Ja mie so random12/27/2023 I used to be up on stage in front of school doing my characters, and now I’ve got a school-girl character on TV. I didn’t hear anything for about six months and they finally rang me back saying, “We just watched your video, it’s genius and we want you to be in the show.” It was called The Big Bite.Īfter that got canceled, I got to pitch the We Can Be Heroes concept. Literally, someone sent me an email saying there’s a television network making sketch comedy and they’re looking for submissions, so I just filmed a bunch of characters and sent it off. Through that I got an agent and started getting bigger gigs. How were you discovered? I kept entering comedy competitions and I ended up winning some. I’d go around to comedy venues and do open-mics. But at the same time, I wrote and put on a musical my first year there. You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.Īfter finishing school, you get a reality check. I'd constantly be that guy who’d get up on stage. What got you into comedy then? When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. And I studied primary school, which is a lot younger. Did that influence you at all? A little bit, but I didn’t do it for very long and I wasn’t very good at it. Now she’s in year 12 and she’s on top of the world. And Ja’mie had already been in two shows, so it was worth it to rget back into her family background and see where she was. What motivated you to give Ja’mie her own show? The first thing I thought of was doing a one-character shot so I could really expand on that world and not have to weave everything together. I certainly did a bit of Facebook stalking of teenage girls to see what kind of stuff they talked about. I really looked at youth culture and the ways they communicate. I grew up in that kind of area and so I was surrounded by girls like that growing up. There are parts of Sydney where all the kids in the area go to that one private school. It turned out she was the standout character that everybody really latched onto. I thought that if i just pretend to be hot and tell everybody how hot I am in a confident way, then it’ll work. But as the series evolved, I imagined she was just the hottest girl in school. I knew I wanted to do a school girl.Īt first, she was going to be an overweight school girl and I was going to wear a fat suit and be an annoying goody goody. What inspired Ja’mie in the first place? She came about when I was coming up with characters for Australian of the Year and thinking of different kinds of people from different states. The Prime Minister even tweeted that he thought he was pretty quiche. She uses the word “quiche” and that is going crazy on Twitter. You never know what’s going to take off, but the thing about Ja’mie is how she infiltrates the language. It's doing all the annoying things that our girlfriends do. The show is sort of like making fun of girls. But when I went out over the weekend, it seemed like everyone’s loving it! I thought straight guys would find it a bit provoking and intimidating, but they’re the main people who come up to me. I’ve been hiding just working on the last episode. What’s the reception to the show been like? I don’t like to read much reviews on my stuff, so I haven’t read what the press is saying yet. Naturally.Ĭomplex got the chance to have a quick chat with Lilley about the inspiration for Ja'mie, the hardest part about playing a female character, and how comedy became a full-time gig for a man who was on track to become a teacher. It's chock full of gossip, boy drama, and trying to get daddy to do what she wants. And now that girl's got her own show, premiering tonight at 10:30 on HBO, Ja'mie: Private School Girl.Ĭreated by Australian comedian extraordinaire Chris Lilley, Ja'mie: Private School Girl gives fans a closer look at the life of the Internet's (and Katy Perry's) BFF Ja'mie (played by Lilley, who first introduced the character in We Can Be Heroes) as she finishes high school. She's the girl who you loved to hate and hated that you kinda loved. She's the girl who's pretty racist and pretty homophobic, but could talk shit about anyone and walk away unscathed. She's the HBIC with so much confidence that the girl who was actually the most attractive one in school would look like a wallflower next to her.
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