Trevor Marmalade
{{short description|Australian comedian}}
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Trevor Marmalade (born Jason van de Velde, 26 April 1962) is an Australian comedian and radio and television presenter. Marmalade is of Dutch descent and grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Surrey Hills.
Career
During the 1980s, Marmalade was a member of the alternative comedy show Punter to Punter with Tracy Harvey as Tammy Whittle, Tony Rickards as Con Marasco, Mitchell Faircloth as Slim Whittle and John Rothfield as Dr Turf. The show was broadcast on 3RRR on Saturday mornings after the Coodabeen Champions.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=0jMRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=V5QDAAAAIBAJ&dq=trevor-marmalade&pg=3330%2C5171967|title=Free reign on 'punter'|last=Wilmoth|first=Peter|work=The Age|page=8|access-date=16 November 2009}}
Marmalade is also a successful standup comic going back to his appearances in the early 1980s at "Le Joke" and "The Last Laugh". He also appeared on the long-running television show, Hey Hey It's Saturday, from 1991 to 1999.
Marmalade appeared on the Nine television network's The AFL Footy Show from 1994 to 2008, as a comedian based behind the bar. At the end of 2008, his contract for the show was not renewed and the behind the bar role was dropped altogether.{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,24772549-10229,00.html|title=AFL Footy Show axes Trevor Marmalade after 15 years|last=Byrne|first=Fiona |date=9 December 2008|work=Herald Sun|access-date=16 November 2009}} Marmalade did return for one show, on 7 April 2011, to help celebrate its 500th episode.{{Cite news|last=Vickery|first=Colin|date=7 April 2011|title=Trevor Marmalade to appear on The Footy Show's 500th episode|work=The Herald Sun|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/tv-radio/trevor-marmalade-to-appear-on-the-footy-shows-500th-episode/story-e6frf9ho-1226035110543|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412215845/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/tv-radio/trevor-marmalade-to-appear-on-the-footy-shows-500th-episode/story-e6frf9ho-1226035110543|archive-date=12 April 2011}} He then returned once more in September 2019 for its last-ever grand final spectacular.
In December 2010, he returned to television as the host of a show titled Statesmen of Comedy. It was broadcast for one season of 15 shows, on Foxtel's The Comedy Channel.{{cite news|last=Dennehy|first=Luke|title=Trevor Marmalade's back on the box |url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/trevor-marmalades-back-on-the-box/story-e6frf96f-1225962000870|access-date=19 December 2010|newspaper=Herald Sun|date=28 November 2010}}
In 2012, Trevor was the presenter of a major television and social media advertising campaign for Lawson's bread. The campaign used humour to offer light-hearted advice to parents dealing with stay-at-home adult children.{{Cite web|date=2012-07-17|title=Lawson's bread and Australian comedian Trevor Marmalade dish out tips in new 6-part viral campaign via Publicis Mojo Auckland|url=https://campaignbrief.com/lawsons-bread-and-australian-c/|access-date=2021-03-23|website=Campaign Brief|language=en-AU}}
Marmalade has also written several comedy-based books, including Any danger? published in 1998[http://libraries.nt.gov.au:8080/lib/item;jsessionid=F5469656087ECDA4C373A5F5067933D1?id=chamo:368991 Any danger? / Trevor Marmalade | NT Library. Retrieved 22 April 2013] and Trevor Marmalade's footy show jokes published in 2001.[http://libraries.nt.gov.au/lib/item;jsessionid=5D72B061392EEEFAF493D90F1F92DD96?id=chamo:515060 Trevor Marmalade's footy show jokes | NT Library. Retrieved 22 April 2013]
Personal life
Marmalade was married to Kerrie and they have two children.[http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/trevor-marmalades-back-on-the-box/story-e6frf96f-1225962000870 Trevor Marmalade's back on the box | The Herald Sun 28 November 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2013] They lived in St Kilda, Victoria. Trevor is a fan of the North Melbourne Football Club.{{cite news|url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,22851730-23211,00.html|title=Fight night unleashes instincts|last=Stevens|first=Mark|date=1 December 2007 |work=Herald Sun|publisher=Fox Sports|access-date=16 November 2009}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Trevor Marmalade}}
- {{IMDb name|id=0885997|name=Trevor Marmalade}}
- [http://www.trevormarmalade.com.au/ Trevor Marmalade website]
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Category:Australian male comedians
Category:Australian people of Dutch descent
Category:Australian television presenters
Category:Comedians from Melbourne