Funny / Thank God You're Here

• ALL of Frank Woodley's performances deserve special mention, as with the time Shaun Micallef tried to bring Shane in to the sketch. Frank pretty much epotimises the Digging Yourself Deeper trope.
  • To start with, A segment from the show's unaired pilot episode. Beautiful.
  • And who can forget his brilliant performance as a Shaolin monk:
  Student: You once said an apple is harder than a stone but softer than a feather... ...What did it mean?
  Frank as a Shaolin Monk: That means that all things have a beauty, but all things indeed have an ugliness. You must understand the paradoxes of this world. Don't try to eat a stone. You - It'll hurt.
  • There's also his response to the Student who asks him to lead them in prayer. In Tibetan.
    Frank: ...You have learnt much my son. But you have not learnt to not be a smartarse.
    • If you take a close look, you can see said student bow to avoid corpsing.
  • And of course, who can forget...
    Frank: Uhhh...Hun Zing, son of Hung Well! *grin*
  • He also manages to pull a comedic Screw This, I'm Outta Here during a group challenge. The trigger: "We will need to conduct police checks because you will be working with children."
  • It's common for the performers to guess what they will walk into based on their costume. However, Frank Woodley's suggestion of what he'll be with the bald cap turns into a dead-on impression of Peter Garrett (frontman for the band Midnight Oil)
• Three words: "Nah, mate - LEGEND!"
• Some of the situation that the show forces on the performer is absolutely hilarious. There's one part in season 1 regarding guest performer Alan Brough. In here, he's forced to play a.....questionable politician with past accomplishments such as: planning to introduce compulsory national service for people over the age of 10, banning his workers for taking a toilet break between 9 am and 5 pm, planning to permit recreational whaling, having an affair with his secretary (which he accidentally say is a man), doing a fact finding mission on African poverty by starting on the Greek island onboard a yacht, having a photograph of him aiming a gun at a cameraman with his photoshopped face, and saying that he can come up with a much better tourism slogan for Australia. Miraculously the performer is in complete control of the situation:
  Alan while commenting on the toiletbreak banning policy: Well, when we ran for office, one of our slogans was "just hold on you bastards".
• Hamish Blake is the master. His caravan performance was so good that Niki broke character.
• The show spawns these once an episode, or once every three seconds if Angus Sampson or Frank Woodley are involved. A recent example is Colin Lane, dressed up as a heavily pregnant woman. As soon as he had to say something, he put on the deepest voice he possibly could. It lead to the following exchange:
  Merrick Watts as an Obstetrician: Obviously you don't want to give birth as a male.
  Colin: You wanna start something, mate?
  • Then they awkwardly laugh until Colin abruptly stops with the same sort of glare he would give his (former) partner Frank Woodley.
• Considering that the idea of the show is to give the guests as little power as possible, Josh Lawson is able to control any scene he's in incredibly easily and make it hilarious. Here's one. and here's another. Seriously, words just cheapen it.
  • The most striking demonstration of his ability to dominate the proceedings came later, in this indescribable skit.
  • It also started to become a sort of Running Gag for him where in his appearances, he would try and start hitting on or outright fondling the female cast members... or the occasional male cast member. He succeeds in this one.
• Matthew Newton is king of TGYH's unusual entrances. Coming out of a car that had crashed through the front window of a house, the sight itself is just so unbelievably funny but the best part was easily when he was questioned about his "L" plates (for overseas Tropers, L stands for Learners and is the first stage of license holding here in Australia) His response? "Nah, I'm a LEGEND!"
• One of Hamish Blake's sketches gives us this line, surprisingly not from Hamish himself:
  Ensemble actor: Now you've had Lucy out back before the show...
• Bob Franklin playing an RAF captain, who takes the scene Off the Rails early on by claiming that their target for a bombing raid is Target stores, and then thanks his costar for railroading him back to the script. "Well played sir. Back on track."
  • He does something similar in a later sketch, in which he's asked to explain why a tea lady named Irene is going to be kicked out of his company. He starts strong - "For starters, you're drinking too much water," immediately after Irene had picked up her glass. "Secondly, you've been turning up a little late, haven't you? Just lately..." His costar interrupts, saying "But most importantly..." He continues, "Most importantly - I'm glad you led away from that, because it was going nowhere."
