History Series / TheLateShow1992

* DisappearingBox: In the sketch with Santo as a magician, he attempts a disappearing trick, which consists of Mick stepping him into the box and "disappearing" for less than a second before Santo pulls back the curtain and says "He's back!"

* BriefAccentImpersonation: In the dinner party sketch, one of the guests is the recently returned traveller, who had somehow picked up an English accent after only two weeks in London.

* ClusterBleepBomb: A parody trailer for Creator/DavidMamet's ''[[Theatre/GlengarryGlenRoss Glengarry Glen Ridge]]'', which ends with Glen Ridge walking in and shaming everyone for their bad language, which they immediately stop.

* {{Corpsing}}: Jane Kennedy was prone to this in the Geoff and Terry segments, which is apparently what Rob and Santo were going for.

* AlmostFamousName: As a RunningGag in the second series, each episode ended with Tony announcing that Mick had booked a famous singer, only for Mick to admit that he had screwed up and booked a lesser celebrity with a vaguely similar name. Among others, Pete Smith performed "[[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Dude Looks Like a Lady]]," Mike Whitney performed "[[Music/WhitneyHouston I Will Always Love You]]" and Simon Townsend performed "[[Music/TheWho Who Are You?]]". Taken UpToEleven when Mick was supposed to book Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung and ended up with Al Grassby, Leo "Lucky" Grills, Christopher "[[Series/HeyDad Nudge]]" Truswell and Gwen Plumb.

* GagDub: Two recurring sketches, ''Series/TheOldenDays'', based on the historical drama ''Series/Rush1974'' in season 1, and ''Series/{{Bargearse}}'', based on the cop show ''Series/Bluey1976'', in season 2. After the last episode of the former, they cut to Mick and Tony in the studio complaining about the show, saying that ''The Olden Days'' only worked because the original was so good. The joke is that they're being dubbed over by John Waters and Brendon Lunney from ''Rush'', who then came out into the studio to great applause.

* ParodyAssistance: The first seasonhad a recurring GagDub sketch called ''Series/TheOldenDays'', based on ''Series/Rush1974''. In the season final, the stars of ''Rush'', Brendon Lunney and John Waters, appeared in the studio for a brief scene where they dubbed over Tony Martin and Mick Molloy. Similarly, the second season had a GagDub sketch called ''Series/{{Bargearse}}'', based on the cop show ''Series/Bluey1976'', whose star Lucky Grills appeared in the studio audience at one point to call them out on taking the piss out of him every week.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: In the dinner party sketch, Rob plays this kind of character, bringing up out of nowhere that he's not flying British Airways to London because they still fly to South Africa (this was of course during Apartheid). He also considers himself more of a feminist than anyone at the table, demonstrated when he goes on a rant about ''Film/BasicInstinct''. Tom then attributes this to this to him being an Australian Democrat, but Rob interrupts and claims to vote Independent instead.