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Airdate: We Interrupt This Broadcast

New Seven sketch comedy takes on Television from next week.

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New Seven sketch comedy We Interrupt This Broadcast will premiere Tuesday week on Seven.

The series from Helium takes on TV from MAFS to MKR, The Masked Singer to MasterChef, Squid Game to SAS Australia, The Block and The Bachelor.

The cast includes Christie Whelan Browne, Bridie Connell, Michelle Brasier, Adele Vuko, Duncan Fellows, Greg Larsen, Ben Russell and Bjorn Stewart, with guest actors and established comedy performers throughout the series.

Reflecting on the Australian sense of humour, Adele said: “We have a broad range of humour that shows our diversity. We’ve traditionally been known as laconic, larrikin underdogs – but even though we are that – we have a lot more heart and soul to show.”

Michelle agreed: “We don’t have just one sense of humour in Australia, but we don’t like things that are mean spirited.”

Bridie acknowledged our humour is: “Laid back, dry, delivered with a wink and a good spirit.” Christie concurred Aussies are “self-deprecating” while Bjorn declared it “Cooked. Proper cooked mate”.

7:30pm Tuesday February 28 on Seven.

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  1. Australia is now too fragile and easily offended for a show like this to work. They may have had a shot if it was led by Micalef / Denton / Chaser team – but I’ll bet Seven were very involved and wouldn’t let some newbies have any creative control.

    250k first night and under 200 week two. 7Flix from week 3.

  2. I know a job’s a job but Christie Whelan Browne might find it a stark difference going from cutting edge political satire with MAH to this which appears a lot more lowest common denominator (from the promos).

  3. Personally I’m a fan of sketch comedy, it’s been far too long between drinks. I say, good luck to them and at least Seven is trying scripted comedy which only the ABC has tried for a while. I’m sure the catch-up numbers will be good.

  5. Fast Forward, Full Frontal, Totally Full Frontal where the last sketch comedies to be funny and have longevity on TV. I refer back to the final episode of Totally Full Frontal on Ten in 1999. It ended saying sketch comedy in Australia is dead. Never a truer word spoken nothing has had staying power since and people don’t find sketch comedy funny anymore especially when TikTok can give you laughs in 15 seconds, putting this up against MAFS will kill this in two weeks. Border Security repeats here we come.

      1. Again, there’s a stark difference between commercial FTA and the ABC-there are, apparently, large numbers of people who don’t ever put ABC on and don’t realize it’s an even option! The statement about sketch comedy is perfectly correct in that context.

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