American comedy shows having a field day with Trump/Turnbull phone call

YOU know it’s a big news story when US TV shows start doing skits about it. That phone call between Trump and Turnbull just entered new territory.

Mr Trump’s phone call with Malcolm Turnbull is now the stuff of legend.

AMERICA’S late-night talk show hosts are having a field day with the fiery phone call US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had last weekend.

The chat, which Mr Trump described in a tweet on Friday as a “civil conversation”, was fertile fodder for the comedians and inspired CBS’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to create an amusing animated skit.

“Who the hell would have guessed we’d have a problem with Australia?” Jimmy Kimmel asked on his show on America’s ABC TV network.

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Jimmy Kimmel noted on his program that Australia “I’m pretty sure it’s the only country that still kind of likes us”. Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

“I’m pretty sure it’s the only country that still kind of likes us.”

On NBC Seth Myers followed a similar theme.

“How anti-social do you have to be to not get along with (expletive) Australia!” Myers yelled.

“Australians are the most laid back people on Earth.” Colbert made a plea to Mr Trump to “please don’t pick a fight with Australia”.

“They’ll cut off our supply of UGGs, koala jerky and Hugh Jackman,” Colbert said.

Colbert’s animated retelling of the call between the two leaders, which has been posted to YouTube, begins with Mr Trump in the White House trying to call Mr Turnbull.

“Come on pick up! Pick up!” the Mr Trump character demands.

Comedian Stephen Colbert did an animated re-telling of the conversation between the two leaders. Picture: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

“G’day,” a male Australian voice who eventually answers the phone says.

“Look Mr Prime Minister of Australia we’re not going to take your stupid refugees,” the president says in an aggressive tone.

“I won huge, big league.

“My inauguration crowd was the biggest in the whole history of the world.

“I talked to all of the best, most important people and you’re by far the worst.”

“Look ..” the Australian voice says before being cut off.

he US President later claimed reports of the tense phone call were “fake news”. Picture: AP/AAP

“No, you look,” the Trump character cuts in.

“Your country is a giant desert full of jumping rats and your toilets go the wrong way. Vegemite is garbage. AC/DC is overrated. That’s not a knife, this is a knife”

The president pulls out a knife and drives it into his desk in the Oval Office.

“I’m sorry, this is an Outback Steakhouse,” the Aussie voice eventually says.

“Oh,” the surprised president says.

“I’ll take a Bloomin’ Onion.”