Yes, my brother, Robert, stand up comedian extraordinare, is now appearing very late at night on Channel 9.

In amongst his full time work, he also has a part-time job (3 days a week) as a runner for Channel 9’s QuizManiac show. It’s on between midnight and three in the morning. And while I grant you it aint the greatest TV out there… I get a kick watching him do his thing.

Basically he and the sound guy (whose a major SF nerd and referenced HitchHikers last Saturday night which went totally over the comperes head) are the colour to the show (where the aim of the show is for people to ring up and try and solve the quiz for money. When the compere (either a very attractive red head lady or a very attractive blonde lady) runs out of banter, which is often, she’ll turn to Rob and Andy who are usually doing something weird and strange off stage. At one stage the compere ask my bro to get on his fours and bark like a dog, which he did and then he showed her her arse, which caused her to pack up with laughter.

OK, we aint talking champagne comedy here and it is on during the graveyard shift, but if you live in Australia and have bugger all to do tonight at, let’s say, midnight, well how about you watch Quizmaniac on Channel 9 and see my bro in action. (Though it might taken 10 to 20 minutes before they go to him… the compere likes to warm up first and get into the swing of things).