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Chris Lilley’s “Private School Girl”
The genius behind We Can Be Heroes, Angry Boys and Summer Heights High has finally revealed his new show, Private School Girl.
What’s that I hear you say? You haven’t heard of any of these shows? That’s because they were all made in Australia, by Australian Chris Lilley. And we all thought Neighbours was the only TV show produced in that far away land.
Each of these TV series is filmed as a mockumentary. There are several characters whose lives are focused on and each one of these main characters are played by Chris Lilley. And Chris Lilley is fucking epic at acting.
Now this isn’t some Jack and Jill or Norbit situation where he wears a fat suit and/or make-up and acts like bad theatre actor at improv. His characters are intricate, with their own mannerisms and distinct personalities. Throughout his career, he’s played an unruly set of twins (one deaf, both dicks), a middle-aged woman who rolls around everywhere, a flamboyant, self-obsessed drama teacher, a troubled Tongan bully, a sellout “hip-hop” artist, a Japanese mother who incorrectly and obsessively markets her skateboarder son as gay and a teenage girl who embodies the word “bitch”.
Chris Lilley may also be one of the greatest writers of realistic dialogue that I have ever seen. If you watch an episode, you’ll notice that every actor delivers their lines so naturally and so perfectly. I don’t know if the casting is impeccable or if Lilley’s writing just cannot be poorly acted.
I’m not exaggerating. They probably talk more realistically than you do. It’s that well done.
Ok now, back to this new show he’s releasing. It centres around the aforementioned teenage girl named Ja’mie (pronounced JA-MAY), who has appeared in two of his TV shows so far as a central character. He hasn’t really given much other information and says he’d rather the fans enjoy the surprise. Honestly, I just think he’s more comfortable communicating to the masses through something other than his own skin. Maybe he has the most fun case of multiple personality disorder.
Just watched one clip of this show and I guarantee you will make laughter sounds.
Dads Pilot
Oh my, how long I’ve been waiting for this moment. Anyone who’s read a decent portion of my blog knows that I do not find Seth MacFarlane to be the most revolutionary TV show writer, and although I like Family Guy, I’ve blasted him and pretty much all his shows as well as this one, Dads.
Now where do I begin? How about the laughter track? The purpose of laughter track escapes me. The only way a laughter track could be good was if it featured everybody from the Skype laughter chain, and even then, if they split their sides at every little fucking line, it’d get annoying. If anything, it only served to remind how me how utterly unfunny and shitty the jokes were.
Seth Green’s face here perfectly mirrors my exact reaction while watching Dads.
Oh, and the amount of cheap jokes about stereotypes in this show could pose some problems later on in the series when they inevitably run out of stereotypes to repeat. Let’s play guess what culture the jokes are talking about!
“My dad beat me with a math book till I was sixteen.”
“No, because you’re going to dress up as a sexy, [blank] schoolgirl.”
“And thanks to your beautiful maid for making all this food”/“I’m his wife.”
“The [blank] are lovely and honourable people, but you can’t trust them.”
“That creepy translator texted me a picture of his tiny penis.”
Did you get it? It went Chinese, Chinese, Latina, Chinese and Chinese. I’m not offended by the stereotypes (despite the first and last ones actually reinforcing them), but it seems like extremely lazy writing directed at people who laugh more than punk criminals in 90’s action movies.
Now, obviously due to my well-documented but largely unseen dislike towards this show even prior to its release, you might think I have been really fucking bias. And I understand. But I was well aware of that before I started watching it, so I decided I would try my hardest to smile if I found anything they said or did even relatively amusing.
Now if that’s not the most airtight solution in gaining a fair balance, I don’t know what is.
I smiled twice, once towards the end when Seth Green’s character, Eli sees his dad in the taxi at a red light and another time when I saw a funky light-up PS3 controller that Eli and Warner were using, which turned out to be the best thing about this show.
An extremely lame and forced deus ex machine, fittingly, resolves the plot. After a deal went wrong earlier in the show, Eli, Warner and their fathers walk into their workplace, talk for a while, before Brenda Song’s character comes in and says they got the deal. How? The translator texted her a dick pic and she threatened to make it public unless he convinced his bosses to take the deal. Because fuck it.
