper53 5 жыл бұрын

What did Gary think of their 'Near Hash' lol... ?

@Rhythmattica 5 жыл бұрын

I bet thats not all they cut out.... I also imagine a lot of 2nd camera footage was from the shaking of you laughing......;) Great Story ! !

@alastairwatson3201 2 жыл бұрын

Norman Gunston was one of, if not the, biggest influences on my life as an Aussie kid! What a gem!

@trueaussie9230 Жыл бұрын

You could certainly do a LOT worse. The public influences on kids these days is very commendable.

@sexobscura 3 ай бұрын

I preferred Joe Bjelke-Peterson myself

@mickbrenton 3 жыл бұрын

Thank god we were blessed with the Little Aussie Bleeder!

@kathowed 3 жыл бұрын

Garry McDonald defined the 1970s in Australia. At least, the Australia I knew…

@strongboy7289 3 жыл бұрын

I love that they get the Aussie humour. So many Americans think we are seriously having a go at them but we just love to take the piss.

@RenegadeRanga 2 жыл бұрын

Gary Macdonald as Norman Gunston gave Cheech and Chong the greatest run for their money they would ever get.

@2394Joseph 2 жыл бұрын

Norman Gunston (in my estimation) was the funniest and most intelligient comedian/actor that Australia ever produced (I say that as a Pomm). It was extremely sad that he stopped doing the interviews such as this one. I used to roar laughing at them. To this day I have never found anyone as funny as he used to be. He had a talent that no one has ever been able to copy.

@marksharp5486 3 жыл бұрын

Loved watching Norman when I was a kid growing up hilarious spot on timing.

@aussieausdeutschland4245 3 жыл бұрын

Sasha Baron Cohans characters Ali G n Borat have got to be heavily influenced by Gary's "Norman Gunston". He is a comedic genius.

@GarboMoray 3 жыл бұрын

Zach Galifinakis, Will Ferell, Rhys Darby, Brett Kennedy, Jemaine Clement. That's all I can think of now but I'm sure the list is a lot longer.

@troubledspirit3328 2 жыл бұрын

👍🤣😂

@infrasleep 3 ай бұрын

He may have beenInfluenced by Gary's Norman Gunston ,but he never bettered him.

@stevehurl298 3 жыл бұрын

He turns Cheech & Chong into straight men.

@viennapalace 3 жыл бұрын

That's funny on so many levels... ;)

@zapkvr 2 жыл бұрын

Funny af

@dawnu132 2 жыл бұрын

Love Norman. Had forgotten how sharp he was.

@the_black_douglas9041 3 жыл бұрын

Morris Gleitzman was his writer in this era. I once read an interview with Gleitzman where he talks about how he and McDonald would forensically workshop upcoming interviewees likely responses to questions and they would script perfect replies. Gary would learn all the responses. But then he has the amazing comic timing…

@Alpha_7227 2 жыл бұрын

Dead set, Morris Gleitzman as in the children's book writer. Unbelievable.

@the_black_douglas9041 2 жыл бұрын

@@Alpha_7227 yes, the kids author.

@francosoliman103 2 жыл бұрын

This Man is a National Aussie Comedy Treasure.

@nancysinclair7087 3 жыл бұрын

Norman is the funniest interviewer .. still males me laugh

@Jason-gj1pu 2 жыл бұрын

Males make me laugh tooth 😆

@alonzomosley7 2 жыл бұрын

God ,Norman is a legend haven't watched this in years .I love his Ali and Guns and Roses interview too

@aileenbell2248 2 жыл бұрын

He was fabulous in Mother and Son he was the only Little Aussie Bleeder 😎🇦🇺

@micsunday14 3 жыл бұрын

He's so much funnier than anyone he interviews

@yorkemar 2 жыл бұрын

Frank zappa was funny. He invited Norman to play harmonica on stage.

@mistercut8331 3 жыл бұрын

saw Cheech And Chong live on that tour in 1975 they were so dam funny

@buljuach1513 2 жыл бұрын

The interview of Sally Struthers. Pure gold.

@ruffraff1059 2 жыл бұрын

God, he was a fabulous Comedian!

@pauliejay4161 7 жыл бұрын

"Up the mighty Blues" - hwock spit

@carollitzow8650 2 жыл бұрын

Ever the one and only Norman Gunston ,.

@laciLaszloM 3 жыл бұрын

Go The Mighty Blues.......the interview just got better when l heard those poetic words

@Digmen1 2 жыл бұрын

These were classic comedy clips The best one I remeber was when he interviewed Huey Lewis for a gardening magazine. !

@SPOOKSTR Жыл бұрын

When he started hocking loogies I laughed so hard.

