Magda Szubanski has revealed she compared Scott Morrison and his wife to religious extremists in The Handmaid's Tale because of a fear that Christianity is infiltrating politics.
The comedian made headlines on Sunday when she retweeted a photo of the prime minister's wife Jenny wearing a modest black dress while watching her husband sign a condolence book for the late Prince Philip.
In the controversial tweet, she said the image looked like a scene from the dystopian thriller where women are uneducated, subservient to men and ruled by Bible-touting dictators.
'I genuinely thought this was a photoshopped Handmaid's Tale meme. But no. It's 21st Century Aussie life,' she wrote.