Ahoy,
Ooh I tell ya, this whole “living in Melbourne” thing just keeps getting better and better! Under the premise of writing an article for RMIT University’s “Catalyst” Magazine, I lured TV’s Shaun Micallef to Druids Cafe on Swanston Street yesterday, where we chatted for approximately 50 minutes. Oh wait, actually, Druids was his suggestion…
Of course, it wasn’t the first time I’d interviewed him (2006), nor was it the first time that I had met him (2004), but it was still a wonderful privilege to pick the brain of one of this nation’s most respected comedians, again. Just last week he received his first Gold Logie nomination, despite having worked in television for 20 years. We talked in a somewhat rambling all-over-the-place fashion about comedy, Australian television, Talkin’ Bout Your Generation, his Melbourne Comedy Festival show with Stephen Curry (Good Evening: The Sketches of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore), Shaun’s New Year’s Eve Special, The Late Richard Marsland, his 2009 magical TV moment with Martin Short, his kids, who Shaun finds funny these days and a lot of other crap I’ve forgotten. Thankfully I recorded it! Ahh… I can hear my journalism lecturers making that disappointed “Skippy the Bush Kangaroo noise” as they shake their fingers at me for relying on a recording device instead of taking notes…
I’ll condense it down for you, the reader guy/gal, and put it in texual form for the May edition of Catalyst. And for those of you who don’t live in Melbourne, or who can’t be bothered picking up a copy, I’ll post a link to the online edition when it’s available… or hey, if you want the Catalyst website now, don’t waste your time with fumbly search engines, just click here.
Special thanks also to fellow RMIT post-grad journalism student Ben Hagemann for taking these excellent photos. I love the lighting. Some higher resolution versions will no doubt appear alongside the published article.
Shaun also signed my copy of “Smithereens,” which I’ve had since 2004 and not actually finished reading…
And like everyone I meet everyday, I presented Shaun Micallef with a copy of “David M. Green: The Radio Adelaide Years.”
I’ll keep you posted on the release date of the article.
Kind regards,
David M. Green
Jeeze… I’m turning into some kind of… “journalist”
