The Chaser Report
The Chaser
Are you sick of news you can trust? For over 200 years, The Chaser has been the world's leading source of news you can't trust.The Chaser Report offers a satirical look at Australian and world news and culture, along with occasional confessions of parenting and business failures, the latter often involving an amusingly large number of unsold avocado pool toys.The show is hosted each day by two of the satirical comedy group’s co-founders, Charles Firth and Dom Knight, along with occasional cameos from more talented, less available Chaser colleagues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Dec 6, 2023 • 18min
How Should We Prank King Charles? | Sami Shah
Sami Shah of News Weakly joins Dom Knight to discuss the royal family and King Charles and Queen Camilla's trip to Australia next year. Obviously the first question to come up is how should we prank them. AFP, if you're listening, we're joking ;) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 5, 2023 • 11min
COP28 President Supports Natural Gaslighting
In another "We Told You So" episode of The Chaser Report, Dom celebrates his successful prediction that hosting a climate change summit in Dubai, run by someone who runs a fossil fuel company, might not go so well. Plus a special announcement for all our Spotify Wrapped listeners to claim your personalised video! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 30, 2023 • 19min
How Crypto Billionaires Are Exactly Like Bond Villains
Charles and Dom provide an insightful explanation of how crypto is a Ponzi scheme, and bring you to speed on the latest crypto-billionaires to start facing consequences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 29, 2023 • 17min
Dom Hates Paul Kelly | Word Of The Year 2023 Pt. 2
Dom continues to tour Charles through Macquarie's list of words of 2023, and starts off with a highly controversial take on one of Australia's most celebrated song writers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 28, 2023 • 15min
2023's Word Of The Year
Dom takes a walk down the Macquarie's Word Of The year list for 2023, and Charles tries to guess what they mean. CHALLENGE: If you can accurately guess more of these than Charles, congratulations: you aren't as old and out of touch as him. Hahahaha. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 27, 2023 • 17min
Exclusive: Albanese's Leadership Spill Has Started
It's on. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 23, 2023 • 15min
How To Start A Podcast Shittier Than This One
Dom Knight, who is officially studying podcasting, presents a list of genuine reasons why YOU, OUR DEAR LISTENER should start your own podcast. However, as Charles points out, that podcast might not be very good. (Please for the love of fuck don't start one we don't need the competition.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 22, 2023 • 14min
We Bought A Zoo (Onto A Plane)
Charles Firth presents what he earnestly declares as "the world's greatest story". Listen and find out what's so funny about animals on a plane, and why Dom declares this as the last ever episode of The Chaser Report at the end. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 21, 2023 • 16min
ChatGPT's CEO Sacked And Replaced By AI
Charles Firth, who has spent the last 18 months ingesting all the world's data on LLM's and Open AI, tells you the (maybe) real reason why the company that created ChatGPT have sacked their CEO. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 20, 2023 • 18min
Optus's CEO Outage
CEO of Optus, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, has resigned to spend more time with her burner phones. In the meantime, Charles and Dom talk about how India lost the cricket world cup due to out-woking Australia - as will soon be reported by SkyNews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
