The Weekly with Charlie Pickering

This satirical and witty take on the week's news provides a fresh perspective that delivers in spades. As an Aussie expat, I have relied on this weekly digest to provide a balanced mix of news and comedy from a team that appreciates the subtilties of the current world.

Charlie Pickering and the show holds itself against the likes of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and provides a unique Australian take on the news events of the world.

The writing is excellent, the guests are interesting and funny and the content is spot on. Do yourself a favour a check this show out!

This show is the only one I will sit down and watch live. It is perhaps the Highlight of my week. It's hilarious and the cast is fantastic.

This used to be satire and comparable to Shaun Micalleff's Mad as Hell or Sammy J. Not this year. There's barely any satire anymore and the jokes are low-brow. Sad.

Repeat Rehash Rinse Repeat. That's now the regular cycle of every episode. Once upon a time this guy was a genuine comedian. Now just a low effort repeater of media agendas. Avoid. Sad and embarrassing.

Funny and watchable only because of Kitty Flanagan and Tom Gleeson.

Charlie Pickering's role seems to be to score cheap points and applauses from the shallow left-leaning ABC audience. He seems to fancy himself as another John Oliver, mixing (attempted) humour with reporting and analysis of problems in society. However, his humour is of the cheap, one-dimensional shots variety (as, unfortunately, Oliver's has become) and the reporting is incredibly shallow.

The real stars of the show are Kitty Flanagan and Tom Gleeson. Both are incredibly funny in an over-the-top sort of way and don't have to rely on political bs to make an impression. Fast forward through Charlie Pickering, watch Kitty and Tom.