Category: Australian
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Shaun Loves Lemonade
I found this a little too late to include in the latest episode of Comedy Is … – but here’s an early television appearance by Shaun Micallef in an advert for the now defunct Hall’s Lemonade. My guess is this was made while he was writing for The Big Gig, and trying to get on…
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Comedy Is … A Miracle, Doctor
A treat afforded by the Paramount Comedy Channel, was the opportunity to watch some shows that weren’t otherwise on offer elsewhere. Some were curios, some were average, but occasionally some were absolutely fantastic. On this episode of Comedy Is … I take a look at The Micallef P(r)ogram(me), and the career of Shaun Micallef, along…
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The Two Johns
By necessity, the latest episode of Comedy Is …, which explores British topical satire TV shows, had to skip over a lot of really good things. One of those things was the decades long partnership of John Bird and John Fortune. Here they are on a South Bank Show special, deconstructing the looming financial collapse…
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Comedy Is … The Best Medicine
Here’s the second installment of Comedy Is … a sort of audio essay that uses a show from the late 1990s line-up on the Paramount Comedy Channel as a springboard to talk about the history of television comedy, and explore the wider social context of these shows, and what they mean to me on a…
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Tom Hanks’ Fly Is Open
The brain often has nostalgic bouts for informative times, and last night as I watched a film featuring Tea Leoni, my mind started wandering back to the late nineties, when I would gorge myself into the dawn hours each night on The Paramount Comedy Channel. It took me a moment to realise this was because…
