Norman Gunston – the boy from Wollongong who rode to fame on Aunty Jack’s considerable coat, erm, dress tails – returns with more highlights from his encore appearances from 1993. Like the first release in the series, it serves up discussions with a selection of has-beens and still-ares, in Norman’s inimitable interviewing “style�. As the man himself says, “An interview is a lot like sex – you sweat a lot and hope to get three good minutes out of it�.

Now a slave to commerciality, which was well covered in the review of the first disc, this release offers us time with inmates of where-are-they-now? limbo such as Strictly Ballroom’s Paul Mercurio, the tiresome Julian Clary, Linda ‘Sue-Ellen’ Gray, Brian Austin Greene (David from Beverly Hills 90210) and regular South Park target Sally Struthers. Continuing the theme are musical appearances from Sean Kelly (of The Models fame) and his short-lived band The Dukes, and Sonia Dada using up a sizeable chunk of their fifteen minutes. To the more enduring, there are interviews with two bona-fide fillum stars - the rather scary Rod Steiger and space cadet Shirley Maclaine - and, umm, that’s pretty much it. Although Norman’s sortie into the world of Elvis impersonators at the Las Vegas Hilton (mercifully with no appearance from LRB...) is an absolute gem, especially when he assails the hapless Colonel Tom Parker who just doesn’t get it – which is when Mr Gunston’s stuff always works the best.

Taking much of its content from his first comeback show, what’s on offer is at times patchy, but once again still manages to offer some regular giggles. The problem with these releases, however, is their brevity. At less than an hour’s duration each there’s no conceivable reason why all three could not have been plonked onto the one disc, which would make ownership a wholly more desirable prospect.

Understandably, this release suffers much the same fate as its predecessor. The source material isn’t exactly in bulk good shape, with regular video tape glitches and alias and shimmer at times that defies description.

The sound is Dolby Digital stereo, and it does a serviceable job with no synch issues, and only very slight and occasional glitches.

Some effort has been made to offer extra value, with the inclusion of the same short and sweet guarantee of excellence from Norman as included on the first release, and previews of scenes from the other two discs in the series – the rather flat rave party sequence from Volume One, and brilliant footage from a Guns’n’Roses press conference from Volume Three. The Umbrella trailers make their return, and while they’re the same old titles that seem to appear on all their releases - Malcolm, What’s Up Tiger Lily?, The Natural History of the Chicken and the Secret Policeman’s Ball series – they do vary slightly. Chicken is different to the first disc – and even features THAT note by Pavarotti, and the Secret Policeman’s short features the late Graham Chapman in a rather delightful pink tutu...

As with the first disc, the most valuable extra here is the unedited interview, this time featuring famed, and gorgeous, nutball Shirley Maclaine. At 36-minutes in length it may sound like a wade, but it is a fabulous comic train wreck of an interview, as the woman whose headspace orbits somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse leaves Norman as the befuddled one – and almost makes you question whether this interview was a major contributing factor in McDonald’s much-publicised at the time breakdown, that left Norman’s rebirth as a rather short-lived one.

This disc may be of somewhat questionable value all up, however there’s still some great Little Aussie Bleeder action to be enjoyed but...