SANTO,
SAM & ED
I was a very big fan of the ‘Get This’
podcast, which aired back in the mid 2000s and featured Tony Martin, Ed Kavalee
and the sadly missed Richard Marsland. Ever since then, I’ve followed the
projects of Martin and Kavalee very closely, hoping something would recapture
the magic of a show that was cut far too short. I was excited to see The Joy of Sets, a TV show about TV that
worked intermittently – but ended up proving the duo’s specific talents didn’t
really work in a pre-recorded television format.
Kavalee has since gone on to form a team of
sorts with fellow football fans Santo Cilauro and Sam Pang, all of whom
featured in the comedy World Cup review show Santo, Sam & Ed’s Cup Fever. After the World Cup finished,
Channel 7 picked up the team for a more general sports show, but no one watched
it and Cilauro especially was on shaky ground when it came to any sport that
wasn’t soccer (or, to a lesser extent, cricket).
So, after many a failed project with plenty
of potential, I was pleased to see the trio has embarked on a brand new podcast
simply entitled Santo, Sam & Ed. It
proves that Kavalee in particular works brilliantly in the medium of radio and
all three clearly relish the opportunity to throw out as many terrible jokes as
they can come up with, enjoying failure as much as they do success. If you’re a Get This fan like I am and you’re looking for something to fill
that hole in your life, this is it.
Honourable
Mention: This has nothing to do with the Santo, Sam & Ed podcast other than I
came to it very late in 2012, but Scandal
is by far the most entertaining of the Shonda Rhimes series I’ve ever seen;
even more than her death-happy Grey’s
Anatomy. It’s a political thriller starring the outstanding Kerry
Washington, The West Wing’s Joshua
Malina and plenty of entertainingly implausible twists.
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