Shaun Micallef Biography
Shaun Micallef is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, and TV presenter who hosted the satirical news comedy series Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell on ABC. He also presented the game program Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation on Channel 10.
How old is Shaun Micallef? – Age
He is 61 years old as of 18 July 2023. He was born in 1962 in Adelaide, Australia. His real name is Shaun Patrick Micallef.
Shaun Micallef Family – Education
Micallef was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and is of Maltese and Irish heritage. His father worked for a company that supplied Volvo parts, while his mother was employed at Adelaide Bank. Micallef grew up in Clovelly Park and attended St Bernadette’s School in St Marys, followed by St Joseph’s Catholic School in Mitchell Park (now Sacred Heart College Middle School), before graduating to Sacred Heart Senior College, where he was the College Captain.
Micallef studied law at the University of Adelaide, where he frequently performed in comedic revues with Francis Greenslade and Gary McCaffrie, with whom he continues to collaborate.
Shaun Micallef Wife
He resides in Williamstown, Victoria, with his wife Leandra, whom he married in 1989, and their three sons.
Shaun Micallef Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
Shaun Micallef Career
In 1972, having three more youthful sisters taking artful dance classes, ten-year-old Micallef was frequently approached to assist when a dance routine required a kid. The next year he tried out for the Bunyip Kids’ Theater and throughout the following four years partook in plays that they acted in the Scott Theater during school occasions. In 1976 he multiplied for Humphrey B. Bear for individual appearances.
Micallef was a rehearsing specialist for a very long time in the field of protection regulation prior to settling on the choice to move to Melbourne and seek after a full-time profession in satire in 1993.
He relates the story that, while functioning as a specialist, he talked such a great amount about making a profession change and turning into a comic that his better half Leandra gave him a final offer: she denoted a date on a schedule and advised him to leave his place of employment and turned into an entertainer by that date or at no point ever discuss it in the future.
Following early television appearances on Performance center Games (1987) and The Huge Gig (1989), in mid 1993 Micallef was extended to an employment opportunity composing for the Jimeoin show which was before long followed by a proposal to likewise compose for the sketch satire show Full Front facing where a half year after the fact he took on the job as co-maker with Gary McCaffrie. In 1994, Micallef turned into a full-time cast individual from Full Front facing, where he turned out to be notable for characters like Milo Kerrigan, Nobby Dejection and a send-up of Italian male model Fabio. Micallef reviews that the show was a decent prologue to TV parody in light of the fact that, with a gathering cast, its prosperity didn’t depend on his presentation and he had more opportunity to commit and gain from errors. Be that as it may, he was disappointed with the absence of control he had over his work in the series as well as the redundancy of characters and gags.
Micallef’s job on Full Front facing prompted a 1996 exceptional Shaun Micallef’s Reality Around Him and three times of the double cross Logie Grant winning ABC series The Micallef Program (1998-2001), which he co-composed and created with long-lasting composing accomplice Gary McCaffrie. Since the series’ end he has made and featured in two brief TV series, the sitcom Welcher and Welcher (2003) and the theatrical presentation Micallef This evening (2003), and concocted a progression of telemovies, BlackJack (2003-present).
Micallef has additionally played acting parts in the TV series SeaChange (2000), Through My Eyes (2004) and Posterity (2010) as well as supporting jobs in the movies Rotten ones (2003), The Respectable Wally Norman (2003), The Extra (2005), Greenish blue (2006) and The Lord (2007). In 2006, he was a repetitive visitor on the Organization Ten Improvisational theater show Express gratitude toward God You’re Here.
In 2007, alongside accomplices McCaffrie and Michael Ward, Micallef fostered the humorous parody program Newstopia, which he facilitated. In 2009, Micallef joined the Ten Organization and facilitated Talkin’ ‘Session Your Age, which circulated for four seasons.
He co-made Mr and Mrs Murder, a wrongdoing satire TV series for Direct Ten which circulated in 2013, and featured in the number one spot job of Charlie Buchanan close by Kat Stewart. Likewise that year, Micallef endorsed on to voice the falsely savvy robot RE3F in the Australian full length sci-fi film Sharpened stone (2014).
Micallef facilitated Shaun Micallef’s Frantic as Damnation for a very long time and 15 series on the ABC from 2012 until 2022. Micallef likewise facilitated a two-season reboot of Talkin’ Session Your Age for Channel Nine (2018-2019) and the game show Shaun Micallef’s Mind Eisteddfod which debuted on Channel 10 on 20 July 2022, running for a very long time. In 2022 he acted in a superstar recognition for Australian comic and entertainer Paul Hogan, Meal of Paul Hogan, which was communicated on Australia’s Seven Organization.
In September 2005, Micallef started facilitating the morning meal show “Shaun, Beverley and Denise” on Melbourne radio broadcast Vega 91.5 FM with entertainer Denise Scott and TV moderator Beverley O’Connor. In July 2006, entertainer Dave O’Neil took over as host and the show was renamed “Dave and Denise with Shaun Micallef”. Micallef left the organization on 23 November 2007.
Shaun Micallef Books
Micallef’s book, Smithereens, was published in 2004 and is a compilation of prose, poetry, and plays. He defines it as a collection of “various bits and pieces I’ve written.” His second book, a novella called Preincarnate, was published in 2010.
Micallef’s third book, The President’s Desk: An Alt-History of the United States, was released in October 2014. It is a semi-fictional history written from the perspective of the Resolute desk. In 2022, Shaun published his book, Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy.