Pizza is an Australian comedy television series on the Australian television network, SBS. It has also spun off a feature length movie (Fat Pizza) in 2003, and in 2004 released a highlights video/DVD which also included previously unshown footage and a schoolies exposé theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza" starring several characters from the show also tours the eastern coast of Australia.
Pizza relies heavily on the ironic and self-conscious use of ...
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Pizza is an Australian comedy television series on the Australian television network, SBS. It has also spun off a feature length movie (Fat Pizza) in 2003, and in 2004 released a highlights video/DVD which also included previously unshown footage and a schoolies exposé theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza" starring several characters from the show also tours the eastern coast of Australia.
Pizza relies heavily on the ironic and self-conscious use of ethnic stereotypes, cars, sex, drugs and violence to produce its humour. It is also famous for its consistent cameo appearances of (mostly B-grade) Australian celebrities (actors, comedians, and professional athletes etc).
The show is written and directed by Paul Fenech who also plays the main protagonist of the series, Pauly, a pizza deliveryman. In certain special episodes Pauly will break the fourth wall and as himself (the "fil-um maker" ) present featurettes revealing the history of the series, often tongue-in-cheek.
It first started as a...
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