Investigation into the effect of comedy on national identity

Researchers have won a $300,000 taxpayer-funded grant to study how comedies such as Kath and Kim affect our national identity.Kath and Kim executive producer Rick McKenna says he is shocked as the amount is more than what the cast would earn in a series."I would have preferred to see the $300,000 spent on either producing more comedy or on medical research for children, or something," Mr McKenna has told the Sunday Herald Sun.The Australian Research Council is funding the three-year study that will focus on local comedy from the 1950s until now. Read the whole article