Hey Hey It’s Saturday and cancel culture – Afternoons – ABC Local

It was one Australian television's most beloved shows and host Daryl Somers and the rest of his crew were household names. Hey, Hey It's Saturday was loaded with slapstick humour, double entendres and corny jokes: it was family entertainment at its finest. Or was it?

After Daryl Somers pre-empted his comeback as a co-host of Dancing with the Stars by saying he thought Hey Hey wouldn't get made today because of political correctness. Australian singing legend and Hey Hey regular guest Kamahl hit back, saying he was regularly humiliated on the show and the butt of racist jokes. So what does that mean in terms of how we look back on our cultural history and what are the lessons to be learnt looking forward to the future of Australian television?

Dr Jason Sternberg in a Senior Lecturer with the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology and he's chatting with ABC Radio Brisbane Afternoons presenter Kat Feeney.

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Hey Hey It's Saturday and cancel culture - Afternoons - ABC Local