Celebration of a nation
The ABC’s 90th-anniversary program ABC 90 Celebrate! was a noble attempt cover nine decades of broadcasting but left some... Read More »
Tag: Chris Lilley
Australian Tumbleweeds Awards 2021
2021 was a year when Australians desperately needed a good laugh. Fortunately, we had Australian comedy to laugh at.... Read More »
Chris Lilley’s Ja’miezing
Large parts of Chris Lilley's new podcast Ja’imezing, hosted by his character Ja'mie King, are an uncomfortable... Read More »
Yesterday’s Zero
So last week this happened: Are Blackfullas able to exist within the Aus media without being in opposition to Racism? Coz I really don’t think about Chris Lilley. I couldn’t give a square root about him. pic.twitter.com/amcZNSqEWD — Senator Briggs (@Briggs) September 29, 2020 Which, after a bit of digging around, turned out to be... Read More »
R.I.P.S.Mouse
Who knew Chris Lilley still had the power to make us laugh? In the heat of the Black Lives Matter movement, Deadline can reveal that Netflix has removed four shows from controversial Australian comedian Chris Lilley from its services in Australia and New Zealand. Angry Boys, Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes, and Jonah... Read More »
The winners and losers of the Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2019
We started off last year’s Tumbleweed Awards like this: Maybe things will get better next year And people say we’re not funny. Honestly, if you really want to depress the hell out of yourself – and of course you do, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this – go back and take a look at the... Read More »
The Lunatics are the people who commissioned this
The reviews of Chris Lilley’s Lunatics are in, and it’s not looking good for this country’s most hyped comedian. The Guardian: …one of the underlying problems in Lilley’s humour still remains: he continues to punch down, making fun of people who have not been afforded the same privileges as he. There’s also the fact that... Read More »
You’d Have to be a Lunatic…
If there’s one thing we have to thank Chris Lilley for, its opening our eyes to the way the Australian media works. It was obvious to us when Angry Boys launched that Lilley was a performer with no new ideas, a man seemingly content to do the exact same material – material lifted from one... Read More »
Lunatics: the first two episodes
You’d have to think Netflix would be a little disappointed with Lunatics. Not because it’s crap, though it is: being an internet company rather than a broadcast channel, Netflix’s business model is all about getting you to watch rather than quality. They love grabbing up past-their-prime big names because the residual fame is enough to... Read More »
(Hopefully Not) Back in Black
We knew this day would come. We just hoped we wouldn’t be around to see it: AUSSIE COMEDIC GENIUS CHRIS LILLEY IS BACK — AND HE’S SIX TIMES AS FUNNY LUNATICS LAUNCHES ON APRIL 19, 2019 ONLY ON NETFLIX Lunatics Synopsis: Lunatics is a 10-part comedy series presented as a documentary with the characters... Read More »