The Weekly with Charlie Pickering — Season 3
About this season
News comedy show, tonight show and chat show all in one, allowing Charlie to return to his comedy roots while being a general nuisance to newsmakers, politicians and other charlatans.
Episodes (20)
1. Episode 1
Aired 1 February 2017 • 30 min
Last year, The Weekly promised to put the sense back into the nonsense. In 2017, the nonsense has defeated us. Charlie Pickering, along with Kitty Flanagan, Tom Gleeson & Adam Briggs, will pick the news apart.
2. Episode 2
Aired 8 February 2017 • 30 min
Charlie Pickering, along with Kitty Flanagan, Tom Gleeson & Adam Briggs pick apart the news from the nonsense. With special guests South Park creators Trey Parker & Matt Stone.
3. Episode 3
Aired 15 February 2017 • 30 min
In 2017 The Weekly is making breaking news even brokener. Charlie Pickering, Kitty Flanagan, Tom Gleeson & Adam Briggs pick apart the news & try to put it back together, hoping no one will notice the bits they broke.
4. Episode 4
Aired 22 February 2017 • 30 min
The Weekly newsvestigates the headlines: scare campaigns, Piegate, and the LOLing assassin. Tom Gleeson welcomes Chrissie Swan to the Hard Chat seat. Special guest: Hugo Weaving!
5. Episode 5
Aired 1 March 2017 • 30 min
In a world changing at breakneck speed, The Weekly will hardly change at all. We continue to spend our Wednesday nights exposing the absurd, revelling in the ridiculous & throwing shoes at the hypocritical.
6. Episode 6
Aired 8 March 2017 • 30 min
Charlie, Tom & Briggs explore WA's election, the NBN, Pauline Hanson & Trumpgate. Charlie meets Carmel Johnston, Commander of NASAs Mars Simulation Mission. Tom meets his Hard Chat match with Aus TV royalty.
7. Episode 7
Aired 15 March 2017 • 30 min
Picking apart the week & hoping the kids don't walk in on them, Charlie & Tom tackle WA's election, Wikileaks, beers & Bibles. Guests: creators of South Park & The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker & Matt Stone.
8. Episode 8
Aired 22 March 2017 • 30 min
The Weekly talks to the next Albert Einstein and walks through why young Lee swam with a crocodile to capture the heart of a girl! Tom Gleeson Hard Chats Grant Denyer and Kitty Flanagan bamboozles him with Soft Chat.
9. Episode 9
Aired 29 March 2017 • 30 min
All the news you tried to avoid. Trump the dealmaker, eavesdropping phones, company tax cuts & The Weekly's Africa correspondent Loyiso Gola in studio. Tom Hard Chats Sarah Wilson. Special guest: Bob Odenkirk.
10. Episode 10
Aired 5 April 2017 • 30 min
Charlie, Kitty, Tom & Briggs try to comprehend our universe: April Fools' Day, opinion polls & Mark Latham. Sophie Monk dares to sit in the Hard Chat chair. Special guest Maurice Gleeson explains blind tennis!
11. Episode 11
Aired 12 April 2017 • 30 min
Charlie, Kitty, Briggs & Tom let fly at herd immunity, drugs at music festivals, Syria, seafood connoisseurs. Plus Tom rebrands The show & Hard Chats Dave Hughes.
12. Episode 12
Aired 19 April 2017 • 30 min
Stop, drop & laugh as The Weekly targets the nuclear apocalypse. Kitty saves us from superbugs, Tom Hard Chats footy legend Chris Judd & Charlie visits old friend Sam Neill.
13. Episode 13
Aired 26 April 2017 • 30 min
Charlie & Tom discuss science, the Logies, the citizenship test, and a terrorist child. Plus election watch with Andy Zaltzman, Tom Hard Chats James Blunt, and special guest forensic entomologist Paola Magni.
14. Episode 14
Aired 3 May 2017 • 30 min
The Weekly unpacks the news & finds several kilos of jokes. 100 Days of President Trump, Kitty tries de-cluttering, Tom road-tests his new travel show, Mel Buttle shows us Real Australia. Guest: Geoffrey Rush.
15. Episode 15
Aired 10 May 2017 • 30 min
The Weekly brings down a surplus of funny as Charlie, Tom & Briggs take on housing affordability, kids & gambling, plus Bill Shorten's latest ad campaign. Special guest: Wiggle Emma Watkins.
16. Episode 16
Aired 17 May 2017 • 30 min
The Weekly takes on ransomware, baldness cures & current & future US Presidents. Tom Hard Chats physicist Lawrence Krauss; Kitty explains fidget spinners; comedian DeAnne Smith explains LGBQTI* to the uninitiated.
17. Episode 17
Aired 24 May 2017 • 30 min
The Weekly dissects the Battle of Cocaine Cassie, Turkey's World's Strongest Man & the bulge that changed history. Tom launches a travel show; Kitty solves TV mascots. Guest: Today show doyenne Lisa Wilkinson.
18. Episode 18
Aired 31 May 2017 • 30 min
19. Episode 19
Aired 7 June 2017 • 30 min
Needling the headlines to knit a news-beanie. This week: AirBnB, Russia's new stadium & the UK Election with Jonathan Pie. Tom Hard Chats Steve Price. Kitty takes on pandas. Guest: Data journalist Mona Chalabi
20. Episode 20
Aired 14 June 2017 • 30 min
In the season final, Charlie, Tom, Kitty & Briggs take on the UK Election, Russia's World Cup, MasterChef, the Veronicas & the ABC. Special guests: Loyiso Gola, Andy Zaltzman & portrait artist Abdul Abdullah.