Dr Mumbo at the ASTRA Awards: Speers blows his own trumpet

To Sydney’s State Theatre for pay TV’s big awards night – and a thoroughly classy affair it was.

Mind you, as the pay TV personalities made their way along the ASTRA Awards red carpet, Dr Mumbo overheard one mean character observing: “It’s like watching kids dress up in their parents’ clothes while they’re away at the Logies”.  

But pay TV does have its heroes, and Dr Mumbo was impressed by the loud cheer when Sky News political editor David Speers – host for the night after something of a busy Julia Gillard-driven 24 hours – arrived on stage.

He told the audience he was glad to get away from his journo peers for the night, revealing: “There’s only so many times you can ask what’s the quickest way to Ken’s at Kensington.”