@martinhastingsis 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Norman, loved his work. Miss his style of comedy and him. Used to time my joints to, just before he was on.

@UriahD85 8 жыл бұрын

Having a toke during a interview pure gold.

@F_Tim1961 3 жыл бұрын

@bofursgun maybe a Cone ?

@EchoBravo370 3 жыл бұрын

Which the ABC would have aired. haha

@pineapplesideways3820 3 жыл бұрын

Near hash like the near beer there drinking

@stupendous1068 3 жыл бұрын

Only during the 1970s could that happen.

@stevehughes1510 3 жыл бұрын

Gary was so quick..........a great performer.

@Sycova 2 жыл бұрын

I write down Normans name every election on the ballad and give it a tick,,,One day Mate!

@trueaussie9230 Жыл бұрын

Try putting it on the 'ballot'. 😉😊😇 No offence intended, just siezing the moment.

@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn Жыл бұрын

I don't know how many times I've watched this over the last few decades, but try as I might, I still can't be silent watching this!

@badabing3462 3 жыл бұрын

Little Aussie Bleeder with the dudes

@sandrahealey6385 2 жыл бұрын

I'm late here, but this is killing me 🤣 so funny and wholesome ♥️ Thanks for the reminder ♥️♥️😘

@paulgorman8071 6 жыл бұрын

Gunston legend

@ytthecommunistplatform.2675 2 жыл бұрын

Loved norman . He was so funny . People never knew what he was going to come out with .

@AFrayedKnotMate 4 жыл бұрын

Cool how Cheech knew about Vegemite

@zapkvr 2 жыл бұрын

His name is Richard. Youre welcome

@cabletie69 3 жыл бұрын

Great to see these. Thanks mate.

@christinestopp4441 3 жыл бұрын

Norman Gunston went to the same school as my ex. Aparently they had one teacher if he caught you eating lollies would confiscate them, and then eat them all in front of the kids. So Norman got one of those hard lollies that had a sherbet filled center, he cut it open and replaced the center with citric acid wrapped back up and left it on the teachers desk, well it worked. The preacher was furious and asked the class who the culprit was, nobody came forward so the whole class was put on detention for a month. True story. I believe the school was Cranbrook in sydney.

@zapkvr 2 жыл бұрын

Hilarious 😂

@danvincent2600 2 жыл бұрын

Never seen this bloke before. I’m welsh but my grandad was from oz. I love Cheech and Chong especially in the van made of weed

@christinestopp4441 Жыл бұрын

Gary McDonald went to school with my ex at ' Cranbrook High' Sydney. I believe Norman Gunston turned up and played a prank on the teacher which ended up with the whole class being kept in after school for a month. Because none of the kids would dog him in... I can tell you what he did if you would like........

@christinestopp4441 Жыл бұрын

Did you get it this time?

@palangdasi100 Жыл бұрын

Truthful

@critchley3819 9 жыл бұрын

Absolute amazing comedy. Norman took the piss out of them..

@Joebunkyss1 8 жыл бұрын

+brian critchley not quite....

@critchley3819 8 жыл бұрын

+Scott Awaywithit Well mostly. Sally Stuthers I believe was right on to him but naturally it took time to work it out, what made Norman so special was his surprise attack, simply no one knew what to make of him, to me he was a comedy prodigy ...

@slamonfpv 2 жыл бұрын

Watching Norman when I was a kid was the best all time aussie legend I miss that era so much

@martywest6388 2 жыл бұрын

Love your work.want to see more.

@kimsherlock8969 2 жыл бұрын

My mind wasn't opened to Cheech and Chong until I heard their comedy records from their peak time. Yes I laughed and would again laugh Humour AkA the 2 Cavelliers.

@alantopaz7951 3 жыл бұрын

Australia will never laugh again

@munchkinsmunchkin 3 жыл бұрын

I never noticed this before but......... "Norman Gunston" looks, sounds and acts just like "George Mcfly" from back to the future. Think Mcfly think!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@repentorperish1405 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when Muhammed Ali arrived at Sydney Airport and 'Bodgey Norm' was there (blotting paper on all his shaving cuts and all - slicked down Californian Poppy comb-over) in the media crush with his big microphone. Coming to the fore (his big microphone outstretched in Ali's face), Bodgey Norm fired off a few inane questions. Ali studied him for a few seconds, with a bemused look on his face, then said, *"Are you for real, man?!"* It was classic!

@WesW3187 2 жыл бұрын

Ah Norman. You lad you!

@desparkyn7033 2 жыл бұрын

Thè interview with jeff fenech is gold.

