While he's never really had a bonafide TV variety show hit with his two "solo" efforts The Nation and The Mick Molloy Show, it's hard to doubt his staying power, with The Jesters being a comedy he can be proud of and he has been a welcome addition to Before the Game.
So today on the Hot Breakfast (Triple M Melbourne), he gave his verdict on Hamish and Andy's Gap Year, which premiered on Thursday night, while also offering some words of wisdom drawn from his own experiences.
Mick said the boys' show wasn't too bad ("I think it'll be great"), but he never judges a "live" show after its first episode- "I refuse to do it".
He also said "I know how long it takes to get something up" and you "need a few flying hours" before a show can settle in and hopefully get into a winning groove.
And "It must've been received pretty well" because normally people "line up" to "kick a new show in the head".
He drew on his first experience hosting his TV show (The Mick Molloy Show), and the bollocking he copped the next day in the media.
"I got bagged in every section of The Age in the following day's paper"... "(In the paper) They unleash an unholy war against me."
"The only section that I didn't get bagged in was the motoring section, but had i had a car for sale, it would have been described as a shit box."
So compared to all that, surely the show isn't tracking that badly?
So while Molloy quite sagely alluded to the fact that the radio stars haven't received a lot of harsh criticism in the mainstream media... however, I would caution that the media don't want to start piling into Hamish and Andy (yet, at least), as it would be like killing Bambi.
The main message to take out of it is, is that all shows need time to develop- it doesn't mean that all of them will be successes, but viewers and critics all need to cut some stars some slack, so that in turn the network can.
Here the audio here at 16:10.
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