âDisillusioned feministâ wins next-gen comedy crown
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Melbourne Town Hall, April 11
After 64 heats and finals and a record 1183 entrants, Australiaâs largest open mic competition had finally whittled down the shortlist to 12 aspiring comedians to see who would join the RAW Comedy alumni such as Hannah Gadsby, Ronny Chieng and Celia Pacquola.
Prue Blake, winner of RAW Comedy.
Credit:Jim Lee
Hosted by the jovial Dane Simpson, Mathew Hespe kicked things off and set the bar with material on a reciprocal problem-sharing psychologist and Tiger Woodsâ infidelity; Kelly Gulliver followed with more commonplace stories of the problems of being of a single mother; and Jayde OâBrien (one of two acts to receive a special mention from the judges) floored the room with a blistering set of growing up ignorant of her familyâs poverty, li
Published February 24, 2021
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There’s a new show on the ABC that is must (repeat:
must) watch viewing for anyone who’s ever used the term ‘micro-aggression’ incorrectly. It’s called
Why Are You Like This, and is a complete and total send-up of over-woke Gen Z kids and younger millennials. Identity politics, meet thy maker.
Trick Mirror about how hard it is to be a good person online:
It makes communication about morality very easy, but makes actual moral living very hard . That tension is at the core of
Why Are You Like This, a new six-part ABC/Netflix comedy that follows the travails of three 20-somethings – Penny, Mia and Austin – in Melbourne, attempting to navigate their lives with internet-literate moral superiority (while failing in egocentricity).
Co-created and written by comedian Naomi Higgins, Aunty Donna s Mark Bonanno, and illustrator/lawyer Humyara Mahbub,
Why Are You Like This is Australia s answer to the immoral millennial ennui of
ABC's new series, 'Why Are You Like This' follows three besties bumbling with abandon through the crazy freedom and responsibility of being in your early 20s.
âThis is the most humiliating thing Iâve done in my life,â says Humyara Mahbub, one of the showâs three creators.
âThis is my first TV writing role. My first big professional creative thing. As someone whoâs been railing against creatives for the past 10 years, itâs deeply embarrassing to publicly be âa writerâ.â
Mahbub, a lawyer and freelance illustrator, is in this situation because of her friend, comedian Naomi Higgins (who also stars in the show): it was Higginsâ idea to create a series about their friendship. They then worked together, alongside Aunty Donnaâs Mark Bonanno, to create a pilot for ABCâs comedy Fresh Blood 2018 initiative and âit just sort of went from thereâ.