Cracking On with Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts
Jul 22, 2026 · 44 min · 15 segments
Pete Helliar is one of Australia's most beloved comedians, writer, actor, Rove Live legend, and the man behind It's A Date and How To Stay Married. But today he gets real. Pete opens up about the joke…
Peter HelliarGuest
Sam FrostHost
Sarah RobertsHost
that's beautiful pete like how special to have such a special connection with someone and you've obviously like experienced a lot together and grown up together through the industry um I also want to know, because it's so funny, like all of your shows are so funny and all of these artists that you work with are hilarious, how do you not corpse? Do you corpse? And also for the players at home, do you want to explain what corpsing is?
So for those at home, a bus track is when, after you shoot a scene, so they can kind of play with the audio afterwards, they record like 20 seconds of whatever the atmosphere is in the room.
So, you know, if there's traffic in the background and they can match it and they can use different audio, but they've got like what the room sounds like or what the area sounds like.
And I'll always kind of go, you know, Okay, everyone, we're doing a buzz track.
And then I'll be like, like the close of my eyes going, It's like, it's a good bus track.
And then we'll have like, at the start of the bus track again, it's like, this is not, you know what it's like when, you know, like people just want to move on, you know, the crew just want to move on and, you know, like we're losing daylight and I'm just laughing over a bus track.
But yeah, you know what, later in the day when it becomes joke o'clock and it's just like.
You get your own head or those scenes where you can't look somebody in the eye because you're like, I can't.
that's beautiful pete like how special to have such a special connection with someone and you've obviously like experienced a lot together and grown up together through the industry um I also want to know, because it's so funny, like all of your shows are so funny and all of these artists that you work with are hilarious, how do you not corpse? Do you corpse? And also for the players at home, do you want to explain what corpsing is?
So for those at home, a bus track is when, after you shoot a scene, so they can kind of play with the audio afterwards, they record like 20 seconds of whatever the atmosphere is in the room.
So, you know, if there's traffic in the background and they can match it and they can use different audio, but they've got like what the room sounds like or what the area sounds like.
And I'll always kind of go, you know, Okay, everyone, we're doing a buzz track.
And then I'll be like, like the close of my eyes going, It's like, it's a good bus track.
And then we'll have like, at the start of the bus track again, it's like, this is not, you know what it's like when, you know, like people just want to move on, you know, the crew just want to move on and, you know, like we're losing daylight and I'm just laughing over a bus track.
But yeah, you know what, later in the day when it becomes joke o'clock and it's just like.
You get your own head or those scenes where you can't look somebody in the eye because you're like, I can't.
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