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The world’s biggest gossip blogger Perez Hilton is a big fan of Summer Heights High.

He has given the news of HBO’s acquisition of Chris Lilley’s mockumentary as “Best News of the Week” status.

According to Perez, it’s one of “our favourite shows on the planet.”

He tells his readers the show is brilliant, and of Ja’mie King he adds, “yes that’s a dude.”

Source: perezhilton.com

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  1. What about Parker Posey’s over zealous school girl character?
    The attempt to put on a play thats context is an attempt at being topical and professional and ends up just plain frightening?
    And never tried to further its characters?
    The characters personal dramatic conflicts and resolutions were perfectly normal of any well written script, Chris L had several hours and episodes and stretched it thin while this film said the same thing all in 90mins.
    And I’m not sure where the term “mildly amusing cult comedy” came from, its kind of a contradiction, it is a CULT comedy, and you should think about the axiom of the word cult 😛
    And I never understood when a person judges the social impact of a movie they’ve seen as “well a couple of people I knew didn’t like it”. Sure its an opinion like the same opinion I had at the start of this thread, but to then go on and say its pretentious of me to highlight the influences (and thats being kind) of Chris L’s characters just reeks of hypocrisy.
    To say that SHH is a completely original never before seen comedy style mock-umentary is the ludicrous and pretentious statement, the characters and themes have been done many many times before. And in my opinion, Chris L’s “influences” did it a whole lot better.

  2. Waiting for Guffman was a mildly amusing cult comedy but audiences gave it the box office flop.

    Sure both shows share a flamboyant drama teacher in a mockumentary format but that’s where any similarity ends. Guffman never tried to move beyond caricature or try to develop any of its cast. I know a lot of people found it way too boring to finish.

    Comparing this to SHH is both pretentious and ludicrous.

  3. As a family of 6 (Mum, Dad, 3 sons and a daughter)ranging from 48yo down to 10yo I’m afraid we cover a pretty big cross section of the community. SHH is an amzing show. We didn’t allow the younger two to watch it when it was on tv but (as usual) they gradually saw bits of it while walking in on the older ones watching the DVD and soon became big fans. We have since watched it together as a series, laughed our heads off and have all become big Chris Lilley fans. We then bought the We Can Be Heroes series and loved that too.

    I see Chris Lilley as the next Barry Humphries. Anyone who can almost make you forget you are watching a “dude” when portraying such a variety of characters has definitely got talent. I found the housewife character in Heroes to be particularly brilliant.

    Offensive to some maybe – not unlike Sir Les Patterson – but very clever nonetheless. Chris’ career will be one to watch. We wish him every success.

  4. Great news! It took me a couple of episodes to get into it and then I was absolutely hooked. I couldn’t believe how accurately those characters were portrayed and how it unlocked those buried memories of high school all over again! B

    ut what really impressed me was the direction he took the drama. I couldn’t believe I started caring for these initially unlikeable characters and getting caught up in the drama.

    I won’t entertain those “other” comments, it’s all been said hasn’t it?

    I sent the DVD to friends overseas and got them hooked as well! Great to hear it does translate beyond cultural barriers. Sure it’s not going to be for everyone, but that’s the beauty of variety and a remote! Anyone know what Chris Lilley’s next project is?

  6. Nah J Bar, I enjoy a lot of things, I think Chris is an ego maniac trying to hard to prove himself, thats just my opinion. As I said, I love mockumentaries, own a bunch of em, but this one is just really tacky. The jokes are borderline toilet humor, (aww miss did you fart?) and to me its the equivalent of Jazz Music, and no one is more into themselves than a Jazz Musician.
    And dave? I was waiting for someone to pull out the ole “your a closet gay” remark, now all is left is racist and sexist, any takers?
    Also, you said you saw Guffman ten years ago, I think thats the point I was making dude, a lot of elements are a direct rip off.
    Good artists copy, Great artists steal, and Chris just made it too obvious for it to be a steal, next time will we see the overweight lunch lady? A pot smoking science teacher? The PE teacher who had a sex change? The dominatrix Library teacher? Will the school be set on fire? Will the school councilor get accused of sleeping with one their students? Will there be a bake sale and someone accidently put marijuana in the brownies? What a bout a geeky school band leader? The school party were someone gets too drunk and has to get there stomach pumped?
    Its all been done and done to death, just like Rove Chris will make a whimper in the States.

  7. Dree,
    Summer Heights High was one of the highest rating comedies on the ABC ever. I think you’ll find that it scored well in all demographics, including straight men. Maybe satire isn’t your style of comedy. I know a lot of people that can’t stand any type of satire but love the gags they see on sit-coms or slapstick comedy. Maybe you need to have a laugh track to tell you when to laugh.

