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has developed exports in the global level. And, as Gary Nunn reports from Sydney, experts say it Australia is moving away from past stereotypes and quite modern, woke up sense of Humor.

The Nation 's Comedy has long punched above its weight in overseas, basking in the success of the cult-classic" and "ocker" humour - cheeky, lovable, stories of an unpretentious, Australia.

recently, the Humor has occasionally drawn controversy or criticism as outdated. It paved the way for new players to enter The Scene .

"We're in a really interesting cultural moment where it is free for the dissatisfaction of Comedy that punches down [to the power] instead of [the mighty one]," says Dr. Stayci Taylor, a screenwriter-an expert at Rmit University .

Whether The Change is in quantity, quality or tone, one thing seems clear: the Australian sense of humour is a moment.

'Seriously formidable'

The New Guard is the most prominent member is Hannah Gadsby . Her stand-up show, Nanette, by won international recognition for pivot path of self-irony and serious testimony, halfway.

Nica Burns , Director of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, says Gadsby, is part of a national influx: "In The Last ten years, Aussie comics have grown in number, talent, confidence and ambition of the genre in every comedy. "

she called the current Australian winner of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe best comedy award - Gadsby (2017) and Sam Simmons (2015), as well as Tim Minchin , as the best newcomer in 2005.

Hannah Gadbsy describes to show The Influence of her, Nanette

"Because you're a small population, they are a seriously impressive group of Comedy now," she told the BBC.

In a Gadsby said: "I was struck by [the Pointe]. so The Audience was able to take my pain hold. "

Dr. Taylor says: "Gadsby began as a runaway, But then it was very obvious, leads you to an exciting new Australian wave, the undermining of Comedy. "

audiences are more demanding and want more be taken than before, she says: "There is less tolerance for the dominance of straight, white, male Position . "

previously on

worked the first successful incarnations in Australia, is a modern comedy-history of Barry Humphries ' character Dame Edna Everage to fame in the 1960s, and the film "Crocodile Dundee " (1986). Both played what is by many now-dated Australian female and male stereotypes.

Barry Humphries as Dame Edna

Then there is what is called Dr. Stuart Richards gave "glitter cycle", a trio of Australian cult Comedy movies: Priscilla, Queen of the desert (1994) Muriel's Wedding (1994) and Strictly Ballroom (1992).

"In the heart you are still ochre comedies - typically Australian in their lovable lower-middle-class sense of Humor that develops empathy," says Dr. Richards, a screen studies, experts from the University of South Australia .

Immediately prior to the latest wave of Australian comedy, and the book thing is the old-school era, was a series of exports, which included Chris Lilley 's Summer Heights High (2007) and" Kath & Kim (2002-2007).

The former satirizing the Australian private v public School Culture , with the latter derided as the domestic suburbia. Both took aim at the lower socio-economic classes.

Chris Lilley 's Ja'mie king was a cult figure for the international audience

Dr Ian Wilkie , lecturer in comedy writing at the University of Salford, Kath & Kim, joined with contemporary taste "shows, with the more dangerous "lower class" families and non-metropolitan vibe".

Lilley Comedy won many fans, But some of his characters and the use of blackface causes controversy.

"It makes you wonder about the Comedy is often inevitable openness," Dr. Wilkie says. "The need for a target is problematic in the production of a gentle, harmless satire. "

Woke up Comedy

recently, comedians such as Gadsby, Minchin, Adam Hills , Zoe Coombs Marr and Josh Thomas have directly addressed topics such as misogyny, homophobia and discrimination on grounds of disability.

could the prejudice be The theme tune to this new era of Minchin's song, which satirizes the opposition, a ginger-ginger can be used to Political Correctness with the Text "only a ginger".

Hills, who was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award, his own UK show, The Last leg, a nod to the fact that he has only one.

It is popular with the UK audience, as Dr. Karina Aveyard of the University of East Anglia , explains: "It is sensitive, But also pushes the envelope - the disability of him and his co-stars gives him a platform to do a different kind of comedy, as if he is already a able-bodied white male Comedian . "

Dr. Richards says, that is the reflective post-equality in the marriage era: "become Australian Comedy, smarter, especially with Nanette and Josh Thomas , Please Like Me , boldly feminist and boldly queer. It is grown up. "

by contrast, he says, the reason for many bad reviews of the Lilley could be no mistake, the new show because his Comedy has not developed: "It has not developed empathy or grown. "

International critics have often hard recent efforts. as a "splendidly made, a psychological Comedy, attentive, with the vulnerable people your own jokes".

American audiences have taken to Josh Thomas "gentle and rude," says Comedy

Dr. Richards: "a part of the Australian larrikinism is about self-irony - But -still more important-punching-up. Lilley's characters increasingly have a bullying element that distinguishes his satire of current Australian Comedy. "

Humphries recently criticized for "punching down face", when he describes transgender as "fashion" - and gender-reassignment-to tell the Operation as "self-mutilation", the leading Gadsby, he has "lost completely the ability to read The Room ".

Dr. Taylor says that technology such as YouTube and Netflix has played a large role in The Change .

"This New Wave understands International spreadable media, and how this changes your audience from the greatest attraction of need yesterday. These digital natives to go in search of minorities, instead of avoiding them," she says.

It also brings a greater variety of "far away" Australia in The World , she adds.

Evolution instead of layer?

But not everyone views of Australia-comedy-exports as a forward from a hearty, larrikin past.

Wayne Federman , stand-up, and a professor at the University of southern California, says the exchange is just a natural part of the Comedy evolution and the deviation of brusqueness is not so new.

"jokes have become longer - it is not set up, punch line, laugh, repeat. Narrative Comedy again. "

Kath & Kim exported to UK audiences in its original format, But in the United States got a re-make

He also argues the Gadsby pivot is not new: "Dick Gregory has a similar thing. He has a lucrative comedy career in the 1960s, because stand-up is not allow to speak him the freedom, as free as he to the black civil Rights wanted. "

There is another problem with the labelling of this new comedy wave as awoke: it is very white.

Popular shows such as the Black Comedy The Family law, the showcase of indigenous and ethnic minority talent, yet do not share the same international recognition as any other.

experts say this may not be, because The Audience know enough about the Aborigines, or Asian, Australian culture, to the jokes. One way or the other, it seems, there is still a way to go.

Dr. Taylor says that the reading room is in the Comedy the privilege of the modern time. "It is easier to laugh, to live in a more equal society," she says.

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Source of news: bbc.com