Australian comedy is mostly hilarious to an Australian viewer, but to an overseas audience most the humour is not as funny as we see it. Outside audiences often portray our humour as offensive or disturbing, but us Australians don’t see it this way and can argue that the context of the joke is taken way out of proportion.
Wayne Brown discusses the representations portrayed throughout Chris Lilley’s ‘Summer Heights High’.
Imagine opening up a newspaper and seeing what seems to be an offensive cartoon on the second page. If the cartoon is funny, do you still see it in an offensive way? Well this is how we perceive Australian comedy on our nightly TV shows. We agree the humour is funny but the representations of the jokes can still be offensive