Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell

Name: Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell
Genre: Comedy, News
Rating: 8
Cast: Shaun Micallef, Francis Greenslade, Emily Taheny, Tosh Greenslade, Christie Whelan Browne

2012

★★★★☆ 8.0/10

📺 15 Seasons

🎬 168 Episodes

📅 Ended

🌐 EN

⏱️ 30 min/episode

ComedyNews

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.

Seasons

Season 1

2012 • 10 Episodes

Shaun Micallef presents a round-up, branding, inoculation and crutching of all the important news stories of the week in a brand new show that's guaranteed to blow the lid off an entirely different kettle of fish.

Season 2

2013 • 12 Episodes

In a special investigative report Shaun goes undercover as a member of outlaw motorcycle gang The Bandidos. But his cover is blown when he uses the word "allegorical".

Season 3

2014 • 10 Episodes

New government. Same show. Remaining true to its mission of skewering newsmakers and events, this week border security, Sochi and the odd royal commission are all given the trademark 'Mad As Hell' treatment.

Season 4

2014 • 10 Episodes

Like a poorly thrown satirical boomerang, Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell returns to hit news squarely on the back of its head. Join Shaun as he lumps together the war, the budget and more besides.

Season 5

2015 • 10 Episodes

Auckland, 1978. A young man with the wind in his hair, also nits, dreams of a better life by winning a dusco duncing competution.

Season 6

2016 • 12 Episodes

To raise money for charity, the San Antonio Spurs basketball team is miniaturised, injected into Iggy Pop's head and given just 60 minutes to find five living brain cells which it can challenge to a game of 'hoops'.

Season 7

2017 • 12 Episodes

Seven veteran gunslingers agree to defend a poor Mexican village against an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis.

Season 8

2018 • 13 Episodes

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.

Season 9

2018 • 10 Episodes

Tony suffers amnesia from a vase falling on his head, and, seeing Jeannie, instantly falls in love with her. He declares his love and insists they get married.

Season 10

2019 • 13 Episodes

Believing he's made Wilma disappear by magic, Fred is arrested and tried for witchcraft. Under torture, he confesses but Barney turns up moments before the burning and points out that Christianity doesn't yet exist.

Season 11

2020 • 12 Episodes

After the Taylors' old housekeeper, gets married and moves away, Aunt Bee moves in to take care of Andy but Opie will not accept her and tampers with her brakes.

Season 12

2020 • 10 Episodes

Lucius Carpenter leaves for Alaska during the gold rush but is buried in a glacial avalanche. After 67 years he is thawed out and returns to the home of his now-elderly son, Edwin, a land developer in California.

Season 13

2021 • 12 Episodes

Shaun Micallef works aboard a riverboat with Francis transporting livestock to the Middle East. Along the way the two play 'Turkey in the Straw' with a goat.

Season 14

2022 • 12 Episodes

Despite the fact that Ross said "Rachel" in his vows instead of "Emily", they go through with the wedding anyway.

Season 15

2022 • 10 Episodes

The Mad as Hell team leave their planet to escape a collision with a comet and find a ship full of frozen convicts.