…and hello Mansion!

Local comics Charlie Pickering and Michael Chamberlin move into the Comedy Channel’s The Mansion next week. These two guys are set to be smart, irreverent, topical and, most impressively, very up to date.

For their weekly satirical show, they will be frantically writing comedy material as late as 24 hours before airing (a practice also employed by Newstopia).

These sharp young comics will take aim at lots of pop culture and newsmakers including Kevin Rudd, Barack Obama, Harold from Neighbours and Lindsay Lohan.

As they explained, their brand new show will be chucking up gags and sketches on “everything from the world of politics, sport, showbiz, finance and foxy boxing ….particularly foxy boxing.”

“It’s a topical comedy show based on the news of the week,” they said. “The kind of place if Time Magazine had a Playboy Mansion. The kind of place where George Bush would come to shoot the breeze and get a cheeky lapdance.”

The Mansion premieres Thursdays at 8:30pm from April 3rd on the Comedy Channel