Howard enjoys comedy shows

Its good to see the old boy enjoys comedy TV shows, he going to have lots of time in a couple of weeks to watch TV.

PM Howard finds Chaser pranks funny

It's all part of the pageantry of an election campaign, he says.

The ABC TV Chaser team joined Mr Howard twice on his customary early walk today, first posing as bodyguards in the media entourage and then in a stunt with a hospital bed as they approached the Harbour Bridge.

Later, at a media doorstop at a car dealership at Windsor in Sydney's north-west, a journalist asked him whether he minded stunts like the Chasers'.

"I take the view that the early morning walks are part of the amusing wallpaper of the campaign," Mr Howard said.

He said he did find them funny, but he didn't like their Eulogy song a few weeks ago which poked fun at several dead Australian celebrities.

"When they had a go at Belinda Emmett, Steve Irwin and Don Bradman, I thought they went over the top," Mr Howard said.

"They are far more amusing when they have a go at people that are alive, like me."

On this morning's walk, Mr Howard came upon a hospital bed containing one of the Chaser team, who said: "You give money to sick orang utans. What about us."

The heckling is all part of the campaign, says Mr Howard.

"You have to take the good with the bad in an election campaign," he said.