Australia’s favourite duo Hamish Blake and Andy Lee, have kicked off another television comedy goldmine with Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year: South America.
Fans of the show, which see the pair embarking on a global trek of hilarious dares and mishaps, were quick to hail the series as the best yet when the first episode went to air this week.
Previously the comedy duo have covered Australia and New Zealand, Great Britain, America, Europe and Asia in their Gap Year and Caravan of Courage series, but none of them have been quite as daring as South America.
In the opening episode Hamish and Andy went from scaling Guatemala’s Pacaya volcano to heat up lasagne over molten-hot lava, to Blake trying to swallow a slimy mollusc called ‘‘turu’’, which is found inside decaying wood in the Amazon jungle.
Lee told the Sydney Morning Herald the World Cup had nothing to do with their itinerary saying, ‘‘No one works during a World Cup game. We’ve had to schedule around the football. It’s as if you said we’re filming an episode of Dancing with the Stars tonight and someone said we can’t, there’s an AFL match on’’.
Lee also revealed much of the stunts and segments are not pre-planned, ‘‘For maybe one quarter of the trip, I have no idea where I’m going and vice versa for Hamish. We like to keep that surprise. Hamish and I aren’t great at scripting things and have never been great actors, so it’s important that we try to keep things as real as possible.”
The six-episode series will see the pair travelling through Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil.
Hamish and Andy Gap Year: South America airs Tuesdays at 7.30pm on Channel 9.
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