Topical with Michael Shafar

Topical with Michael Shafar

Each week Michael Shafar weighs into the culture wars to offer the correct opinion on everything.

Episodes

May 15, 2024 51 mins

Michael explains how Eurovision missed a golden opportunity to achieve a lasting peace between Israel and Palestine.

Plus, he has some fool-proof solutions to solving the UK's knife crime epidemic.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for exclusive content.

Head to his website for tickets to his upcoming shows in the UK, Europe and Australia.

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Michael celebrates the far-right Britain First party receiving fewer votes than fake candidate Count Binface in the London mayoral election.

Plus, Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. gets an endorsement that nobody wants and college protestors have somehow made the war in Gaza about themselves.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for exclusive stand-up clips.

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In the wake of one of Harvey Weinstein's rape convictions being overturned, Michael explains everything that is wrong with the criminal justice system.

Plus, the presidents of US colleges are dealing with Palestinian protestors by calling in the riot police.

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Michael weighs into the great Baby at a Comedy Show Scandal of 2024 and explains why it's best for mothers to leave their infant at home, or in a car.

Plus, he explains why British people should be the ones who have to wake up early for the Anzac dawn service and breaks down the craziest people campaigning to be London's next mayor.

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In the wake of the Bondi Junction attack, Michael unpacks the conspiracies that spread on social media and explains why Channel 7 is the worst media outlet in Australia.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for stand-up clips.

Head to his website for tickets to his upcoming shows in Australia, the UK and mainland Europe.

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April 9, 2024 52 mins

Michael reacts to progressives trying to use the solar eclipse as evidence that climate change is getting worse.

Plus, he explains why landlords should allow homeless people to squat in their abandoned properties.

Meanwhile, the Vatican is having an identity crisis and the parents of school shooters are now being blamed for their kids' actions.

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Michael laments the demise of Christianity, weighs into the Puff Daddy sex-trafficking scandal and explains why Australians prefer overt racism because it's easier to condemn.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube and follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

Grab tickets to his Melbourne Comedy Festival shows here.

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Michael reckons that ISIS must be pretty frustrated that no one is giving them credit for their recent attack in Moscow.

Plus, he explains why terrorists at least have more integrity than the British tabloids.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for exclusive content.

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Michael reacts to Vladimir Putin only getting 88% of the Russian vote in a close contest between the incumbent and his dead rivals.

Plus, Michael explains why straight actors can play gay roles, and why bald trans men should be more grateful to their doctors.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X.

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Michael reacts to Kate Middleton's photoshop scandal by concluding that we should simply replace the royal family with AI.

Plus, Andrew Tate is being extradited to the UK and a lorry driver accidentally becomes a people smuggler.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X for exclusive content.

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Michael reacts to Sam Kerr being charged with racially abusing a white police officer.

Plus, a dominatrix in Las Vegas is threatening to release photos of a naked Prince Harry and a German man admits to getting 217 shots of the COVID vaccine.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for exclusive content.

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February 29, 2024 53 mins

Michael reacts to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling to explain why embryos are actually different to people.

Plus, Japan's birthrate is dropping and Australia's latest 'stop the boats' ads are a moral catastrophe.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for new stand up clips.

Grab tickets to see him at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival here

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Michael explains how Taylor Swift concerts are Mecca for white women, reacts to Tucker Carlson's new job as a Russian propagandist and reveals what we can learn from Vladimir Putin. 

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for exclusive content. 

Grab tickets to his upcoming shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 28 March - 21 April.

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Michael explains why Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce would actually be the perfect couple for the CIA to exploit in its psyop against the American people to rig the 2024 election.

Plus, the Enhanced Games are set to be the fairest sporting competition to ever take place and Barnaby Joyce proves that men really can have it all.

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February 6, 2024 52 mins

Michael reacts to the news that King Charles has cancer and laments on the demise of the monarchy.

Meanwhile, an all boys school in Sydney is now allowing girls to attend, which will hopefully reduce the number of sexual predators it produces.

Check out Michal's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for exclusive content.

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Michael reacts to Indigenous rights activists taking down statues of colonialist figures on Australia Day.

Meanwhile, Orthodox Jews in New York have been caught building underground tunnels and Rip Curl is facing backlash for promoting a trans surfer.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for exclusive content.

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In the wake of another ABC scandal, Michael explains how Jewish lobbyists are actually making people more antisemitic.

Plus, Woolworths staff are copping abuse that should be directed at the company's CEO, and FIFA announces a new way to combat racism that will backfire terribly.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for exclusive content.

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Michael reacts to the hypocrisy of the ATP accepting money from Saudi Arabia, billionaires asking to be taxed more and pleads with the Houthis to stop targeting cargo ships carrying his favourite muesli bars.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

Head to his website for tickets to his upcoming shows in Perth, Fremantle and Melbourne.

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Michael explains how Stephen Hawking being listed as an associate of Jeffrey Epstein makes the scientist an even greater trailblazer for people with disabilities.

Meanwhile, people are upset that Woolworths isn't selling Australia Day merchandise this year.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. Follow him on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok for exclusive content.

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Michael reacts to conservatives only just realising now that Green Day hates them. Meanwhile, Kim Jong-Un announces his new year's resolution: to kill us all.

Check out Michael's comedy special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube and follow him on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

Head to his website for tickets to his upcoming shows in Perth, Fremantle and Melbourne.

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