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Get This
Get This hosts: Ed Kavalee (left) and Tony Martin
GenreComedy
Running time120 minutes
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Home stationTriple M Melbourne
SyndicatesTriple M Sydney
Triple M Brisbane
Triple M Adelaide
StarringTony Martin
Ed Kavalee
Created byTony Martin
Produced byNikki Hamilton
Original releaseApril 3, 2006 –
November 23, 2007
No. of episodes358
Opening themeHate to Say I Told You So - The Hives
Hate to Say I Told You So cover by Richard Cheese for the 2nd hour intro
WebsiteOfficial Melbourne Site
Official Sydney Site
PodcastGet This

Get This was an Australian radio comedy show which aired on Triple M and was hosted by Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee, with contributions from panel operator Richard Marsland[1]. A different guest co-host was featured on the show each day and included music played throughout.

On the October 15 episode, the Get This team announced that Triple M/Austereo would not be renewing the show for 2008. The final broadcast was on November 23, 2007.

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 Cecelia Ramsdale

Guest co-hosts

Get This featured a different guest co-host (both local and international) every day, with Australian comedians, musicians, writers, actors, and old Triple M/EON FM DJs making regular appearances. Regular co-hosts include Greg Fleet, Fifi Box, Glenn Robbins, Cal Wilson, Peter Rowsthorn, Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, Angus 'Gussy' Sampson and Lachy Hulme.

Show content

Frequently discussed topics on Get This include movies, current affairs, in-jokes, popular culture, Martin's and Kavalee's own lives, Marsland's media and writing exploits, amusing news articles from around the world, and gossip from "celebrity insiders, onlookers, pals and lunchers" from tabloid magazines.

Martin and the others create various comedy sketches that include the edited recordings of politicians such as then Australian Prime Minister John Howard, musical parodies, advertisements and other sketches. Soundbites also feature regularly, with humorous comments, sounds, or sayings from politicians or the popular media included in various jokes, interviews, and songs.

At the end of the program, Martin will pick a key phrase from that day's show, which has at times extended to fancy sound effects and news soundbites.

Talkback Mountain

Talkback Mountain is a segment in the show where a number of listeners call in to briefly discuss a chosen topic with the hosts, or share a related anecdote with the listeners. In this segment 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 banshee?'.

The segment begins with a theme tune featuring a sample of the song Detachable Penis and a phone tone ringing effect and a goat bleating. An alternative theme tune which is used is a sample of the song Tainted Love, and a range of sound effects and yodeling. More recently, the show's sketch producer, Matt Dower, has been creating a new Talkback Mountain theme for each show, including one based on the Sonny & Cher song I Got You Babe and one based on the Jive Bunny version of the Hawaii Five-O theme.

Timeslots

Get This first aired on April 3, 2006, running for one-hour from 9am - 10am, with the final episode for the 2006 season airing on December 1, 2006.

The show returned in 2007 on Monday, January 29 in a new two-hour format. The timeslot consisted of 11am - 12pm AEST being hosted by Martin and Kavalee, whilst from 12pm - 1pm a different co-host joined in each day[2].

On September 17, 2007, after a two week break, Get This moved timeslots to 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.

Downloads

On the Get This website, there are a variety of items to download, including ringtones which are made from soundbites used on the program. Some of these include "John Howard falling off a cliff" and Rex Hunt "I got my rocks off" ringtones.

Also available on the site is an archive of selected sketches under the banners of Recent Offences and Prior Offences. These include Kim Beazley's rants on cheese and Tony Soprano calling Channel Nine to complain about his timeslot.

Podcast

Highlights of the show are made available as free bi-weekly podcasts downloadable from the Triple M website and the iTunes Store. Due to copyright and licensing reasons, podcasts 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.

Aside from weekly wrap-up podcasts, special podcasts are often also released - for example those featuring a notable guest or a milestone episode.

The web content and podcasts of the show will be taken down from the Triple M website from December 31 as the show was axed.

