Full Frontal

Although this show is full of people with mental illnesses, it's still funny, but who found these people. One part that's not funny is when they copy other shows and make it more funny, I wouldn't like myself being imitated and making fun of me by these mentally gifted people, they're totally out of control. I only liked some episodes.

Initially starting off as an extension of the program 'Fast Forward' with the title 'Fast Forward's Full Frontal', within a year the show had totally replaced it's great but slowly aging predecessor to become one of the great comedy shows on Australian television. With the simplified title 'Full Frontal', every Thursday night was a guranteed blast.

It made a great start back in 1993 but the show really began to hit its stride around 1995. By this time the cast had settled down into well-developed roles and skits such as Australian National Nightly Network News, A Current Affair (featuring Eric Bana as Ray Martin), David McGahon's World and skits involving a former boxer named Milo Kerrigan (both played by Shaun Micallef) amongst others, whilst at the same time keeping ideas fresh and original.

Unfortunately nothing lasts forever and during the 1996 season things started to go downhill. Some of the skits were beginning to show their age and this was beginning to be a bit of a drag on the laughs. The producers seemed to be aware of this as well judging by the alterations they made, most notably with Shaun Micallef in the phasing out of his Milo Kerrigan character in favour of Nobby Doldrums, as well as finding alternate uses for his David McGahon character (such as the Roger Explosion series). Despite this however the alterations didn't really push far enough.

By 1997 'Full Frontal' was really starting to nosedive. Not only were the skits really starting to scrape for laughs, but the disappearance of some key cast members certainly didn't help matters. The new cast members that were recruited honestly weren't that good and further hurt the show. Despite continued attempts to keep the show fresh the ratings were falling and at the end of 1997 the show was cancelled.

All in all, a great show but judging from the way it ended up it was probably pushed for a year or 2 too long.

I'm sorry, even though Full Frontal was one of the funniest shows on television, all it really did was copy what Fast Forward was doing about 5 years or so earlier. Fast Forward did it better too. So, nothing really original here. It was still funny though.

This is the funniest Australian made show ever (with the possible exception of some episodes of Fast Forward).

They were a lot better ever since they started making fun of shows, as well as the usual stuff. Australian National Nightly Network News, is possibly the funniest part of the show.

It's just a pity they didn't just end the show after the good writers left. You have to admire them for trying to revive the humor and rename the show to Totally Full Frontal, but it just didn't work.

But that dosen't mean that we can't still get the video tapes out, or put on the comedy channel (on cable) and watch old re-runs of it, and still be able to laugh at them. i've seen the entire series at least three times (some four), and i am still laughing at (most of) the jokes.

Lets just hope that there are other comedians in this country, just waiting for the right moment to start another series like this, and make us laugh all over again.

Full Frontal was the best thing that ever happened to Australian TV. It's a pity that Totally Full Frontal ruined that. It's also a shame there isn't any more Aussie sketch comedy on TV at the moment. This show will be (and has been) sadly missed. I'm glad it's on cable.Shaun Micallef is the funniest comedian in the country today.