Today's Birthday 18/7
Today's Birthday, July 18: Australian comedian Shaun Micallef (1962 - ).
One of off-kilter comedian Shaun Micallef's 署名 shows returned to television this year after a six-year hiatus.
The Nine 網状組織 recently 解任するd Micallef to host its reboot of comedy 質問（する） show Talkin' '一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合 Your 世代, which the 56-year-old goofball 前線d for 網状組織 Ten between 2009 to 2012.
Along with new panellists Robyn Butler, (世代 X), Andy 物陰／風下 (Y) and Laurence Boxhall (Z), the kooky comic helped TAYG's fifth season 復活 獲得する 678,000 metro テレビ視聴者s on its 首相 in May.
But the show's audience has dwindled across the season, 落ちるing to 508,000 テレビ視聴者s for its seventh episode in 早期に July.
Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1962, Micallef started his career as a lawyer.
After 卒業生（する）ing from the University of Adelaide, where he also partook in comedy revues, Micallef practised as an 保険 solicitor for ten years in his home city.
Keen for a change of scenery, he went on to appear on 地元の TV shows, 含むing Theatre Sports in 1987 and The Big Gig in 1989.
Micallef moved to Melbourne with his wife in 1993 after 存在 申し込む／申し出d a 令状ing gig for the Jimeoin show.
The 令状ing 役割 led to a bigger 位置／汚点／見つけ出す on the sketch comedy show 十分な Frontal, and he earned a 昇進／宣伝 to co-生産者 after six months.
By 1994, Micallef was a 十分な-time cast member and invented a host of characters, 含むing the punch-drunk former boxer Milo Kerrigan and Fabio send-up Nobby Doldrums.
His characters became Australian TV icons, 主要な to his own special Shaun Micallef's World Around Him in 1996.
Two years later, the comedian penned the series The Micallef Program for the ABC, which 得点する／非難する／２０d two Logie nods in its three seasons.
He then appeared on the short-lived series Welcher & Welcher and variety show Micallef Tonight in 2003.
Micallef later developed another program called N ewstopia, which ran on SBS for two seasons.
His biggest break on 商業の television （機の）カム in 2009, when he was chosen to host the 初めの TAYG.
The game show 上げるd Micallef's profile and landed him the 2010 Logie for most popular presenter.
His fan favourite satirical news program Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell is now into its eighth season on ABC.
Micallef and wife Leandra have three sons.
