Martin Donald Sheargold (born 19 June 1971) is an Australian stand-up comedian and radio broadcaster. Sheargold was part of Nova FM's national drive show '' Kate, Tim & Marty'' with

Kate Ritchie Katherine Leigh Ritchie is an Australian actress, radio presenter and children's author, she remains best known for her long-running role as original character Sally Fletcher on the television soap opera '' Home and Away'', for which she won tw ...

and Tim Blackwell until 11 September 2020. He is currently the host of the '' Marty Sheargold Show'' on

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Early life

Sheargold went to school at

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in Canberra.

Career

Sheargold's first job in radio was replacing

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on a breakfast radio show in

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. He appeared as a guest comedian on the RMITV show ''

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'' on 2 November 1995. Marty has also appeared in Australian TV comedy productions such as ''

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'' in 1998 and ''

The Mick Molloy Show ''The Mick Molloy Show'' was a television program that appeared on the Nine Network in Australia for just eight weeks during 1999. The host, Mick Molloy, was a widely acclaimed comedian from '' The Late Show'' and ''Martin/Molloy''. The progr ...

'' in 1999 where he appeared in the '

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Scrapbook' segment. He was also seen on ''Russell Gilbert Live'' (2000) and ''Russell Gilbert Was Here!'' (2001), and as host, creator and writer on ''Hahn Ice Headliners'' (1997–98) on

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. In 2003, Sheargold appeared in ''

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'', ''The Forest'' and in ''

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'' as 'The Courier'. He returned to television in 2009 as Paolo in '' The Librarians''. From 2003 to 2008, Marty was the co-host of

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's '' The Shebang'' with

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and later a third host, Paul Murray, which initially aired as a national drive-time show, before moving to the breakfast slot in Sydney from 2007. The show finished in October 2008, with Sheargold being away because of the birth of his first daughter. In May 2010, Sheargold joined Nova 106.9 replacing Ash Bradnam. In August 2011, ''

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'' moved to Melbourne and became the national drive show on Nova FM replacing ''

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''. After Meshel Laurie departed in 2014,

joined the drive show which became known as '' Kate, Tim & Marty''. Sheargold has been a panelist on

, ''

'', ''

'', '' The Project'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2019, Sheargold made a return to standup comedy after 20 years away from the stage. He sold out the initial 11 shows in

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and

. Due to the overwhelming success of the initial 11 shows, he added 27 additional shows to the tour in 2020, returning for more shows in all the major capital cities plus

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and

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. On 24 July 2020, Sheargold announced his resignation from ''Kate, Tim & Marty'' and his last show was on 11 September. On 12 December 2020, after several months of media speculation, it was revealed that Sheargold would host the '' Marty Sheargold Show'' in 2021. The show would replace '' The Hot Breakfast on''

after the departure of

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sheargold, Marty Australian radio presenters Living people 1971 births Australian male comedians Nova (radio network) announcers Triple M presenters People educated at Daramalan College