@strewthtomusic 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah there all loving it good times man

@carolynh8866 12 күн бұрын

Gunstun us a legend Watching Cheech Moran laugh did me in. I love how these international stars go through a process of wondering WFT they just got themselves into

@Hitman-ds1ei 2 жыл бұрын

Sadly the younger generation will never appreciate this

@trueaussie9230 Жыл бұрын

'Comedy' these days relies on vulgarity, belittling others and shouting. Doesn't require any form of 'talent' or 'intelligence' that a typical school yard bully doesn't possess.

@darrylkelly7958 8 жыл бұрын

Happy 70th Cheech

@douglasalan7786 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Been fun man. Thanks for the laughs

@DashSpaceski 8 жыл бұрын

TV days where the reporter supplies the drugs (Beks powder!) lol Never see that again lol.

@robertkopp873 3 жыл бұрын

BEX powders. Made in Queensland. Aspirin, Phenacetin & Codeine. Caused many renal failures until removed from the market. Competitor was “Vincent Powders” - coloured pink. Ppl thought “safer than Bex”.

@lysisfilms 3 жыл бұрын

@@robertkopp873 Bex is better!

@iluvugoldenblue 8 жыл бұрын

3:12 "where'd this guy come from man?"

@ScareFearTerror 7 жыл бұрын

...."cat"

@F_Tim1961 3 жыл бұрын

@@ScareFearTerror exacery .. where'd this cat come from man ? Real ghetto talk...

@waynejdiversi3084 3 жыл бұрын

Corrimal 😂

@stupendous1068 3 жыл бұрын

@@waynejdiversi3084 Or possibly Figtree.

@waynejdiversi3084 2 жыл бұрын

@@stupendous1068 I was pretty sure it was Corrimal, but could be swayed.

@millertas 3 жыл бұрын

Norman Gunston may have said 'Up the mighty blues' BUT Graeme Kennedy was a Saints supporter full on.

@nedkelly8162 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

@saturnsun203 2 жыл бұрын

Miss this humour. Hip humour 😆

@MrBlompod 3 жыл бұрын

Long long before Sacha 😃

@zelly8163 9 ай бұрын

Bubble and squeak...oh Norman!

@pauldunlea3669 2 жыл бұрын

Gary was the best ! Norman Gunston

@lukewhippy314 7 жыл бұрын

Love It!!

@sovietonion72 3 жыл бұрын

I wanted to hear more of that, really miss the comedy of days gone by, wonder if these 2 still perform?

@sandgroperwookiee65 3 жыл бұрын

They do. They've been touring in the USA anyway. Wish the fkrs would come back downunder.😎

@mattdread4994 3 жыл бұрын

@@sandgroperwookiee65 Dutton wouldn't let them in the country???? Australia was great before this age of sycophants running our country!?

@adriennehunt1799 3 жыл бұрын

Whoops, I meant a BEX 😁🐨🦘

@illuminate5 2 жыл бұрын

OMG I love him!😂

@leewright7623 2 жыл бұрын

Good times😁!

@bhuvidya 5 жыл бұрын

gold

@777hathor 2 жыл бұрын

What happened to Bex, my neighbours were really into them, most took about 3 a day. Have a Bex and a lay down was the slogan.

@trueaussie9230 Жыл бұрын

'A cup of tea, a Bex and a quick lie-down' got so many Aussie housewives through the 50s and 60s, whilst their US counterparts resorted to Valium and vodka. Bex was subsequently found to be carcinogenic - or some such, 'hazardous to health' anyhow - and banned in the early 1970s (I think).

@garyritchie3556 11 ай бұрын

Great for hangovers. Took 4-5 a week.

@bluewren65 Жыл бұрын

RC cola, there's a blast from the past..

@trueaussie9230 Жыл бұрын

The RC Cola girl. 👍👍👍

@ronh2889 2 жыл бұрын

SOOOO disappointed Norm didn't do the "which one of you is the Chink" routine! ..NOW that would have been funny!

@fanatamon 3 жыл бұрын

Gary is great.

@stevenedwards1298 2 жыл бұрын

Steven Toast has aged remarkably well

@DrMackSplackem 2 жыл бұрын

Whatever was happening in the background was just as WTF as the interview itself. @4:29 Holy hell, is that John McAfee?

@tynkirbell599 3 жыл бұрын

Graham Kennedy who

@SirSSau 2 жыл бұрын

The Navy blues CFc 💪🏻

@paulschmidtke425 3 жыл бұрын

Norman always embarrassed me ,,, still does

@glenphillips9068 3 жыл бұрын

He reminds me of my relatives...& me. I worked with him on on Fallen Angels in the 1990's.

