History Series / ShaunMicallefsMadAsHell

-->'''Shaun:''' Well, thanks for your time, Brion.
-->'''Brion:''' ''Pleasure...I would like...to experience...some'' '''''pleasure.'''''

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* BorrowedCatchphrase: In a segment during season 12, Tosh Greenslade delivers a fake product advertisement during a studio interview like Shaun does. He finishes off with "Mmm, that's nice!" during which Shaun can be heard sniggering off screen.

* Borrowed catchphrase: In a segment during season 12, Tosh Greenslade delivers a fake product advertisement during a studio interview like Shaun does. He finishes off with "Mmm, that's nice!" during which Shaun can be heard sniggering off screen.

* ToiletHumour: A sketch from 2015 about the issue of human waste piling up on Mount Everest ("...How do you pile up urine?!")

This is the longest running show Shaun has appeared in - it aired 172 episodes (including a one-off Christmas special) over fifteen series and ten years.

* TalkingToHimself: {{Invoked}} in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozzmya4baXA one scene]] when Crane Girdle and Darius Horsham (both Stephen Hall) appear at the desk at the same time. Lampshaded when Stephen as Darius angrily calls Shaun out for forcing him to change into another character just for one line, and in the reaction shot of Shaun, Crane is still visible on the other side of the table.
** Shaun himself has done this a couple of times, appearing in the studio audience to ask himself a question. One sketch in 2021 has him interview [[TheUnintelligible Milo Kerrigan]] from ''Series/FullFrontal'', now Craig Kelly's chief advisor. Milo comments on the trick photography.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I63WoAeL8pM This exchange]], after the appointment of Susan Ley to the LNP Cabinet

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[[caption-width-right:350:Yes, he's as bamboozled as you are.]]

Hosted by Creator/ShaunMicallef, it features many hilarious and bizarre characters who help him dissect the news and current events of the week. Shaun's supporting cast currently includes Francis Greenslade, Tosh Greenslade[[note]]Not related to Francis[[/note]], Emily Taheny (all since series 1), Stephen Hall (regular since series 2) and Christie Whelan Browne (since series 10)

Previous cast members include Roz Hammond (series 1-10, with guest appearances in seasons 11 and 12), Veronica Milsom (series 1-4) and Michelle Brasier (series 10 and 11). Nicholas Bell appeared in series 6 to cover Stephen who was performing in a stage production of Series/FawltyTowers while Molly Daniels and Ming-Zhu Hii both appeared in series 9 to cover Roz who was filming The Heights in Perth.

This is the longest running show Shaun has appeared in - it aired 172 episodes (including a one off Christmas special) over fifteen series and ten years.

* RearrangeTheSong: From Season 5, the theme song has been changed, usually only slightly, each season. Seasons 5 and 6 had minor changes, while season 7 was not only altered, it had vocalisations of the phrase "Mad as Hell" added. Season 8 had the most significant change to the tune, and season 13 went in an entirely different direction with music that was described in the subtitles as "Folksy Music".

** In the 2020 Pagan Holiday Special, Emily's rendition of Music/OdeToJoy is mostly subtitled accurately (depite "Heiligtum" being mangled into "Heidi Klum"), but the line "Was die Mode streng geteilt" is repeatedly subtitled as "All that (indecipherable)".

* GameShowAppearance: A few months after the final episode, the cast appeared on a special episode of The ABC game show ''Hard Quiz'': Francis, Emily, Tosh and Christie were the contestants, while Shaun was waiting to greet each of as they were eliminated from the game.

** A Series 11 episode has an entire sketch play on the screen in the background of TheBackstageSketch in which Shaun gets called into the office of ABC Chairperson Ita Buttrose. What little we see appears to be a parody of the classic ''Theatre/BeyondTheFringe'' sketch "One Leg Too Few", here involving an apparently able-bodied man, named Mr. Spiggot, trying to apply as a Paralympian.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Almost every single character has one of these, although they're perhaps more straight-up bizarre than awesome.
** Ian Orbspider is a great example.

*** A clip of Senator Michaelia Cash walking, set to rather appropriate marching music. In a Series 14 episode, Michaelia's spokeswoman Mary Brett Punish calls Shaun out on using this same clip every time she's mentioned, and Shaun apologises before switching to a ''different'' clip of her marching (which they had also used before).

-->'''Shaun''': Well, ''My Kitchen Rules'' is back on, so probably not.

''Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell'' (2012 - Present) is something of an Australian version of ''Series/TheDailyShow'' with some elements of ''Series/ThisHourHas22Minutes'' thrown in for good measure.

This is the longest running show Shaun has fronted - as of May 2022, it has aired 162 episodes (including a one off Christmas special) over fourteen series and ten years. A fifteenth series is set to screen later in 2022, which is to be its last in its current form.

* LongRunner: By Micallef standards, at twelve seasons across eight years and over 100 episodes, ''Mad As Hell'' is the longest running show he's fronted to date.

'''Jim''': Certainly.

*** Creator/{{SBS}} newsreader Lee Lin Chin saying "penises", again with no context whatsoever.

* {{Corpsing}}: Shaun is frequently seen smirking at a guest's (or his own) joke and occasionally bursts out laughing in the middle of one (see the clip under Bait And Switch Comparison above).

-->'''Shaun''': A postscript to that story, within an hour of entering his bunker for the test, Craig Javello was rushed to hospital suffering from [[RasputinianDeath botulism, smoke inhalation]], [[{{Corpsing}} rabies, bullet wounds and dysentery]]. He is not expected to survive. I guess the old days of the old-fashioned monthly wall calendars are numbered. Pretty pointless if they weren't, I guess.

** ChewingTheScenery: Darius's standout moment is in the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZgYxzfVRs8 Excise Or Tax]]" scene, which clearly [[{{Corpsing}} breaks]] Shaun:

** Shaun referring to "our Prime Minister - Scott Morrison", the pause being a subtle reference to the HighTurnoverRate the position has had over the last decade. Continued in Season 15 with "former Prime Minister - Scott Morrison".

** Whenever Barnaby Joyce is mentioned, a brief interlude of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" plays (since Barnaby Joyce sounds like "Pardon Me, Boy").

*** Series nine has several similar moments with the cast breaking character on camera. One case has Emily Taheny, after playing Draymella Burt in a scene, suddenly losing all professionalism and feeling the need to ask Shaun whether she really needs to change costumes for the next character or just dress the same way but with a different voice. Shaun irritably tells her to go and change, but a few minutes later during a Mad-as-Debate, she appears in the audience still dressed as Draymella but doing the silly voice and wearing a false mustache.
*** Another case has Roz and Emily again having to be told to leave after a scene, but when Stephen Hall as the ghost of Che Guevara asks whether he does, Shaun reminds him that his scene was pre-recorded so that he would look transparent, and that he (Stephen) is probably already in his dressing room changing to the next character.