Talk:John Clarke (satirist)

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I've set up a John Clarke (disambiguation) page because there are at least seven I've found so far. I'd like to simplify references to complete names when we have them. Would there be objection to my relocating this page to "John Morrison Clarke" as that's how he's listed on other pages in Wikipedia (e.g. Fred Dagg)? Please respond to my talk page. PedanticallySpeaking 20:19, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)

To Neil Copeland

Thanks very much for your message on my talk page about John Clarke (satirist). My proposal was in August 2004 and I never did anything about it as an Australian user, I believe User:Ambi, had written to me on this subject. I had forgotten this proposal was even still out there. Nevertheless, thanks for your kind words. PedanticallySpeaking 18:33, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Front fell off

Classic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcU4t6zRAKg --TS 02:38, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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This needs sources, it's not good enough just to give external links. Phrases like "an early high point" suggest POV without citations.--Grahamec 01:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Bushwalker and bird photographer

According to Robyn Williams or the ABC, John Clarke was an avid bushwalker and bird photographer. They give a photo of a parrot supposedly taken from his Flickr account: [1]. The photo is here [2], but credited to someone else. Does anyone have a link to John Clarke's Flickr account? Horatio (talk) 22:58, 10 April 2017 (UTC) It's possible that Hone Morihana is an alias for John Clarke, but this photo link is the only evidence for it. Horatio (talk) 23:03, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Mock Interviews

The article says, after talking of Clarke’s mock interviews: “This format of mock interviews was continued by John Bird and John Fortune on the British TV show Bremner, Bird and Fortune from 1999 onwards.” This seems to be both original research, and needlessly skewed. The mock political interview has been a staple of modern satire for decades, a form which Bird and Fortune had both been involved since That Was the Week That Was, Peter Cook’s Establishment Club, and Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, to name but three. Cook himself excelled at the mock interview, with his long-running character of Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling possibly having set the benchmark for the form. So while the sentence is in effect true, it is perhaps not needed here, lest it imply that the mock interview originated with Clarke, and those others that came after were merely followers or imitators of Clarke, rather than that others had been before, and all were playing in the same pool. Jock123 (talk) 10:07, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]