August 19, 2025 • 6 mins
The hilarious Shaun Micallef joins Jonesy & Amanda for a chat!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart app And
Amanda jam Nation hands up.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Who was surprised at how fabulous a dancer Sean mccarloff was.
I've known this man for years. I was surprised. He's
raising his own hand on the zoom.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Hello, Sean, how are you?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Amanda? How are you were?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I wasn't surprised in any way. I knew you would
bring the dance to.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The DF and you the dance floor, and absolutely you did.
Here's some of the things that judges had to say
about you.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
The timing is great. I mean, your your humor is
so good. And to be able to dance the way
you do and bring that time into everything you do
is a hidden skill.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You may not be the best dancer.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you are most definitely
the best entertainer.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
We are kindred souls, you and me, Sean.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Right now, you guys, you guys lower the bathroom.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
Well, Helen said exactly the same about me.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's not exactly and a half of music, and.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
That's not how I remember it went.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
More like this.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
You had a minute and a half of music and
in that time there's over two hundred beats, and I
don't think you hit one of them. That's what you
said about Jonesy. But you were incredible. Was this a
hidden skill? It was only when you were into it
you realized that you could do it.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
Look at the reason I said yes to it was
not because I could dance, not because I had any
confidence in it. I just thought it'd be fun experience.
I just thought it'd be an interesting thing to do.
It was just such the opposite thing to do after
doing Mad as Hell for like eleven years, where I
sat behind a desk and read an autoqueue. This was
something that proved I had legs and I didn't have
(01:56):
to I didn't have to talk. That was the other
thing it was.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
It was great. I mean it must have been like,
you know, both of you have done it.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
Yeah. I mean, Amanda you've done it kind of on
the other side, but Jonesy you've done it.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
I've done a bit. Amanda dance, she was in dance
and she was one of the early adaptors.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
And I didn't enjoy it at all. But what I
liked about you was that you held on to yourself.
That was an unusual dance.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Move, but I mean that you you stayed as yourself,
so there was a slight sort of goofiness and to
it as well. You didn't become a punts, which I
think is a fine line on that show.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
All right, Okay, well I avoided the punts side of it.
But I'm a big fan of musicals, so for me
it was like an acting job. I just thought, oh, well,
I'll be I'll pretend to be an act I'll pretend
to be a dancer. So I watched a lot of
Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly stuff before I went in,
and I had a bit of a say in the choreography.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
In fact, most of them. It's a ninety second routine,
which is.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Not a lot, and I think the first twenty I
worked out myself, my partner.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
And a choreographer.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
Actually, Hunter let me choreograph the first fifteen to twenty
seconds of each routine just so I could be myself,
I suppose. And so yeah, look, that's the that's the secret.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Anybody can do it if you just pretend.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Yeah, and then you've got to practice a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
They tell you, they say to you when they sign
you up for you don't have to You want two
hours a day, And I thought, well, I could learn
German in two hours a day.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Next minute you're doing eight hours.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
In fact only you just learned German instead.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
That would have been an interesting offer if you could
have just gone on. Every routine is just you.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Google Scribby, give me a give me a lectern and
a strange mustache.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Well it did work. It worked before, even.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
If Destruction is back on tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It's a fabulous construct where you ask people if their
house was on fire, the house was being destroyed, world ending, what.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Would they take? What would your what would your things be?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
What?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
What's something that you'd nominate?
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Look, I've got I've got a few books that have
been autographed by people I admire, and I think those
are the Really I have thought about this, and I've
got like, as I sit and talk to you now,
I can over and see that I've got a bunch
of awards.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
A LOGI there for that old show we did a man.
Do you remember that?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I remember it very well, Jonesy.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
They let me keep it, let me kick one of
the several that have won. I got that there. I've
got some actors there. I've got some afires and I've got.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
A I've even got an aria. Could you believe? I?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Actually, why have you got an Aria?
Speaker 7 (04:32):
I won an ARIA for actually a talk show I
did the first time I did it back in twenty
five years ago, Macarloffe Tonight. It was a show on
Channel nine.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I remember.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yes, it died terribly.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
It wasn't successful at all, but it did win an
ARIA for the DVD release.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So I've got that there. But I've let all that go.
That could I don't even care about the awards.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
On my headphone box. Look at this on the zoom.
There's your little head.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You had a sticker.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
That's a sticker from Macliffe Tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
There we go.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
That's well, that's that's the only thing that remains. That's
the award over there.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
But you remain, and that's the most important part.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I remind that there's a couple of books. One by
John Clees.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
He's got this book called The Collected Sketches of Muriel
vol Strangler and he signed that for me and I
probably would want to keep that. And there's also a
book by Steve Martin called Cruel Shoes, which he's signed,
which I would probably want to keep as well. Then again,
there's an Eric Idol LP that's signed as well and
Terry Jones and Michael Pale and it says got Python
(05:32):
and a lot of comedians. So I'd be paralyzed with indecisions.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And meanwhile your families going hello, we're in the burning
home here.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
I wrote them austraight away. But I would go up
as well, I think as I sat there.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Wondering, does it take too long to make the decision?
Speaker 6 (05:50):
You're the one that set the fire.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Well, I'm not.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Gonna I'm not going to invite myself as a guest
on the show. Would be too It would be too boring.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Sean. It's always great to talk to you, because you're
never boring.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Sean mccalluff's Eve of Destruction is tonight eight p thirty
on ABC and every Wednesday forever and ever in eternity.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Than you, fellow dance bro, Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Thank you guys. Always nice to get nice seeing you again, too, nice.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
To see you on the zoom. You're looking very well.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Thank you. You See the name I put up there
for me?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
What was I can't read it? What does it say?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Anne Edmonds.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
No wonder we were tricked.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Carry on about your business,
My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart app And
Amanda jam Nation hands up.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Who was surprised at how fabulous a dancer Sean mccarloff was.
