Luna Park Sydney

Great, mate.

And I worked at Luna Park on the weekends.

weekends.What? Doing what? Selling tickets?

No, no.

I worked there when ... as a young bloke.

How good.

Luna Park.

How did you get that job?

It's been unbelievable.

We- The bulk of it came through on, uh, Tuesday, I think, when we were trying to have the barrier draw there at, at Luna Park, and then we thought we were clear on Thursday.

We didn't get much on Wednesday.

Thursday, it just bucketed down when I was at the track.

And that is the ongoing story and how it survives.

But next week, I'll be in Sydney reporting live from the seven upfronts at Luna Park.

And so that'll be a special edition of McKnight Tonight next Thursday, a week from tonight, live from Luna Park.

I stream live at 9pm in New South Wales and down south and 8pm here in Queensland.

And I'll be live on location for the first OB of McKnight Tonight.

And, in fact, there's an episode of Skippy.

I can't get this out of my head.

There's an episode of Skippy where Skippy goes to Luna Park.

Hmm.

Which is the Martin Sharp film about Tiny Tim doing his sort of musical routine at Luna Park.

Yeah.

And that to me was a movie where it's like, it's clearly unfinished.

The tracking of the VHS that it's been bootlegged from is terrible.

Martin Sharp's died having not finished this film, and you can see him the entire time, like, trying to arrive at a point, trying to tie all these threads together, and it's- It's exhilarating because you think, like, "This guy's gonna fucking prove there's the devil [laughs] and that's what caused this, this terrible tragedy at Luna Park, and Tiny Tim's involved somehow." And he doesn't quite get there, and that to me was like, "Ah, wow." But it's still, it's a perfect artifact, so I can't be sad about that.

I think for me, my missing film is the action movie that my friend directed in 2005 that I was the comic support in-

Wow

School holidays are over, but kids, we want you to ask us anything after the news.

A family pass to Luna Park up for grabs, five to eight.

Good morning, Ricky Lee.

Good morning, Tim.

super comfy for

you.

So we have a family pass to Luna Park for our kids this morning who ask us anything.

Nine-year-old Leah is ready to go.

Either way, he's a superstar in every sense of the word.

Uh, barrier draw last night at Luna Park for the Everest.

Uh, the jockey silks were projected onto the...

I guess you'd call it the foundations of the old Ferris wheel.