This list of alternative names for Question Time based on other popular media programs started recently on The Punch’s live coverage of the House of Reps. Can you add to it?

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(We cover Question Time live between 2pm and 3pm each day the House is sitting. The stats show at least a couple of hundred people tune in each day. It’s relatively on topic, most of the time.)

Add your suggestions to the list of highlights below – and in today, or any other day the House is sitting, from 2pm to follow the conversation with The Punch team and other readers.

  • So You Think You Can Prance
  • Grandstanding
  • Overbelly
  • MasterBore
  • Talkin’ Bout My Generation’s Mining Tax
  • Hours of Our Lives
  • QNA – Questions No Answers
  • What’s My Line?
  • The 2pm Project

What else?

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    • acotrel says:

      04:30pm | 24/05/10

      It’s always interesting to see our representatives working so hard to make Australia better.

    • Glen says:

      04:33pm | 24/05/10

      2 and a half Men.

      Kev, Tony and Bronwyn (I’ll let you guess who’s the half)

    • Dale says:

      04:37pm | 24/05/10

      @Glen, 2 and a half men worked better when Latham was in opposition raspberry

    • Cathy says:

      04:38pm | 24/05/10

      The unruly kids and the very cranky teacher

    • Penny says:

      05:04pm | 24/05/10

      Please no more photographs of this man’s face and his inane and maddening smirk.

    • nosthow says:

      05:43pm | 24/05/10

      “The Two Julias” subtitled “The Clever and the Dumb”

    • Shelley says:

      06:06pm | 24/05/10

      Kindergarten

    • stephen says:

      06:20pm | 24/05/10

      John and Tony:

      An opusculum for a dilletante.
      Oh a little man and a little rant.
      An eye from a third party, then
      begins to make the second man - Men.

    • acker says:

      07:49pm | 24/05/10

      Pep rally + the odd question .....answering them depends on the mood of the day :p

    • Heather says:

      08:44pm | 24/05/10

      Pinky and The Brainless

    • TC says:

      09:25pm | 24/05/10

      the bad and the ugly

    • TC says:

      10:10pm | 24/05/10

      or Kerfuffle 2. - Election Day

    • marg says:

      10:45pm | 24/05/10

      Sticks and Stones

    • FCHR says:

      11:16pm | 24/05/10

      Rudd vs. Wild
      Survivor
      21 Grump street
      The Fresh Prince of Capital Hill
      Mad Men
      Secret Diary of a Prime Minister
      Ruddy the Vampire Slayer
      Utegate Atlantis, Utegate Universe, Utegate SV-1
      The Abbott and Costello Show (would of worked brilliantly a while back)
      Rudd About You
      Gillard’s Island
      Mid-canberra Murders (dangerous place to live…)
      QI (Quantum In-effecient)
      Left Wing

      And I’m out….

    • Andrew says:

      10:25am | 25/05/10

      Dumb & Dumber (the series)
      No Prime Minister (for senate sittings)
      The Unmentionables
      The Biggles
      Hey Hey It’s Idiot Day
      Joolie and the Labor Cats
      Swan Quake
      Australia’s Funniest Parliamentary Videos
      It’s not Academic
      Pick-a-Boxhead
      The $64 billion dollar question (Game show where Swan balances the budget if he can answer simply economic questions)

      I gotta million.

    • Matt says:

      08:11am | 25/05/10

      60 Maggots

    • julie says:

      08:51am | 25/05/10

      Blankety Blanks

    • kathrine Grant says:

      09:06am | 25/05/10

      Twitters Galore?

    • zzzzzzzz says:

      10:07am | 25/05/10

      Play Cruel….
      Heartbreak Primary….
      No deal or no deal…
      Desperate House of reps…
      Who Shouldnt be Boss…
      Law and Disorder

      The options are endless and endlessly sad!

    • Rod says:

      10:41am | 25/05/10

      Cant’ Govern, won’t Govern

    • Tails says:

      10:45am | 25/05/10

      Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Oh wait, that’s taken.

      Or, Play Work. It’s like Play School, but for old people who like lots of colour and movement.

    • MC says:

      11:14am | 25/05/10

      The Kevin PM Project

    • Aitch B says:

      01:27pm | 25/05/10

      The Price Is Wrong!

    • Nicki says:

      01:35pm | 25/05/10

      Room for Improvement.
      “I see nothing, I know nothing” Sergeant Schultz form Hogan’s Hero.
      60 minutes makeover.
      Brainless hour.
      Big Brother is in the House.
      How to sober up in 60 minutes.
      Siesta time.

    • Martin G says:

      01:43pm | 25/05/10

      The Dorothy Dixer Hour

    • Suzie M says:

      04:02pm | 25/05/10

      Play school

    • Lynn M says:

      04:04pm | 25/05/10

      Dumb dumber and dumbest

    • Lynn M says:

      04:05pm | 25/05/10

      The Bullsh#t Artist show

    • Brent says:

      04:15pm | 25/05/10

      Its simple.

      “Lost”

    • russ f says:

      04:46pm | 25/05/10

      isnt the radio version called ‘’Çactus Island’’

    • Lindsay says:

      08:58am | 18/02/11

      1.My Parliamant rules
      2.Survivor, Canberra style
      3.Legislation or no Legislation
      4.So you think you can pass, legislation.
      5.Who wants to be the Prime Minister? Hotseat edition
      6.Parliamant’s got talent

 

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