Category: Australian
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The Tea Ladies: The Other Ray Galton And Johnny Speight Sitcom
This story begins with a small, innocuous looking press cutting from The Stage, dated 21 September, 1978. The article is about The Two Ronnies, who are to make at least six episodes of their show for the Nine Network in Australia. This is interesting enough on its own. The show ended up being called The […]
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Baddiel And Skinner Unplanned … But With Australians
Because the title tells you everything you need to know, let’s at least follow the train of thought that led me to this discovery. I’ve had the theme tune from Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned stuck in my head, so I went and had a look at the show info, and was rather amazed to see […]
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Michael Jacobs
There’s an Australian sketch shows that I’d like to see more of. It’s Full Frontal, which introduced the world to many names, including Shaun Micallef, Eric Bana, and Roz Hammond. I briefly talked about this show on Comedy Is … a few weeks ago.
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Shaun Being Too Visual
Choosing which moments from various shows to excerpt in the latest episode of Comedy Is … was a careful exercise. Some of the best sketches from Shaun Micallef’s shows rely on visuals, mostly reactions, or on the silence between moments. This is hard to demonstrate in an audio format. So here’s a few clips that […]
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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 […]
