 Get This promotional shot showingTony Martin,Ed Kavalee, and the guest co-host | |
| Genre | Comedy |
|---|---|
| Running time | 60 minutes (in 2006) 120 minutes (in 2007; except Adelaide, first hour only) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Home station | Triple M Melbourne |
| Syndicates | Triple M Sydney Triple M Brisbane Triple M Adelaide KOFM Newcastle (2006 only) |
| Starring | Tony Martin Ed Kavalee Richard Marsland |
| Created by | Tony Martin |
| Produced by | Nikki Hamilton |
| Original release | 3 April 2006 – 23 November 2007 |
| No. of episodes | 358 |
| Opening theme | Hate to Say I Told You So -The Hives Hate to Say I Told You So cover byRichard Cheese for the 2nd hour intro |
Get This was an Australianradiocomedyshow which aired onTriple M and was hosted byTony Martin andEd Kavalee, with contributions frompanel operator,Richard Marsland.[1] A different guest co-host was featured nearly every day on the show and included music played throughout.
On the 15 October 2007 episode, theGet This team announced that Triple M/Austereo would not be renewing the show for 2008. The final broadcast was on 23 November 2007. During its lifetime and since its cancellation,Get This developed a strongcult following.
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Host | Tony Martin |
| Co-Host | Ed Kavalee |
| Panel Operator | Richard "Ricky Funk-Face" Marsland |
| Producer | Nikki Hamilton |
| Sketch Production | Matt Dower |
| Phones | Cecelia Ramsdale/Katie Dimond |
Get This featured a different guest co-host (both local and international) nearly every day, with Australian comedians, musicians, writers, actors, and oldTriple MDJs making regular appearances. Regular co-hosts includedRoss Noble,Greg Fleet,Fifi Box,Glenn Robbins,Cal Wilson,Scott Edgar,Peter Rowsthorn,Tom Gleisner,Santo Cilauro,Angus Sampson, Andrea Powell,Lachy Hulme, andJosh Lawson.[citation needed]
Frequently discussed topics onGet This include movies, current affairs, in-jokes, popular culture, Martin's and Kavalee's own lives, Marsland's peculiar interests and perverse hobbies, amusing news articles (particularly news involving nudity) from around the world, and gossip from "celebrity insiders, onlookers, pals and lunchers" from tabloid magazines.[citation needed]
Martin and the others created various comedy sketches that included the edited recordings of politicians such as thenpoliticiansJohn Howard,Peter Costello andKim Beazley musical parodies, advertisements and other sketches.Soundbites also featured regularly, with humorous comments, sounds, or sayings from politicians or the popular media included in various jokes, interviews, and songs.[citation needed]
The show contained frequent references toKarl Stefanovic being arobot.[citation needed]
Talkback Mountain was a segment in the show where a number of listeners called in to briefly discuss a chosen topic with the hosts, or share a related anecdote with the listeners. In this segment there were also 'dovetails', where Kavalee would ask callers a follow-up question that runs counter to the main phone-in topic.[citation needed]
The segment was originally introduced by a sample from the Cliff Hangerspricing game onThe Price Is Right. An alternative theme tune which is used is a sample of the song "Tainted Love", and a range of sound effects including a goat bleating andyodeling. In the latter half of 2007, the show's sketch producer, Matt Dower, began creating newTalkback Mountain themes on a more regular basis, including one based on theSonny & Cher song "I Got You Babe" and one based on theJive Bunny version of theHawaii Five-O theme.[citation needed]
Get This first aired on 3 April 2006, running for one hour from 9am - 10am, with the final episode for the 2006 season airing on 1 December 2006.
The show returned in 2007 on Monday, 29 January in a new two-hour format. The timeslot consisted of 11am - 12pmAEST being hosted by Martin and Kavalee, whilst from 12pm - 1pm a different co-host joined in nearly every day.[2] On Triple M Adelaide only the first hour of the program was played from 12pm - 1pm.
On 17 September 2007, after a two-week break,Get This moved to the "sexy new time" of 2pm - 4pm weekdays, however it retained the same two-hour format.[3] On Triple M Adelaide only the first hour of the program was played from 3pm - 4pm. The constantly changing timeslots became a running gag on the show, particularly when referencing Adelaide listeners.
