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Marsland has also performed on [[Triple J]], posing as Family First member Spencer Penrose on the [[Restoring the Balance]] radio show with [[Tony Moclair]]. |
Marsland has also performed on [[Triple J]], posing as Family First member Spencer Penrose on the [[Restoring the Balance]] radio show with [[Tony Moclair]]. |
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Richard is, as of 29/01/2008, anchor of Triple M Melbourne's breakfast show [[Pete & Myf]], and has taken a similar role as he had on Get This, with a larger on-air role than that of a standard anchor. |
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Richard Marsland is an Australian comedy writer, actor, comedian and radio personality.
Career
Radio
Marsland started his radio career in Adelaide on the SAFM breakfast show with Greg Fleet, Marty Sheargold and James Brayshaw. He also co-hosted a live, daily morning program AM Adelaide on Adelaide television with the multiple-Logie award winning Anne Wills, and then hosted The Late Date Show nationally with Bessie Bardot on 2DayFM, 92.9 and FoxFM[1].
Previously, he was on Tough Love with Mick Molloy, in its first year (2004). He also appeared regularly on Triple M's The Shebang with Marty Sheargold and Fifi Box, where he hosted a quiz segment known as "Dick's Box".
In 2006, he became the panel operator on the Triple M radio program Get This. He later started contributing verbally to on-air segments, and soon was essentially regarded as a third co-host, along with Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee. The last show aired on November 23, 2007[2].
Marsland has also performed on Triple J, posing as Family First member Spencer Penrose on the Restoring the Balance radio show with Tony Moclair.
Richard is, as of 29/01/2008, anchor of Triple M Melbourne's breakfast show Pete & Myf, and has taken a similar role as he had on Get This, with a larger on-air role than that of a standard anchor.
Television
Has contributed to TV shows such as The Glass House and Rove Live, the latter on which he has made several appearances.
In 2007, Marsland also took up a co-host role on C31 Melbourne's, The Breakfast Show.[3]
As of October 2007, Marsland is a writer on Shaun Micallef's news satire programme Newstopia which premiered on October 10th on SBS.[4]
He wrote a weekly column for The Sunday Mail in Adelaide[5].
Film
He appeared as a record company executive in the 2006 Australian comedy film, Boytown.
Personal life
Marsland is also a proud long-time Weird Al Yankovic fan, with Tony Martin revealing that he had brought in every CD of Weird Al's to sign when he was a guest co-host on Get This.
References
- ^ Date with destiny - The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Nov 2005
- ^ Get This: top-rating radio show gets the axe - The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 November 2007
- ^ Host Profiles - Channel 31
- ^ Shaun Micallef's Online World Around Him: Newstopia
- ^ Richard Marsland column - The Sunday Mail, 5 November 2006