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Airwave Uproar
Herald Sun | August 11, 2005

Comedian Chris Lilley caused a minor uproar and had the phone lines in meltdown when he was interviewed by Hughesy, Kate and Dave as a character from his cult ABC series, We Can Be Heroes.

Apparently, there were more than a few listeners who swallowed Lilley's character, Ja'mie, and her stories about trying to become Australian of the Year.

We hear outraged callers, urgently in need of a lesson on satire, bombarded the station with complaints in unprecedented numbers.

How those Melburnians didn't get the joke is one of life's mysteries as far as we're concerned because Lilley's "outrageous" comments were clearly comedic.

Here's a few of the things Ja'mie, the "16-year-old schoolgirl", said.

About her work sponsoring 85 poverty-stricken Sudanese children -- "You get to pick them on the website so you pick the hot ones . . . And I do the 40-hour famine every week. That's how I keep my weight down."

On her mum -- "My Mum is such a b*!@h. She has no life and I get home and my bed isn't even made."

Advice to a refugee she visited in a detention centre -- "Try to get with a hot guy and treat it as a holiday. She needs to get over it, and just enjoy her time in there."

See what we mean about the lesson on satire?