Hamish and Andy's Gap Year


Hamish & Andy's Gap Year is a Logie Award–winning comedy series following Hamish Blake and Andy Lee, a pair of Australian comedians, on their trips to various international locations. The first season saw the boys visiting America for ten episodes and broadcast their show weekly from New York City. In its second season in 2012, the show was titled Hamish & Andy's Euro Gap Year, and seven episodes were broadcast from The Lord Stanley, a disused pub in East London, England. The third season, known as Hamish and Andy's Gap Year Asia in 2013, was broadcast from a bar in Bangkok, Thailand, called The Raintree.
The fourth season was known as Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year South America.
The concept for the show was created when the Nine Network hired comedians Hamish Blake and Andy Lee for two series in two years. They came across the idea of "Gap Year" when they realised they never took a gap year after high school, so they would film their many adventures overseas, as it was ironic that they had just received a contract for TV.
The show featured the American band Moon Hooch for the first season as an in house band - during the show, they band were dubbed The Buskerteers.
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Segments

A number of regular segments appear throughout the series:Safari: Hamish and Andy show a film about where they last went outside of New York, using a "safari map" hidden underneath their desk to show the exact location. For these adventures, the boys dress in purpose-built safari costumes.Hamish VS. Andy: This involves various competitions between Hamish and Andy. The segment also features Ryan Shelton as a correspondent. From season 2 onwards, Ian Danter serves as the segment’s narrator, replacing an unnamed voiceover artist used in the first season.Ultimate Wingman: Hamish struggles to find Andy a girlfriend, by acting as his wingman. Cultural Eating: Introduced in season 2, the segment involves one of the boys offering the other an unusual local delicacy. Although it only appeared twice in season 2, it became a regular in seasons 3 and 4.Interviews : Hamish and Andy interviewed various celebrities, either in the studio or in hotel rooms. This segment was removed from the DVD release because the people interviewed denied on including them.R2-To-Do : This robot featured on the show provides a list of goals for Hamish and Andy to achieve on their journey.100-Second New York Lesson'd : Taken by Ryan Shelton, where he would take the viewers on various highly exaggerated tours of different culture and places in New York, each timed to 100 seconds. Hamish and Andy would make cameo appearances in each of the segments.

Series overview

To date, four seasons of Hamish & Andy's Gap Year have aired.


Seasons

''Hamish & Andy's Gap Year'' (2011)

''Hamish & Andy's Gap Year USA – "Best Of" Edition'' (2015)

A new version of Hamish & Andy's Gap Year was released to Stan in 2015 alongside all other Gap Year series, Caravan of Courage specials, Learn India with Hamish & Andy and Hamish & Andy's Reministmas Special. This version is based on the interview-free DVD, but rearranged and with a few segments deleted. This is also the version available on the YouTube channel, rather than the original.
  1. Part 1
  2. #DVD Intro
  3. #Safari #1 – Bare-Hand Fishing
  4. #R2-To-Do – 3-Wheeled Tough Mobile + Timeslot Tattoo
  5. #Audience’s "Reaction" to Week 1
  6. #Safari #2 – Roller Derby
  7. #R2-To-Do – Hillary Clinton Owes Us BBQ
  8. #100 Second New York Lesson'd – Food
  9. #Ultimate Wingman
  10. #Street Golf With Tiger Hood
  11. Part 2
  12. #Making Your NY Dreams Come True
  13. #Safari #3 – LARPing
  14. #Hillary Clinton BBQ Update – Voice Analyzer
  15. #100 Second New York Lesson'd – Nightlife
  16. #Ultimate Baby Wingman
  17. #3-Wheeled Tough Mobile Update
  18. Part 3
  19. #Safari #4 – Chateau Poochie
  20. #100 Second New York Lesson'd – Broadway
  21. #Hillary Clinton BBQ Update – Jack in Hillary’s Hometown
  22. #Jack The Butcher Watches The 3-Wheeled Tough Mobile
  23. #Hamish Enters Mr. NY State Bodybuilding Comp
  24. #Fun With Glitter Cannons
  25. #Safari #5 – Lowriders
  26. #Hamish vs. Andy – Bin Lid Racing
  27. Part 4
  28. #Ultimate Gameshow Wingman
  29. #Hamish vs. Andy – Mates Racing
  30. #Safari #6 – Western Reenactment Town
  31. #Asylum Productions – Home Of The Mockbuster
  32. #Safari #7 – Combine Harvester Demolition Derby
  33. #R2-To-Do – The Magic Castle
  34. Part 5
  35. #NASA
  36. #Hillary Clinton BBQ Update – Kim Beazley Visit
  37. #Magical Johnston presents Street Magic
  38. #Safari #8 – Private Investigator Jay J. Armes
  39. #Hamish vs. Andy – Stranger Racing
  40. #Ultimate Magic Wingman
  41. #Safari #9 – Hollerin
  42. Part 6
  43. #Free Plastic Giveaway
  44. #Streetball in The Cage with Allan Houston
  45. #Hillary Clinton BBQ Update – Ruddy To The Rescue
  46. #Magic Castle – Hamish Meets His Mentor, Doug
  47. #Hamish vs. Andy – Subway Rodeo
  48. #100 Second New York Lesson'd – Art
  49. #Magic Castle – The Audition
  50. #Hamish vs. Andy – Sleep Racing
  51. #One Last Drive In The 3 Wheeled Tough Mobile
  52. #Ultimate Last Ditch Wingman

''Hamish & Andy's Euro Gap Year'' (2012)

