User Reviews

I can still remember first seeing this on TV. I couldn't believe TVNZ let it on! I had to own it! A lot of the humor will be lost on non-NZ'ers, but give it a go!

Since finishing the Back of the Y series Matt and Chris have gone on to bigger and better(?) things. NZ's greatest dare-devil stuntman, Randy Campbell has often appeared on the British TV series Balls of Steel. Yes, he still f^@ks up all his stunts because he is too drunk.

Also the 'house band' Deja Voodoo have since released 2 albums, Brown Sabbath and Back in Brown. The band consists of members of the Back of the Y team and singles such as 'I Would Give You One of My Beers (But I've Only Got 6)' and 'You Weren't Even Born in The 80's' continue their humor.

The South-By-Southwest film festival also featured their feature length film 'The Devil Made Me Do It' which will be released early 2008 in NZ.

All up, if you don't find these guys funny then you can just F%^K OFF!!

Back of the Y is without a doubt the greatest thing to grace our television screens in many years. If youre looking for a half hour of full kicking, mind blowing, no budget, stunt laden w**king jokes then this is for you. While everyone seems to be talking about the American series 'Jackass' at the moment, its good to see that our own home grown Kiwi dumbasses Matt Heath and Chris Stapp have once again risen to the challange and made a show so stupid and funny that it makes any jackass look lameass. I await the movie with baited breath.

A big fat 10 out of 10

I would like to add to this by saying that before being aired on TVNZ, Back of the Y used to screen on the Auckland community television station, Triangle Television. It was hugely popular on Triangle, along with other Triangle classics such as Boss TV, which also migrated to TVNZ where it was quickly terminated, and the totally insane Slightlydelic (sorry if I did not get the spelling correct). They also screened the film Betaville, a great low budget Sci-fi by Phil Davidson. Betaville was made because he needed a film for which to write music, because Phil was doing a music degree. That is dedicated. Of course, now Phil makes films.

Back of the Y started life in Dunedin, New Zealand. I believe the Back of the Y team entered some of the show's skits into the Mothra Short Film Competition, a competition run through the Otago Student Association. I am not sure if Back of the Y ever screened on the community station, channel 9, in Dunedin.

When Chris and Matt came to Auckland, Triangle was just getting started as a community station. They had to pay to get Back of the Y on, which they partly covered by advertising.

The name? I personally always thought it was a dick joke, relating to Y-fronts, although most other people think it relates to the YMCA. I don't know.

One Final comment - support your local community TV station. They will take risks that mainstream station won't. This allows for classics such as Back of the Y to exist.

Back of the Y is perhaps New Zealand's least understood TV Show. It lasted just seven episodes, and was loved by a small number of loyal watchers ( I was one) and hated by most of the population who didn't understand it. It was hosted by Danny Parker, who regually beat up his guests, and featured New Zealand's greatest Daredevil stuntman Randy Cambell. Although the show was rude and crude it was a funny parody of mainstream television and made no bones about its stupidity and poor production values. A good example of the parody within the show was 'Danny dares you', where Danny Parker got a poor student to eat his faeces and drink his urine, taking off Australian show 'Who dares wins'.Regular referance to masterbation and drug use ensured the show did not last long on national television but it will be long remebered by those who saw it.

Back of the Y is the best thing since sliced bread and Kangaroo pies!, If you don't watch this show you are a prize idiot and should go on the earn! Danny, Randy , Spanners , Wally, Smoo Diver, all these lads are the best. This is what tv was made for. action, and toilet humour at its finest. Watch out world the Y is coming and TV just wont be the same ever again. If you live outside Kiwi land. the home of Russel Crowe and Crowded House you would be a fool not to get this on video! and make sure you go to the site for ordering info. Support the guys who changed my life into chaos and porn. This TV show is proudly made in New Zealand and least we know the lads from the Y wont sell out and disown the land of the long white cloud!!! (Russ) Oh by the way DANNY PARKER IS GOD!

When former WWF wrestling legend Mic Foley was young he and his college friends made a low-tech movie which involved over-the-top fight scenes and stunts (he leapt off a two-storey barn onto a pile of cardboard boxes). Back of the Y has this sort of feel; a bunch of stuntmen having a bit of a laugh, not really giving a sod about social niceties nor the mythical "little old lady in Ekatahuna" which TVNZ is so eager to avoid offending. Basically it's a grown-up version of schoolboys playfighting and often funny as hell

Back Of The Y was (is?) one of the funniest NZ shows on T.V. A good half-hour of toilet humour, masturbation jokes and crap stunts. Edited on an Apple iMac with an $8000 budget per episode, it's first season last 6 episodes followed by a special called "Behind The Y". Among the characters are Spanners Watson, the retarded South islander, Dick Johansonson, extreme stunt co-ordinator, Danny Parker, the show's host and Randy Campbell, stuntman extrodinaire.