Get This Farewell Party at the Dick Liquor

[menagers]

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This is the bloke who got the tat. Funny moment was when he showed Tony, Tony is appraising the font, and someone yells out "How's the kerning?".

[kim]

I suppose he does it in the dark, then...

[menagers]

Ooh-Er! Does what in the dark? And yes, my photos are all from the under-exposed-blur collection, soon to be displayed at the Silver K gallery*.

Ugh! Just had a total freak stranger ring me and ask me something to do with hubby's buisness WITH A MOUTH FULL OF FOOD!! What's all that about? I should of said something like "Excuse me, would you like to finish that gob full of chow? You PIGSY!". But I didn't. Why do I let these things slide?

*yeah, crap Melbourne reference, sorry.

[foolhardycousingeorge]

This article was in the Herald Sun this morning.

Axed Triple M funny man Tony Martin has lifted the lid on the network’s “ridiculous” team-bonding exercises.

“The program directors the year before last all decided to go to the Kokoda Trail together, because that’s what our Diggers were fighting for- better music variety,” he revealed on Gold FM yesterday.

But the comic thought last year’s trip to a Buddhist retreat was a doozy.

“On the first night, they broke out through a window, scrambled through some bushes to two waiting cabs and then went into town for drinking,” he said.

“They had booked the cabs before they had even got there. They didn’t even believe in the idea. This was a perfect metaphor for the people I was working for.”

So is he still resentful over the station’s decision to dump his popular Get This show?

“Not really, because my pod casts have to stay up until the end of the year, so contractually I can’t be angry until January,” Martin said.

[menagers]

This is a direct lift from the Gold FM transcript. That's interesting, I wonder if Tony would mind being quoted as saying this in reference to "lifting the lid on the networks 'ridiculous' team building exercises"? I only ask because he said it in a breakfast radio forum where most things are said as gags. ie. "Drawer tongues, Tony!!" - Tony Martin complains about large Samoan landlady Shock!

It doesn't matter at all anyway, everyone knows the network directors are tossbags. What an absolute joke if they truly went to a Buddhist retreat. In God's name why? What do copious amounts of My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy have to do with Buddhism??

[menagers]

Seen this on Youtube? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsaGWmYHDRE&feature=related)
"Roll the opener" appears to be Richard's catchphrase.
And This? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqWboAH61Vs&feature=related)
Love the Graham and the Colonel moment.

[menagers]

A tribute to Tony's tee-shirt he wore this day.

SNL-Christopher Walken, Blue Oyster Cult & More Cowbell (http://www.mediafire.com/?df9yyem0jvr)

Love this, makes me think of Shaun and Bob and Tony, in one big happy go.

"Fellas, before we're done here y'all be wearing gold plated diapers"

Avoiding the YouTube link, too much weird-arse hate there. When comedy catch-phrase love goes wrong, me thinks.

[baudrillard]

He wore a Blue Oyster Cult t-shirt?

[baudrillard]

Where is the link to that article foolhardcousingeorge?

[13 schoolyards]

It was in the 'Confidential' section, which is often a bitch to find stuff from on the net - I had a bit of a look on their site, but no luck. I think that's the whole article though.

[baudrillard]

What about that other one which said he was going to ABC radio?

[menagers]

He wore a Blue Oyster Cult t-shirt?

He wore a 'More Cowbell' t-shirt, which a listener sent him.

It's TV, he's doing telly.

[baudrillard]

What! What is the source for this menagers????

[menagers]

Horse's mouth.

Anyway, it's the vibe. Can't you feel it?

[baudrillard]

I honestly don't know that Tony is suited to television, simply because his impression based comedy is really stuff that is most suited to an audio only medium. I just can't imagine him dressing up as the person he's impersonating nor either doing the John Clarke thing and play it without the dressing up.