I've known this man for years. I was surprised. He's
raising his own hand on the zoom.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Hello, Sean, how are you?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Amanda? How are you were?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I wasn't surprised in any way. I knew you would
bring the dance to.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The DF and you the dance floor, and absolutely you did.
Here's some of the things that judges had to say
about you.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
The timing is great. I mean, your your humor is
so good. And to be able to dance the way
you do and bring that time into everything you do
is a hidden skill.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You may not be the best dancer.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you are most definitely
the best entertainer.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
We are kindred souls, you and me, Sean.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Right now, you guys, you guys lower the bathroom.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
Well, Helen said exactly the same about me.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's not exactly and a half of music, and.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
That's not how I remember it went.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
More like this.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
You had a minute and a half of music and
in that time there's over two hundred beats, and I
don't think you hit one of them. That's what you
said about Jonesy. But you were incredible. Was this a
hidden skill? It was only when you were into it
you realized that you could do it.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
Look at the reason I said yes to it was
not because I could dance, not because I had any
confidence in it. I just thought it'd be fun experience.
I just thought it'd be an interesting thing to do.
It was just such the opposite thing to do after
doing Mad as Hell for like eleven years, where I
sat behind a desk and read an autoqueue. This was
something that proved I had legs and I didn't have
(01:56):
to I didn't have to talk. That was the other
thing it was.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
It was great. I mean it must have been like,
you know, both of you have done it.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
Yeah. I mean, Amanda you've done it kind of on
the other side, but Jonesy you've done it.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
I've done a bit. Amanda dance, she was in dance
and she was one of the early adaptors.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
And I didn't enjoy it at all. But what I
liked about you was that you held on to yourself.
That was an unusual dance.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Move, but I mean that you you stayed as yourself,
so there was a slight sort of goofiness and to
it as well. You didn't become a punts, which I
think is a fine line on that show.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
All right, Okay, well I avoided the punts side of it.
But I'm a big fan of musicals, so for me
it was like an acting job. I just thought, oh, well,
I'll be I'll pretend to be an act I'll pretend
to be a dancer. So I watched a lot of
Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly stuff before I went in,
and I had a bit of a say in the choreography.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
In fact, most of them. It's a ninety second routine,
which is.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Not a lot, and I think the first twenty I
worked out myself, my partner.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
And a choreographer.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
Actually, Hunter let me choreograph the first fifteen to twenty
seconds of each routine just so I could be myself,
I suppose. And so yeah, look, that's the that's the secret.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Anybody can do it if you just pretend.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Yeah, and then you've got to practice a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
They tell you, they say to you when they sign
you up for you don't have to You want two
hours a day, And I thought, well, I could learn
German in two hours a day.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Next minute you're doing eight hours.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
In fact only you just learned German instead.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
That would have been an interesting offer if you could
have just gone on. Every routine is just you.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Google Scribby, give me a give me a lectern and
a strange mustache.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Well it did work. It worked before, even.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
If Destruction is back on tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It's a fabulous construct where you ask people if their
house was on fire, the house was being destroyed, world ending, what.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Would they take? What would your what would your things be?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
What?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
What's something that you'd nominate?
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Look, I've got I've got a few books that have
been autographed by people I admire, and I think those
are the Really I have thought about this, and I've
got like, as I sit and talk to you now,
I can over and see that I've got a bunch
of awards.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
A LOGI there for that old show we did a man.
Do you remember that?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I remember it very well, Jonesy.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
They let me keep it, let me kick one of
the several that have won. I got that there. I've
got some actors there. I've got some afires and I've got.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
A I've even got an aria. Could you believe? I?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Actually, why have you got an Aria?
Speaker 7 (04:32):
I won an ARIA for actually a talk show I
did the first time I did it back in twenty
five years ago, Macarloffe Tonight. It was a show on
Channel nine.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I remember.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yes, it died terribly.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
It wasn't successful at all, but it did win an
ARIA for the DVD release.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So I've got that there. But I've let all that go.
That could I don't even care about the awards.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
On my headphone box. Look at this on the zoom.
There's your little head.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You had a sticker.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
That's a sticker from Macliffe Tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
There we go.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
That's well, that's that's the only thing that remains. That's
the award over there.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
But you remain, and that's the most important part.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I remind that there's a couple of books. One by
John Clees.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
He's got this book called The Collected Sketches of Muriel
vol Strangler and he signed that for me and I
probably would want to keep that. And there's also a
book by Steve Martin called Cruel Shoes, which he's signed,
which I would probably want to keep as well. Then again,
there's an Eric Idol LP that's signed as well and
Terry Jones and Michael Pale and it says got Python
(05:32):
and a lot of comedians. So I'd be paralyzed with indecisions.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And meanwhile your families going hello, we're in the burning
home here.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
I wrote them austraight away. But I would go up
as well, I think as I sat there.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Wondering, does it take too long to make the decision?
Speaker 6 (05:50):
You're the one that set the fire.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Well, I'm not.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Gonna I'm not going to invite myself as a guest
on the show. Would be too It would be too boring.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Sean. It's always great to talk to you, because you're
never boring.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Sean mccalluff's Eve of Destruction is tonight eight p thirty
on ABC and every Wednesday forever and ever in eternity.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Than you, fellow dance bro, Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Thank you guys. Always nice to get nice seeing you again, too, nice.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
To see you on the zoom. You're looking very well.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Thank you. You See the name I put up there
for me?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
What was I can't read it? What does it say?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Anne Edmonds.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
No wonder we were tricked.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Carry on about your business,
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