Australian comedian Chris Lilley has become a household name in his homeland—and a cult star in the U.S.—with mockumentary series like Summer Heights High, which followed three offbeat characters in a suburban Australian high-school (all played by Lilley, who has a penchant for cross-dressing).
His newest series, Angry Boys, is also a faux-reality series—one that profiles misfit lads from different walks of life. Among the characters Lilley inhabits are rapper S.mouse, twins Nathan and Daniel Sims, juvie-hall guard Gran and Jen Okazaki, an overbearing Japanese mother who decides the best way to market her skateboarding son Tim is to announce to the world that he’s gay. (“Don’t be shy—we know you like cock!”)
Which is news to Tim.
While Angry Boys has just wrapped its 12-episode run Down Under, the series will be coming to HBO some time later this year. We only hope Lilley doesn’t heed the siren call of Hollywood and do an American version. That didn’t turn out so well for Little Britain.
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boomer
I remember watching this in Australia and was surprisingly entertained and not overly offended by the “little boy being forced to act gay for pay by his mother” story line… That said, the racial overtones are still pretty awful, and the writing was not good enough to make a White man in “yellow face” pretending to be an “overbearing” Asian mom not uncomfortable.
Jack
omg hahaha I fucking love him and his tv shows!! they’re so funny