Justin Hamilton, Santo & Steele – Letters To Green Guide

If you’re a Melbournite, you’d be aware of the Green Guide lift-out in The Age newspaper, which is usually full of amusing letters written in to critique the state of the Australian television landscape – positive and negative.

Comedian Steele Saunders has taken one step further for his love of these letters – turning it into a highly popular podcast. With various comedians who come visit and share anecdotes. Tony Martin and Santo Cilauro have been previous guests.

Check out the most recent episode with Santo as a guest, telling the origin story of Jane Kennedy joining the D-Generation, as well as a bit of fiasco with Tony’s beloved Warren Perso sketch, and even the classic Wheel Of Fortune sketch from back in the D-Generation days.

Listen here.

I Love Green Guide Letters is heading to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival stage from March 30 to April 20, 2013. Check out I Love Green Guide Letters for more details, tickets and previous podcasts now.

News Limited, owner of Herald Sun / Sunday and Daily Telegraph / Courier Mail etc, have signed on Jane Kennedy to the new Sunday Style magazine lift-out in the weekend paper.

Source: dailytelegraph.com.au

In lead-up to her weekly column, the mother of five to husband and Working Dogger-in-crime Rob Sitch spoke to News Limited on her thoughts if The Late Show would survive in this modern era of the internet and social media – with the very verbal thought-ridden Twitter which can make or break anything.

“I’m convinced if we released (The Late Show) now, with Twitter around, it would be pulled off the air,” Kennedy joked.

“It’s harder to be a trailblazer nowadays.”

You can read more of the story here, or you can read her first column each Sunday in the Sunday Style liftout in your local News Limited Sunday newspaper.

You now have permission to run down the street and say “I’ve got the PAPER!”

Martin/Molloy, D-Generation & Bulltwang in NFSA

..aaaaand today!

We remember there is a god. A radio god. Obviously with other talents as well, but for this story - a radio god.

In the heart and soul of Anthony Martin, aka Tony Martin – the Martin part of the 90s radio show Martin/Molloy. Not to be confused with an actual guy called Martin Molloy. (Google it!)

The famous comedy drive show, co-hosted with partner-in-D-Generation-graduate-crime Mick Molloy was a landmark radio drive show, broadcasted on Austereo’s Today Network from 1995 – 1998 on 54 radio stations across Australia. The show was full of radio sketches, segments, various famous (and infamous) guests – but it made the nation laugh – spawning 3 ARIA Award winning albums and constantly topping many polls as one of the best radio shows and duos ever to hit the airwaves. The show and pairing even inspired other personalities and comedy teams, such as Hamish Blake and Andy Lee – known as Hamish and Andy, on the Today Network.

Back in the day, podcasts didn’t exist, and the internet was on dial-up. Though they did have a website (the defunct martinmolloy.village.com.au) the general public had to rely on taping the show themselves on cassette tape, or if you were clever enough, on VHS/Beta. Many bootleg recordings are floating around online if you look hard enough. Other than that, there’s only the three albums that were official released – The Brown Album, Poop Chute, and Eat Your Peas.

We all thought that all we had left in memory of the Martin/Molloy days was just that – memories… and bootlegs.

Until today – when Tony himself tweeted this:

Have convinced the NSFA to take my ‘Martin/Molloy’ archive – 185 x 90mins cassettes. Yes, cassettes. twitter.com/mrtonymartin/s…

— Tony Martin (@mrtonymartin) February 20, 2013

There was a collective jaw-smacking-the-floor noise across the internet when his followers saw the photo. 185 cassette tapes of Martin/Molloy.

Then more tweets came. We’ve collected the pictures and tweets below.

This means that episodes of Martin/Molloy, Bulltwang, and elements of EONFM D-Generation Breakfast Show will now be permanently preserved.

So, what is NFSA?

The NSFA stands for the National Film and Sound Archive, with offices around Australia. (official site) This archive has Australia’s media history stored so stories, audio, video, news, entertainment… just about everything – can be preserved for generations to come. It is enriched from common footage to hard-to-find gems. Yes, they even have some bits of The Late Show and other D-Generation items in the archive.

How do I get copies for myself?

Don’t we all… unfortunately it’s not plausible. And we’re not talking about just these tapes – we’re talking anything in the archive. The library is accessible to a point, but it’s not a simple “walk in, swipe your library card, walk out” type of library and archive.  The best thing to do is read thoroughly through the site and see what needs are suited for you. Best to start on this page. Any other queries, please ask NSFA directly where they are happy to answer any questions. Though we do encourage you to check out any of their libraries in person. It’s a media junkie dream.

Press play below.

The most important and coolest thing about Tony handing over his tapes to NFSA is that they will be transferred to digital, restored and preserved for life. You never know what could happen down the track…

Pete Smith speaking (not really).

UPDATE: Tony has also supplied the entire Get This catalogue on CDs to NFSA. This is dizzy stuff folks!

While we couldn’t get enough of Santo Cilauro, Sam Pang, and Ed Kavalee on their SBS World Cup themed show Santo, Sam and Ed’s Cup Fever! in 2010, Channel 7 poached them for Santo, Sam and Ed’s Sports Fever! in early 2012, then the ear-sounding friendly Santo, Sam and Ed podcast (2012 – present), the guys have released the delicious:

Santo, Sam and Ed’s Cup Fever! Special on iTunes!

Every night on SBS during the World Cup 2010 Santo Cilauro, Sam Pang & Ed Kavalee were devouring, debating, deconstructing, and even disemboweling the beautiful game. Catch up with all the quirky, funny and downright controversial happenings that occurred during the World Cup.

As a great man once said: “They say football’s a matter of life and death – but it’s more important than that.” We say fair enough, but only if you can have a laugh while you’re at it.

Nearly everything in the 1 hour feature is included – minus the actual World Cup footage (due to obvious legal reasons). For the price of 2 Maradonuts, you get the best of Cup Fever’s funny bits:

Cupdate
Bresh’s Diary
Judge Dukes
My Mother Could Have Scored That
Green and Gold Glasses
New Zealand Commentators
Bin Night

As well as interviews with
Luke Wilkshire
Archie Thompson
John van’t Schip
Mark Bresciano

And special guests appearances by
Diego Maradona
Pim Verbeek
Carles Puyol
Joachim Low
George Calombaris
And the late Kim-Jong-il

Grab your copy now for $2.99AU to watch on your iPhone, computer, Apple TV – where ever – as long as you don your big spectacle!

While you’re there – you might as well subscribe to their free podcast, if you haven’t already.

It’s that time of the year where the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is fast approaching. While there are many high quality and talented performers popping up in various places, here’s one for the regular site visitors.

Yarraville Laughs at The Yarraville Club begins late February with a star-studded cast doing their stand-up over various nights.

Yarraville Laughs at The Yarraville Club

Mick Molloy, Glenn Robbins, Bob Franklin, Brian Nankervis, Greg Fleet and many, many more are spread over FIVE shows before, during and after the MICF – all at The Yarraville Club in Victoria.

For more details on ticket prices and purchases, as well as who else is performing over the 5 shows, visit yarravillelaughs.com