Australian comic Chris Lilley returns
next week in the HBO comedy series Ja'mie: Private School Girl.
Lilley introduced Ja'mie, the ultimate
mean girl, in the Australia series We Can Be Heroes and Summer
Heights High.
Ja'mie: Private School Girl
follows Ja'mie in her final year of school, having left Summer
Heights High and returned to Hillford Girls Grammar School.
“It's her last three months of
school, she's the school captain, she's on top of the world and
bossier than ever. It's sort of put together like a reality show,
like she is Kim Kardashian or something,” Lilley
told Metro.
“She's got her own show this time, and it's all about her school
life and family life. And so it sets up in the first episode that
it's about her downfall. It's narrated by Ja'mie and it's all
teenage drama and friends issues and boy issues and all of the sort
of things that happen in the last few months of school.”
Part of the joke is that Lilley doesn't
do much to disguise the fact that he's a 39-year-old man in a wig
playing a spoiled teenager. In that regard, Ja'mie is reminiscent of
Drew Droege's impersonation of Chloe Sevigny.
(Related: Chloe
Sevigny “flattered” by Drew Droege spoof.)
“My name's Ja'mie. I like to say I'm
Ja'mazzing,” Ja'mie King says in a trailer for the upcoming show as
a group of female classmates cheer her on. (The video is embedded on
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Ja'mie: Private School Girl
premieres Sunday on HBO