Wil & Lehmo Drive show on Triple M

[unfrufru]

Thought I should mention that Wil has FINALLY started his drive show on Triple M (I belive it is not just Sydney that is getting it)

4-6pm

It actually started yesterday, I just forgot.

Regular guests including Hillsy this afternoon.

I only heard about 5 minutes of it since I left work a bit late yesterday so I can't really comment on whether it was actually any good. But in those 5 minutes he mentioned Shannon Noll so i'm guessing i know where this is going

[unfrufru]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...8-7582,00.html

Gag order imposed of Triple M's own free Wil

• <LI class=byline>Sally Jackson
• March 29, 2007

COMEDIANS Wil Anderson and Anthony "Lehmo" Lehmann warn nothing will be off limits when they unleash their new Triple M drive-time program in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide on Monday. Except good taste.

Anderson says existing drive shows unimaginatively confine themselves to offering either serious news or gags. He asks: why not combine them? "There's nothing at all you can't make fun of if you do it in the right way," he insists. "You can find a way to do material about euthanasia or abortion comedically.
"There are always funny angles," agrees Lehmann. "We'll take serious news topics and completely mock and disrespect them."
The duo is considering instituting a "too soon" barometer, letting listeners vote on whether a topic - the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, say - is still too raw to mine for laughs.
Triple M executives can't claim they didn't know what they were in for. They have reportedly been wooing the 33-year-old Anderson for years but he was busy at the ABC, first doing breakfast radio on Triple J, later presenting television panel show The Glass House.
Late last year, however, when Triple M was looking for a new drive show to replace the Shebang, which was moving to the early slot in Sydney after abandoning an experiment with a national breakfast show, the ABC controversially decided to axe The Glass House.
"The great thing about being sacked publicly is that people know you're available," Anderson says.
The Shebang ended last year as the second most popular drive show in Brisbane, fourth in Melbourne and fifth in Sydney and Adelaide.
Guy Dobson, group program director with Triple M owner Austereo, believes Anderson will prove "a good brand fit".
"That cheekiness, the slight irreverence, and the topicality ... Wil has always researched very well with our audience, and not just with men but our female listeners, as well," he says.
Lehmann, 37, is an accountant-turned-comedian from Adelaide. For the past four years he has been co-hosting the breakfast show on Austereo's SA FM, but says relocating to Sydney has not been a wrench. When he told his girlfriend about the move, he says "I looked up and the chair was spinning, there was a puff of dust. She was already at the airport."
The two are hoping for an odd-couple chemistry, with footy-loving Lehmann the self-described "blokey-bloke" and Anderson the self-described "wacky female sidekick".
Hosting drive isn't their only gig. Lehmann also appears on the Ten network's AFL panel show Before the Game and Anderson writes a funny, punny column for newspaper insert publication The Sunday Magazine (published by News Limited, which also owns The Australian).
But both say it is their priority.
"Up to now I feel I've been learning ... but I've come into this with a bit of experience and a vision of what I want to do with it," Anderson says. "This is the good job - the one I don't want to f-- up."

[op shop girl]

I caught an hour or so of the show on Tuesday. If I wasn't driving somewhere at the time, I'd ask for that hour of my life back.

It will rate well on MMM, but it's not to my taste. I've come to realise that I really can't stand Wil on the radio unless he's teamed with Adam Spencer. That said, I can't stand Adam unless he's teamed with Wil. Or Dr Karl.

*sigh*

At least I have my tapes of the good ol' days.

[susanjacobs]

Guy Dobson, group program director with Triple M owner Austereo, believes Anderson will prove "a good brand fit".

I won't be listening to Wil's show because I completely refuse to listen to Triple M.

However, the above statement makes me want to scream. I hate hearing about the brand, the branding and who/what fits in with the brand. People are not brands. Yet, you will hear some American sportsman or reality star talking about growing their persona as a brand. It disgusts me and it is has infected Australia. It is almost as bad as the celebrity who has his/her name trademarked. I can see trademarking your likeness, but your name?

Okay, rant over... sorry.

[Laney]

Originally Posted by susanjacobs

I won't be listening to Wil's show because I completely refuse to listen to Triple M.

I won't be listening to Wil's show because I completely refuse to listen to a Wil. Someone tell me when he starts doing promotions about icy cold cans of coke.

[Renee_Turner]

I normally don't listen to commercial radio. I was on a train, decided not to listen to Hack (because I had no interest in the topic), and happened across Justin Hamilton being interviewed by the guys. I wish it had just been Justin. Wil's laugh is still really, really annoying, and Lehmo didn't actually say anything for a good 10 minutes. I thought he wasn't in the studio.

Triple M sucks. Seriously, putting an ad in THE WEATHER is just plain stupid. Even if you were the world's biggest Wil Anderson fan, I don't think you could sit through the monotonous ads and the shitty music just to hear his kookaburra-on-helium laugh.

[unfrufru]

if you are able to listen to wil and lehmo this arvo do it!!!!

the face off between will and shannon noll will finally happen. and shannon will beat the crap out of him on air.maybe.