###Black Comedy Season 2
Returns Wednesday 3 February at 9:00pm
ABC TV’s comedy series Black Comedy returns in February. Black Comedy uses an array of talented Indigenous and non-Indigenous performers to explore what it means to be Indigenous in contemporary Australia.
Series 2 sees the return of favourites, Townsville’s favourite gays, the Tiddas, the Housewives of Narromine plus Blakforce. Also returning is Brooke Satchwell, as Tiffany, the “culturally confused wannabe black, white girl”.
Returning in key roles are Black Comedy stalwarts Aaron Fa’Aoso, Nakkiah Lui, Steven Oliver and Elizabeth Wymarra, and they’re ably joined by new core cast members Adam Briggs and Ian Zaro. Adam and Ian bring their considerable writing and performing talents to bear, injecting the show with new energy and flare.
New characters include Uncle Doctor, a medico whose methods are more than just a little unconventional, the Thong Mum, a woman whose ability with a boomerang thong is deadly, and the Beachies, a father and son who spend their days sitting on a log on their Torres Strait Island home staring out to sea and pondering the imponderable.
We also meet Ray, a recent parolee and menacing new member of the Black Comedy team, recruited as part of the ABC’s Bridging The Gap Program, we pay homage to The Godfather with The Elders, an epic four-part tale of a turf war between two Matriarchs feuding over the rights to Melbourne’s lucrative ‘Welcome to Country’ income stream, and we go back in time to revisit a classic ‘lost’ Australian gothic horror movies of the early 70s, the unforgettable ‘Wandaroorah’, a film about a little town that needs Aboriginals - and will go to terrifying lengths to get them. We also take Blakforce to new heights with Blakforce SCU: Special Coconut Unit – the elite group of detectives charged with investigating large-scale crimes against Blackness.
Black Comedy is a fast paced, irreverent, entertaining, thought provoking - at times silly - at other times confronting, but always funny look at Australia and Australian culture through the comedic prism of our first people.
Starring alongside our cast are special guests including; Deborah Mailman, Leah Purcell, Matt Day, Luke Carroll, Shari Sebbens, Bjorn Stewart, Jack Charles, Elaine Crombie, Bruce R Carter, Brendan Cowell, Lisa Hensley, Anita Hegh, Robbie Magasiva, Harriet Dyer, Andrew McFarlane, Bruce Spence, Chris Haywood, Graham Rouse, Maggie Dence, Costa Georgiadis and Brooke Satchwell.