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Gary McCaffrie is an Australian television comedy writer and producer, best known for his work on '' Fast Forward'' and '' Full Frontal'', and his many collaborations with comedian
Shaun Micallef Shaun Patrick Micallef (; born 18 July 1962) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, television presenter, and formerly a lawyer. He was the host of the satirical news comedy series '' Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell'' on the ABC. He also hoste ...
. Most recently he was the creator and co-writer (with
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) of '' Very Small Business'' (2008). With Micallef, he created ''
The Micallef Program ''The Micallef P(r)ogram(me)'' is an Australian sketch comedy television series hosted by Shaun Micallef, and written by Micallef and Gary McCaffrie, that ran from 1998 to 2001 on ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV. It was known as ''The ...
'', which ran for three award-winning seasons (1998-2001), and the ''
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. Gary has also contributed to Micallef's other TV projects, including Shaun Micallef's World Around Him (1996), ''
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'' (2003), '' Micallef Tonight'' (2003) and '' Newstopia'' (2007-08). Among his other writing credits are '' The Games'', ''
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'', '' Comedy Inc.'' and ''
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''.


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