Tag: Tony Martin

Joy of Sets: Episode 6 ratings

The ratings are in for this week’s sixth episode of The Joy Of Sets – “Who Killed Warwick Capper?”. Since being bumped out of 9pm to the ‘special time’ 10:30pm timeslot last week, ratings have slightly improved from 191,000 (episode 5 with new time) to 242,000 (episode 6). While not Yasmin’s Getting Married type of ratings, it shows that …

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Joy of Sets episode 6 Tonight!

Source: http://www.facebook.com/TheJoyOfSets Don’t forget to tune in to Channel Nine at the sizzle and cut-through time of 10:30pm tonight for a new episode of The Joy Of Sets. In tonight’s episode, Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee decide to kill off Warwick Capper! All right, that’s good stuff! The character, not the man himself (he’s too …

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Tony Martin on The Hamster Wheel

Comedy troupe The Chaser brought in Tony Martin for a ‘vox pop interview’ for their media expose comedy show The Hamster Wheel. Tony appears at the 26 second mark. Blink and you’ll miss him. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w833cAs9EN0[/tube] Also note Tony and Working Dog‘s good friend – Shaun Micallef.

Richard Marsland dies

Tributes are flooding in for Richard Marsland, the radio anchor best known for his work on Tony Martin’s former radio show, Get This. Marsland was found dead today aged just 32. Austereo Melbourne general manager Ben Amarfio expressed the station’s sadness at losing a talented and popular member of the Triple M team.“Everyone he worked …

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Olympic fever nostalgia!

As the Beijing Olympics draws near, how about a trip down memory lane? Remember when The Late Show went to Sydney and Mick and Tony asked people about the Sydney 2000 Olympics win? [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrK2dO8NO2s[/tube]

Get This farewell party – photos

Thanks to menagers on the members’ forum for the first-hand pics of the Get This Farewell party at Dick Liquor! Details to follow… or why not join the forum and tell us your own stories?

London Rally mentioned on Get This!

On Tony’s penultimate show today, he very kindly played a couple of minutes of footage from the Save Get This London Rally that happened last weekend. Woohoo! It’s only taken fifteen years to get any sort of feedback from the Tonester.

London Save Get This Rally – the slideshow!

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byN4dYpn460[/tube] The London Save Get This Rally – to check out how it all went, listen to the audio and watch the clips unfold before your very eyes… thanks to Fran for getting us all together; to Bean for the Jonestown reading and Rob for staying up late editing the slideshow. and to me, for working …

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London Get This Rally on 17 November

The London Save Get This Rally is happening on 17 November! Thanks to Bean and Francesca for organising it. Meet at midday near the river entrance to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside. Your Champagne Comedy representative plans to be there, so pictures and footage of the, er, ‘pseudo flash mob’ (can’t call …

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Rally to save Get This – remember the 5th of November & wear satiny kaftans

The ‘Global Movement To Save Get This’ Facebook group is planning a support rally. Thanks to Simon Hevey for letting me repost his request here. If anyone ends up going, can you take some pics and I’ll post them up here? Thanks For those of you in Melbourne, and who are interested, a decision has been made …

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