CD

Get This Illegal Download

Martin announced on the Friday September 8, 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 November 3 2006 show, the finished CD Illegal 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 book Lolly Scramble.

The track listing of Illegal Download is as follows:

1. You Dirty Bird (28/04/06)
2. Car City Eyes (26/07/06)
3. Penis Painting (05/05/06)
4. Tom Gleisner: The Golden Mile (05/04/06)
5. Angus Sampson: Ready To Rock (20/04/06)
6. Ross Noble: Up J'Taime (21/04/06)
7. Grant Spatchcock Gourmet Pizza (02/06/06)
8. Tasty Treats (29/05/06)
9. Knife Amnesty (17/07/06)
10. Zebra Damage (08/08/06)
11. Robyn Butler: Artist's Impression (14/07/06)
12. What's Eating Laurie Oakes? (19/07/06)
13. Servo Bargains (14/07/06)
14. Beazley Cheese (05/04/06)
15. Craig Eagle: 10 Year Stiffy (29/06/06)
16. Sex News (23/06/06)
17. Dave Graney: Old Vinyl (07/07/06)
18. Greg Fleet: On The Buses (11/07/06)
19. Ooh Me Plums Again! (11/07/06)
20. Ed's European Vacation (13/07/06)
21. Kevin Smith: Nerdsville (25/08/06)
22. Scott Edgar: Return To Nerdsville (09/08/06)
23. Not Having Kids (04/08/06)
24. Greg Fleet: Delivery Man 2 (01/05/06)
25. Ten A Penny (07/09/06)
26. Musical Finale (16/08/06)
27. Breakfast In Dubbo (From Lolly Scramble by Tony Martin)

After all copies of the album were given away as prizes, tracks from the album has been made available for legal download at the Triple M website.[4]

