''Shaun Micallef's World Around Him'' was an Australian

sketch comedy Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is ...

television special. Its title is a parody of the Australian documentary series ''

The World Around Us ''The World Around Us'' was an Australian documentary television series that aired on the Seven Network between 1979 until 2006. It regularly showed documentaries which featured the likes of Malcolm Douglas and Sir David Attenborough. Pres ...

''. Airing on the

Seven Network The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of ...

in 1996, the special provided a major stepping stone for comedian

Shaun Micallef Shaun Patrick Micallef (; born 18 July 1962) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. He is currently the host of the satirical news comedy series ''Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell'' on the ABC. He also hosted the game sh ...

. The show helped to develop much of the style and content of Micallef's successful sketch-comedy series ''

The Micallef Program ''The Micallef P(r)ogram(me)'' is an Australian sketch comedy TV series hosted by Shaun Micallef, and written by Micallef and Gary McCaffrie, that ran from 1998 to 2001 on ABC TV. It was known as ''The Micallef Program'' in its first series, ...

'' which began airing on the ABC in 1998.

DVD

The show was released as a bonus extra on the 2011 DVD ''The Incompleat Shaun Micallef'' which featured highlights of Micallef's work on the comedy series ''Full Frontal'' 1995-1997.

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0215182, Shaun Micallef's World Around Him Australian television sketch shows 1996 Australian television series debuts 1996 Australian television series endings