Returning: Black Comedy
ABC comedy returns soon, vowing it ‘goes blackly where no other blackfella has gone before.'
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Indigenous Comedy series Black Comedy returns to ABC early next month as it ‘goes blackly where no other blackfella has gone before.’
Returning are Aaron Fa’Aoso, Nakkiah Lui, Steven Oliver and Elizabeth Wymarra, with new cast members Adam Briggs and Ian Zaro.
Special guests include Deborah Mailman, Leah Purcell, Matt Day, Luke Carroll, Shari Sebbens, Bjorn Stewart, Jack Charles, Elaine Crombie, Bruce R Carter, Brendan Cowell, Lisa Hensley, Anita Hegh, Robbie Magasiva, Harriet Dyer, Andrew McFarlane, Bruce Spence, Chris Haywood, Graham Rouse, Maggie Dence, Costa Georgiadis and Brooke Satchwell.
Series 2 sees the return of many favorites, Townsville’s favourite gays, the Tiddas, are back, as are the Housewives of Narromine and audience favourites Blakforce – still enforcing what is and isn’t black in the community. Also returning is Brooke Satchwell, reprising her role as Ti any, the culturally confused wannabe black, white girl.
New characters include Uncle Doctor, a medico whose methods are more than just a little unconventional, the Thong Mum, a woman whose ability with a boomerang thong is deadly, and the Beachies, a father and son who spend their days sitting on a log on their Torres Strait Island home staring out to sea and pondering the imponderable.
We also meet Ray, a recent parolee and menacing new member of the Black Comedy team, recruited as part of the ABC’s Bridging The Gap Program, we pay homage to The Godfather with The Elders, an epic four-part tale of a turf war between two Matriarchs feuding over the rights to Melbourne’s lucrative ‘Welcome to Country’ income stream, and we go back in time to revisit a classic ‘lost’ Australian gothic horror movies of the early 70s, the unforgettable ‘Wandaroorah’, a lm about a little town that needs Aboriginals – and will go to terrifying lengths to get them. We also take Blakforce to new heights with Blakforce SCU: Special Coconut Unit – the elite group of detectives charged with investigating large-scale crimes against Blackness.
9pm Wednesday February 3 on ABC.
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Glad they are back. Really loved the first series (except for the two gay characters pictured).
I have to agree, I’ve watched the sketches featuring the two gay guys and it just seems like a bunch of stereotypes and the sum doesn’t equal funny!
If you think using stereotypes as basis for satire is not funny then you’re going to find pretty slim pickings here.
Look forward to watching.
Really love the two gay characters pictured – they’re hilarious, especially Aaron Fa’Aoso and his “bitch slapping.”
Great little show -not all of it works but the parts that do are really entertaining.
It’s still sad, where not allowed to say any of those words but they will use it in a press release. Double standards is what the problem is
Don’t see any problem with the wording or context here.
No I wasn’t meaning this article or you. I was meaning there tag line of ‘goes blackly where no other blackfella has gone before.’ If said by us we will be called racist. That’s why it’s double standard
Don’t see a problem with it. Non-Indigenous can use the term ‘blackfella’ -I’ve used it plenty of times, including for Blackfella Films. Using words is always about the context and meaning.
Lol, I find that hard to believe, that’s more racist then just saying black. blackfella films is fine. We really are a confused world now aren’t we. Can’t say “couldn’t understand a thing they said” yet Ricky in the 2012 globes said the same thing.
Disagree it is racist. Some have criticised Ricky’s jokes. Moving on.
I disagree they both should be fine or both shouldn’t be fine at all. That’s why it’s confusing.
Moving on.
Yay!!!!!