| This Sporting Life | ||||
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| Released | 19 August 2016 | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | 128:49 [1] | |||
| Label | ABC Music/ UMA | |||
| Producer | Mark Kennedy | |||
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This Sporting Life is the fifth album by Australian comedy duo Roy & HG. The album was released in August 2016 and peaked at number 6 on the ARIA Charts.
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2016 it won Best Comedy Release. [2]
From 1986 to 2008, Roy & HG hosted This Sporting Life on Triple J, a live, improvised satirical radio program on sport in Australia – among other things. It's the longest running show in the station's history. To celebrate 30 years since the show first aired, Roy & HG released a compilation album of some of the show's highlights from throughout the years. [3] [4]
Chris Murray from Stack said "The only problem with this 30th anniversary collection of some of the 'gold' from the dynamic duo's unsurpassed satire and dissection of Australian sport and pop culture, is that you simply don't want the snippets to end. Unaware of them? Two highly intelligent raconteurs wax lyrical with endless ease on complete bullsh-t, based on loose facts around current events that will have you in stitches, while also remembering that very uncanny and uniquely Australian sense of humour which is lacking in today's mass media. From why Rampaging Roy Slaven's favourite horse never played rugby league, to the solution to finding new heavyweight (fat) boxers via travelling the country simply armed with binoculars, or indeed how Cher was once explicitly examined by Roy (at her request) to kill media speculation on cosmetic surgery – you are hooked." Murray concluded saying "Nothing will ever come close to their winning formula of smarts and silliness." [5]
| Chart (2016) | Peak position |
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| Australian Albums (ARIA) [6] | 6 |
| Region | Date | Format | Label | Catalogue |
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| Australia | 19 August 2016 [7] | ABC Music / Universal Music Australia | 4743881 |
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