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Filmography:
Micallef Tonight
"I
don't need to practice law, I speak it fluently!"
This
show was aired in the month of 7/03 being shown on WIN in Australia,
and tis live. Shaun interveiws various people, indulging in the
occasional pre-recorded excerpt (Plainclothes Firefighters- That
tragic one where her got the bucket-tare in his cartilage...WAA!).
He also has some running sections: Audience participa-Shaun, Consumer
power...Tips, questions from people via phone and Frances' knee.
You should know by
now that Channel Nine are complete creepaziods and have axed this
program (DAMN THEM TO SOMEWHERE SMELLY!) and you can find more
details on this from the 'random articals' section. I miss my
Monday Shaun fix!
Anyhoo, onto some interesting
things. This article was found here
and I didn't know who to email to ask, so it is used without permission.
Sorry :(
Our boy Shaun
to liven up Monday nights By MATT BYRNE
Adilade lawyer-turned-TV-star
Shaun Micallef will be doing live television his own inimitable
way, when he kicks off his own weekly variety show next Monday,
May 12, at 9.30pm. Micallef Tonight will feature all the
usual suspects - interviews, music and commercial breaks - but
then there's the SM Factor which will see his sophisticated
lunacy shining through. ''I'm very excited about the opening
sequence ... if all goes well it will include the name of the
show!'' Micallef revealed exclusively ... to everyone who interviewed
him. Micallef's own sitcom, Welcher & Welcher, has already
been seen on ABC-TV this year, but the variety show will give
him carte blanche to liven up Monday night television.
The show will come from GTV9's famous studio in Melbourne where
Graham Kennedy, Ernie Sigley and Don Lane kept variety kicking!
''I left some boxes of stuff here when I did the Logies in 2001
and it's a good excuse to come and pick them up,'' Micallef
quipped.
That just about sums
up how spiffy the show was. Shaun is obviously not a born inteviewer,
but I think he did jolly well! I'm actually a little glad that
he was nervous for the first few inteviews as I noticed that
he fiddles with a pen when he is nervous and I like to know
that sort of useless trivia... Here are some spiffy gags
from the show, thanks to http://www.n-chicken.net/features/micalleftonight.shtml
for the resorces, i.e. Reminding me of stuff :) The italics
are direct Shaun-quote-ness, please give images time to load.
Buiskits
Behold Exhibit A. The Iced Vovo. A delicious bicsuit by the
Arnotts company, which features pink icing and shredded coconut
(that's the biscuit, not the company). Unfortunatly for the
'Little Aussie Battler', Arnotts was bought out a while ago
by Campbells Soups, a decidedly un-Australian company. How are
we supposed to buy Australian when our very Vovos are being
snatched away from us? Well, never fear, because Dick Smith
Foods has stepped in once again. They (possibly) single-handedly
saved Australia by creating Australian versions of the delicious
Tim Tams (cleverly titled 'TempTims'), and now they're going
to help us in the Vovo department. How? Well, Micallef Tonight
was able to discover some of Dick Smith Foods' new products,
including this baby:
Potential
Potter
Here is
a transcript of a wonderful one-off segment of Micallef Tonight.
With all this Harry
hype coming up for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
It's no wonder that Shaun had some incredibly exciting news
for us. You may recall that for the American audience, Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was renamed Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone because it was thought that Americans
might not understand what a philosopher was (chuckle). Well,
it's happened again -- the fifth book, Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix will be renamed for the American audience
so that they can understand the title:
SEE HERE OLD CHAP
But gasp! That's not all the news that Shaun had to offer! It
was reported that Ms. Rowling was having trouble writing Order
of the Phoenix and that this book may be the last.
Now, Micallef Tonight
was fortunate enough to get some of the potential scripts that
Ms. Rowling has been toying with. (Looks at camera) ...this
is true.
I don't know, I just don't think that she's trying very hard
with this.
Here's another script, but...I don't know, I don't think that
It's a really good idea to change your main character around
like this,
Okay sure, It's worked for others, but it doesn't necessarily
mean that it's always a
winning formula.
Those who've seen the latest Harry Potter movie will probably
understand this book's direction - but I'm still not sure if
it's the right
choice.
And this script is more of an abstract approach. But I don't
know, it
doesn't really work for me.
And, in desperation to get more titles out, Bloomsbury is contracting
other writers to take pen to the Potter Universe. Check out
the following titles: |Stephan
King| Frances
Dick| Sweet
Valley High| Harold
Robbins| Barbera
Cartland|
So, all of that cleared
up, let's have a group sob that the show was axed in its youth.
Waaaa!
Fly to the top! |
