Get This

Get This is a comedic radio talk show hosted by Tony Martin (of Martin/Molloy fame), and co-hosted by Ed Kavalee, with contributions from panel operator Richard Marsland. 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.

The show features a different guest co-host every day, and is punctuated by music, often including the much overplayed Nickelback and James Blunt, along with selections from Richard's digital drum kit.

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,onlookers and lunchers". Soundbites also feature regularly, including Rex Hunt's comments regarding his recent sex scandal.

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

Get This features a different guest co-host every day, with Australian comedians, musicians, writers, actors, and old Triple M/EON FM DJs making regular appearances. The most regular co-host has been the constantly tardy Greg Fleet, with Fifi Box, Glenn Robbins, Cal Wilson, Peter Rowsthorn, Andrea Powell, Lachy Hulme and Angus Sampson close behind.

Main article: List of guest hosts on Get This

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?'.

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 Ghauro". Cilauro is now constantly referred to as Ghauro on the show.

June 2006

• 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".

July 2006

• 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. As of August 2006, the hosts regularly mention the Wikipedia page, and how it is constantly vandalised.

August 2006

• During early August, Ed Kavalee had a new segment on the show called "Believe It Or Not". This was accompanied by hilarious versions of the theme from the Greatest American Hero, butchered to include some of the tasks Kavalee was to undertake. The segment was based around Kavalee performing unbelievable tasks, such as listening to Nickelback's album. The segment seemed to die after a couple of weeks after Kavalee appeared to lose interest.

• 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.

• Ever since Ross Noble's appearance, there have been constant references to the vintage British comedy On The Buses.

• On 24th August, Get This reached its 100th show milestone, with former Martin/Molloy cohort Mick Molloy as co-host. One of the songs played during this show was Be My Lover by La Bouche, as an example of the song genre they had to play, since 'Martin/Molloy' was broadcast on the Today Network.

• During the show on 28 August, reference was made to eccentric British TV presenter, David Dickinson and his show Dealing With Dickinson, with Martin emphasising the presenter's constant reminder of his "25 years experience".

• Ed Kavalee theorised on air that Karl Stefanovic is a robot, due to his lack of emotion and apparent invincibility displayed on Nine Network's Today and Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice.

• On 28th August, Triple M Adelaide moved Get This to its more popular Drive Time of 5:00pm to 6:00pm

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 funnybone during the hour. In the past this philosophy has extended to fancy sound effects and news soundbites.

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 best comedy sketches cannot be heard on the podcast.

Aside from weekly wrap-up podcasts, special podcasts are often also released. The entire 100th episode is one of these, another being a "Fleetcast", a podcast containing nothing but Greg Fleet's rantings from his first few appearances and the "Bertcast", a similar podcast showcasing an hour of fun with Australian television legend, Bert Newton

External links

• Official Get This page on Triple-M's Melbourne web site
• Get This podcast (XML feed)
• Listen Live link (Windows Media format) Get this is broadcast weekdays between 9:00AM and 10:00AM

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