I’m inclined to regard this as a youth encouragement award. I’m deeply grateful and will do what I can.– John Clarke on being accepted into the Australian Television Hall of Fame, TV Tonight, 21 April 2021
In a collaborative business like television it's basically fraudulent to accept an individual award...– Part of John Clarke's acceptance speech at the 2008 TV Week Logies Awards
...for a very long time the ABC was lucky enough to have John Clarke and Bryan Dawe present incisive, absurd mock interviews which constitute pretty much the high water mark for political satire in this part of the world. Their best-known clip is The Front Fell Off, which I’m assuming you’ve already seen, been knocked out by and compared to Ionesco and Joyce for yourselves.– Spinoff writer Jonny Potts on the long collaboration between John Clarke & Bryan Dawe, 21 May 2017
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