Australian “TODAY” host Karl Stefanovic is a genius of awkward television. You may remember his masturbational Wii curling during the Vancouver Olympics; more recently, he made headlines by telling the Dalai Lama a well-worn joke that didn’t register with the religious leader.
But the video below may take the cake: last week, shark expert Paul Burt gave an on-site report about a shark rumored to be terrorizing a popular tourist lake. While Stefanovic does his best to make the report awkward, things don’t really get going until the two-minute mark, when Burt casts a fishing line — ostensibly to catch the shark — and instead hooks a duck. Wide-eyed reaction shots follow, Burt frees the duck, and Stefanovic dismisses the whole incident with, “The whole thing was bull shark” — followed by a triumphant fist-pump at the pun (pictured). Nailed it, dude.
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I would move to Australia for this awesome news program alone, but Cracked.com has convinced me that the only aspiration of every living thing on that continent is to kill me and rape my eye sockets.
Australian TV is Awesome
No, it ain’t. Trust me on this one.
Unsurprisingly he’s was voted Australia’s most popular tv personality this year.
That top pic looks remarkably like John Edwards and Campbell Brown. I did a doubletake before reading the article.
That’s not a Today show, THIS is a Today show!
*pulls Hoda and Kathie Lee out of gimp box by their neck chains*
so do all the men in australia look like Hugh Jackman?
And as a follow-up to Watanabex – do all Australian women look like Keith Urban?
We sure do, Bex.
And they’re not all so pretty, Testiclees.
I’ve been to Australia twice and the place scares the hell out of me. Beautiful women, great beaches, and people are nice.
Yet you have to look in the toilet before you take a crap because there could be a spider that will bite you in the ass waiting for you.
I read that shark hunter’s name as Paul Blart. I got to keep off of Filmdrunk.
In Australia, their cable channels make a big deal about the one week they don’t dedicate to sharks.
Australia isn’t as awesome as it seems. There are lots of arseholes here. Plus most of the shows they play here on non cable(cable is like 50 a month for basic) are all the shows that were canceled in the US iPads year. They just started playing the defenders here. Ewwww
Yes, Australia is a shit country because of the price of cable and lack of quality television. Its a pity the apple store doesnt sell holiday packages.
If you visit Australia and remember some of what it was like,
YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.
Spazmodic is 100% correct.
p.s. Bring back GMA! (one can dream, poorly).
Either this guy or his brother have been drunk on live TV, only a couple of years back.
And, yes Kazzae: Nice place to visit…