Turnbull’s improv performance

Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull was in fine form on Friday night while launching The Saturday Paper, especially when he veered from the carefully-hewn prose he had been provided with by his office and let rip with his very own improvisation comedy routine.

While he started off slowly, by the end of the speech he had the crowd laughing about ‘demented plutocrats’ with loss making newspapers and political agendas (whoever could he mean?) and teasing the The Oz over its most recent editorials denouncing the AFR’s editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury aka. Stutch.

But one of the best lines of the night was actually when he roasted himself for launching the newspaper…

“There is actually nothing more reckless than being a politician launching a newspaper that you have not seen,” he said.