Chris Lilley, who had an entire TV show where he performed in brownface and another whole separate show where he did blackface AND yellowface, is getting another TV show.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Lilley – whose TV comedies have included Jonah From Tonga, where he played a young Tongan-Australian and used makeup to darken his skin – is filming a new show on the Gold Coast between March and June.
It had to be ewww
Netflix has commissioned ten episodes of the as-yet unnamed show from Lilley, who also played a Japanese woman and a young black man in Angry Boys, using makeup and stereotypical accents.
The Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, estimated that the state will enjoy a $6 million boost to its economy thanks to the production, which is Lilley’s first show since Jonah From Tonga, which was withdrawn from broadcast in New Zealand for perpetuating “negative stereotypes of Pacific peoples” and called “modern-day minstrelsy”.
Can’t we all just go back to making fun of entitled white girls?