Talk:Hamish & Andy (radio show)

Reverted top description back to what it was before, unnecessary to change it in the first place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.144.40.31 (talk) 21:33, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Is there any proof of 2 million listeners a day and 200,000 podcasters.

Brad Blanks appears on other shows too, he shouldnt redirect here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.208.21 (talk) 15:30, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Modified Single & You know it accordingly, as Hamish is sadly (or happily for some) single now! Doug&amp;dinsdale (talk) 21:44, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Removed Unsourced Segments
This article has gotten way out of hand, and thus I'm hoovering up all the unsourced information. I couldn't find a good source for any of this, but if you can, reinstate these into the article: Removed Content - Hungry, Hungry Heroes Hamish and Andy along with a team of food-lovers attempted to do a challenge where they will find certain restaurants that serve a special meal that is so big that if the person finishes it completely, their name will be put on a plaque or on the wall in the restaurant. Of the five people that competed in the challenge none succeeded.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil After watching the movie of the same name starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, the pair decided to go 50 hours without the use of one of their 5 senses. For the weekend of 6 & 7 February 2010, Andy went without his sight and Hamish went without his hearing. This was achieved through the use of eye patches and dark glasses for Andy and specially moulded earplugs for Hamish. The premise was that each would accommodate for the other's missing sense. Hamish became Andy's eyes, leading him when the pair were walking, or describing what was happening during other activities, including a cooking class. Conversely, Andy became Hamish's ears, writing down what he and others were saying so Hamish could follow the conversation.

Gap Year Green Room During the shooting of Hamish and Andy's Gap Year in 2011, the weekly Friday drive show was broadcast live from Andy's apartment (referred to as Andy's Lair) in New York City. In addition to the Friday drive show, Hamish & Andy hosted a separate pre-recorded Thursday afternoon show from 3pm-4pm. It was broadcast from backstage at their Brooklyn studio (a disused plastics factory) for 10 weeks in 2011, prior to each episode Gap Year on the Nine Network that evening at 8:30pm. This show often interviewed any celebrity guests appearing in the episode of Gap Year that evening, or teased location stories with audio previews.

I'll be adding more as I go along JoshMuirWikipedia (talk) 15:37, 23 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Blast from the Past
 * Every Wednesday, a pre-recorded phone prank is played. Formerly, the challenge was simply to keep the other person on the line as long as possible. Presently, the challenge is for one of Hamish & Andy to convince the person who answers that he is someone from that person's past. A challenge is typically added in which the prankster has to use a specific topic or request in their conservation with their purported "old buddy".


 * Most Content From Fred Basset
 * • Playing with his mobile phone's ring-tones, interrupting Hamish with comments, blackmailing and bribing him.
 * • Bringing Hamish's mother into the studio, who begged him not to read Fred Basset.
 * • Ringing Hamish's then girlfriend Anna and threatening to obtain a 'sex-ban', but Hamish ignored them both and continued.
 * • Tricking Hamish into reading in water and saying that he was talking into an underwater microphone, when in actuality he was inaudible.
 * • Andy has also most recently enjoyed employing far more physical attempts to prevent Hamish from reading the comic, such as firing tennis balls at him from a machine, having him 'egged' by schoolgirls, punching him during Basset and covering him in dog-food and unleashing a pack of dogs onto him.
 * • Andy also once simply walked right out of the studio and went home when the Fred Basset Segment started.
 * • Andy has also retaliated by reading a different comic: Snake Tales.
 * • To 'celebrate' Earth Hour, Andy made Hamish read the comic in the disabled toilets with the lights turned off, being able to use matches scattered on the floor for light. He also placed the comic in the toilet.
 * • During the See No Evil, Hear No Evil challenge, Andy played a pre-recorded message over the top of the Fred Basset comic while Hamish was deaf and could not hear the recording.
 * • Andy got Hamish's childhood idol Dr Karl Kruszelnicki to call in and convince Hamish not to do the comic, however, Hamish changed the doctors mind and continued to read the comic.
 * • Andy put Hamish in a wheelie bin and locked him in during the reading of the comic. Then moved the bin outside the studio so he could not be heard.
 * • Andy managed to prevent Hamish from reading the comic strip when he got him to put a wooden box on his head & began to pour cockroaches from the top. Hamish however got to read Basset the following Monday when he sneakily got Jack to play a song he had created reading out the comic.
 * • Andy also managed to prevent Hamish from reading Basset by talking with Hamish's housemates and offering Hamish the position of the drummer on the game "Guitar Hero" if he didn't read Basset. Hamish accepted and received a flood of hate-mail for the following week until he read Fred Basset on the next week.
 * • During one reading, Andy grabbed a hammer and smashed an LCD monitor in the studio which Hamish was reading the comic off, much to the dismay of the station's General Manager.
 * • During one reading, Andy used physiotherapy electrical equipment to electrocute Hamish's hands and face. Hamish burst blood vessel in one eyes afterwards.
 * • Making Hamish read the comic in a coffin, then burying him.
 * In 2011, the segment of Fred Basset was ended due to the lack of time on the new show. However to keep the public able to have the "Basset Experience" Hamish started a section on the website called the "Brotherhood of Basset" where he uploads a comic a week then writes underneath the comic how he would present it on the show.


