There are four things I know about Rose Tattoo vocalist Angry Anderson.
The first, and best, was his appearance on an Australian television show for "yoof", in which he publicly owned up to an activity popular with teenage boys but frowned upon by Catholics.
Rather than making apologies for this activity, he celebrated its joys.
Good on him.
The second is that despite his bald, tattooed appearance, he is a genial sort of fellow.
I know, because I once met him by chance in a Sydney back street, and he was extremely genial.
The third is that he appeared in Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome.
The fourth is that he most certainly should not have appeared in Swift and Shift Couriers (Comedy Channel, Thursday, 7.30pm).
A standing gag is the Swift and Shift sign in the office, on which the `f' in shift has fallen off.
You get the picture.
The show doesn't lack decent actors, with Ian "Turps" Turpie, an Aussie veteran television personality taking on the lead role as Keith Warne, operations manager of the company, and doing a good job.
Interestingly, it also features Amanda Keller as regional manager Amanda Doyle.
Keller is a journalist, radio and television personality, who brings an amusing crossover between real life and fiction.
Swift and Shift delves into the now popular comedy genre of not-politically-correct humour.
George the forklift driver is mentally "disabled", and runs over things in his forklift.
Kevin Taumata is Kev the Kiwi, who calls George a "duck", an amusing reference to the way New Zealander's say "dick".
What the show doesn't do is take that style of humour anywhere.
South Park does a similar thing, but uses it to explore its story lines.
Swift and Shift does not, and the liberal use of swear words seems pointless, and becomes tiring.
Don't watch it.
True Blood fans can catch the last two episodes of season one tomorrow (Prime, 8.30pm) before season two of the show I have never seen but probably should have.
The best advertisement for True Blood, with New Zealand's Anna Paquin, is its creator, Alan Ball, who also created one of the very best shows in television history, Six Feet Under.
If that's not enough to instil joy into your otherwise meaningless existence, William Shatner is back in the role that was always his true calling in Star Trek, The Motion Picture (MGM, Friday August 28, 8.30pm).
Admiral James T. Kirk (still think captain had a better ring), is called upon to collect his old crewmates in order to intercept a mysterious cloud-like enemy and . . . save the world!
Joy.