EDDIE: Getting a well known person to make a cameo or a guest appearance on your failing programme is about the cheapest way to pep things up... Oh look, there's Peter Helliar. How's the wife and kids, mate? Fantastic, good onya... But this category doesn't just mark the achievements of those guest appearances that were cheap, we mark the ones that were nasty too.

	MOST IRRITATING OR POINTLESS CAMEO/GUEST APPEARANCE Tony Abbott on Hey Hey It's Saturday - 64.06% "Pointless maybe, but his outdated views are the perfect fit for this relic of a show." - TheVoyuer "Mind you, compared to Darryl..." - Don't You Dare Use My Comments "It was desperate, if anything else." - Daniel G NOMINEES Julie Bishop in Yes We Canberra - 23.44% Tim Rogers in I Rock - 12.50% Last year's joint winners: Tony Martin in anything which isn't his own show Steve Vizard in The Jesters

If there's a political party that speaks to the Hey Hey audience it's the Liberal party, and it's obvious why Tony Abbott went on the show. Surprisingly, what was irritating about it wasn't that Abbott was getting even more TV time; the problem was that the only reason to have Tony Abbott on a show like Hey Hey was in case he messed up - and he didn't. There were no blacked-up white guys he could give 10 points to, and he even managed to look reasonably comfortable next to that gay guy from Entourage. Abbott's appearance on Hey Hey was mildly silly at best, and as it didn't seem to have helped him at all when the votes were counted, that's a win.

Perhaps more deserving of this award is Julie Bishop's appearance on Yes We Canberra!, which judging from the Yes We Canberra! DVD is now considered one of that series' greatest moments. So let's pause for a moment to remind ourselves of the genius of this piece of comedy. Julia Bishop and Chas Licciardello have a staring contest. After a few seconds Chas blinks and it's all over. Then Julian Morrow brings out a garden gnome, which Bishop stares down so hard that it falls off the table. Conclusion: Bishop looked like a jolly good sport for agreeing to participate and The Chaser are praised for their cutting-edge satirical genius (admittedly by people who have no idea what the words "satire" or "genius" actually mean). In many ways this brings us to the crux of what is wrong with Australian comedy. People will accept this shit as comedy, while better work goes unnurtured and unseen.

Even if you've never made a television comedy before, it must be screamingly obvious that the "celebrity who's a bit arrogant" style of cameo has been done to death. But as we're talking about a celebrity cameo in I Rock - the 2010 poster child for clichéd and derivative television - we guess Tim Rogers' cameo fitted with the rest of the show very nicely.

Bert, I don't know if we can top any of those cameos, even with access to the entire GTV-9 archives.

BERT: Yeah, even I'm getting bored of seeing the same five clips from The Don Lane Show replayed over and over again, even if they were all me dressed as Demis Roussos.

EDDIE: Who?

BERT: Exactly.

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