| The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000. 'The Games' starred satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe along with Australian comedian Gina Riley and actor Nicholas Bell. It was written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson. The series centred on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and satirised corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and unethical behaviour within politics and the media. An unusual feature of the show was that the characters shared the same name as the actors who played them, to enhance the illusion of a documentary on the Sydney Games. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| John Clarke | John | 26 |
| Gina Riley | Gina | 26 |
| Bryan Dawe | Bryan | 26 |
| Nicholas Bell | Nicholas | 20 |
| Louise Siversen | Jasmine Holt | 2 |
| Sam Neill | Citytrans World CEO | 1 |
| Tom Budge | Michael | 1 |
| Kim Gyngell | Allan Ronaldson | 1 |
| Kenneth Radley | Motivational Speaker | 1 |
| John Howard | John Howard | 1 |
| Frank Woodley | Dr. Frank Woodley | 1 |
| Tony Martin | Jack O'Shea | 1 |
| Marg Downey | Radio Newsreader (voice) | 1 |
| Alan Hopgood | Radio Newsreader (voice) | 1 |
| Leah Vandenberg | Leah | 1 |
| Tommy Dysart | Taxi Driver | 1 |
| Cliff Ellen | Harry Gibbs | 1 |
| Damien Richardson | Delivery Guy | 1 |
| Andy McPhee | Ian | 1 |
| Randall Berger | Randall | 1 |
| Francis Greenslade | Emmanuel Murdoch | 1 |
| Betty Bobbitt | Betty | 1 |
| Ningali Lawford | Ningali | 1 |
| Tony Martin | Barman | 1 |
| Neil Pigot | David Pigot | 1 |
| Bob Ruggiero | Hon. Nick Thetake | 1 |
| Debra Lawrance | Sponsor | 1 |
| Doug Bowles | Doug | 1 |
| Vince D'Amico | Radio Newsreader (voice) | 1 |
| Nicholas Bell | Nicholas (voice) | 1 |