 * Tell 'Em They're Dreamin'! (The Trading Post Game)
 * Every Thursday, Hamish & Andy play a pre-recorded segment in which they take turns to telephone someone who has placed a classified advertisement in the Trading Post newspaper to sell a particular item (the advertisement having been selected by the other person). The task is for the caller to ask five questions about the item, and try to work out what item is being sold. The name Tell 'Em They're Dreamin' is a reference to the film The Castle. This was an idea given to Hamish and Andy via an email by one of their listeners, Nathan Lauterbach.


 * Hey, Get Us an Autograph!
 * Hamish & Andy ask their celebrity reporter, Brad Blanks, to obtain an autograph from, or arrange an interview with, various New York celebrities. On several occasions he has tried to interview Robert De Niro only to receive abrupt, often monosyllabic answers. Celebrities will often comment on his appearance, in particular Ricky Gervais, who has made jokes about Brad's "sweaty" appearance, and well as Clive Owen who mentioned Brad's penchant for arriving at Red Carpets under the influence of alcohol.


 * Race to find celebrities; "Old School" Celebrity Crush Hunting
 * On occasions Hamish and Andy battle against each other to find famous celebrities for different purposes. Two of the most popular searches were to find:
 * A Celebrity Endorsement for their Greyhound, Fred Basset. The two celebrities were Paris Hilton and John Travolta. But by the end of the competition, Hamish gave up on finding Paris Hilton, and instead found Mike Whitney. Two famous celebrities whom two listeners had a crush on when they were younger. The celebrities were Taylor Hanson and Jennie Garth. Titled Celebrity Crush Hunt, Hamish and Andy were still neck and neck in finding their celebrities but on 24 May 2007, Hamish won the competition by finding Taylor Hanson.
 * In 2009, Hamish & Andy battled against each other to make contact with celebrities, so that two listeners could interview their 'old school' celebrity crush as a teenager. Andy tried to track down Brian Austin Green while Hamish was after Steven Seagal. Hamish & Andy employed several different strategies in order to get them onto the show. Andy pretended to be the owner of a jewellery chain in Australia named 'Cactus Fire', in an attempt to convince Brian Austin-Green's niece to get Brian onto the show. Whilst Hamish bought five cases of Stephen Seagal's energy drink Lightning Bolt, which cost him $250 and has never arrived to him. Eventually, Andy won the race to get Brian on the show, and his young fan Becky was able to speak to him.


