History Series / CNNNN

''CNNNN'' (Chaser Non-Stop News Network) was a NewsParody series by Australian comedy team Creator/TheChaser, which ran on Creator/TheABC for nineteen episodes over two series in 2002 and 2003. The show purported to be a live feed from a 24-hour cable news station, obviously inspired by CNN and Fox News. As with its predecessor ''Series/TheElectionChaser'', it was hosted primarily by Craig Reucassel, Chris Taylor and Julian Morrow, with the rest of the Chaser team in supporting roles.

-->'''Man''': I have no intelligent guess.\\

''CNNNN'' (Chaser Non-Stop News Network) was a NewsParody series by Australian comedy team Creator/TheChaser, which ran on Creator/TheABC for nineteen episodes over two series in 2002 and 2003. The show purported to be a live feed from a 24-hour cable news station, obviously inspired by Creator/{{CNN}} and Creator/FoxNews. As with its predecessor ''Series/TheElectionChaser'', it was hosted primarily by Craig Reucassel, Chris Taylor and Julian Morrow, with the rest of the Chaser team in supporting roles.

* WorthlessForeignDegree: In one of the ads spotlighting the crew, Harry Qing, a cleaner at CNNNN, claims to be a doctor from Shanghai whose qualifications aren't recognised in Australia. "That is why I work for CNNNN."

** The first episode has a poll asking viewers to tell them which country needs to be attacked. The "Evil Top 5" consists of UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}, UsefulNotes/NorthKorea, UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}, UsefulNotes/{{Libya}}, and UsefulNotes/SaintKittsAndNevis.

* UnwantedAssistance: One episode has Chas annoying people in public dressed as Clippit the Microsoft assistant.

* WhoShotJFK: In the documentary episode, we see how CNNN covered the Kennedy assassination as it happened, with Chris and Julian initially assuming the President's head just exploded, and Craig, who suggests he was shot by a lone gunman from a distance, being treated like a crazy conspiracy theorist. Forty years later, Chris still stands by his first theory and the book he wrote on it.

** Taken UpToEleven with the Product Placement channel.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** The last episode of the first series is a documentary on 40 years of CNNNN (formerly CNNN).
** The last episode of the second series is presented as part of a DVD, with the viewer trying out various bonus features such as an Audio Commentary, an Audio Commentary discussing first Audio Commentary, and a subtitle track revealing what the presenters are actually thinking about the story of the day (Kerry Packer's health crisis).

* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Simon Target's last name is pronounced "Tar-jay".

* ParodyCommercial: Several per episode, with a few recurring products such as the fast food restaurant Fungry's, Esteem cosmetics ("[[OurSloganIsTerrible Esteem: because you need it]].") and Boggs Lager ("Let's all get boggered, tonight!").

** Another segment had Julian asking people which country America should invade next by placing flags on a map. A lot of people put their flags on Australia, which had been mislabelled as "Iran", "France" and "North Korea".

** The last episode of the second series is presented as part of a DVD, with the viewer trying out various bonus features such as Audio Commentary and subtext subtitles while watching it.

* ConfusedBystanderInterview: Brett Aspinall in the Lunchgate episode, interviewed because the police chase went through his street, while he was inside the house and didn't see any of them. Which is arguably still more relevant than most of the people consulted during the episode.

->''CNNNNN: We report, you believe.''

* {{Crawl}}: The first of the Chaser's series to use this, which is usually funny enough to distract fans from the rest of the show. One episode even had a news crawl that summarised the original news crawl, and one had a news crawl for the vision impaired which basically filled the entire screen (in other words, you only saw three or four letters of the crawl at a time).

* OrphanedPunchline: Most episodes open on the end of a particularly weird report from Simon Target.

* AdvertisingDisguisedAsNews: The first episode of the second series revolves around an admittedly FrivolousLawsuit against Fungry's restaurants, who are owned by the same corporation as CNNNN. Naturally, the news segments go out of their way to discredit the plaintiff and make the restaurant and its mascot look like the victim.

* AdvertisingDisguisedAsNews: The first episode of the second series revolves around an admittedly FrivolousLawsuit against Fungry's restaurants, who are owned by the same corporation as CNNNN. Naturally, the news segments go out of their way to discredit the plaintiff ahead of the trial.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Charles Firth is an obvious Creator/BillOReilly stand-in, made apparent by the commercials for ''The Firth Factor''.

* ParodyCommercial: Several per episode, with a few recurring products such as the fast food restaurant Fungry's, Esteem cosmetics ("[[OurSloganIsTerrible Esteem: because you need it]].") and Boggs Beer ("Let's all get boggered, tonight!").

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: In the commercials for ''A Chaser Affair'', each of the stories are bizarre combinations of ''A Current Affair'''s most common targets (dodgy builders, welfare cheats, botox, exotic dancers, the Lebanese, fat kids, etc).

* RealTrailerFakeMovie: A few of these for other shows supposedly on Chaser Cable, most commonly ''Rita and Lin the Hyper Twins'', a superhero cartoon that's blatant right-wing propaganda, with all the villains representing left-wing causes like environmentalism and human rights.

''CNNNN'' (Chaser Non-Stop News Network) was a NewsParody series by Australian comedy team Creator/TheChaser, which ran on Creator/TheABC for nineteen episodes over two series in 2002 and 2003. The show purported to be a live feed from a 24-hour cable news station, obviously inspired by Creator/{{CNN}} and Creator/FoxNews.

* ParodyCommercial: Several per episode, with a few recurring products such as the fast food restaurant Fungry's and Boggs Beer ("Let's all get boggered, tonight!").

* WhoShotJFK: In the documentary episode, we see how CNNN covered the Kennedy assassination as it happened, with Chris and Julian initially assuming the President's head just exploded, and Craig, who suggests he was shot by a lone gunman from a distance, being treated like a crazy conspiracy theorist. Forty years later, Chris still stands by his first theory and the book he wrote on it.

** The last episode of the first series is a documentary on 40 years of CNNNN (formerly CNNNN).
** The last episode of the second series is presented as part of a DVD, with the viewer trying out various bonus features such as Audio while watching it.

-->'''Chas''': It looks like you're trying to relax and unwind. Would you like some help?

* UnwantedAssistance: One episode has Chas annoying people dressed as Clippy the Microsoft assistant.