Is there a funnier Australian than Shaun Micallef? If you’re an Australian millennial who convinced your parents to switch over to ABC one fateful Monday in 1998 and watch the premiere of The Micallef Program (later Programme, then Pogram), the answer is obvious. Micallef’s 90s run taught me a lot about what I find funny, and he’s continued to churn out gold ever since.
This list is a mix of individual sketches, moments, ongoing bits, books, and the entire run of one television show spanning a decade. Keeping the list chaotic feels like the only appropriate way to honour Micallef’s legacy, and boiling down his Full Frontal run to one sketch simply wouldn’t be right. Warning: Milo Kerrigan, perhaps Micallef’s most iconic character, didn’t make the list. Don’t think of that as a slight against the battered boxer – I just think everything else here is funnier.