 * JoshMuirWikipedia (talk) 05:35, 24 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Forced Connect
 * Hamish and Andy call two phone numbers (usually of celebrities) at the same time to hear the conversation occur as the victims try to figure out what is happening, then Hamish and Andy then reveal themselves as the pranksters. Celebrities that have been called include Kyle and Jackie O, Jules Lund and Kamahl, Warrick Capper and Stephen Curry, Hamish's housemates, John and Haydo, as well as connecting Horgs with a McDonald's in the hope that amidst the confusion Horgs would try and order food.


 * If You're Single And You Know It Pat Your Head
 * Once a week Hamish and Andy invite listeners who are single and in cars to pat their heads (Hamish & Andy also pat their heads, although Hamish is in a relationship). They also invite listeners to call in and tell them the results of the patting.


 * Two Become One (2 Person Prank)
 * This segment is based on the fact that Hamish and Andy's voices sound very similar on the phone. Hamish and Andy ring up a store or hotline, and have a conversation with that person trying to fool them into thinking it is one person. After each sentence a bell that the person on the other end cannot hear sounds and they trade sentences. After a while a longer bell will ring and they will trade words. Notable victims include Andy's Mum and Megan Gale (but she cottoned on almost immediately).


 * Bring Out Your Dead
 * On the last Friday of every month, the guys announce a new segment that was originally deemed to be not good enough for radio by the producers of the show. An example of one of the segments ran was "Radio Crimestoppers" (a radio version of Crimestoppers) which was simply a segment created by Andy in which he described a 'crime' he witnessed (in this instance littering) and described the perpetrator verbally. Several callers rang-up claiming to know who they were, including one man who rang up to say that he fit the description, and whilst innocent, was being yelled at and pointed out by passing drivers.


 * Hot or Not Bots
 * Each week, Hamish picks out a robot which the guys then decide it is hot or not. One example was a small robot designed to clean up crumbs.


 * Minus One Letter Movie Trailers
 * As the title describes, Hamish & Andy take one letter out of a famous movie title, and record a spoken trailer about that film instead, so far they have had:
 * • An Inconvenient Ruth
 * • Roundhog Day
 * • Dude, Here's My Car
 * • Lice in Wonderland
 * • Bravehear
 * • Finding Emo
 * • Lady and the Ramp
 * • Petty Woman
 * • Green Car
 * • The Man With The Ron Mask
 * • Old Finger
 * • Ambo
 * • 1 Things I Hate About You
 * • Dad Poet's Society
 * • Failure to Lunch
 * • Dadpool


 * Live Ringtones
 * Briefly done during March 2013. Each week Hamish and Andy bring in a musician to play a live version of a popular phone ringtone. Examples include the "piano riff," "strum", "harp" and "marimba" ringtones, as well as Bernard Fanning recording the "bark" ringtone.


 * JoshMuirWikipedia (talk) 06:49, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

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Restructuring this page
Hi, I've noticed this article not only covers the Hamish & Andy show (as the title implies), but also covers some of their other radio shows including Business Brunch and Happy Hour. I don't think these two shows should be discussed in this article as they are both completely different to the titular show in terms of format, time slots, etc – this article should solely be about the Hamish & Andy show which existed from 2006-2010, then from 2015-2017. Sections for the other shows can be merged into the main Hamish & Andy article.

Also, as other editors have noted previously, this article contains massive lists of unverified 'regular segments' and 'notable activities' with only a few having reliable secondary sources. I'm re-writing these sections and trying hard to keep a majority of these activities, but only if they have valid sources.

I'm in the middle of rewriting almost this entire article addressing these issues and within the next few weeks I may go ahead and be bold and carry out these changes. Happy to discuss of course, let me know if this is a good or bad idea! Marcostev88 (talk) 10:42, 24 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Update 3 July – performed a bulk of this edit. I moved content on Business Brunch / Happy Hour to Hamish & Andy so this page can focus on just the Hamish & Andy show. I will add back more of the unsourced content only if I can find reliable citations, if not, it may fall into fancruft . Marcostev88 (talk) 10:43, 3 July 2023 (UTC)