‘Thanks for the free rent’: Cheng Lei jokes about China detention in comedy debut
by Benita Kolovos from World news | The Guardian on (#6NGBV)
The journalist spent three years in prison but teams up with dissident Vicky Xu for gags about bad food, weight loss and giving Xi Jinping a hug
Cheng Lei, the journalist who was detained in China for three years, has offered to reciprocate the hospitality" when the country's premier, Li Qiang, visits Australia later this week.
Making her comedy debut in a one-off show in Melbourne with Vicky Xu - a writer and well-known Chinese dissident - Cheng joked that the premier had got the dates wrong" and would miss their performance.
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