I can’t believe this rubbish is back again this year. It’s seriously lame.
As for the editorial you mention - wouldn’t expect anything different from Charlie. He thinks he’s more biting and edgy than he actually is.
###The Weekly with Charlie Pickering - 2017
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering is a popular news comedy show incorporating topical, opinionated coverage of current affairs, cutting edge humour and satire sitting easily alongside serious interviews. In The Weekly, journalism is as important as the satire and comedy. The show is shamelessly outspoken, railing against the injustices, inadequacies and idiocies of the world. It will call out newsmakers, business interests and politicians. It does not take sides with anyone except the viewers. It has heart as well as brain.
Production credits: Produced by Thinkative TV in association with ABC TV.
Runs for: Twenty x 30 minute episodes on ABC and iview
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Well, actually, it isn’t.
I feel sorry for anyone that seriously thinks Charlie Pickering’s humour is ‘cutting edge’. He is actually the most unfunny comedian in Australia.
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It has it’s moments, but is really just a poor imitation of Last Week Tonight John Oliver. Pickering’s smugness was tolerable on The Project as he had Carrie and the others to counteract that. On his own the smug attitude is annoying.
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###The Yearly With Charlie Pickering
Wednesday 14 December at 8.30pm
2016 will be remembered as the year of Brexit, Trump and the Budgie 9. But sometimes, a year needs to know when it has outstayed its welcome. The Weekly’s Charlie Pickering, Kitty Flanagan and Tom Gleeson grab 2016 in a headlock and wrestle it out of the party before it takes any more musical legends with it.
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Could say the same for this lame show.
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I actually have to agree. I’d tried to stick with it when it was on but just found it to be a tryhard Micallef and so self indulgent. And when the best things about the show are only the 2 sidekicks then there is a problem.
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There’s a good show called The Leak on C31 Melbourne and online that does similar stuff but as a panel show, it’s quite good.
Kitty is always good.
This shit is a prime example of why people are turning against the ABC.
Charlie’s smug, sanctimonious lecturing and belittling of people who hold views that they don’t agree with is great for the self-indulgent progressive type who loves hearing examples of how conservatives are literally Hitler, but to a great deal of people, it just makes progressives look really bad.
I consider myself to be a progressive type of person…yet the rise of people like Charlie Pickering, Waleed Aly, John Oliver and Adam Hills etc. make me ashamed to be one!
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Don’t include Adam Hills in there, his uninformed rants are hardly progressive, or intelligent.
Nailed it on the head.
Seems somehow familiar
http://forums.mediaspy.org/t/the-weekly-with-charlie-pickering/598/10?u=tv.cynic
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###The Weekly with Charlie Pickering - Season 3
Premieres Wednesday 1 February at 8:40pm
Last year, The Weekly promised to put the sense back into the nonsense. In 2017, the nonsense has defeated us. Each week, Charlie Pickering, along with Kitty Flanagan, Tom Gleeson, and - joining the team - Adam Briggs, will pick the news apart, and then attempt to put it back together, hoping that no one will notice the bits they broke.
In a world that is changing at breakneck speed, The Weekly will hardly change at all. We will continue to spend our Wednesday nights exposing the absurd, revelling in the ridiculous, and throwing shoes at the hypocritical. We encourage you to throw yours at us on the telly. After all, it’s your telly.
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering: making breaking news brokener.
He has been on at least thrice as their indigenous commentator. I thought he was already on the team.
Tend to agree with the other commenters here, actually (see @Firetorch, it’s possible) . There’s a place for this sort of comedy, but I think the ABC needs to keep it straight and simple with its comedy. Micallef works because there’s actually genuine wit behind his jokes. It helps that he fires shots at both sides of the aisle and takes on more than just political issues.
Further, Pickering’s delivery leaves so much to be desired. Watching some of his segments on YouTube, ugh they’re so smug yet so poorly done. And I still don’t understand why people love Kitty, she’s so lowest common denominator.
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Oh gee talk about trying to jump on a horse once it’s bolted. I thought it was a news comedy show? So lame.
And did Charlie mean they were wearing white…or that they were Caucasian? If the latter, what a weird joke. Fits right into Charlie’s bigoted and illiberal far left politics though. This isn’t Nigeria or Cambodia - yes, we have white people in Australia, lol.
And if it’s too much white for the show - can ABC please fix by dumping Charlie’s arse and finding a FUNNY comedian with a different skin colour to front this show?
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What’s your background JBar? You’ve never said from what I can recall.