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I need it on the historical record that on Sunday night, this is what happened in many Australian households:

Nearly one million people in the five metro capitals sat in their living rooms and watchedMarried at First Sight. It was the Commitment Ceremony. A woman yelled about period sex. A man bullied his wife and then insisted on staying with her. The relationship experts were broadly horrified.

Then it got to 8.40pm. People thoughtMAFSwas over. But another couple seemed to have made their way to the couch.

Except one of them looked strangely like Scott Morrison. And the expert was... Karl Stefanovic?

When it became clear that Jennywasgoing to stay (even though she crossed out leave)almost half of those Australians switched off the television.

They had watched strangers debate whether they should, in fact, remain in their fake marriages for another week. But they certainly didnothave time to watch our country's prime minister, and his wife, be interviewed ahead of an imminent election.

But I need them to know the comedy they missed.Because the more I think about Scott Morrison's60 Minutesinterview, the more ridiculous it becomes.

We begin with our prime minister cooking a two-hour curry, and with all due respect don't you have other things you could be doing such as investigating allegations of sexual assault within your workplace or securing more RATs or asking members of your own party - politely - to stop calling you names via (leaked) texts.

But no. It's curry night. And we meet a more private member of Scott Morrison's family.

Over dinner, Jenny tells Karl that when Bob Hawke was PM, he just had a phone and a fax machine. "Things moved at a different pace," Scott adds and Sir you literally just made a two-hour curry. Jenny explains it was okay to have a holiday back then, but "it doesn't seem that way now."

We're shown footage of the 2019 bushfires which ravaged several states and left a lot of Australians furious with their prime minister, who was on holiday in Hawaii.

In a more formal interview with Karl, we're shown... Jenny apologising.

"I am more than sorry..." she says, almost breaking down in tears. "Did we make the right decision?" she asks. "I thought I was making the right decision for my kids. I obviously was wrong."

No... what.

Oh, this is so awkward. No, literally no one is mad at Jenny about Hawaii. She can go to Hawaii with her kids all she wants. The issue was with the leader of the country being on holiday in Hawaii while tens of thousands of Australians - who themselves were trying to have a holiday - were trapped by fires. Fires that were destroying homes, causing irreparable damage to wildlife, and killing people. Fires that may have been prevented had the government listened to warnings throughout the year.

No one ever asked for an apology from Jenny. We're so confused.

"It's safe to say they won't be taking a holiday anytime soon," says Karl's disembodied voice. "Anywhere..." and OH MY GOD THIS IS SO PETTY. YOU CAN TAKE A HOLIDAY. JUST NOT WHEN THERE'S A NATIONAL EMERGENCY AND YOU'RE LITERALLY THE PERSON IN CHARGE.

Ahem.

We switch gears to the time Scott dumped Jenny for two weeks when he was 16 and okay, maybe we are still watchingMarried at First Sight.

Jenny admits that she's not a fan of politics and its ruthlessness. Bizarrely, instead of honing in on any of the (many) examples of political ruthlessness, she references a tweet written by Magda Szubanski. Last year, the comedy actor shared a photo of the PM and his wife saying she thought it was "a photoshoppedHandmaid's Talememe".

At the time, Szubanski argued that being in the public eye, and therefore accountable to public scrutiny, was part of the job for Jenny. But Scott doesn't agree.

"It's part of my job," he tells Karl. "It's never part of the family's job."

Except for tonight.

Where Jenny is the sole spokesperson for your political controversies. Except for... that.

Karl points out that the prime minister has dropped his wife's name at key moments - telling the media s

Clare Stephens

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