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 in 2011.

Segments

A number of regular segments appear throughout the series:
Season# of EpisodesPremiere dateFinale datePeak
Audience		Average
Audience
One1028 July 201129 September 20111,456,000960,000
Two714 June 201226 July 20121,413,0001,248,000
Three68 July 201319 August 20131,566,0001,371,000
Four61 July 20145 August 20141,047,0001,000,000

Series Overview

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

Seasons

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

This season was issued as an edited "Best Of" version on DVD, unlike other season which were left unedited.
Episode No.TitleOriginal Australian air dateAustralian Viewers

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

The shows were broadcast from the fictional Lord Stanley pub in East London.
Episode No.TitleEpisode SummaryHamish vs AndyOriginal Australian air dateAustralian Viewers
'		Ranking on Night
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 buttler, 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 CeremonyAustralian 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

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