9:42AM Jess McGuire | My favourite Canadian in the world, a lovely lass named Rylee who you probably won’t ever meet
and your life will be the poorer for it, sent me a link last night to an article on a Canadian news site about Chris Lilley and Summer Heights High. If you thought
the Yanks were soiling themselves in excitement, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Chris Lilley has been called the Aussie Ricky Gervais, but frankly, he brings a little more to the party. Lilley is a quadruple threat: a writer, satirist, musician and elastic comic character actor who disappears into his often monstrous, sometimes heartbreaking characterizations with Peter Sellers-like ease. In fact, when it comes to stirring up controversy, Lilley gives Sacha Baron Cohen a run for his money. Hooray for HBO, then, because the Aussie star is coming to America: Lilley’s provocative series Summer Heights High makes its North American debut on Nov. 9.
Better than Ricky Gervais? Oh, do go on!
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