John Bird, John Fortune, Barry Humphries, Willie Rushton, Ned Sherrin, John Wells went on making people laugh, and think about why they were laughing.

ECONOMIST: Political satire

Neither do they see, on national television, a beloved comedian, Barry Humphries, demonstrating the alarm with which he would react to waking up next to her in a motel.

NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

Though regularly likened to the great Barry Humphries and Kath and Kim, Lilley has a wider repertoire of voices and has looked for his targets beyond the lace-curtain cul-de-sacs of Australian suburbia.

BBC: Chris Lilley: Australia's finest cultural export?