The way in which Australian comedy is regarded, understood, or interpreted can dramatically affect the overall consensus of what it may imply. Australian comedy walks the line of this, you either love it, or you hate it. This is evident in the public’s overall positive responses to Chris Lilley’s mini mockumentary series, “Summer Heights High” & “Jonah from Tonga” which portrays Australian comedy as to have the ability to find humour in each other’s flaws, often more shocking and confronting than initially expected. Resulting in a fan base that can relate themselves to characters such as “Jonah Takaluwa” and possibly find comfort and closure, Chris Lilly stated in an interview with The Daily Telegraph “I’ve never had any negative feedback”,” I have all the time come up and claim that they’re Jonah”, “It’s all in context and it’s designed to be shocking and confronting/” …show more content…
When compared to Chris Lilley’s successful 2007 series “Summer Heights High” which regularly attracted more than 1.2 million viewers. Figures suggest Australian viewers may have grown tired of Lilley, but why?
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing describes a stereotype, but has Chris gone too far to paint his body brown in order to represent a dark skinned stereotype, this sort of “out there” technique of Chris’s may be the reason for viewers tuning out and looking away as the almost unthinkable scenarios unfold in front of them, subsequently causing viewers to cringe and turn the program off, even to go as far as to misinterpret this humorous technique as blatant