[menagers]

I think that's just nit picking. I find Tony to be an excellent character actor. That stuff he has spun about how he can only do Warwick Fairfax and ... blah blah someone (forgotten)*, has never tricked me. That's really not what it's all about. The 'looking like the person' was always Rob's thing, usually coupled with one or two gags, a few catchprases given a good turn, and some corpsing. Tony has lots of clever/silly/funny things to say within the character. Beazley cheese is a good example, or Grant Spatchcock. Even early D-Gen, the man who invented the shopping trolley, Wayne who goes on a journey to find the price of the scotch brite twin pack, he's just funny on telly. God, not to mention the singing! How good would it be to see My Chemical Romance knees-up?
You aren't the person to bring this up with, but he was just such a naturally good TV performer on TGYH. I'm specifically thinking about the location pieces, which were the gold of that show. 'Celebrity Island' from the end of series 2 is really hilarious (and I don't know whether to be chuffed or heartbroken to realise that this was filmed five minutes from my door! - Where was I?). And, you know, it's because it's him, it's not 'Theatre of the Mind' or good writing. It's TV Tony, and I really want to see it happen.

*Prince Charles was very good

[Bean Is A Carrot]

Tony's done some great TV stuff, on The Late Show, The Mick Molloy Show, even on The D-Generation and on appearances on stuff like The Panel. I want him on TV NOW! Or radio. Whatever he can swing.

[13 schoolyards]

I agree that Tony's political impressions probably wouldn't work on TV, but his character work is always pretty good - even if he mostly plays the same character (that whiney-voiced creepy guy, with occasional 'rock jock' for variety). Anyway, if it's his show, why would he have to do a whole bunch of characters? Six half hour episodes, each based on a single character would be fine with me.

Though I still think "Get This the sitcom", set behind-the-scenes at a fake radio station, is what I want to see the most. With Tony playing himself, a blokey other jock, and management.

[Bean Is A Carrot]

Though I still think "Get This the sitcom", set behind-the-scenes at a fake radio station, is what I want to see the most. With Tony playing himself, a blokey other jock, and management.

Yes! With Judith Lucy as a bored secretary.

[13 schoolyards]

And Shaun Micallef as the stuffy owner befuddled by "the young person's music" - or a haughty announcer at the rival ABC-FM style station that Tony's station is always feuding with, jocks vs nerds style. And Greg Fleet as the guy in a caftan outside the front of the station building wanting to borrow $20.

[menagers]

And Kavalee could be 'the man on street' handing out trial size Samboy chips and Timezone passes from the back of the Black Thunder.
Hopefully, Laughin' Ed Phillips could put aside his differences and play the late night, 'Spoonman' type shock jock. Who, by day regularily hits the Moorabbin Industrial district for a 'Pie, Pot & Pull', and has a mean Ice habit.

A great idea, but is it original? What was that British show about radio? I have memories of a very posh, plum-in-mouth, news reader, who had the hair all in dreads and looked like she came straight from a rave. What was this?

[Bean Is A Carrot]

You're not talking about In The Red, are you menagers? It's a memorable, but fairly obscure (having only been shown once in both the UK and Australia) mini series with Stephen Fry and John Bird in it. There was a Radio 4 newsreader with coloured dreadlocks (played by Sally Phillips) who was constantly 'bonging on'.

[menagers]

Yes! Was going to say Fry and Bird but thought I was confusing it with Absolute Power. And Sally Phillips, she's from Bridget Jones is she not?
Thankyou for having an encylopaedic comedy knowledge, sortin' stuff out.., gettin' the down low on the I don't know...

[Bean Is A Carrot]

And Sally Phillips, she's from Bridget Jones is she not?

I think so. Although she's more famous for Smack The Pony.

[William Grimbling]

My God, someone else remembers In The Red!

I watched it, raved about it, and got a vast sea of vacant expressions. And then nobody ANYWHERE ever mentioned it again. I thought myself and my high school science teacher were the only only people on earth who watched it.

[baudrillard]

Nah, I saw In The Red, available on torrents atm of course. It was good, but I didn't remember Sally Phillips in it, nor did I remember she was in what??? Bridget Jones??? eeeeeeekK!!! She's also in the British series Green Wing as well as Smack the Pony, which I've recommended elsewhere, and funnily enough Boy Town. She was also in a show called Hippies which starred at that time a little known Simon Pegg. John Bird is very good. Again, another series we don't get here is Bremner, Bird and Fortune, also available on torrents, which is another thing Tone should have slagged the ABC off for not showing.

[13 schoolyards]

The more I think about the idea of Tone going to the ABC, the more I think it'll just be him hosting "forgotten comedy classics" that the ABC didn't bother with the first time around. And swearing at the people responsible for said ignorance.