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AUNTY DONNA'S BIG OL' HOUSE OF FUN
November 11, 2020  | By David Bianculli

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

 
SERIES PREMIERE: Boy, is this show weird. (Spoiler Alert: The answer is “Yes.”) Aunty Donna is a comedy troupe – a smaller slightly Monty Python-ish group of guys, except Australian instead of British. And while the comedy trio of Aunty Donna is less existential, it’s no less devoted to the unexpected. The opening episode features Jerry Seinfeld as a guest star – except it’s not the real Jerry Seinfeld, just a very bad imitation pretending, without any persuasiveness whatsoever, to be a Jerry Seinfeld. I’m not anti-Aunty… but while this comedy troupe easily holds my attention, it doesn’t make me laugh.  And isn’t that the point? But they got me eventually, with their game-show parody. So tune in and decide for yourself: By the time the opening song is over, you may know whether you want to keep going…
 
 
 
 
 
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