Shaun Micallef's Stairway to Heaven: the comedian asks the big questions about the meaning of life

By Kerrie O'Brien
Updated January 11 2017 - 5:08pm, first published 4:54pm
Shaun Micallef in <i>Stairway To Heaven</I>, season 2.
Shaun Micallef in <i>Stairway To Heaven</I>, season 2.

The Australian comedian renews his quest for spiritual meaning in Shaun Micallef's Stairway to Heaven. Hinduism and India was his first port of call. In this second instalment he embeds himself with a Mormon family, meets Christian doomsday preppers in the US and finally communes with spirit healers in Brazil.  The idea of working out whether there's a meaning to life appealed to him, so he wanted to go into the believers' territory and immerse himself in their world. His research involved reading the Bible – "just the Old Testament" – for a second time, as well as the weighty tome that is The Book of Mormon.

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