i met him on sunday.

that's all i really have to say.

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i met him on sunday.

that's all i really have to say.<

Sounds like it went badly...

fucking quote shit.

i met him on sunday.

that's all i really have to say.

Did you root him? What character was he being?

haha, not at all! it wasn't a personal meeting, or a date or something! someone that works for the abc introduced me to him at the 75 birthday thing at fed square. he was nice enough, but i think he may have been a little disappointed that not as manypeople wanted to meet him as they did the chaser boys.

yessssssss this looks awesome...

abc were starting to plug this last night

anyone know when it's starting?

sept 5 according to the blurb on the youtube link.

anyone know when it's starting?

it says soon so probably soonm like September or October or November

Wow that trailer is awesome!

More previews here

can't wait. looks good.

Couple of jokes have got him into trouble... I like this one best:

''[We used to have] But we had a girl raped behind them, so we had them removed and the kids have done an anti-rape mural, which is nice''

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22231061-5006301,00.html

Sorry, that should have read

''[We used to have huge bushes] but we had a girl raped behind them, so we had them removed and the kids have done an anti-rape mural, which is nice''

glasshutch said 11 minutes ago: ''People are racist to us, so we can be racist to rangas....''

I swear I've heard that excuse in my dealings with students.

Article from The Age

tonight!

it's been cancelled

pretty shit so far

what the hell, it was great!

Watch the damn show.

uh, thanks for that insightful commentary.

Alex, we are all aware that the show is a clever, eye opening insight into the struggle that kids in high school face on a day to day basis and the harsh realities of behavioural patterns caused by outside forces - ie. being an immigrant in a suburban public school, growing up without a mother, alienation from classmates and teachers etc. shut the fuck up.

Apparently the line was huge today.

Funny, I'd never imagined Lindsay Lohan being a big Chris Lilley fan.

so what are the ''3 1/2 hours of extras'' like?

very funny man.............

but i reckon heroes was funnier.

Chris Lilley reminds me of Elliott Smith for some reason.

ricky wong was an awesome character.

I get the Elliott Smith thing.

I spent a lazy few hours this morning watching the DVD extras. There's some good stuff-

''I love it when lesbians have anniveraries''.

Now coming to the UK on BBC Three

Slow start for 'Summer Heights High'

Wednesday 11 June 2008, 21:45 BST
By Dave West, Media Correspondent
Digital Spy

Aussie show Summer Heights High - described by some as the next Office - opened to a middling audience on BBC Three last night. The ''mockumentary'' sees comedian Chris Lilley play three characters at an Australian high school. Perez Hilton, Kylie Minogue and Nicole Kidman are said to be among its fans. Just 194,000 viewers, or 1.4% of the total viewing audience, tuned in for the first episode at 10.30pm.

Earlier on, Andy McNab's Tour of Duty began to a slightly more impressive 234,000 (1.5%) on ITV4 at 10pm. There were no particular surprises over on the terrestrials, with ITV1's Euro 2008 match drawing only 4.6m (22.4%) from 7.45pm. The F Word attracted a decent 3.5m (16.6%) to Channel 4 from 9pm while the biggest audience of the night was for EastEnders, bringing 8m (42.4%) to BBC One at 7.30pm.

described by some as the next Office

ha

I don't understand how other countries can 'get' this kind of humour, it's kind of Australia specific, no? I've been to highschools in 3 different countries and 8 schools in total and I've only encountered these characters in a couple of australian schools.

I don't know how Kath n Kim got so popular in the US either, I didn't think they'd be able to relate at all..

I didn't think they'd be able to relate at all..

How popular is it though?

Aren't they making a US adaptation because Americans don't get it?

Talk about relating (and not) I cringed when I read this preview:

Summer Heights High

by Sarah Dempster . Wednesday 10 June 2008
The London Paper

Normally, the prospect of a new Australian comedy series would hardly persuade us to bake a ­celebratory batch of chocolate squares.

Given the calibre of the continent’s previous comedy output – Kevin “Bloody” Wilson, Paul Hogan, that film about toilets – it’s more likely to induce some manner of solemn protest ­involving a cork hat and sharpened didgeridoo.

But Summer Heights High is a very different kettle of ­Australian comedy. How ­different? This different: it’s actually really good.

Filmed in a real-life ­Adelaide high school, it’s a mockumentary that satirises the nation’s ­education system and the very modern ­preoccupations of its staff and teen pupils.

The brainchild of Chris­ ­Lilley – who won a Montreux comedy award for his 2006 series, We Can Be Heroes – it finds the ­actor/writer portraying three different characters, each of whom represents a different aspect of this ­apparently ­typical state high school.

There’s Jonah, the slouchy, grouchy Pacific ­Islander who spends his days swearing at his desk and ­break-dancing. There’s the ­unctuous Ja’mie, an over-achieving private school ­exchange student whose lip-glossy declarations of compassion for her pupils belie a near-­pathological belief in her ­superiority. And, best of all, there’s Mr G, the ­gloriously camp starlet ­behind the drama ­department. A small ball of self-delusion, Mr. G believes it’s only a matter of time before fate plucks him from Summer Heights and deposits him in Broadway’s shimmering lap.

Until then, he must make do with penning amateur productions such as ­Tsunamarama, a “wow-show”, he tells us, “about the tsunami tragedy”, set to the music of Bananarama.

Despite the obvious debt to The Office and Kath & Kim, Summer Heights High is an understated affair, with ­remarkably natural performances. Lilley is exceptional, ­bestowing his trio of ­characters with warmth and enough plausibility to make us forget we’re basically watching a 33-year-old man shout at us in a dress.

These are anything but one-dimensional characters. Indeed, watching Ja’mie’s lip tremble in fury as she orders her tiny, cowed mother to drop her outside the school gates, there’s the thrilling sense that anything could happen and, almost certainly, will. Violently.

Even Jonah’s thunderous stupidity may not be what it seems.

“I’m not dumb,” harrumphs the ­delinquent. “I’m just ­choosing not to be smart at the moment.”

What’s that, Skippy? A new Australian comedy series that doesn’t make you want to smash your face in with the remote? Strewth!

Summer Heights High BBC3, 10.30pm

Peaches.

I was excited to share Kath n Kim with my UK mates when it was shown earlier this year.

They just sat there looking all confuzzled. Then i found myself trying to explain the humour, it all went pearshaped from there.

Bad.

What, you think no nation can understand another country's TV output?

They've already made it blake. Using American actors and a similar but more relevant scenario. But it's interesting that they picked it up in the first place. I mean, not even every australian can relate to that humour let alone americans. I think it's established that americans have quite a different sense of humour to ours (obviously not THAT different or shows wouldn't be successful here).

Good for them, but I don't really understand it, I talked to my boss about it too and he couldn't really explain it..Networks work differently over there.