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I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.

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Chris Lilley
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: November 10
Comedian
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Sydney
NSW
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Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
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I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.
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In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.
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I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
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Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
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I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
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I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.
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I guess my performance at school was doing school musicals, so I was a knight as well at the back of the stage in Camelot. It was all those kind of things. It wasn't the stuff that I wanted to do. The real funny character stuff came out when I was in control of it myself and writing it myself.
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I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.
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It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
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People are always nice I never get anything mean said to me on the street.
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I didn't do very well academically I was always in the bottom class.
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I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
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I have a massive guilt thing about money.
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I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
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If you over-think, it affects things too much I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
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I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.
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I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.
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Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.
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I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
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