As you may have noticed, Australian comedy – on television at least – is keeping its head down. Over on Ten, they’ve got things sorted. Having two long running panel-slash-clip shows that have been basically unchanged for the last five years is great. It’s also a bit of a holding pattern. Still no word on whether Ten is bringing back that local version of Ghosts! Oh the irony of a show about the undead ending up just plain dead.
RIP sitcoms on commercial television yet again
Yeah, Colin From Accounts is still ticking away, and has maybe possibly improved a little? And all of season two of Get Krack!n turned up last week on YouTube, if you’d like to step back in time to a period where the ABC would air that kind of thing, if only by mistake.
Speaking of the ABC, they seem to be going though one of their increasingly regular periods where they step back from the idea of Australian comedy all together. At the moment, Spicks and Specks is it. Yes, even Gruen has finally buggered off, not that you could call that comedy these days. And calling Spicks and Specks comedy is a bit of a stretch at the best of times.
That’s not to say they’ve given up entirely. Okay, well, considering our next example is season three of Austin, maybe they have. And don’t forget Separated at Birth, because we had. Does the ABC regret greenlighting a relationship comedy starring Urzila Carlson and Nazeem Hussain? We’ll soon find out!
So is that it for 2026? We can all pack up and go home until The Yearly returns to stink up the place? Oh ho ho ho no. The ABC promised us this in 2026 and we’re going to hold them to it:
Hope your plumbing is up to code, because this is a turd that’s going to take a lot of flushing.
*edit* and as if by magic – or someone at the ABC reads this blog (as if) – we had this slid under our door a few hours after publishing this post:
School is back in session as Australia’s funniest comedians compete in Class Clowns
A misfit crew of comedians head back to school in the all-new series Class Clowns, premiering Wednesday 30 September at 8.30pm on ABC TV, with all episodes available to stream on ABC iview.
Under the watchful eye of Principal Julia Morris, comedians Bron Lewis and Luke McGregor, Becky Lucas, Matt Okine, Nina Oyama and Dave Hughes, are divided into three houses, Redbacks, Cane Toads and Bin Chickens, to battle it out for house points and the coveted Class Clowns Cup.
From Biology and Drama to Mathematics, Geography, Gymnastics, Physics and more, every assignment offers the chance to earn praise and points. But impressing Principal Morris won’t come easy. As she reminds her students, house points are a privilege, not a right.
Packed with outrageous challenges, fierce competition and plenty of laughs, Class Clowns proves that even professional comedians will do almost anything for bragging rights and a trophy.
Hey, there’s a preview online too. Surprisingly it’s not labelled NSFW but presumably there’s a non-sexy reason for adults to dress up in school uniform:
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