Everyone’s favourite rich maniac and walking headline generator Clive Palmer will continue to provide Australians with LOLs this week – but this time, it’ll be on purpose.
Palmer has been impersonated by Heath Franklin (famous for his work as “Chopper”) on ABC1 sketch comedy show Wednesday Night Fever since its inception in July. Apparently Big Clive got in touch with the show and has offered to appear in person… in a sketch he has written himself. Inexplicably, the ABC accepted, and Palmer will appear in the final episode of the series tonight. This is almost too much. Better stretch your cringing muscles people, this one has a good chance of going the same way as Simon Crean rapping in Parramatta last year.
According to a press release from the ABC, Palmer “is actually a huge fan of ABC1’s political sketch show Wednesday Night Fever, and of Heath Franklin’s impersonations of him.” The political hopeful and leader of the Palmer United Party (that’s an actual thing, not a joke from the sketch) is no doubt hoping that his appearance on the show will recapture the interest of young people who have more or less given up on political discourse.
Palmer is forgetting, of course, that he’s already well on the way to capturing the interest of young people by building a freakin’ dinosaur park.
Wednesday Night Fever airs tonight on ABC1 at 9:30pm.
