Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made an unexpected appearance in a comedy sketch with Australian social media sensations Swag On The Beat, jokingly threatening to reinstate a young man\u2019s HECS debt if he breaks his daughter\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n
The Melbourne-based comedy duo, made up of Jack Say and Isaac Gibbons, have amassed a huge online following thanks to their hilarious and often absurd sketches about everyday Australian life.<\/p>\n
The pair boast 1.3 million followers on Instagram and 1.6 million on TikTok, and have expanded their comedy empire into live shows and a popular podcast.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now, they\u2019ve managed to recruit the Prime Minister for their latest skit.<\/p>\n Mr Albanese showed off his comedic side in the video, playing an overprotective father meeting his daughter\u2019s boyfriend for the first time.<\/p>\n The sketch opens with the nervous boyfriend preparing to meet his partner\u2019s dad, seemingly unaware of just how powerful her father is.<\/p>\n \u201cAre you nervous?\u201d his girlfriend asks.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat did you say he does again?\u201d the boyfriend replies.<\/p>\n \u201cAh, he\u2019s his own boss.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRight, like what I\u2019m going to be with my crypto course.\u201d<\/p>\n But the boyfriend is in for a surprise when the Australian Prime Minister opens the front door to a home.<\/p>\n \u201cHello darling,\u201d Mr Albanese says, embracing his fictional daughter before turning his attention to her new boyfriend.<\/p>\n \u201cDad, this is my boyfriend James.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell, nice to meet you mate,\u201d Mr Albanese responds.<\/p>\n The Prime Minister then delivers the punchline by whispering in the boyfriend\u2019s ear.<\/p>\n \u201cBear in mind I\u2019m very protective of my daughter and if you break her heart I can reinstate your HECS debt,\u201d he jokes.<\/p>\n The post recieved hundreds of comments and thousands of likes within minutes.<\/p>\n \u201cBest crossover episode ever,\u201d Osher G\u00fcnsberg wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cLike him or not this is a crazy collab,\u201d another commented.<\/p>\n \u201cNo way you got the Prime Minister to be in a sketch,\u201d a third said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Prime Minister being in your video was not on my bingo card,\u201d another joked.<\/p>\n However, not everyone was impressed, with some followers quick to criticise the comedy duo for teaming up with the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n \u201cDamn I used to like you guys,\u201d one disappointed follower wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cAre you trying to lose followers fellas?? Man this could backfire big time!\u201d another warned.<\/p>\n Swag On The Beat also hosts a podcast, although there is no indication Mr Albanese has made an appearance on the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made an unexpected appearance in a comedy sketch with Australian social media sensations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2331,43,44,84,6213,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-922682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-culture","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-society","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922682","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=922682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}