The shows were broadcast from the disused Lord Stanley pub in East London.
This season was also the only one broadcast in the UK on ITV4. Euro Gap Year and Gap Year Asia were rebroadcast in Australia throughout December 2020, due to Hamish and Andy not working on a new TV program that year.
Episode No.TitleEpisode SummaryHamish vs AndyOriginal Australian air dateAustralian Viewers
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1Episode OneHamish and Andy travel to Mostar, Bosnia, to jump off the 21-metre tall Old Bridge. They also buy a rabbit which they name "Lenny Rabbitz", and compete in "Rabbit Jumping", a self- explanatory sport from Sweden.Translation Racing: Players must ask random people on the streets of Rome questions, fed to them through an earpiece. Most understood phrases wins.1.413#1
2Episode TwoThe boys travel to Lapland, to compete in reindeer racing. They also head out in London to be paparazzi for a day with a professional paparazzi called Jack. Later they crack open their homebrewed beer, Gap Byear, too early, and the beer hadn't even begun to ferment, due to "the freezing cold London summer" as Hamish puts it.Hitchhike Racing: Players must hitch-hike as far as they can across Europe in 24 hours, starting in Frankfurt, Germany. They cannot pay or bribe potential lift-givers, though they can each send one "Hinder" to their opponent, to lower their chance of hitch-hiking.1.365#2
3Episode ThreeHamish and Andy go to Venice, where they pilot Gondolas for a day, Hamish also reveals he his one eighth Italian, and acts as if Venice is his hometown, despite occasionally speaking Spanish to their Gondolier instructor. They head to the Netherlands to see which one is the better butler, by going to the International Butler Academy.Kiss Racing: Each player has one hour to get as many points for kissing random people on Parisian streets. One point is awarded for each kiss, and another point for each second the kiss is held.1.411#2
4Episode FourThe boys go to Bavaria to compete in "Finger Pulling", a sport in which string is tied to each player's middle finger and they try to pull the other player's hand over a center line. Hamish pulls the short straw and must compete, and is unnerved after meeting a man who lost his finger in a game of finger pulling. In Russia, they go to a fighter pilot training centre and where they are taught how to eject, and not to f****ng touch anything once inside the plane, but before that they must go to a preparation sauna with other trainees. Ultimate Wingman returns, and they spend a day fulfilling other people's London dreams which are sent in and drawn from a pillowcase.None1.183#4
5Episode FiveHamish and Andy go to Catalonia to be part of Los Torres Humanas, but Hamish finds out there is a snail festival happening at the same time and joins that instead and he competes in a biscuit eating contest, which he wins, and spends most of the day drinking. In Paris they go into the catacombs where Andy tries to leave Hamish behind. They also try to ride a stage of the Tour de France with Australian cyclist Cadel Evans, but he was "too busy", so instead they decide to go from Gibraltar to Morocco on an aqua trike.Life size "Guess Who?": The same as regular Guess Who?, but with 12 sets of twins.1.090#5
6Episode SixIn Germany, they compete in "Bus Pulling" where teams of men pull a roadcoach over 30 metres, with some teams managing to do it in around 20 seconds. In Sicily, they try to sell more fish than each other in an hour. The boys head to France, where Hamish has the goal of buying a rollersuit, but after a disastrous trial run, Andy forbids Hamish from buying one. They also go to Gibraltar and set off on their aqua bike to Morocco, fueled by a Red Bull rip-off made by Hamish the night before, which was water with "every performance-enhancing vitamin in the store", Hamish also keeps a "captain's log" during the voyage.Shop Hiding:' Players must go into a shop and ask for something from the storeroom of the shop, and while the employee is getting the item, the player must hide somewhere in the shop. The player who hides for the longest wins.1.156#3
7Episode Seven: Pre Opening Ceremony SpecialAustralian Olympic athletes are the audience in the Lord Stanley for the filming of the episode. The boys go to Russia and act in Russian "cat theatre", a circus-type event involving cats. During the episode's filming, a torch, which was a model galah lit on fire, was run from a Walkabout pub in London to light the Lord Stanley's fireplace. They head to Prague for some synchronized swimming, and run "vigorous psychological tests" on Australia's best Olympians.None''1.118#3

''Hamish & Andy's Gap Year Asia'' (2013)

The shows were broadcast from a bar in Bangkok, Thailand, called 'The Raintree'.

''Hamish & Andy's Gap Year South America'' (2014)

The shows were broadcast from Buenos Aires, Argentina. They also decided to include all of Latin America, rather than just South America, so they could go to Mexico and Central America.

Awards and nominations

Hamish & Andy have won 5 Logie Awards from 16 nominations for their work on Hamish & Andy's Gap Year.
YearNomineeAwardResult
2012Hamish BlakeMost Popular PresenterNomitated
2012Hamish BlakeGold Logie: Most Popular Personality on Australian TVWon
2012Hamish & Andy's Gap YearMost Popular Light Entertainment ProgramWon
2013Hamish BlakeMost Popular PresenterWon
2013Hamish BlakeGold Logie: Most Popular Personality on Australian TVNomitated
2013Andy LeeMost Popular PresenterNomitated
2013Andy LeeGold Logie: Most Popular Personality on Australian TVNomitated
2013Hamish & Andy's Euro Gap YearMost Popular Light Entertainment ProgramNomitated
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2014Andy LeeMost Popular PresenterNomitated
2014Andy LeeGold Logie: Most Popular Personality on Australian TVNomitated
2014Hamish BlakeMost Popular PresenterNomitated
2014Hamish & Andy's Gap Year AsiaMost Popular Light Entertainment ProgramWon
2015Hamish BlakeGold Logie: Most Popular Personality on Australian TVNomitated
Andy LeeNomitatedGold Logie: Most Popular Personality on Australian TV-
Andy LeeMost Popular PresenterNomitated-
Hamish & Andy's Gap Year South AmericaMost Popular Entertainment ProgramWon-