Richard Marsland
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Richard Marslandis an Australian comedy writer, actor, comedian and radio personality.
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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 Channel 7, Adelaide 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".[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
As of 29 January 2008, Richard became anchor/uncredited co-host 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.[citation needed]
Television
Has contributed to TV shows such as Newstopia with Shaun Micallef, The Glass House, and Rove Live, the latter on which he has made several appearances.[citation needed]
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.[6]
Personal life
Richard used to be a DJ in a Goth nightclub in Adelaide in the 90's[citation needed] as mentioned a number of times when paneling Get This. He is also a huge fan of Weird Al Yankovic as was discovered when Weird Al came to Get This to guest Co-host[citation needed].
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
- ^ imdb entry for BoyTown
