Pointless’ Mark Humphries to present comedy segment for ABC’s 7:30
Former presenter of SBS’ The Feed and host of Ten’s Pointless, Mark Humphries, will produce sketches for ABC news and current affairs show, 7:30.
Humphries will work with co-writer Evan Williams to produce fortnightly comedy sketches for the show, which is hosted by Leigh Sales.
The sketches will run fortnightly from this Thursday, October 4. Humphries took to Twitter to share the news: “Excited to announce that @evanwilliams and I will be making fortnightly sketches for @abc730.”
Interesting. Ten and ABC have been doing a few crossover events lately. Leigh Sales was on the Project’s panel, Hamish Macdonald was on News Breakfast this morning and now this announcement.
Oh, hell no. This’ll be more Elliott Rhodes (Frontline) than Clarke and Dawes. (Google it, youngsters.)
We know what Frontline is. It’s part of the high school English syllabus.
Isn’t that the point? If it’s anything like Frontline, I’d be stoked.
Mark Humphries is essentially migrating his The Feed work to 7.30. He and Evan should be able to excel doing 5 minutes a fortnight.
And in other Roast alumni news, Nick Richardson was assistant hosting in a non-comedic role on “Go Back to Where You Came From” last night. He seems to be working towards Leigh Sales’ position.
Tomorrow Tonight is a reformatted The Weekly, because the latter is rubbish. It was also the ABC’s replacement for The Roast.