Creators of the ‘How to Talk Australians’ comedy web episodes questioned on Australian national TV about the offensiveness of the series

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Sunrise.jpgAustralia: This morning on Australian national TV network, Channel 7’s Sunrise program, ‘How to Talk Australians’ director Tony Rogers, co-creator and director of the SBS series ‘Wilfred’ and writer Rob Hibbert (Images You Should Not Masturbate To), had an interview with Samantha Armytage and David Koch, where the question was posed whether the web series is too harsh on Australian culture. 

‘How to Talk Australians’ takes a cheeky poke at the stereotypical ‘Strayan’ vernacular and lifestyle as seen through the eyes of bewildered but eager-to-learn students at an Indian training centre in an 8-part web series, with episodes 7 and 8 officially being released today.

The Web Series has made over 1,200,000 Australians ‘piss’ themselves with these riotous representations of the ‘Strayan’ way and, being shared internationally with an overwhelmingly positive reaction to this hysterical depiction of ‘Down Under’.

The web series is not without disparagements too of course considering its topical nature. With some heated debates on social media, ‘How to Talk Australians’ has successfully questioned whether Australians are still capable at having a good laugh at themselves. Armytage queried, “Are we really that bad?” to which Rogers confidently responded, “No, we are worse” Rogers continued with, “It’s a great Australian tradition, I think we should be proud of the fact we can laugh at ourselves. There are a lot of people that can’t, or so it seems” and with the preponderance of viewers celebrating the success of ‘How to Talk Australians’ it looks like the tradition is predominantly on trend.

 

Director: Tony Rogers

Writers: Rob Hibbert, Tony Rogers

Producer: Jason Byrne

Starring: Vishal Kotak, Jeffrey Dsouza, Chum Ehelepola, Robert Santiago, Vikrant Narain, Sybil Quadros, AnanthGopal and KamlaChandar