I don’t know much about businesses, but how much power does a sub-par translator (who didn’t seem very fluent in English considering he was working for a company that is investing millions) have?
The show ends with each one of the characters making a separate joke about the penis picture.
If I had to rate this show, its unlovable characters and its half-assed, overused plot, I’d give it a “fuck you” out of 10. Because that’s what I’d say to any fans of the show and that’s what Seth MacFarlane is saying to original comedy.
Plans for David Brent
At the end of 2003, we bid farewell to David Brent. A tragic, egotistical, pathetic man who helped changed TV comedy. And also caused a massive excess of mockumentary TV shows.
But as Arrested Development has proved, things we love will come back to us once more. Granted Firefly fans aren’t getting jack shit, but mentioning that wouldn’t allow me to prove anything.
Ricky Gervais’ character and counterpart David Brent first appeared outside of The Office UK in The Office US, because it’s his show and he can do whatever the fuck he wants. Luckily he did it before Steve Carell left and presumably distanced himself from the show as they jumped the shark.
After his two appearances in America, Brent then appeared on YouTube, with a few videos that tried to capture the magic of Brent outside the Office, sans Howard from Halifax. Instead he has Doc Brown, whose music Brent is producing and whose race Brent is trying to associate with. Leading to the awesome comic relief reggae rap music video, Equality Street, performed by Gervais and Doc Brown, with another video about to how this collaborating came about.
Turns out this video is damn prophetic when I saw a sad union of Robbie Williams and Dizzee Rascal, with the only difference being the song is not about equality.
The latest Brent has done are these weekly “Learn Guitar with David Brent” YouTube videos.
But now, Ricky Gervais has said that he wants to make a fucking David Brent movie.
A DAVID BRENT MOVIE.
Soak it in. Forget about Affleck as Batman and think about a full feature with David Brent, the man who brought us a fusion of flashdance and MC Hammer shit.
But that’s not all, Gervais has actually got a few other things lined up for Brent. Starting with a frickin’ record deal. You might be able to buy “Free Love Freeway”, or torrent it.
After this, Brent will appear in a few charity concerts. Woop.
Then the film will be made, probably focusing on Brent trying to make his dream of becoming a musician come true. Something Gervais accomplished early in his life.
Good news? Or do you not give a fuck? Or have I been confusing you with alternating use of Gervais and Brent to talk about the same person more or less? Let me know if you have a few seconds free.
Human Giant Pilot
Human Giant is a sketch comedy created by and starring Aziz Ansari (Parks and Recreation), Rob Huebel (Childrens Hospital) and Paul Scheer (The League).
I’m not usually fond of sketch shows. There’s always a massive hit and miss factor that makes me think “fuck this” and give up on attempting to watch every episode. Key & Peele is an exception since I can’t remember an unfunny sketch and I was sure that it would be the only sketch show I ever devoted time to (fuck never ending on a preposition).
Until today! I didn’t want to watch Human Giant because it was aired on MTV, a channel which has shows like Teen Mom, fucking Jersey Shore and generally features a bunch of people you genuinely believe should be euthanised in the hopes that we might progress considerably faster as a race. And sharing a channel with Snooki is not a promising sign. But Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer are all brilliant comedians and this show is surprisingly good considering the channel, but expected from the comedy trio.
There’s not really much to say about this show since it’s a sketch show, there’s no story. But there is Ghostface Killah hitting Aziz Ansari with a baseball bat. It also has Rob Riggle, who you may know as the shouty police officer from Hangover who gets children to taser the main characters. He plays an over-excited civilian that’s typical during street magic.
It only ran for two seasons in 2007-2008 so I can only hope that each sketch is as consistent, which is less likely with sketch shows since each sketch is like a mini-episode, it’s easier to run out of ideas as well. I think. I dunno, I’ve never tried to write one, Little Britain scared me away from the idea of sketch shows. I don’t like it. But I came to realise that Little Britain is really just a unique pile of shit. Yeah but no but shut the fuck up.
Maybe that was a bit harsh. Probably not. Here’s a strange painting I found on Google Images of the Human Giant cast, featuring Aziz Ansari’s nipples.
Life in a Television Show 