John Safran's Music Jamboree
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John Safran's Music Jamboree | |
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Genre | SBS Independent |
Original release | |
Network | SBS television |
Release | 2002 2002 | –
Related | |
John Safran vs God |
John Safran's Music Jamboree (or just Music Jamboree) was a light-hearted
Australian Film Institute Awards; "Best Comedy Series" and "Most Innovative Program Concept". SBS followed the series up with the similarly styled John Safran vs God
in 2004.
An infamous stunt of the series was sneaking nine friends into an exclusive
metal band, Slipknot
. The producers arranged entry for the impostors by pretending to be an American management company over the phone.
Other stunts included disguising himself as well known entertainers such as
Prince to harass the public, sketch versions of music videos such as Eminem[1], the creation of Jew Town[2], a Jewish boy band to compete with Christian pop, and returning to Yeshivah College to pay homage to Kevin Bacon in Footloose. He also details his time in the hip-hop group Raspberry Cordial, and the related incident in which he met the Beastie Boys and the band's former DJ attempted to steal his girlfriend
at the time.
A regular segment on the series was "The Music Mole". In this segment a person dressed in a large mole costume (much like a mascot) was interviewed by Safran. The person was reported to be an insider (i.e. a mole) in the music industry who would reveal little known, often controversial facts about both the Australian and international music industries.