Get This
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Get This is a comedic radio talk show hosted by Tony Martin (of Martin/Molloy fame), and co-hosted by Ed Kavalee. The show is broadcast around Australia, originating from Melbourne. It began airing on April 3, 2006, and can be heard between 9am-10am weekdays on Triple M.
Frequent topics discussed on the show include movies, current affairs, popular culture, the station's lack of programming originality, Martin and Kavalee's own lives, Richard's acting and writing exploits on Rove Live, amusing news articles from around the world, and "celebrity insiders". Soundbites also feature regularly, in the past including Rex Hunt's comments regarding his sex scandal.
The show is broken up by music, often including the overplayed and much despised Nickelback, James Blunt's Wisemen and Richard's digital drum kit.
Martin often creates comedy sketches that include edited recordings of politicians of the day and musical parodies.
The Get This Team
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Host | Tony Martin |
| Co-Host | Ed Kavalee |
| Panel Operator | Richard Marsland |
| Producer | Nikki Hamilton |
| Sketch Production | Matt Dower |
| On The Phones | Katie |
Guest hosts
One of the show's themes is to feature a different guest host each day, with Australian comedians, musicians, writers, old Triple M/EON FM DJs and actors making regular appearances.
- Martin has mentioned on-air that it is likely Mick Molloy will guest host on the program's 100th episode, scheduled for broadcast on Wednesday, 23rd August 2006.
Segments
- Talkback Mountain is the final segment in the show where a handful of listeners (usually) call in to briefly discuss a chosen topic with the hosts, or share a related anecdote with the listeners.
- There are also 'dovetails', where Kavalee will ask callers a follow-up question that runs counter to the main phone-in topic. This was a semi-regular concept also used on Triple M's drivetime program The Shebang in 2004-2005, which featured 'sub-questions' after the main question, such as 'what's your favourite bun?'.
- Around The States, debuted on 3 August, in which Martin, Kavalee and special guests present one brief (and possibly quirky) news item from an Australian state which is then commented on.
- Wall to Wall - A segment dedicated to TV hopeful Jake Wall.
Notable events
- For a couple of weeks "Prize King" Ed Kavalee awarded prizes to the best callers during the shows Talkback Mountain segment. He claimed to have purchased the items from Variety Gift Shops. Callers were often indifferent after having been awarded a prize, one for example was a small dolphin trinket.
- It became public knowledge that Ed Kavalee embellished (or outright lied) about his resumè and was moved from "Panel Worker" to "Co-host and Garbage Disposal Unit to all in-studio food items".
- It was announced during an early show that during Santo Cilauro's radio career at Triple M he often received mail with misspellings of his name, the most notable being "Snato Glauro". Cilauro is now constantly referred to as Glauro on the show.
- During the 2006 FIFA World Cup the show turned the spotlight on Togo's German football coach Otto Pfister, with Kavalee's "Constant Pfister Updates", (which never really shed any new light on the goings on of the 2006 FIFA World Cup) invented headlines such as "Pfisticuffs!" and Martin's song tributes "Pfister in the Sun", "Magical Pfistery Tour", "Pfister Madly" and "Let's Pfist Again".(Ottio pfister's players were most upset about this, they really thought they had a chance. The clicked their tongues in protest)
- On the 26 July, 2006 & 31 July, 2006 shows Martin acknowledged that Get This had its own Wikipedia article. On the 31st July, 2006, the announcement of the 'Get This' Wikipedia article was talked about having regular intrusions and people changing the article. One caller into the radio program claims to be able to beat co-host Ed Kavalee in a game of Ping Pong and publicly announced it in this article. After learning of the changes, Kavalee subsequently accepted the ping pong challenge.
- On the 16 August, one listener emailed in and challenged Martin, Kavalee and Marsland to a Goldeneye 007 tournament, after reading about Martin's experiences with his Goldeneye infatuation in his book, Lolly Scramble.
- Kidnapping "Gussy Sampson" from a movie set to feature as a guest host was raised as a joke during August 2006.
- References were often made to the British comedy On The Buses during August 2006.
Key Phrases
At the end of the program, Martin will pick a key phrase from that days show. This is usually a joke or turn of phrase that has tickled his penis over the hour. In the past this philosophy has extended to fancy sound effects and news soundbites.
Fans Corner
I like to thank Tony Martin For having the balls to say on air what i said about Rex Hunt and say screw you Wikipedia for taking it off the net if Rex wants to fornicate himself in back alleys who are we to judge him. Who Amongst us hasn’t fornicate ourselves, true we don’t all do it in the seedy back alleys of Melbourne but at least Rex got his rocks off Posted by Brendan Smith NSW 23-08-06
Podcast
Highlights of the show are made available as a weekly podcast downloadable from the Triple M web site. Unfortunately for copyright reasons, the podcast cannot include most of the music used on the radio show. Because of this, some of Martin's comedy sketches cannot be heard on the podcast.