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Maynard Staff Xmas Party & Easter Bonnet Parade

The annual Planet Maynard combined staff Xmas Party & Easter Bonnet Parade was just as wild as every other year.

I may have to get a permit for the parade next year. Which is a little regulatory overreach I think.

This is a behind-the-scenes look that non-industry types don’t usually see.

You can still enjoy the excitement and pageantry of a high class office social event, without anyone getting in trouble. 

2019 Maynard calendar, free download

The 2019 Maynard calendar has arrived to give you a year of frolicking on Planet Maynard.

Download this PDF and have it printed in A5, A4 or even A3 for a year of Maynard on the wall or desk of your choice. Click on this link and then save the calendar to your desktop.

Compiled by Richard Saunders, from photos found down the back of Maynard’s couch.

Not everyone has a Planet Maynard calendar, it’s average entertainment, for no apparent reason.

Uncool Yule – Dave’s Dud Xmas Discs

Prepare ye for an Uncool Yule with Dave’s Dud Xmas Discs, Dave Mulligan brings you a poorly thought out selection of Xmas goose that made the 50s, 60s & 70s what they are today.

These tracks will have you singing, dancing & maybe prancing. But you will feel the secret shame of Santa and wonder about the power of Xmas to compel this kind of music creation.

100% Xmas and 100% shameless, we love it.

Hooray For Santa Claus – Milton De Lugg & the Little Eskimos

Wonderful Day – The Chipmunks

Santa Teach Me To Dance – Debbie & The Darnells

Jingle Bell Imitations – Chubby Checker & Bobby Rydell

Monster’s Holiday – Buck Owens

Monster’s Holiday – Bobby Boris Pickett

Surfers Christmas List – Surfaris

Santa Bring Me Ringo – Christine Hunter (1964)

Where Were You Daddy? (When Santa got stuck in the chimney chute) – Christine Hunter (1964)

A Very Maynard Xmas season 2017 has begun!

Get tickets to A Very Bunga Bunga Xmas live show 19th December in Glebe 2037.

Great Xmas title. Where Were You Daddy? (When Santa Got Stuck In The Chimney Chute) Christine Hunter
Great Xmas title. Where Were You Daddy? (When Santa Got Stuck In The Chimney Chute) Christine Hunter

A Very Bunga Bunga Xmas 2014 – Part 2

Another Xmas show that isn’t for children. In Part 2, Tim Ferguson and Maynard bring you a Xmas show too far. There are more Xmas tunes to play and more friends of Bunga Bunga to wish us all a Merry Shatmas. Guests; Floyd Vincent, Christopher Laird, Rob Darby & Skeptical Richard Saunders, who helps me out with my annual Xmas joke.

Get some Herb Alpert into you with Tijuana Taxi

Tijuana Taxi the Sydney sensational Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass cover band are returning to The Camelot Lounge in Marrickville to blow your bolero jacket off.

Tina Harris has been a fan of Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass since hearing her parents’ vinyl records as a child.

Great instrumental tracks like Spanish Flea, The Lonely Bull, Casino Royale and This Guy’s In Love With You.

As a party was winding down a few years ago, she put some of those 60s albums on again and was inspired to form Tijuana Taxi. An eight piece band (with marimba) that plays a handful of shows every year to packed houses of people who can’t get enough Herb either.

Maynard quizzed Tina on what to wear to the gig and the best Herb Alpert track to play at a sexy party.

Learn about the inner workings of an eight piece band (with marimba). Including the correct use of latin percussion and the psychology of keeping eight musicians together in the cauldron of the Sydney music scene.

They play The Camelot Lounge in Marrickville on Saturday 8th December.

Tijuana Taxi’s Facebook page

Tickets for The Camelot Lounge

Herb Alpert singing This Guy’s In Love With You 1968 (with Herb’s preamble)

Tijuana Taxi live at Camelot Lounge in 2017 – Casino Royale

Whipped Cream & Other Delights album cover from 1965.
Whipped Cream & Other Delights album 1965. It sold over 6 million. That’s shaving cream, not a dairy product.

Tina Harris talks serious Herb Alpert talk
Tina Harris talks serious Herb Alpert talk

Tijuana Taxi onstage
Tijuana Taxi onstage

Fiona Patten from sex to reason

Fiona Patten, outspoken member of the upper house in Victoria has changed the name of her Sex Party to the Reason Party.

One thing we know is that everybody wants to be reasonable, but no two people can agree on exactly what it is.

Her recent book, Sex, Drugs & The Electoral Roll chronicles her career from Canberra to sex worker to sex industry lobbyist to Sex Party to Reason Party (with photos).

But why didn’t Fiona get married under a fish tank to the B-52s Rock Lobster, isn’t that every girl’s dream?

As a lobbyist for the Eros Foundation, for over 20 years she learned a lot about the inner workings of politics. You get to meet a lot of people and see a lot of things in that job.

Since being elected, she has successfully instigated physician assisted dying laws, an inquiry into drug reform, and the introduction of a bill for both a medically supervised injecting centre and pill testing.

Fiona answers the big questions here as well, such as; “What happens if you sit on the “Queens Chair” in the Victorian parliament?”

AND when will you be able to buy a gram of cocaine from the chemist? (spoiler, not in time for Xmas)

Fiona Patten’s official website.

Reason Party website

Fiona’s debate on Sunrise with Family First in 2010

Maynard shows off Fiona Patten's book
Maynard hand models Fiona Patten’s book

Patreon Pandering November 2018

Patreon Pandering, every month, only for our important Planet Maynard Patreon supporters that no one else can watch.

It’s a video from Maynard and Tim Ferguson, crawling right up your altruism.

November is visual feast of flattery for the only listeners that matter, the Patreons.

Join the Patreons and get the ridiculous level of regular flattery you so richly deserve.

We want to make you feel wanted as a Patreon of Planet Maynard & Bunga Bunga.

Join us!

Become a Patreon of Planet Maynard

Patreon video for Patreons only

The Big Bunga Bunga 50 show

Bunga Bunga 50, the highly anticipated and frankly overexcited 50th show calls to a world sick of reality and soundness of judgement. Tim Ferguson & Maynard remind you why and how Bunga Bunga has become the phenomenon it is today.

With help from their famous (and not so famous) friends and stooges, enjoy some quality time with the pre-eminent names in Bunga since 2013.

Bunga Bunga 50 could not make this milestone without President Obama & President Trump, CNN, William Shatner and even Sir Roger Moore logging on to congratulate us.

Tim explains where he’s been and where he’s going (everywhere), while Maynard let’s you know where he’s going for NYE (Kingsford).

Problems are solved in Crankmail (involving soup and hair), Australia is saved from The Great Depression by Tim’s extreme monetary intervention policies in Tim’s Historical Hypothetical, and disco clapping is compulsory during Tim’s Right of Reply (to a question nobody asked).

Join us for the next 50!

The very very first Bunga Bunga podcast, just after the end of The Boer War.

Pin The Macho On The Man game.
Pin The Macho On The Man game.

Star Trek 1969 BBC-TV Puzzle Book cover
Star Trek 1969 Puzzle Book

Tim Ferguson, Maynard Bunga Bunga 50
Tim Ferguson, Maynard Bunga Bunga 50

Tim Ferguson, Maynard Bunga Bunga 50
Tim Ferguson, Maynard Bunga Bunga 50

Tim Ferguson’s Fake News You Can Trust

Tim Ferguson’s Comedy Writing Masterclasses in Canberra, Sydney & Brisbane in November & December

The Dirty Disbelievers podcast (Nazi UFOs is show 5)

Basically Black first all indigenous comedy sketch show from ABC-TV 1973