''Tackle Happy'' is an Australian
documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
released in 2000 about the live performance show ''
Puppetry of the Penis
''Puppetry of the Penis'' is a comedic live Performance art, performance-art show featuring a series of genital Contortion, contortions. The show was initially conceived as the title of a highbrow art calendar released by Australian Simon Morle ...
'' starring
Simon Morley and
David Friend. It was produced and directed by comedian
Mick Molloy
Michael Molloy (born 11 July 1966) is an Australian comedian, writer, producer, actor and television and radio presenter who has been active in radio, television, stand-up and film. He currently hosts '' The Front Bar'' on the Seven Network.
...
, whose radio show ''
Martin/Molloy'' had chronicled the chaotic 1998 tour captured in the film. ''Tackle Happy'' also features guest appearances by
Stephen Curry
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,
Paul Hester
Paul Newell Hester (8 January 1959 – 26 March 2005) was an Australian musician and television personality. He was the drummer for the band Split Enz for their last year together from December 1983 to December 1984, and co-founding member an ...
,
Tony Martin,
Andrew Denton
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,
Amanda Keller
Amanda Rose Keller (born 25 February 1962) is an Australian television and radio presenter, comedian, writer, actress, journalist and media personality, best known as the hostess of the popular Australian lifestyle program ''The Living Room''. ...
,
Pete Smith and
Jimeoin
James Eoin Stephen Paul McKeown (born 24 January 1966), better known as Jimeoin (), is a Northern Irish-Australian comedian and actor.
Jimeoin rose to prominence in the early 1990s in Australia, where he had his own TV show and where he still ...
.
See also
*
List of Australian films
1890s–1930s
Australian filmmakers were at the forefront of cinema and film, having created what is considered the first feature-length narrative film with the release of ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'' and other early films by directors Jo ...
References
External links
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Tackle Happy at the National Film and Sound Archive
2000 films
2000 documentary films
Australian documentary films
2000s English-language films
2000s Australian films
English-language documentary films
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