Get This
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.
Topics on the show are movies, current affairs, lack of programming originality, Martin and Kavalee's own lives, amusing news articles from around the world, "celebrity insiders". Soundbites also feature regularly, for example Rex Hunt's comments regarding his sex scandal.
The show is broken up by music, often including the much overplayed Nickelback and James Blunt's Wisemen.
Martin often creates comedy sketches that include edited recordings of politicians of the day and musical parodies.
The program is produced by Nikki Hamilton.
Guest hosts
One of the show's themes is to feature a new guest host each day, with Australian comedians, musicians, writers and actors making regular appearances.
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. "Prize King" Ed Kavalee awards prizes to the best callers, and almost never fails to give them something completely useless (he gave away a hat once).
- 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?'.
- A new segment, 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.
Notable events
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
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 over 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 comedy sketches cannot be heard on the podcast.