Derryn Hinch helped Steve Vizard with his ‘Hunch’ parody only for it to backfire
Shame, shame, shame. Derryn Hinch helped out with Steve Vizard’s classic Hunch parodies, only to be punked by the comedy star on live TV. Here’s what happened.
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DERRYN Hinch says he helped out with Steve Vizard’s classic “Hunch” parodies — only to be punked by the comedy star on prime time television.
Vizard’s impersonation of Hinch, as the overheated desk-thumping TV host Darren Hunch, was one of the most popular characters on the sketch comedy show, Fast Forward.
“It was very flattering to be satirised like that,” Hinch told the Herald Sun’s SACKED: Showbiz podcast.
Hinch said when his ex-wife Jacki Weaver saw the parody of Hinch’s current affairs show, she exclaimed: “That is YOU!”
“I went back to one of the old shows, the early versions of Hinch, where my shoulders would twitch, and I thought: ‘Oh boy, he did that well. It was me.”
But Hunch’s catch cry of “shame, shame, shame” did not derive from Hinch.
“That was Vizard,” Hinch said.
But Hinch used the infamous three words when he did a cameo of Nick Giannopoulos’ movie, The Wog Boy.
Hinch said he helped Vizard on Fast Forward.
“When he was doing Hunch … I gave him my set, I gave him my gold pen to use it as props,” Hinch said. “We were very friendly.”
However, one night, halfway through the Hinch’s currents affairs show being on air, a producer noticed something.
“Hey mate, just have a look behind you,” the producer told Hinch.
“I look up behind me, and (Vizard) had intentionally not replaced the Hunch sign with Hinch. I did half my program as Hunch!
“I came back afterwards and said, ‘Vizard, I’ll get you for that!’
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