The Chaser's Age of Terror Variety Hour - Canberra

Where: Canberra Theatre Centre
When: 1pm Saturday 24 May

After heeding Today Tonight's complaints about the outrageous waste of taxpayers' money on their show The War On Everything, the Chaser team has decided to take some time off from TV in the first half of 2008.

The Chaser will adopt a purely user-pays approach this year, mounting a national tour of a new live production, The Chaser's Age Of Terror Variety Hour, from March to June 2008.

Like The War On Everything, the Variety Hour will include a diverse range of short segments, some of which will be kind of okay-ish. It will combine sketches, songs, presentations and interactive audience segments ranging from the satirical to the just silly, and be constantly updated to incorporate up-to-the-minute insensitive gags about the latest celebrity deaths as they happen.

War On Everything co-conspirators Andrew Hansen, Chas Licciardello, Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel will appear in the show. Chris Taylor has opted not to tour while under the cloud of a fatwa issued by the Irwin family, and will remain in an undisclosed location developing new television projects for the team. His irreplaceableness will be demonstrated by the inclusion of Dominic Knight, one of The Chaser's founders and a writer for the War.

The Chaser team is still in negotiations with the ABC about future TV shows. Their negotiations with commercial networks of late have mainly been over Supreme Court injunctions.

The Canberra dates are:
Wednesday, May 21 - Friday, May 23 at 7pm.

Bookings: Canberra Theatre Centre or (02) 6275 2700.