18 Facts About Richard Marsland

Richard Kemble Marsland was an Australian comedy writer, actor, comedian and radio personality.

At the time of his death, Marsland co-hosted on Triple M after starting his radio career in Adelaide on the SAFM breakfast show.

Richard Marsland started his radio career in Adelaide on Community_radio station PBA-FM then commercially on the SAFM breakfast show with Greg Fleet, Marty Sheargold and James Brayshaw.

Richard Marsland 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.

Richard Marsland 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".

Richard Marsland 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.

Richard Marsland performed on Triple J, posing as Family First member Spencer Penrose on the Restoring the Balance radio show with Tony Moclair.

Richard Marsland contributed to TV shows such as Newstopia with Shaun Micallef, The Glass House and Rove Live, the latter on which he made several appearances in sketches with Ryan Shelton, including a parody of TV show The Rich List, entitled The Bitch List.

In 2007, Richard Marsland took up a co-host role on C31 Melbourne's The Breakfast Show.

Since October 2007, Richard Marsland was a writer on Shaun Micallef's news satire programme Newstopia which premiered on 10 October on SBS.

Richard Marsland wrote a weekly column for The Sunday Mail in Adelaide.

Richard Marsland appeared as a record company executive in the 2006 Australian comedy film, BoyTown.

On 5 December 2008, Richard Marsland was meant to have dinner with former colleague Tony Martin and friends at a pub, but he never showed.

Richard Marsland secretly hoped the questions related to his penchant for surprise visits home to Adelaide.

Richard Marsland recovered after extensive counselling and had been "happy and in control" ever since.

Richard Marsland relapsed and reached his lowest ebb in October 2008, telling his parents he felt "lonely and alone".

Richard Marsland said he was concerned about what his future held in 2009 and talked about going on holidays for a while.

The only drawback to Richard Marsland's personality was that he seemed to find it hard to believe the great things people had to say about him.