If your television career has gone to the dogs, never fear: you can always start your own podcast. This appears to be the logic embraced by Chris Lilley, the once sensationally popular Australian comedian best-known for chameleonic performances in sitcoms such as Summer Heights High and We Can Be Heroes.
Lilley would surely prefer it if his new podcast, Mr G’s Room, were a full-blown TV series. But things went awfully quiet in Lilley town following Netflix’s decision in 2020 to remove four of his shows from its library in response to a debate about his use of blackface, brownface and yellowface in Summer Heights High, Angry Boys, We Can be Heroes and Jonah from Tonga.
