To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video A TV presenter has been left baffled after a guest dozed off during a live interview. The Australian breakfast programme Today is hosted by Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo, who faced a pretty awkward moment this week when they seemed to lose the attention of an interview subject. The pair were interviewing Jack Karlson, the man behind the infamous ‘Democracy Manifest’ news segment from 1991, which later became a much-loved online meme Down Under.
In the original clip, Jack was arrested outside a Brisbane restaurant, putting on a show that has become a cultural reference for many decades later. As the police arrested him, Jack exclaimed various remarks such as ‘Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!’ and ‘What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?’. Now, 33 years on, Jack has appeared on TV again, joined by one of the officers on the scene at the time to discuss the incident.
At the start of the interview, Jack was asked to recall what happened all those years ago. ‘It’s not difficult at all to remember because people keep showing me it on the internet and on their telephone. It’s on the internet or something,’ he said.
‘So that reminds me of it all.’ After Jack spoke about what happened during the arrest and his head-scratching response, former officer Stoll Watt shared how Jack ‘wasn’t violent but wasn’t co-operative’ du.