The Five Freshest Bloods of ABC’s ‘Fresh Blood’
24 comedy web series landed on the web this week, from emerging Australian talent. And some of them are excellent.
#1: Aunty Donna
The Aunty Donna lads have the most distinctive aesthetic in Australian comedy: a hyperactive, dubstep-fuelled onslaught of visual non-sequiturs, insane performances, kinetic editing, and concepts taken to their unapologetic extreme. They’ve already got a rabid online following, and some of their videos have clocked half a million hits. Which perhaps doesn’t count for that much in this Upworthy age, but, hey, there aren’t too many non-televised sketch groups claiming those sorts of numbers.
Their Fresh Blood offerings are pretty much them doing what they’ve been doing best for the last few years, just with slightly higher production values. I challenge you to watch episode three and not have “Bang-bang-bang bingity-bang” stuck in your head for weeks.