John Safran's Race Relations
| John Safran's Race Relations | |
|---|---|
| Presented by | John Safran |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC1 |
| Release | 21 October 2009 |
John Safran's Race Relations is an Australian comedy documentary television series by John Safran broadcast on ABC1 in 2009. The eight-part series is about cross-cultural, interracial and interfaith love. His globetrotting takes him to Israel, Palestine, the Philippines, Togo, Japan, Thailand, UK, Netherlands and the United States. [1][2]
Episodes
Episode 1
Episode 1 saw Safran travelling to Israel where his Palestinian boom mic operator made a donation to a sperm bank, then to the West Bank where a donation to a clinic was made by John, in an attempt to make half Jewish half Palestinian children.
Noting that he has dated three Eurasian women, Safran conducts an experiment by stealing and smelling the underwear of five Jewish and five Eurasian women (including Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls and actress Dichen Lachman) to see which he "prefers".
Episode 2
John is black.
Episode 3
After former Muslim terrorist Walid Shoebat tells Safran that his hatred of Jews was quashed after watching Fiddler on the Roof several hundred times, Safran heads to Palestine, where he attempts to "de-brainwash" representatives of Fatah and Hamas by performing "If I Were a Rich Man" for them. Satisfied with their positive response, Safran performs the song on a Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation talk show.
Safran attempts to rid himself of Jewish guilt about inter-racial relationships by flying a shiksa (non-Jewish woman) to Amsterdam, where he asks her to make out with him in Anne Frank's attic. He then travels to American, where Wayne Griffiths of NORM (the National Organization for Restoring Men) helps him to reverse his circumcision.
Episode 4
John travels to Togo for a voodoo death, and later confronts his ex girlfriend he remains obsessed with.
Episode 5
John dons an Elephant Man disguise to try to discover whether he is attractive to Asian women, confronts his father about being a self-hating Jew, and takes matters into his own hands in a showdown with Holocaust-denier David Irving.