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I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

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Chris Lilley
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: November 10
Comedian
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Sydney
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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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You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.
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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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Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going Ha-ha.
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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'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.
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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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I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.
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I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.
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People are always nice I never get anything mean said to me on the street.
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I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.
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When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.
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I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.
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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 have a massive guilt thing about money.
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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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Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
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I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.
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