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Airdate: Why Are You Like This?

ABC's latest Fresh Blood project centres around 2 friends navigating life in a world of social outrage.

The latest new Fresh Blood project to hit our screens is Why Are You Like This? about 2 friends navigating life in a world of social outrage.

Fresh Blood seeks to uncover the next generation of Australian comedy talent. Up-and-coming comedy producers were given $15,000 each to produce a comedy project with four chosen to produce a half hour comedy pilot.

Why Are You Like This: Best friends Penny and Mia are navigating their 20s in Melbourne. Guided by their own modern day moral code they confront complex social issues in an outrage driven world, leaving a path of destruction in their wake. Mia is fired from her job for being objectively bad at it, and fights against it until she realises she’ll be paid out.

Meanwhile, Penny’s RUOK day lecture is highjacked by co-worker, Daniel, who turns her feelings workshop into a bros night. After a collective bad day, the girls head out to see Penny’s housemate, Austin, perform as his drag alter-ego JonBenet RamsMe.

Once Mia realises her severance pay won’t get her as far as she thought, she tries her hand at a few different jobs, but none of them afford her the amount of freedom she demands. After a follow-up conversation with Daniel, Penny is suspicious that he may be homophobic, and is determined to prove it.

Creators Naomi Higgins, Humyara Mahbub, Mark Samual Bonanno, Producer Sarah Freeman,
Directors Jessie Oldfield & Adam Murfet. Executive Producer (ABC) Nicholas Hayden.

9:30pm Tuesday November 27 on ABC Comedy.

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