Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell(2012)
News satire. A half-hour weekly round-up, branding, inoculation and crutching of all the important news stories of the week. Along with a like-minded Think Tank of reporters and pundits, offering not only reportage and analysis of the week’s events but discussion, argument and dissection of what’s making the world turn every which way.
- First aired:
- 2012-05-25
- Country:
- AU
- Network:
- ABC TV
Episodes
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1. Episode 1
2018-01-31 · 30m
A shot for shot remake of 'Hans Heiratete Einen Hummer'. This satire on Weimar steel manufacturing takes on new meaning with the director's decision to have the actors wink at the end of each line.
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2. Episode 2
2018-02-07 · 30m
Franz Kafka and H.P Lovecraft team up to solve a small-town murder. Kafka is convinced the culprit is the banal inhumanity that lives in the heart of all relationships, but Lovecraft believes it's a giant octopus.
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3. Episode 3
2018-02-14 · 30m
A film maker explores the origins of the influential but little studied music group The Beatles. In a remarkable ending, it emerges one of them, Paul, is still playing music to packed arenas all over the world.
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4. Episode 4
2018-02-21 · 30m
A single unbroken shot of an orange rolling down the world's highest flight of steps at Mt. Niesen in Switzerland, set to the song 'Macho Man' by the Village People.
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5. Episode 5
2018-02-28 · 30m
On the show tonight are our stories on the silencing of Abbott, Bernardi's tsking, Clive Palmer's big comeback announcement, the Queen's not coming back for the Commonwealth Games, and Barnaby, Barnaby, Barnaby.
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6. Episode 6
2018-03-07 · 30m
A successful, forty-something stock broker from Wollongong is coaxed into a penguin encounter which forces her to take personal inventory of her life.
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7. Episode 7
2018-03-14 · 30m
When the evil wizard Cain O'Beans chases the tiny Frankfurt people out of their village, they tumble from their magical world into the city of Canberra. Featuring Russell Crowe as the voice of the Volcano.
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8. Episode 8
2018-03-21 · 30m
An unhappily married ironmonger suspects his deceased postman has returned from the dead. However, after a quick phone call to the PMG, he learns he is mistaken.
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9. Episode 9
2018-03-28 · 30m
A documentary on 90-year-old Dagwood dog virtuoso Wayne Blacka (Francis Greenslade) and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Bartholomew (also Francis Greenslade, but in a different wig).
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10. Episode 10
2018-04-04 · 30m
A decaf soy latte with magical powers costs only fifty cents more than a regular one. Directed by James Cameron.
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11. Episode 11
2018-04-11 · 30m
When a man wakes up in the morning it starts a chain of events that leads to him going back to sleep at the end of the day. Stars Shane Crawford.
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12. Episode 12
2018-04-18 · 30m
A car that talks gets laryngitis and learns what it's like to be a normal car. Stars Meryl Streep, Jo Silvagni.
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13. Episode 13
2018-04-25 · 30m
In a glittering cavalcade of Busby Berkley style production numbers, Shaun and the gang pay tribute to the music of Peter Andre. With special guest Eddie Obeid.
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Cast
Shaun Micallef
Self - Host
Francis Greenslade
Emily Taheny
Tosh Greenslade
Christie Whelan Browne
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Stephen Hall
