If you got a kick out of Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House of Fun on Netflix, we have good news: The boys are back! But this time on ABC iview, where Aunty Donna’s Coffee Café is now streaming.
Whereas Big Ol’ House of Fun saw the Melburnian comedy troupe (Mark Samuel Bonanno, Broden Kelly and Zachary Ruane) having surreal adventures in a shared housing situation, Coffee Café mixes things up by relocating the action to a trendy inner city coffee shop, where the trio are struggling to find a point of difference between their joint and the million similar cafés that Melbourne is home to.
That’s just the framing device, though—Aunty Donna’s Coffee Café is certainly more sketch show than situation comedy, blithely detouring into weird narrative cul-de-sacs and visual non-sequiturs at will, following the comedy muse wherever it leads.
In Aunty Donna’s case, of course, it leads to massive success, with the collective currently one of the top comedy acts in Australia. Their talent for attracting top notch collaborators remains unmatched, too; where their album, helpfully title The Album, included contributions from the likes of Montaigne, Matt Okine, Michelle Brasier, and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard guitarist Joey Walker, Coffee Café sports appearance by Pia Miranda, Miranda Tapsell (two Mirandas for the price of one right there), and David Wenham, plus newcomer Gaby Seow as new employee Stephanie, our audience surrogate as we delve into the absurdities of the Aunty Donna universe.
Plus, there’s a wedding website. Not really sure what that’s all about, to be honest, but it seems on brand.
All six episodes of Aunty Donna’s Coffee Café are now streaming on ABC iview. Binge the lot in a bacchanalian feast of comedy or parcel them out like the courses in a degustation dinner, the choice is yours. Do save room for Christmas pud, though.
