The primary focus is as mainstream as it gets, which is to say it’s Australian politics. Even if you barely have time for the evening news, Mad as Hell provides everything you need (in the form of actual sound bites and news footage) to make sure you’ll get the joke. At a time when most local comedy seems more about sucking up to power, it has real bite: a segment featuring Scott Morrison making his 2019 election pitch over later footage of his governments many failures was a tougher punch than any the ABC news department’s been able to land.
Anthony Morris is a freelance film and television writer. He’s been a regular contributor to The Big Issue, Empire Magazine, Junkee, Broadsheet, The Wheeler Centre and Forte Magazine, where he’s currently the film editor. Other publications he’s contributed to include Vice, The Vine, Kill Your Darlings (where he was their online film columnist), The Lifted Brow, Urban Walkabout and Spook Magazine. He’s the co-author of hit romantic comedy novel The Hot Guy, and he’s also written some short stories he’d rather you didn’t mention. You can follow him on Twitter @morrbeat and read some of his reviews on the blog It’s Better in the Dark.
