{"id":877152,"date":"2026-09-02T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877152\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:28:09","slug":"school-is-back-in-session-as-australias-funniest-comedians-compete-in-class-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877152\/","title":{"rendered":"School is back in session as Australia&#8217;s funniest comedians compete in Class Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A misfit crew of comedians head back to school in the all-new series Class Clowns, premiering Wednesday 30 September at 8.30pm on ABC TV, with all episodes available to stream on ABC iview.<\/p>\n<p>Under the watchful eye of Principal Julia Morris, comedians Bron Lewis and Luke McGregor, Becky Lucas, Matt Okine, Nina Oyama\u00a0and Dave Hughes,\u00a0are divided into three houses, Redbacks, Cane Toads and Bin Chickens, to battle it out for house points and the coveted Class Clowns Cup.<\/p>\n<p>From Biology and Drama to Mathematics, Geography, Gymnastics, Physics and more, every assignment offers the chance to earn praise and points. But impressing Principal Morris won&#8217;t come easy. As she reminds her students, house points are a privilege, not a right.<\/p>\n<p>Packed with outrageous challenges, fierce competition and plenty of laughs, Class Clowns proves that even professional comedians will do almost anything for bragging rights and a trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Stream more comedy and entertainment anytime on\u00a0<a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/category\/comedy\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC iview<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PRODUCTION CREDIT:\u00a0Class Clowns is produced by Warner Bros. International<\/p>\n<p>Television Production Australia for ABC. WBITVP Executive Producer: Tom Rohr. WBITVP Head of Original Content: Johnny Lowry. ABC Executive Producer: Zoe Norton-Lodge. ABC Head of Entertainment: Rachel Millar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A misfit crew of comedians head back to school in the all-new series Class Clowns, premiering Wednesday 30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-877152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}