After the slew of new comedy shows to come out in the past 6 or so months in Australia, I had high expectations for Shaun Micallef's latest effort. His ABC shows were genius, easily the best comedy ever to come out of this country.
He never struck me as the kind of comedian suited to a live talk style show though. So it was interesting to see how he'd handle it.
Firstly, the show made me laugh more times in the first 10 minutes than all the Comedy Inc episodes put together. Sure it had some slow parts, but nothing more than what you'd expect from a first time attempt at a live show.
Also, for those who think Shaun getting up on his high horse was a complete rip off of Rove's 'what the...' segment should know that he did the segment in his original ABC series many years ago. If memory serves me, it was before Rove's show was airing on channel 10, correct me if I'm wrong. Truthfully, I really don't see too many similarities between the two... and Shaun makes me laugh more anyway.
Overall, I think it's a great start, and will only get better. Hopefully he'll add some comedy sketches like he had on his ABC series, it was probably the only thing the live show was lacking.
The Jamie Durie thing was pure Micallef also. Let's just pray he doesn't attempt the excruciating Rove style satellite interviews.
There's my two cents. Cheers
He never struck me as the kind of comedian suited to a live talk style show though. So it was interesting to see how he'd handle it.
Firstly, the show made me laugh more times in the first 10 minutes than all the Comedy Inc episodes put together. Sure it had some slow parts, but nothing more than what you'd expect from a first time attempt at a live show.
Also, for those who think Shaun getting up on his high horse was a complete rip off of Rove's 'what the...' segment should know that he did the segment in his original ABC series many years ago. If memory serves me, it was before Rove's show was airing on channel 10, correct me if I'm wrong. Truthfully, I really don't see too many similarities between the two... and Shaun makes me laugh more anyway.
Overall, I think it's a great start, and will only get better. Hopefully he'll add some comedy sketches like he had on his ABC series, it was probably the only thing the live show was lacking.
The Jamie Durie thing was pure Micallef also. Let's just pray he doesn't attempt the excruciating Rove style satellite interviews.
There's my two cents. Cheers