Satirical website For Play In Sydney launches
For Play in Sydney, a parody of cultural and lifestyle websites, has launched.
Published by screenwriter Julie De Fina, the site takes a satirical look at inner-city cultural topics including Sydney’s most dire laneways, the city’s best men for a post-one-night-stand breakfast and the Merivale Group buying into school tuck shops.
“Basically it stemmed from firstly being a reader of city guide sites like Concrete Playground, Broadsheet, Time Out etc, but at the same time seeing how ripe for parody they are,” De Fina told Mumbrella.
It would have helped to have the link to the site the story is about, not just links to unrelated sites.
Hi Mike,
Good point. I have added in a link to the For Play In Sydney site so you can see for yourself.
Thanks!
Vivienne – Mumbrella
Checked it out. I think there’s clever stuff in there. Different to BA.
See, the reason The Betoota Advocate struck a chord and resonated with the nation was because it had the ability to tap in to the Australian cultural mindset in every city, with humble beginnings in roasting Australian youth culture from the lens of a few folks with sharp tongues and fast minds. It’s not new, it just changes with time, see: origins of The Chaser.
There is nothing sadder than seeing TV writers try and dogpile on the phenomenon of hard-cutting, satirical web journalism (poorly might I add) and utilising their connections, who I should add are often the subjects of ridicule in Betoota articles*,* to launch their piss poor efforts, a la The Australian Advocate and this; which Mumbrella has forgotten to post a link to.
**Read: every piece on ad land in the Advocate
Had a look and it’s v different to Betoota and Aussie Advocate. More a direct piss-take of Concrete Playground. Didn’t mind it.
Link: https://www.forplayin.com/
Hmmm, it’s not very funny.
Really piss poor.
It’s a quick read at the moment, but some good laughs there!
Hilarious! Who keeps hiding all these gems!!! Diamond effort
Not sure how big the market is for it but the quality is better than I was expecting. Quite a few funny pieces.