Stephen Colbert’s famously a brilliant man, so it is stunning that in a phase mentioning Crikey, a gag utilizing First Nations tradition was given the inexperienced gentle.
There’s a small however rising subgenre of on-line content material that we within the bunker — till this morning, a minimum of — have grow to be notably keen on: Individuals who can not take care of the truth that there’s a information web site in Australia referred to as Crikey.
We’ve had the great folks on the Upkeep Section referencing a good pun headline of ours of their episode about Pete Evans (“and the web site known as Crikey! Simply to get as Australian as attainable!”), then common leftie Twitch streamer Hasan Piker saying, “That’s gotta be pretend, proper?”.
Satirical luminary Jon Stewart additionally earnestly gave us a shout-out on his podcast The Downside (his classification of us as an “company” makes it humorous, giving the impression that we’re Australia’s model of Reuters or one thing).
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