‘Waste of my time’: Sam Pang’s on-air Logies rant

He provided one of this year’s most memorable onstage Logies moments – but Sam Pang was not happy behind the scenes.

Comedian Sam Pang provided one of the most memorable moments at this year’s Logie Awards when he took to the stage to accept the award for Most Popular Actress.

A slightly sheepish Pang accepted the award on behalf of his friend, comedian and Fisk actress Kitty Flanagan, who could not be present at the June ceremony. He cracked a few well-received jokes at her expense, telling the crowd that Flanagan “would be happy to know it wasn’t really a very popular win in the room,” before complaining that he hadn’t been invited back to Fisk after filming a small role in the show’s first season.

Sam Pang, Most Popular Actress. Picture: Channel 9

The real Most Popular Actress, Kitty Flanagan.

But on this week’s episode of the LiSTNR podcastThat’s Enough Already with Urzila Carlson, Pang confessed he wasn’t too happy to be called upon to accept the award for Flanagan – and only agreed because he was sure she wouldn’t win.

“I did something this week that s**ts me – I had to accept an award on someone’s behalf.”

“She was nominated for Most Popular Actress and she didn’t think she was winning. In the category there’s heavy hitters like Deborah Mailman, with powerful performances – then old comedy Flanagan wins!”

Pang admitted he’d “had a couple” of drinks by the time he took to the stage.

“To pick up something on someone else’s behalf? I’m thinking, f**k, what a waste of my time.”

Carlson suggested he should’ve concocted a horribly offensive speech that he could have claimed Flanagan wanted him to read.

“She wanted me to read this: ‘War crimes – are they that bad?’” he said with a laugh. “I should’ve done that.”

Pang said he should've sabotaged Flanagan as revenge.

He may have been hating every minute of it, but Pang’s Logies cameo was undoubtedly one of the highlights of this year’s ceremony, the first time the awards had been held in three years due to the pandemic.

Elsewhere, Gold Logie winner Hamish Blake delivered a hilarious speech, while presenter Chrissie Swan drew gasps with her very funny drive-by diss of fellow presenter Karl Stefanovic, ribbing him on-stage for not having attended the rehearsal.

But Pang is not the only person to speak out negatively after the awards: Veteran Neighbours star Ryan Moloney slammed the awards’ treatment of the long-running soap, which comes to an end this month, arguing those in the In Memorium segment got more attention during the show than the cast of Neighbours did.

Moloney said he found the package of snippets from the show that played during the ceremony “incredibly disappointing.”

“We’ve got people who have been on TV for nearly 30 years each, and I think probably the least they could do is get us to say something … I mean we’re in the bloody Hall of Fame, that’s not how you treat a show that’s in the Hall of Fame. I mean good luck to the Logies really,” he fumed.