  8. Oh man, from saying what i “think” as in opinion, and now I’m a closet homosexual bigot who goes out and bashes drag queens (did I even mention drag queens?)who appears on a popular Australian Reality TV show while being home schooled and has season tickets to the Footy Show.
    well, so be it!!
    I think the show sucks, so shoot me!

  9. Dree: I had to check to see you weren’t kidding! I think you your complete generalisation is not only incorrect and insulting to its audience, but it’s rather disturbing you even think like that.

    Sure Waiting for Guffman was a good film when I saw it over a decade ago, but you can’t compare the two.

    I think your problem with a satirist in drag tells us too much about your own issues! So let me make a generalisation this time – you’re a Footy Show fan?

  10. Have to be teenage girls or gay to love this?

    Well what about basically many of those in the Australian TV industry? I don’t think they all consist of all teenage girls and those in the gay community.

    Have a look at the wide range of applause and cheers for Ricky Wong (another of Chris Lilley’s characters but from ‘We Can Be Heroes’) at the Logies:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaisqY_xMAA

  11. Whether you like him or not it is certainly helpful to have Perez’s approval and his millions of hits a day.

    LOL at the assumption this show is based around a man wearing girls clothes. Satire knows no crossdressing boundaries.

    I cannot wait to see Ja’mie on Letterman or something or Jonas’ dicktation graffiti.

  12. Dree, you wouldn’t happen to also go under the name of JJ on a popular Australian reality series, would you?

    I’m glad you’re happy with your ignorance mate, because no one else is.

  13. I’ve never heard anything more ridiculous about this being for teenage girls and gays. Obviously must be from someone completely out of touch with society or they were home schooled!

    I can assure you that this show was very popular with guys both young and old. I heard groups school kids quoting from this show on public transport and went to work and had my boss in his 50s doing the same!

  14. I fully respect that rudi, Ive only watched like three episodes and I’ve seen a hundred mock-doccos like that before. I’m not really a fan of guys dressing up as girls and putting on funny voices, thats just my taste and it doesnt mean its a bad show at all!
    As for the character recognition, well, I never had a guy dressed up as a school girl at school, lol he probably would have been arrested! hah, and thats all I see when I watch the show, just one dude playing all the lead parts with characters I’ve seen on a ton of other shows that did it a whole lot better. Jonah? Well we had Jocks at our school, and we had that criminal type lol, but none that make me think of a guy like Jonah, and our drama teacher was a female (a really hot one too lol)
    And I would have to agree with you on the fact that I’m out of touch with the stereotypes of todays High Schools, I havnt been in High School since 1995 :P.
    And the reason he works so hard is because he plays all the parts! Ha,
    I’m just not a fan off the show and that doesnt make me stupid lol, Just like all the people who love the show aren’t stupid either. I love my music and I love my sport, I suppose you can call me a typical Aussie guy, not special but not insignificant, I have my favorite shows but I understand they dont appeal to everyone. And the reason the younger crowds enjoy him so much is because they probably are too young to enjoy the artists who have done this previously and did it a whole lot better in my opinion 😛
    That drama teacher is a direct rip of a character also a drama teacher called Corky St Clair, and he did it a whole lot better imo 😛
    As for Ja’mie, I don’t know as much as you know because I didn’t watch the show, and if I did know all the trivia you did, I probably wouldnt find it funny as I dont find him funny lol, watching him play that girl made me cringe as he was enjoying it way too much lol
    So no harm no foul, all i was stating is that the show would defiantly appeal to the gay community and the majority of young school girls as these two groups can identify with the characters, I’m neither so it doesnt appeal to me 🙂

    Peace!

  15. What the hell Dree?? What planet are you from? There is virtually nothing in this show that would interest one gender or sexuality over another.

    I found this on of the most funniest (and scarily realistic) comedies I have seen in a long time. That’s speaking as a straight middle class mid-age male!

  16. Hello? The Human Dree – you cannot be serious. Don’t you recognise satire when you see it ? How many girls like Ja’mie do you know ? (Do you know why that apostrophe is in Ja’mie? Do you know what that name means?) Do you know a boy like Jonah? God forbid, a teacher like Mr G? Or Miss Palmer (the remedial class teacher). Either, you’ve never been to school, or you’re completely out of touch with contemporary Australia. This is the second funniest Australian television program ever made; and Chris Lilley is the brightest bloke in Australian television – and, by reputation – one of the hardest working too.

  18. No offense at all and I mean this with all the respect in the world, bit if your gay, then this show is for you, young teenage girls and the gay community lap it up. Its definatly not a guys show.

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