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Comedians have the last laugh after fans were left divided over divisive MasterChef Australia episode
Australian comedy trio Sooshi Mango has had the last laugh after their divisive MasterChef Australia: Back To Win episode was a ratings triumph.
On Monday night, Channel Ten 's competitive cooking series broke from tradition and instead of having illustrious guest celebrity chefs step in as judges, the comedy trio turned up instead.
During an Italian cooking challenge, Sooshi Mango, comprising of Melbourne comedians Joe and Carlo Salanitri and Andrew Manfre, dressed up as Italian nonnas to render their verdicts on the chef's dishes.
Despite fans being divided over the episode it was a ratings triumph, and became the show's highest rated episode of the year, attracting an impressive 1.29million viewers.
Over the past year, the series has been averaging at under a million viewers making this episode an incredible victory.
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Sooshi Mango took to social media to celebrate the episode's phenomenal success.
'Holy cannoli! Our episode on MasterChef recorded the highest overnight audience figures of the season so far! Reached 1.29 million people making it the biggest audience of the year!' they wrote.
'Had so much fun with everyone. Was a great day! Who thinks we need our own show?'
They added that they found it amusing some viewers were 'offended' by the episode, given that they were trying to be as family friendly as possible.
'Yes!!!! We offended some people! Must have done something right then! If some people were offended by that then they would have lost their minds with the stuff the editors cut from the episode. That was as G-rated as we can get!' they wrote.
Following the comedy group's appearance on Monday, fans of the show were left divided.
Many enjoyed it, with one person writing on Instagram: 'Absolutely loved tonight's episode so funny, warm hearted, and fun. Thank you'.
'Tonight it was such a lighthearted episode. I loved it' another agreed while one more said 'This has to be the best episode I've seen so far'.
However, others were unimpressed, with some branding the episode as a 'disaster' and a 'mockery'.
'Really? It was the worst episode I've ever watched. If they had just added them at the end or something, I would have been fine with it, but the shots during the cook were no added value,' one person wrote.
'Love Sooshi Mango and their scripted content, but this fell horribly flat like a bad soufflé,' a second added and another wrote, 'I'm clearly not the target market. Young men pretending to be old grannies is just so old and dull.'
Sooshi Mango regularly parody Greek and Italian culture in their various skits, playing nonnas and 'Ethnic Dads' in their viral videos.
