Turnbull’s improv performance
Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull was in fine form on Friday night while launching The Saturday Paper, especially when he veered from the carefully-hewn prose he had been provided with by his office and let rip with his very own improvisation comedy routine.
While he started off slowly, by the end of the speech he had the crowd laughing about ‘demented plutocrats’ with loss making newspapers and political agendas (whoever could he mean?) and teasing the The Oz over its most recent editorials denouncing the AFR’s editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury aka. Stutch.
But one of the best lines of the night was actually when he roasted himself for launching the newspaper…
“There is actually nothing more reckless than being a politician launching a newspaper that you have not seen,” he said.
“You worry the headline will be something like: ‘Turnbull must go’, or ‘Abbott in disgrace’. I mean you seem to be writing about Manus Island but it appears to be Kevin Rudd who is getting the worst serve.
“Kevin, as you know, has a very thick skin…”
Meanwhile its not Kevin’s thick skin that Dr Mumbo thinks Malcolm should be worried about.
He wonders what the powers that be at News Corp’s HQ at Holt St will think of his speech, even if he has subsequently claimed to have been taking about William Randolph Hearst…
