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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Daisy Dumas

‘A giant parenting group’: how online comedians are making a living by laughing about the chaos of kids

George Lewis, Farideh Olsen and Sean Szeps.
Screen grabs from the Instagram pages of George Lewis, Farideh Olsen and Sean Szeps. Composite: George Lewis, Farideh Olsen, Sean Szeps, Getty

Many Instagram-frequenting parents of small children will have seen George Lewis’s sketch about two toddlers discussing their feelings of abandonment and relief wrapped in a game of peekaboo.

“It was a normal day, I was just playing with Dad. And then he put his hands in front of his face and he was just gone,” the British comedian and father says in the widely shared video. “He was behaving so erratically.”

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