@tuskedbeast 7 жыл бұрын

The contrast between his rapid sober wit and their real-life stoner routine is extreme. To my tastes, he's so much funnier. I wonder what this event was? How risky would it have been to smoke pot in public in Australia in 1975?

@ReedBender1 7 жыл бұрын

The public figures did it in private & the rest of us did it in public- in a circumspect manner of course. Beginning of the post-hippie social phase- individualism & irony still had meaning then unlike now ! Decades later Gunston had a long battle with depression probably coinciding with the growth of the politically correct assault on society- too much for a comic genius no doubt.

@paulw.9669 4 жыл бұрын

ReedBender1: Garry McDonald did, yes. If you mean the rise of the 'alternative' style comedy then, perhaps, it was a factor. His character was too outwardly polite on the one hand, and not obsequious enough on the other. He got lost in between.

@Kwanglebeh 4 жыл бұрын

@@paulw.9669 It was sure a factor for Benny Hill.

@mikenicholas9017 3 жыл бұрын

Gunston may have got lost but MacDonald walked straight down the middle of "Mother and Son" writing the roadmap for great pathos and humour in Australian suburbia. MacDonald may have suffered depression but he lost much for his art, as did many of his friends and cohort. I'm forever in their debt.

@shoopy70 2 жыл бұрын

@IWrocker here's another classic hahaha

@Mrjonofenn 3 жыл бұрын

That's bloody funny Fixing up the yanks

@roomum9829 Жыл бұрын

Norman Gunston, those were the days 😂 And Cheech & Chong are so young in this interview!

@kenoath6846 2 жыл бұрын

This is deadset old school 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

@trueaussie9230 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if that's because it's ---- old. 🤔 It's not 'old school'. It's the ORIGINAL that 'old school artists' try to emulate.

@stephenfrancisvoros382 3 жыл бұрын

CLASSIC 🇦🇺 🇦🇺 🇦🇺

@mccashmax9156 3 жыл бұрын

He’s like Narduar before Narduar

@fatso8437 2 жыл бұрын

BEX!

@You_Resonate 8 жыл бұрын

What's with the man you can see through the window stroking his hair with a chicken wing before eating it.....

@Joebunkyss1 8 жыл бұрын

+Sarah Kurkov the mirror was almost as interesting.

@ReedBender1 7 жыл бұрын

2.02 well spotted ! just a typical freeloader after the food & drinks. I polished off 3 plates and filled my briefcase with chicken @ same event.

@ongie9736 5 жыл бұрын

Its a lamb cutlet...

@TheTruthKiwi 3 жыл бұрын

Haha he didn't actually stroke his hair, it looks like he was just gesturing something.

@zapkvr 2 жыл бұрын

Wheres the interview with Joe Cocker?

@jackmag4056 Жыл бұрын

I didn’t know Gary was a Carlton supporter GO BLUES !

@finddeniro 2 жыл бұрын

Testimony at the Amber & Johnny Case ?

@MeCooper 4 жыл бұрын

lol Chong just casually smoking a pipe. XD Even today that'd be awkward with any other interviewer with the exception of the guy between two furns dude. _(Lmfao it's buddah! hahahaha)_ Hahahaha I forgot how different Cheech was back then too, He is trying so hard not to laugh XD I really miss the way the used to do that! ....Fk me I'm old XD

@adriennehunt1799 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone want a Bed and a good lie down?😊😄😂🤣😉

@deborahkrasniqi7279 3 жыл бұрын

What happened with him?

@Hale-ul8wb 2 жыл бұрын

Shimpal

@zapkvr 2 жыл бұрын

RC Cola didn't last long now, did it?

@trueaussie9230 Жыл бұрын

Longer than it should have. 😉😊😇 Memories of the RC Cola girl still linger. 👍

@gusprieto8045 2 жыл бұрын

Draft Dodger sss

@erepsekahs 2 жыл бұрын

May God save us from this 'ha-ha funnyman' interviewer.

@nickpotter3794 4 жыл бұрын

@greenaum 3 жыл бұрын

Hate to say it, Norm, but that comb-over is NOT working. When it rains you must be long haired on one side, short on the other, and shiny on top, perhaps you possess a hat for these occasions. Your bald-over is second only to the weird confection Donald Trump wears on his head, god alone knows how much hairspray he must use to keep it all whipped up like that. I wonder if when Donald was on his TV show cameramen had orders to only shoot him from certain angles. The 70s were _weird_ for people's appearances. Remember that doctor off the Young Doctors with the same problem, only a massive dome of a head? Mega-napper. The primitive cameras used to saturate at the lights reflecting directly off his bald head, looked trippy like he was a magical elf or something. And they all, including Norm here, looked so sweaty! Did nobody have a bath in that decade? How did nobody complain about any of that?