#michael hing

The utter insanity that is Michael Hing as Freezo.

Edan is so sad 😭

If I was him I would've freaked out on Hing

Tomorrow (Tuesday 25 August) the wonderfully dry and razor sharp hilarious Luke Heggie stars in our HUGE Comedy Gala at Harold Park. This is Luke in action! So good.

"As a Chinese Australian, there are always going to be people who look at me and think that I’m not a “Real Aussie”. Growing up, I would routinely have people tell me to go back to where I came from, and that really sucked. I’d like to pretend I was naïve enough to think, “What do they mean? I was born here in Australia?” - but the people of the Sutherland Shire in the early 1990’s made it very clear, and I knew exactly what they meant. I did not look like them, so I did not belong in their country, and while I don’t want to ascribe genuinely racist motives to the people who made this app, I can say that flicking through the site on Australia Day did make me feel a lot like that little kid at Illawong Primary School in 1994 who quit the school basketball team after the other kids told him they were all going to play for Australia, and he couldn’t because he was Chinese.

(Incidentally, in the spirit of full disclosure, I should probably say that I was actually very terrible at basketball, and I suspect my teammates’ overt racism probably stemmed from their frustration with my inability to hit a lay up, and while I don’t want to be an apologist for childhood racism of any sort, after I quit, the team did go on to win some sort of regional competition without me, so y’know, every cloud, I guess).

I’m not saying that the editors needed to specifically include people who looked like me as a Chinese Australian so that I could finally feel welcome and overcome the demons of my childhood, because I’ve learned to deal with those issues primarily by writing comedy about them and then having white people pay me money to listen to me talk. I’m not saying the list should have included Penny Wong or Lee Lin Chin or whichever person I feel adequately represents “me” as a Chinese Australian (though I guess, why not? those people are great), it’s just that the striking lack of diversity in The Australianator indicates a real thoughtlessness on the part of the creators and a commitment to long out-of-date ideas and this just really highlights just how tragically out of touch they are. You’d think they could find one person of colour to include on their list. Just one."