Notable events, episodes and running gags

  • For a number of weeks when Get This started on air, "Prize King" Ed Kavalee awarded prizes to the best callers during the show's Talkback Mountain segment. He claimed to have purchased the items from Variety Gift Shops. Callers were often indifferent after having been awarded a prize such as a small dolphin trinket.
Satiny Caftan Day
  • Kavalee's live sketches, usually performed with the assistance of Marsland, usually come across as being very hectic, with Kavalee often forgetting the next part of the sketch and having to be prompted by Marsland. His most famous character is "man with a box of killer bees", who has also appeared with a flock of killer pelicans. He usually threatens the crowd into giving him their "worldly possessions" or they will face the wrath of the killer bees/pelicans. Second to this is his sketches that invariably start with, "I'm Richard," presenting an effeminate, incapable or simply ridiculous commentary on what he assumes Marsland is thinking at that moment.
  • 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 often referred to as Ghauro on the show.
  • Constant references are made to Kavalee's other public forays, including a KFC TV commercial in which Kavalee appeared as a customer, and his being mistaken for TV commercial characters, especially the "GE Money Genie" and the "Carpet Court Jester".
  • Repeated airing of radio personality Rex Hunt soundbites. In 2006 it was a rant in response to his sex scandal regarding his wealth and sexual prowess, in 2007 it has been snippets from a 15 minute rambling spray on AM radio against various "knockers" of Hunt, such as the scallop industry.
  • Satiny Caftan Day - Martin and Kavalee found a picture of Kamahl wearing a colourful kaftan. From this, they had ordered a set of kaftans and held a "all-kaftan" day when they were delivered on 31 October 2006.
  • Calling for listeners to vandalize Get This related pages on Wikipedia.
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"Passiona High" logo
  • Greg Fleet came up with the concept of a TV show called "Passiona High" the cast of which would be formed from the Get This team. The cast list is featured on the Get This page on the Triple M website. The cast of Passiona High includes Kavalee as 'Groundskeeper Gus', continuing his role as Gus on his KFC ads, Marsland as school jock, and a dopey character known as 'Nodge'. Martin plays the captain of the Chess Club, spending every lunchtime at lonely chess club meetings.
  • Martin and Kavalee have discussed often that April 2007 be redesignated as "Capril" (aka Cape April), a month where all listeners should wear capes in public, conducting day to day activities. The tagline for the month was: "Are you capable?"[5].
  • Martin shouting "Oooh me plums!" whenever injured testicles are mentioned on the show.
  • Martin gently prodding and persistently bringing up details and discussion of "Meat Pie", an unreleased film that Kavalee starred in and is massively embarrassed about. Due to Martin's petitioning, the official "trailer" can now be found on YouTube.
  • Greg Fleet's running gag "Jumper-pants" (wearing a jumper like you would pants) has even found itself a theme song (Turn your smile into a frown, turn your wardrobe up-side down, JUMPERPANTS!).
  • Segue into songs. Martin will often ask Marsland a question, with the answer being the opening lyric of the song.
  • The team called the month of August "Borgust" and encouraged listeners to send in photos of themselves dressed (as poorly as possible) like the Borg from Star Trek.
  • A number of clips have been played from the New Zealand Police documentary, "Police 10-7", most notably of a drunken man asking, "How come?" in response to a police officer telling him that he has been arrested for disorderly conduct. Another notable quote is another man yelling, "Assault! Assault!", the man pauses, then "You touched me officer, sorry."
  • On Thursday 6 September, while 'testing' one of the remote-controlled helicopters that were to be given as prizes for "Borgust", Kavalee accidentally touched the antenna of the remote control to his microphone, mildly electrocuting himself.
  • Reference is often made to the fact that Kavalee eats during the segment, after Martin revealed that a ruffling paper noise heard in the background was actually Kavalee unwrapping a sandwich. Sometimes Martin asks Kavalee towards the beginning of the segment what he will be eating that day.
  • On Monday 5th of November, support rallys were held outside Triple M studios in both Melbourne and Sydney by fans of the show, in response to the cancellation of the Get This. During and after the show, Tony, Ed and Richard addressed the crowd and several references were made to its presence throughout the show. Fans were also introduced to Matty Dower, and the rest of the production team was acknowledged for its contributions. Newspaper reports placed the crowd numbers at the Melbourne rally at approximately 170 people[6].
  • At the same time as the Melbourne rally, a smaller rally calling for the continuation of Get This was held outside the Triple M offices in Sydney. During the show a live cross was made from the Sydney Rally to the studio which outlined the fact that Triple M Sydney had asked security to move the rally on. This would later form the basis of the Key Phrase of the Day, whilst a blog about the Sydney Rally was read out on the show on Tuesday the 6th of November.

Cancellation of Get This

On 15 October 2007, it was announced on-air that Get This would be finishing up at the end of 2007, with the final show being aired on November 23. The reason cited was that Triple M would be concentrating on their breakfast shows.[7]

Separate to that, in broadcasts aired on 16th and 17th of October 2007, Martin made mention to a petition[8] that various listeners of Get 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. In Melbourne, Get This is second in its slot, while the station is fifth overall. In Sydney Get This is fifth, Triple M ninth; in Brisbane Get This is second, Triple M fourth; and while in Adelaide the program is 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 broadcasted on November 23, 2007. The final sketch depicted Tony, Ed and Richard getting in a bus, replete with Vengaboys' hit song "Vengabus" playing, before fading the broadcast out.

References

  1. ^ The getting of wisdom - The Age, 24 May 2007
  2. ^ http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/radio-active/2007/03/04/1172943265525.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
  3. ^ Get this, even later - The Age, 20 Sept 2007
  4. ^ http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne/shows/getthis/features/illegaldownload.html
  5. ^ Capril section on Get This website
  6. ^ http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22708042-5012974,00.html
  7. ^ Martin's Get This gets the chop - The Age, 16 October 2007
  8. ^ Save Triple M's Get This with Tony Martin, Ed Kavalee and Richard Marsland
  9. ^ 'Get This' Podcast #140
  10. ^ Station stabs star to save itself
  11. ^ Martin's Get This gets the chop
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