Personally I thought it was a very stick joke......................
BTW - it was a rip off from this skit http://player.video.news.com.au/theaustralian/?j7ER7GzDbjXujhfqkmni_8vEJj_lG_WB
At least we all know what the story on Today Tonight tonight will be 
Once upon a time they were funny and scathing satirists. Now they are just attention seeking, nasty little w@nkers who dearly need a good smack in the mush for the heartless and selfish stunts they pull.
Stunts are NOT comedy, they are just attention grabbers and the sooner the Fakers er.. Chasers realise this the better. Better still - I wish they would just fk orf back under the rock they came from.
The show was going well until the last 2 gags. its a pity they have t ruin their own jokes. The Billy Connelly sketches last week were going really well till the execution
I just don't think they are funny anymore, they are certainly scraping the barrel trying (Hard) (very hard) to be funny..
Like so many shows once they get to about 2 or 3 seasons old they lose their appeal.. I don't think we will see much more of the chasers... And that's a good thing.
yeah its pretty piss poor form, poor little tackers take the piss out of people who havnt been dealt such a rough hand in life just not australian
What a cant taking advantage of kids like that hope he sleeps better.http://www.tpf.com.au/maw/giftcatalogue.asp
It's funny to satirise an idiot, biggot, stereotype, race and the list goes on...
Dying children... are definitly not on that list... I'm not some bleeding heart, but that actually wasn't funny in the slightest.
Just Morons and hate the idea they think that its all OK. Pity when they pulled that stunt breaching security in Sydney, yonks back,that one of the military, or cops didn't blow a hole in them both, right though empty goofy Mellon heads.
Real men dont do this sort of sh1t
I feel like granting some dying kid a wish now (not what the Chaser intended btw).
When they first came to air,i thought their "comedy" was crap and low, not funny, however my children rallied to the chase. Poor kids they have never experienced "The Mavis Bramston Show" or shows such like.
Comedy/satire is very very sick in Australia. I put it down to the Purchasers of programs, because what is being presented as entertainment to the public is just media induced dumbing down.
Video games of the biff & bash type dont seem to help our society. I cant see much comedy in that Rove bloke, Spicks and Specks and i could go on and on.
Being an senior and smelly old fart my science of humor is better than my attempt at balance. LOL 
I wouldn't bother watching them, ever, i get more fun out of playing with landyachts.
Schooling doesn't teach the basics of language nowadays, so kids are generally strapped for understanding and pronunciation, so they form their own communications, then accepting a lower form of social intercourse.
Even news readers don't seem to have their mouths around lots of subjects, the people who write the story's seem to have little general or or practical knowledge of life in general.
To me its sad...but that's my rant.....
The sketch served its purpose. To provide mass free publicity for the show's new season. No such thing as bad publicity in these cases.
Personally, I didn't find it humorous but it's disappointing that people rise to the provocation with their usual manufactured outrage.
Always find it interesting how we decide what is untouchable - cute, furry animals and sick kids must be at the top of the list. Hmmm...how about cute, furry, sick kids - now there's a ratings winner!
As a parent Id quite happily take to them, complete f***wits!!!
If they spent some time in a childrens hospital to see how heart breaking it is, Im sure they would change their immature tune. But then again, probably not
I missed nearly the whole show, only to turn on the telly right as that sketch was starting...
Not impressed, I won't bother turning to that crap again...very bad taste...
I expect there'd be many parents who have lost kids, or are losing them to cancer that would've seen this..I feel for them, and doubt that one parent would find it anything but disgusting!
Their show should be axed!
news tonight, 2 week ban by ABC management, stricter previewing by ABC board , reviewing an axing
Really, it was only the last line that went way past bad taste.
I actually thought the bit about the pencil case was quite amusing. I must have cos I chuckled a bit.
I also thought the stick instead of Zac Efron was even mildly amusing.
The last line was over the top because of it's obvious deep offence to anyone who is in or has been in that sort of situation.
But then that's what they do for a living so those who watch it have to expect it.
Just for the record, I didn't watch it and I never do because I know what to expect. But the fact that they put the show on means a lot of people must enjoy that sort of thing.
I watched a show this morning that had an interview with a media reporter...he summed it up pretty well I think. He also thought that it was in bad taste, yet mentioned that it was that sort of sketch that has given those boys the fame they're enjoying.
He mentioned that - previously they were in a less-prominent timeslot & going way back, nearly obsolete where their fanbase could watch them, enjoy their humour without the backlash of general population. Now that they're enjoying the power of having such a broad audience, they're going to have to "adjust their game-plan" to suit the masses...or "dumb-it-down a little" or they won't last.
...his words, not mine, although I totally agree.
Hate to see you tackle a full sentence.
Hate to see you tackle a full sentence. (WA slant on humour, just in case your wonder
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