One of Australia’s most controversial comedians shares his thoughts on diversity, wokeness and Australian TV.
). But there’s still room to wonder who Pauly actually is at heart, beyond his capacity for hard work, the sick subwoofers in his Valiant and his fondness for the word “stooge”.
A similar divide exists in Fenech himself, or that’s the impression I get chatting with him ahead of the 20th anniversary screenings of themovie which he attended in Sydney and Melbourne, at the start of the month. While part of him wants to keep his head down – his sunglasses stay on throughout our conversation – another part can’t resist stirring things up.
Pauly is a foil to the crazy characters around him, an archetypal little guy who just wants to get through the day, working his blue-collar job in the multicultural melting pot of western Sydney. While Fenech’s own heritage is most frequently described as Maltese, it’s been reported he’s also Indigenous on his mother’s side. Would he feel comfortable playing an Indigenous character?
The goal of Fat Pizza was neither literal realism nor anything resembling political correctness: this was after all, a show where characters were routinely carved up with chainsaws for laughs. How does Fenech respond to criticism of Fat Pizza’s portrayal of women, who tend to be divided into “sexy babes” on the one hand and “fat chicks” like Wilson’s character on the other?
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