The hook for Shaun Micallef’s Eve of Destruction is which two possessions his guests would save, but really it’s just interesting people talking about life, the universe and everything
Touted as a bid to return to the days when variety ruled the airwaves, it was a bold, absurd, warped version of a chat show, with Shaun Micallef, Australia’s greatest ever comedy product – you can fight me if you disagree – delivering sketches, satirical deconstructions of the format, and segments of bizarre genius like “Shaun on His High Horse” in which he donned a cowboy hat, sat on a gymnastics vault, and ranted about the irritating minutiae of life.
Perhaps the show’s weakness is its insistence on a gimmick. Shaun Micallef interviewing celebrity guests would be quite enough for a good show, but perhaps not enough for an advertising hook. And so the “two possessions” shtick enters, ostensibly as part of the search to find “what’s truly important”, but presumably mostly to give the PR folks something more to hold on to than just “here’s a chat show”.
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