SCOTT AUKERMAN Mike Hanford PAUL F TOMPKINS The Mystery of Harold Holt COMEDY BANG BANG IN AUSTRALIA

This episode is quite weird and for "Comedy Bang! Bang!" content, that's saying something!
Then I made it a bit weirder. I hope Scott, Mike and Paul forgive my presumptuousness and I hope you love this video. I certainly felt qualified to make it, being not only a resident of Melbourne for my first eighteen years of existence, but also one of the privileged thousand in attendance when CBB came to my hometown!
There is so much more in this episode that I have cut out, to focus on the Harold Holt mystery. There is John Lennon's crazy business plan involving helicopters and Lauren Lapkus appears in the third spot as Whitney Peeps. It's only due to the order of the show that she doesn't appear here. Were she there for the Harold Holt story, she'd be a part of it, but sadly her great work isn't heard here, though sharp-eared listeners (bats, Nosferatus) will recognise her laugh, heard briefly in the closing. If you've heard the episode, you'll appreciate the editing to make this seem seamless and if you HAVEN'T heard it, I thoroughly recommend a Stitcher Premium subscription. Imagine more than one hundred "NEW" episodes of "Comedy Bang Bang" to enjoy! Well, you don't have to imagine it, just subscribe. I have no affiliation with Earwolf or Stitcher, but I'm using their 'tent so I s'pose I should open up the plug bag for them. A big thanks to both for allowing me to share part of this great episode. Hopefully I've given you an idea of what it was like to be there and what J.W. was on about.
Kudos to Paul F. Tompkins for never being lazy. He could've just come up with any crazy story concerning anywhere or any event and it would've been enormously entertaining, but he went the extra mile, coming up with an audience-appropriate tale, taking on a seminal, shocking moment in Australian history that I doubt most Americans are even aware of. Trust Tompkins, always stretching himself, giving his crime-fighter J.W. Stillwater (originally a stretch himself making his first appearance at a live show ala Big Chunky Bubbles and The Contraptionaire) the task of solving Australia's greatest mystery. I'm sure for PFT, it was worth it to hear the roar when the audience caught on!