Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell

2015 • Australian Broadcasting Corporation

4.8

61 reviews

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Season 6 episodes (12)

1 Episode 1

5/11/16

Season-only

There's never been a better time to be a viewer of Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell. In this, the first episode of this, the sixth season, there's this: Australian elections, federal budgets, French submarines, Bill's zingers and so much more or less.

2 Episode 2

5/18/16

Season-only

It's Day 8 of the Mad As Hell 2016 campaign and this week the show's foaming, rabid, satirical bite chomps down on Labor and the Greens, Bill's beers, negative gearing, asylum seekers and, er, other topical matters du jour.

3 Episode 3

5/25/16

Season-only

Ask yourself: Who do you trust to deliver piping hot, gruel-flavoured satire tackling the NBN leaks, illiteracy and innumeracy, Jacqui Lambie's Network, dairy farmers in crisis and please sir, can you have some more?

4 Episode 4

6/1/16

Season-only

Beyond the budget black hole lies a furious Tony Burke, a sheepish David Feeney, an unusually complimentary Matthias Cormann, a befuddled Barnaby Joyce, a zinging Bill Shorten...and much other and/or else.

5 Episode 5

6/8/16

Season-only

Well, let me just say this to you: Malcolm's got a tell, there's Idol speculation, war rhetoric, dead coral, Pauline Hanson, and how the freak does the Transition to Retirement Scheme work? It's comedy and satire smashed together in a Large Hadron Collider of Entertainment.

6 Episode 6

6/15/16

Season-only

Non-debates, wars on jobs/growth, dopey Maria Sharapova, camouflaged politicians, 10-year plans, liberal party donations and zombies. A swizzle stick with your satirical cocktail, madam?

7 Episode 7

6/22/16

Season-only

Tonight: Pre-polls and preferences, the Greens get tricksy, auteur Bob Katter, DJ ScoMo, and mucho más. You: a celery stick. Us: a tasty satirical dip. Like some?

8 Episode 8

6/29/16

Season-only

Numbered among tonight's preferences are scare campaigns and border protection; plus Barnaby, Bill and ScoMo. Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell: a blunt pencil ticking all the satirical boxes.

9 Episode 9

7/6/16

Season-only

Beyond tonight's inevitable election wash-up a veritable menagerie of idiocy awaits, including winged monkeys, alien bacteria, a kitten and (spoiler alert) the Kraken.

10 Episode 10

7/13/16

Season-only

In tonight's thicket of satirical Pick Up Sticks: A Coalition united, a Nutt for lunch, a Derryn in the Senate, John Howard's kidney, J. Lambie, P. Hanson and other such things. Choose wisely...

11 Episode 11

7/20/16

Season-only

Tonight, penultimately: Malcolm's handy million, a storm over the South China Sea, farcical young Liberals, Eric Abetz's pants and, briefly, One Nation. Oh, and more.

12 Episode 12

7/27/16

Season-only

Stuff this lot in your satire maw: Trump; Q and A; George Christensen; Caspar; Coles; and good, clean urine. Goodbye, farewell and amen.

About this show

Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell is a half hour weekly round up, branding, inoculation and crutching of all the important news stories of the week.

Ratings and reviews

4.8

61 reviews

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October 25, 2016

Shaun Micallef is the funniest man on TV. The cast that support him are extremely good actors with some absolutely brilliant moments, and very very funny also. His commentary on the world of news, media and politics throws a refreshingly honest spotlight into the arena of lying, cheating, misrepresenting, dull predictable and pretentious 'r' souls whose garbage we have to ingest each day. The writing, sketch timing, and role playing are brilliant, fast, constantly evolving, always surprising, always hilarious, forget laugh a minute it is laugh a second, and the show never takes itself seriously for a second. A beacon of buoyant brilliant humor in a dull mediascape. Its kind of clever so you can understand cretins not getting it, but I for one am always grateful when it is aired.

Chris Richmond

August 19, 2020

Satire is thinking person's comedy. That's pretty obvious from some of the negative reviews I've read. Very random at times but it's brilliantly done.

Mass

June 18, 2016

Someone who thinks hes clever attempting to be funny makes only petty. Worst ever. Worse than Kat and Kim.

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