There’s a lot riding on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. L-R: Briggs, Judith Lucy, Pickering & Tom Gleeson. Source: ABC.
With the 2019 federal election finally announced for the 18th of May, our nation can sit back and enjoy the kind of quality election-based comedy we’ve come to know and love over the years. Maybe quality isn’t quite the right word: remember in 2010 when Julia Gillard impersonations were all the rage and jokes about her partner Tim Mathieson’s hairdressing career passed for satire? What about in 2013 when The Chaser’s The Hamster Decides ran a segment that could have been read as suggesting that ABC critic Chris Kenny had sex with animals? Then there’s all that sharp political satire we regularly see on the commercial networks… oh wait, no there isn’t.
