Enthusiastically touted as the first Australian sitcom in fifteen years, Channel 9’s highly promoted Here Come the Habibs has a lone comedic premise: that it was funded by both Screen Australia and Screen NSW.
That this ham-dripping, ham-fisted, clichéd minstrel show is the product of arts funding and Australian content quotas is unrelentingly funny.
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