Karl Stefanovic is a Robot!
Karl Stefanovic’s Wikipedia entry is one of the most heavily vandalised Australian profiles on Wikipedia. In part, this is probably due to the excellent comedian Tony Martin, and his long running campaign to expose Karl as a robot. So as a public service to help keep Wikipedia vandal free, and for historical reference, I trawled through the over 500 revisions to Karls wiki entry, to catalogue some of the funnier revisions. If you’ve spotted any entries I’ve missed, please, let me know;
Karl Stefanovic is an Australian television robot who co-hosts the Nine Network’s breakfast programme, Today. There is some debate if Stefanovic is actually a cyborg (part man, part machine) or a android (entire robot). Evidence suggest the latter as Stefanovic’s emotional simualtions lack sincerity and have clearly been written by cheap third party software company.
He was involved in Nine’s coverage of the Canberra bushfires, where 400 homes and four lives were lost in January 2003. In 2003, he was posted to Los Angeles as one of the Nine Network’s US correspondents. During this time he also worked for CNN for over 13 months, after which he malfunctioned and over heated, and was re-booted as the stefa-robot you all know and love today on, funnily enough, Today, with the human/alien hybrid Jessica Rowe.
Stefanovic replaced long running Today host Steve Liebmann in 2005 and currently co-hosts the program with Jessica Rowe.
He is well know to refer to himself in the 3rd person as The Stefa-Robot, saying such things as “The Stefa-Robot is now in robot mode”. Karl likens himself to Bender, in that , unlike bender,who needs alcohol to fuel his power cells, Karl need alcohol to work with skeletor.. commonly known as Jessica Rowe.
The two have often clashed along political lines, with conservative Stefanovic often engaging in abrupt exchanges with the more liberal Rowe[citation needed]. In March 2006, the banter between the two came to a head when almost an entire program was devoted to a discussion of the Republic issue; with Stefanovic enthusiastically defending the Monarchy, and Rowe arguing in favour of a republic.[citation needed]
In 2006 Stefanovic participated in the Channel 9 reality-tv show Torvill and Dean’s Dancing on Ice. He eventually made it to the Grand Final of the show but was beaten by Jake Wall on a viewer SMS and phone poll. Stefanovic was regarded by Christopher Dean as a natural ice-dancer who potentially could have turned professional had he begun skating in his youth. His participation in the show will be remembered for his audacious costume selection, chemistry with ice-dancer Linda Aubrecht and convincing performance of the “Boléro” in the shows finale. There were rumours abounding after the show that Karl was indeed a robot, and would have been therefore disqualified as a consequence. The Stefanovic 500 has since gone into hiding.
Stefanovic is married to wife, Cassandra, and has two cyber-children (as of August 2006 Stefanovic is expecting a third child). Cassandra Stefanovic (nee Thorburn) is from Mildura, in regional Victoria. Her parents are Pat (the Chief Executive of MADEC) and Max Thorburn. Her brother, Craig, was married in September 2006.
Karl’s brother Peter Stefanovic is also a Channel 9 journalist.
Apparently if look into his eyes for long enough, his robotic powers will reveal to you the mysteries of God and all of the world’s mysteries (UFO’s, Ernie Sigley’s amazing laugh, the reason for Jessica Rowe looking like an alien, etc…). Apparently his amazingly perfect hair is the only type known to man that Superman is unable to burn due to the use of his heat vision.
He was recently involved in an unsuccessful court battle to be considered “a real boy” (The People of N.S.W Vs Cybernetic Industries).
Karl’s brother Tony Martin is a Triple M Fanatic.