On theGet This website, there were a variety of items to download, includingringtones which are made from soundbites used on the program. Some of these include "John Howard falling off a cliff" andRex Hunt's "I got my rocks off"ringtones.
Also available on the site was an archive of selected sketches under the banners ofRecent Offences andPrior Offences. These includedKim Beazley's rants oncheese anddog's breakfasts, andTony Soprano callingChannel Nine to complain about his timeslot.
Highlights of the show were made available as free bi-weeklypodcasts downloadable from theTriple M website and theiTunes Store. Due to copyright and licensing reasons, podcasts could not include most of the music that was used on the radio show. Because of this, some of Martin's comedy sketches could not be heard on the podcast. Earlier sketches containing copyright music were included on the ends of later Podcasts, from #144 (29 October 2007) onwards.
Aside from weekly wrap-up podcasts, special podcasts were often also released - for example those featuring a notable guest or a milestone episode.
The show's podcasts were removed as of 1 January 2008 from theTriple M website, and were also removed from iTunes. From 4 August 2009 all of the 163 Get This podcasts were reinstated to theiTunes Store under the name of "Get This - Richard Marsland Lives Podcast", however they have since been removed.
Martin announced on the Friday 8 September 2006 show that an audio CD based on the show was in the planning and production phase, with only 1000 copies to be pressed. On the Friday 3 November 2006 show, the finished CDIllegal Download, was unveiled on-air as the new prize for callers to the Talkback Mountain segment. The CD features various guest co-host interviews as well as Martin reading a chapter of his bookLolly Scramble.
The track listing ofIllegal Download is as follows:
After all copies of the album were given away as prizes, tracks became available for free download at the Triple M website.[4]
AGet This iOS app was made available in late 2009 calledThe Marsland 5000. It features a number of classic soundbites from the show.
On 15 October 2007, it was announced on-air thatGet This would be finishing up at the end of 2007, with the final show being aired on 23 November. The reason cited was that Triple M would be concentrating on their breakfast shows.,[8] such asThe Shebang in Sydney and a new, multi-million dollar Melbourne-based show presented byPeter Helliar andMyf Warhurst.An article in theHerald Sun Guide 2 January 2008 perpetuated the rumour thatGet This was "Axed to make way for Helliar's alleged $1 million plus salary".[citation needed]
Separate to that, in broadcasts aired on 16 and 17 October 2007, Martin made mention of a petition that various listeners ofGet This had mounted in an attempt to save the program.[9]
Several media outlets have published stories regarding the cancellation of the program. The non-renewal of the program was also a surprise considering the ratings that the show was generating. Shortly before the cancellation of the show, local papers describedGet This as 'so popular that the Austereo network doesn't know what to do with them'. In Melbourne,Get This was second in its slot, while the station is fifth overall. In SydneyGet This was fifth, Triple M ninth; in BrisbaneGet This was second, Triple M fourth; and while in Adelaide the program was in third place, while the station lags in sixth place.[10]
Another article in The Age noted that "In a pattern repeated across the country, figures jumped from about 5 per cent audience share to about 11 per cent during the two-hour program, when it aired from 11am. They fell back to near 6 per cent when the station returned to music."[11]
The final show was broadcast on 23 November 2007. The final sketch depicted Tony, Ed and Richard getting in a bus, replete withVengaboys' song "We Like to Party" playing, before fading the broadcast out. Excluding this sketch, and the musical montage that preceded it, the final live sentence said on the show was, "and here endeth the sizzle" byTony Martin. The final words heard were by John Howard: "Oh no, that's not funny at all".
Tony and Ed reunited to release a finalGet This podcast (not broadcast on radio) on 24 December 2008 as a tribute toRichard Marsland after his death, with some of Marsland's best moments.[12] In true Get This tradition, it ran over time.
In February 2013, Tony Martin gifted the recordings of everyGet This episode to theNational Film & Sound Archive. The recordings, in the form of 545 audio CDs, will be stored by the archive both physically and as digital files. At the same time, Martin also donated his personal collection of recorded highlights from theMartin/Molloy Show.[13]
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