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I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
Chris Lilley
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Chris Lilley
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: November 10
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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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Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going Ha-ha.
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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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Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
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It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.
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I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.
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You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.
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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 feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.
Chris Lilley
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 didn't do very well academically I was always in the bottom class.
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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 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'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.
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I have a massive guilt thing about money.
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I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
Chris Lilley
In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.
Chris Lilley
Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.
Chris Lilley
People are always nice I never get anything mean said to me on the street.
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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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