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A new sketch comedy show from some of the funniest blackfellas in Australia. (Well, they better be.) Following in the footsteps of the 1973 pilot Basically Black, this is the first sketch comedy series written entirely by blackfellas and commissioned by the ABC.
A sketch comedy show by blackfellas. For everyone.
Acerbic, witty, and altogether unapologetic, Black Comedy carves up sacred cows, dismantles stereotypes, and turns modern Australian culture inside out.
The fourth series of BLACK COMEDY will continue an acerbic, witty and altogether unapologetic comedic exploration of what it means to be black in contemporary Australia. The sketch comedy show is written and performed by some of the sharpest and funniest blackfellas in the country who carve up sacred cows, dismantle stereotypes, and turn modern Australian culture inside out.
BUZZ BUMBLE tells the story of a bumble bee and some other bugs who live in a cardboard box and put on theatre productions.
Sketch comedy series featuring popular Australian comedians.
In his most audacious project yet, John Safran sets off across the globe to take on religion. He road tests Buddhism in Japan and Voodism in Haiti. He door-knocks in Utah trying to convert Mormons to atheism. He tries to convince the Grand Dragon of the KKK to let him join even though he's Jewish. He tricks a Muslim extremist into placing a fatwa on a colleague. He auditions for the Harlem Gospel Choir. He drinks native American peyote in Arizona...and vomits. And much, much more!
In MY AMERICA Peter Hegedus travels to the US to find out what has happened to the country he fell in love with as a boy growing up in Socialist Hungary. From Brisbane to Budapest, from South Central LA to Freedom, Pennsylvania, Peter tries to discover what lies at the core of the American heart, and why America has become the country we all love to hate.
Casting a satirical eye across the pop culture landscape, Open Slather is a weekly comedy show commissioned by Foxtel for The Comedy Channel. The 20 episode series will be a no-holds barred send-up of Australian culture, identities, celebrities, and politicians. Each episode parodies popular culture, politics, sport, music, media – all the things that capture the imagination of the public and get people talking. From the Real Housewives of Melbourne to Downton Abbey, Gina Rinehart, Hillary Clinton and even Superman, no one is safe!
A comedy where a group of thirty-something friends reunite to drown their sorrows (and question their life choices) at a virtual bar in the time of COVID-19.
SEX: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY is a six part factual series hosted by Julia Zemiro that will explore the last fifty years of Australia’s sexual landscape. A lively series using a blend of experts, philosophers, academics and ordinary people that poses the big questions about sex in the modern day.
SQUINTERS is a 6 x half hour comedy that celebrates the mundane morning work ritual that is the morning commute. Each episode tracks employees of dispatch centre K2 as they head off down the M4 into the morning sun, then again as they return home at the end of the day.
StreetSmart are the most inept suburban crime gang in history, but despite spectacularly failing every time, they approach every heist with blind optimism.
Tony Stilano and Trev Spackneys own, live and work in nearby takeaway fish shops in Melbourne. Although they have fallen into a habitual rivalry based on a cause long forgotten, the pair unite when the multinational fast food outlet 'Burgies' unveils a new store next door to the fish and chip shops.
With their country under threat from a huge dust cloud and the mysterious Takers that lurk within, a small group of Indigenous kids have to make their way to the Thalu, a place of great power, in order to stop the cloud before it destroys everything in its path. Along the way they encounter friends and foe alike as they search for eight sacred stones and a special key that will unlock the power of the Thalu and, they hope, stop the Takers in their tracks.
Su and Pharrell, both 14, are a pair of emerging wannabe documentary filmmakers. At least Su is. She’s a naturalist in waiting. If it swims, crawls, flies or bites– Su can tell you all about it. Pharrell, on the other hand, would probably rather be making real films, you know, with scripts and emotions and actors and stuff - but for the time being shooting tree ants, frill necked lizards, thimble sized possums and the occasional dive-bombing flying fox on his 8k Canon Vixia HFG40 from the safety of a camouflaged hide, is about as close as he is going to get. But what he lacks in interest he makes up for in talent.
Mates for life, Jeffrey and Phillip are happily unemployed, until everything starts to go wrong. They are put on a 'work for the dole' scheme, a freeway is about to be built through the middle of the caravan park where they live, and their favourite show is going to be axed at the end of the year...
YOU'RE SKITTING ME is an Australian sketch comedy series starring six new Australian teen actors who perform sketches about zombies, cavemen, naughty girl guides and parodies of Twilight and talent shows.
YOU'RE SKITTING ME is a new edgy 13 x 25" Australian sketch comedy series starring six new Australian teen actors who perform sketches about zombies, cavemen, naughty girl guides and parodies of Twilight and talent shows.
YOU’RE SKITTING ME is a sketch comedy program for kids. The sketches are an edgy mix of zombies, cavemen, scary Girl Guides, parodies of TV and talent shows as well as some offbeat animations. The show features an ensemble cast of six teenagers and highlights the talent of Australia’s next generation of comedy writers.
YOU’RE SKITTING ME is a sketch comedy for kids. The sketches are an edgy mix of great characters observing real-life, tackling the the funny, the strange and the serious as well as television parodies and offbeat animations. Series 1 and 2 introduced a new cast to TV who treated audiences with Uncle Vijay, the Zombies, Viking School, the Scary Girl Guides, Boy Vs Scout, Romans, Grammar Cops as well as parodies of television characters such as Dr Who, Masterchef, Gollum and Twilight. Series 3 will be a new look with a new cast and brand new sketches and characters that will be continue to shock and tickle the funny bones of ABC3’s audience.
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