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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Amanda Meade

Seven hires comedian Mark Humphries to parody weekly news

Mark Humphries
‘Some people seem to think that I am going to be the new news reader’ … Mark Humphries will satirise the news in a new weekly segment for Channel Seven. Photograph: Don Arnold/WireImage

Less than a year after the ABC dropped the regular satirical segment on 7.30, Seven News has hired comedian Mark Humphries to continue the tradition of making fun of the news at the end of the week.

Seven’s new director of news and current affairs, Anthony De Ceglie, has recruited Humphries to perform a segment for the Sydney bulletin, with a view to expanding the spot nationally.

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