Triple J Disses Pitchfork, HBO

You know what? Australian satire is almost always terrible but we can’t recommend Triple J’s hilarious mockumentary series The Blow Parade enough. As the brainchild of The Chaser’s Andrew Hansen and Chris Taylor as well as Triple J’s Comedy Producer Craig Schuftan, the series manages to marry the absurdist satire of This Is Spinal Tap with the sad nostalgia of VH1’s Behind The Music specials.

Each week The Blow Parade “looks back on a vintage year from the golden age of pop, and takes us behind the scenes of the making of a (fictitious) classic album”. The latest episode, which you can stream below, centers on a Dylan-esque folk poet named Egg Zagar and aside from lampooning music industry cliches like the exploitative record executive, the hedonistic producer and the superstar with zero self-awareness, The Blow Parade team take aim at two Gen-Y media institutions – HBO and Pitchfork.

The HBO jab comes as a fake add for a new series that will make others feel excluded and inferior while the Pitchfork gag comes at the expense of a writer who overuses the word “visceral” and erroneously links Zagar’s work to Grizzly Bear, Atlas Sound and Animal Collective. So kudos to you Blow Parade because hipster jokes are usually tedious meta-LOLs about tight jeans and beards but this is actually quite funny. Check it out below.

Fake HBO ad at 7:20
Pitchfork LOLs at 16:30 and 22:00

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