Published: April 19, 2019
It’s a disaster from the director, who’s painful shtick remains as juvenile as ever
The comedian Hannah Gadsby discussed the pathetic contrarianism of Barry Humphries in a 2018 tweet, commenting that the veteran joke-maker and professional buffoon “has completely lost the ability to read the room”.
If Humphries can no longer read the room, what do we make of Chris Lilley? Perhaps the only way of rationalising the controversial comedian’s shtick is to assume that he cannot read full stop. Can’t read a room, can’t read a book, can’t read a giant billboard spelling out that people no longer consider the comedy he trades in to be funny anymore: a relic from an older, more primitive time.
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