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Prairie Home Companion

April 27, 1996      Fitzgerald Theater, St Paul, MN

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Participants

Roy Blount Jr Pat Donohue Richard DworskyGuy's All-Star Shoe Band Allison Janney Tom Keith Howard Levy Paula Poundstone Tim Russell Andy Stein.


Songs, tunes, and poems

This Is The Beginning ( Pat Donohue , Howard Levy )
I Never Cried ( Pat Donohue , Howard Levy )
Kalamazoo ( Andy Stein )
Knock, Knock, Who's There? ( Andy Stein , Guy's All-Star Shoe Band  )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

[undocumented]


Additional information, mentions, etc.

Spring Clearance joke program. GK talks about old humor and humorists, asks listeners to send in jokes, jokes, lawyer jokes, lightbulb jokes, guy walks into a bar jokes, Roy Blount - chicken walks into a library joke, your mama’s so fat jokes, your mama’s so ugly joke, others, Iowan jokes, blond jokes, MN/Ole jokes, Andy Stein and the All Star Show Band - Knock Knock, Who's There, survey stats, unitarian jokes, joke about Adam, keep the worms warm joke, 3 engineers joke, men jokes, children tell good jokes, where do jokes come from, car radio joke, monk joke, Pat Donohue w/ Howard Levy - This Is The Beginning, I Never Cried--Pat Donohue And Howard Levy, Celebrities clinton, Bob Dole, Bush 1, Ross Perot - all ears, Julia Child, Jack Nicholson, Kissinger, Mr Rogers, intermission, American Lock and Latch ad (parents spending college money), Chet Atkins on the phone - hickory daiquiri doc joke, oldest profession joke, from audience: hmo joke, man who enunciates well and slowly - religious joke, glass wall stupid joke, Mark Twain dog joke, Unitarian and Jehovah’s Witness joke, Jesus was Irish joke, St Peter joke, god and pope joke, Palestinian and a MN get married joke, Ahmal joke, Andy Stein - I’ve Got a Girl in Kalamazoo, News from Lake Wobegon: In the winter, Minnesotans draw together around a fire and tell stories. The story about Minnesotans playing baseball in the dark around a bonfire. The catchers were Siamese twins. The story of Susan B. Anthony and George Eastman. She invented a Kodak camera with a derringer pistol i n it, which i s where the word "Shoot' got into photography. Muriel, the prim Sunday school teacher, would listen t o opera, drink sherry and smoke a cigarette. On vacation i n New York, she saw Liberace with three Rolls Royces on stage. That pushed her
over the edge. She came back to her job i n the LW bank and planned for her future. When the bank examiners found a $200,000 shortage, Muriel had flown off to Buenos Aires. There was a whole colony of escaped felons from the midwest. They missed the snow i n the midwest but they could never go home. They had nobody to tell stories to. Death found her at last and she was so glad to see her.


This show was Rebroadcast on 1996-09-21

Notes and References

Archival contributors: Official website, Frank Berto, John Lippincott



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