    • The way he describes her imminent departure itself is quite something:
  Irene: You're sacking me?
  Ensemble player: Oho! (in denial) Nonono, not sacking, no.
  Bob: Sacking is such an ugly word isn't it?
  Ensemble player: What word would you use for it, Collin (Bob's character name)?
  Bob: We're going to put you down Irene.
  • Another sterling moment from Bob Franklin was when he was playing a revolutionary leader and was asked to complete the revolution's slogan (and you really need to imagine Bob's deadpan montone to get the full effect):
  Ensemble player: All men are...
  Bob Franklin: All men are.... expecting too much.
• Ross Noble's reaction to the dwarf coming out of the log and the reason he seems so confused when he finally gets out. (Noble had, earlier in the sketch, banged repeatedly on said log with his staff.)
  • Also, his declaration that they were hunting the evil menace known as bogans.
• Shaun Micallef 's entire 1920s era sketch. He nearly succeeds in dragging Shane Bourne through the door with him, metaphorically and literally eats his way through half the set, stalls by eating an apple, applies the most literal definition of acceptable targets ever, claims to have invented the pronunciation of "croquet" and doesn't just lean on the fourth wall, he kicks through it.
  Ensemble: Did you find anything worth shooting?
  Micallef: Why yes, I saw a couple of politicians, and my mother-in-law...
  • More Micallef goodness, in one All-In, Shaun Micaleff suggests that he and his fellow scouts should replace badges with tattoos, and declares:
  —"FREAK THE WOGGLE!"
  • And YET more Micallef goodness, in an Tudor-esque period when he excuses himself for his pants falling down, explaining it's not part of the cure and for no extra cost.
• To cover up the set changes and whatnot, they'll have "During the week" segments which throw the performers into a range of different scenarios. Some of the one-liners are absolutely hilarious:
  "Spray tanning: not the orange type, the really realistic type."
  "Is your body a temple? I hope it is, although I hope a priest hasn't entered it."
  "How do they get the blue in the cheese?" "It's cow veins."
  "This little [cheese] here comes from mouse's milk."
  (In response to picking a favourite French cheese) "Kraft Singles."
• Stephen Curry plays a horrible Corrupt Corporate Executive for all that it's worth during one series 3 episode. He makes fun of absolutely everything and eats the scenery whole. He mocks co-performer Ed Kavalee's use of 'big words' ('apropo') and looks down on the critics who are giving him questions. His quickfire responses are golden.
  Shareholder: "Our motto's always been "Proudly Australian." Why then have you moved head office to Geneva?"
  Stephen: (mocking tone of voice) "Because I've changed our motto."
• Tony Martin is a SWAT team leader and the team has just burst in on a family home, leading to this exchange:
  Father: What the hell is going on here?!
  Tony Martin: Renovation Rescue!
• The final all-in challenge, a seventies-themed game show with horrible fashion to match. Angus Sampson, after learning he's an unmarried twenty-eight year old who lives with his mother, spends most of it staring uncomfortably at the camera and does not say a single word. Hamish Blake is a TV chef who refutes claims of foreign matter in his line of soups because the mouse was Australian and from an Australian factory. Felicity Ward was named pop queen, which entitled her to do "lots and lots and lots of young men". Toby Truslove is a tennis player who puts his victories down to Hamish's mouse soup. Josh Lawson is a prize announcer flustered by the model in a bikini. It must be seen to be believed.
• Hamish Blake's turn as a schoolboy being escorted home by a police officer (played by one of the ensemble cast), who was supposed to follow him through the door. As soon as he's through, he leans against the door and refuses to let the policeman through!
• Julia Zemiro's character Simone is confronted by her parents over what appears to be a Wild Teen Party. When she tries to justify it by bringing up her excellent VCE results, her father tells her that that was 14 years ago, making her 31 at the youngest!
• The all-in challenge involving the funeral of one Lord Vincent Applegreen, particularly how Ray O'Leary's word to describe him was "dead", how Marty Sheargold's nickname for him was "The Applecart" and the fake British accents used by Marty and Michelle Brasier.
• Ross Noble in season 5 episode 2, when asked what the astronauts 'comfort items' are he responds the female astronaut bought her boyfriend.