'The Australian Political System Is Broken' Reckons Wil Anderson

"I've seen like 20 of the best gigs I've ever seen in my life at the Enmore so I just love playing it," Anderson says. "I always get the emails from people going, 'It's hard to fucking park!' and I'm like, you know what, it's fucking Enmore, find a park or get an Uber or whatever."

Anderson's new show will see him return to Australia after spending the last two years touring America, where he now also lives part-time. "I think I've slept in my house in Sydney for a week in the last 24 months," Anderson chuckles. "You mostly grow when you put yourself in challenging situations. You want to surround yourself with people who are better than you so you can learn to be better yourself."

"It's fucking Enmore, find a park or get an Uber or whatever."

There was no better way to do that when he shared the same stage at comedy clubs in the US with the likes of Sarah Silverman and Patton Oswalt. Anderson recalls a time he hung out backstage with Oswalt and Jake Johannsen. "Technically I was also involved in this chat," he says as he bursts into laughter. "Like the three of us were sitting in this triangle, but after 40 minutes they both looked at me and were like, 'Are you ok?' It was like I was watching a live podcast: two of these comedy geniuses talking shop and I just didn't want to interrupt!"

Fans of Anderson will know his comedy sets are often filled with Aussie topics, which he admits was hard getting used to when he moved to the US. "When I first came over six years ago it was a matter of me adapting my set."

He has gone one step better than just adapting however, this year writing two live shows; the first being Free Wil and the second he calls Political Wil which is "just 70 to 80 minutes of just me banging on exclusively about Australian politics".

"I had an awesome time… The crowd know what it is, if I want to talk about Tony Abbott eating an onion for seven minutes, they're gonna be right on board!"

With news that his popular TV series The Gruen Transfer will return later this year, Anderson says there is still plenty left to complain about with Aussie politics. "My biggest gripe is the system right now," he explains. "We are so starved for decent choices at the moment — the last mob were so bad, we voted for Tony Abbott!

"I'm sure many of these people start as good and honourable people, but the system itself is broken and it compromises them so severely that they cant get anything done."

As for his future plans, does Anderson have any big goals? A set on The Tonight Show? Perhaps a guest spot on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee? Anderson laughs. "I really honestly gave up making plans I would say five years ago. I just think you start with the work and you see what it becomes. If I write a good show and I tour a good show, it makes everything else possible. "