John Clarke and Bryan Dawe are fantastic! I'm an expat Aussie (now living in the US) so this really made my day. Anyone remember Clarke's farnarkling reports on the Gillies Report? Excellent stuff, artfully merging the turgid gravitas of sports commentary with the visual majesty of outrageous wigs.

"Although the commentary was for Norwegian radio, it soon made its way to an English audience, and became quite famous in England, where it is generally regarded with good humour and even affection (although, inexplicably, the words are often wrongly attributed to a "Bjorn Minge"). In 2002 Lillelien's words were designated the greatest piece of sports commentary ever by The Observer's Sport Monthly magazine. Such is its place in British sporting culture that parodies of the commentary have been written to celebrate domestic sporting victories[...]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rge_Lillelien