Award-winning Australian rapper Briggs wins dream job as writer on new Matt Groening comedy series
Channel: Flash video
Date: 2017-07-27

AUSTRALIAN rapper and actor Adam Briggs has joined the dream team of comedy as a writer on the new animated adult series from Simpsons creator Matt Groening.
Netflix has commissioned two series of the comedy fantasy series Disenchantment which will begin airing next year.
Briggs revealed on Twitter he had been invited to join the “NBA of comedy” last year.
“Being part of the #Disenchantment world has been literally a dream come true,” he wrote, posting a photo with Groening and his team.
The influential indigenous rapper whose A.B. Original hip hop duo with Trials delivered one of the highlight sets at Splendour In The Grass last weekend has also worked extensively on Australian television in the past two years.
He is a guest star in ABC’s Cleverman and also joined their Black Comedy series last year as a writer and actor.
Briggs is also a regular on news comedy show The Weekly With Charlie Pickering.
Disenchantment has been in development for the past 18 months and is set in the decaying medieval kingdom of Dreamland and will follow the adventures of an alcoholic princess Bean, her feisty sidekick Elfo and nemesis Luci.
“Ultimately, Disenchantment will be about life and death, love and sex, and how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots, despite what the elders and wizards and other jerks tell you,” Groening said.

He has assembled a core of former Simpsons collaborators including Josh Weinstein, Bill Oakley and David X. Cohen.
Briggs credited producer and writer Weinstein for bringing him on board.