Indigenous ABC comedy clip parodies white people

ABC releases an explicit comedy segment showing Aborigines parodying a talk show by offensively describing whites | WATCH

Part of the 'Black Comedy' clip parodying a breakfast talk show.

The ABC has released a comedy segment showing a group of Aborigines parodying a breakfast talk show by saying that “white people are c...s”.

The explicit clip was produced by the team behind the ABC’s Black Comedy program, and hosted on an ABC indigenous Facebook page, where it ­attracted mostly positive comments.

In the parody, indigenous comedian and writer Nakkiah Lui plays the host of an inane breakfast show called “Wake Up to Yourself”, joined by a panel of three indigenous experts and commentators.

“Earlier this week, beloved Aboriginal man Uncle Stevie in a press conference referred to white people as white c...s,” she says in the clip, in which the swear word is bleeped out. “This has sparked outrage in the white community, with many calling for the removal of his uncle ­status and a public apology.”

The first panellist replies: “I know a lot of white people. Warm, kind white people. And I say this with a lot of love, but white people are c...s.”

“I wouldn’t use words as strong as that, but I tend to agree. White people are c...s,” the second panellist says.

“Well, I’ve never actually met a white person, but I do agree. White people? They’re c...s,” ­responds the third.

The video was posted to the program’s Facebook page on Friday to spruik the launch of the third season of the show that will air this year.

Lui is an award-winning ­Aboriginal playwright who wrote the Sydney Theatre Company hit play Black is the New White, which has toured Australia and is returning for an encore season this year.

“The clip, which is clearly satirical and humorous, has been released to promote the new ­series of Black Comedy,” an ABC spokesman said last night.

“Its release follows public comments made on a commercial network last week that ­offended many Australians.”

The fictitious breakfast program “Wake Up To Yourself” is a parody of Seven’s breakfast program Sunrise, which last week broadcast a “hot topic” panel discussion that was condemned as racist after commentator Prue MacSween supported the removal of Aboriginal children from their parents, saying it was a “no-brainer”.

Prue MacSween on Seven's Sunrise.

Critics attacked the comments and the discussion about white people adopting Aboriginal children, noting there were no Aboriginal people on the panel. It led to a protest outside Seven’s Sydney headquarters where the program is filmed.

Lui attacked Sunrise on Twitter, telling the program to “maybe speak to Aboriginal children, families and adults that have been affected” not “white people who have zero knowledge”. She said the program was “bottom-feeding off people’s pain”.

The video received more than 2400 likes on Facebook and more than 149,000 views.

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