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Listen to The News from Lake Wobegon wherever and whenever you want. We're pleased to announce GK's signature monologue is now available as a free podcast, updated every Monday.
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On January 17, we're in Louisville, Kentucky, before moving on to Duluth, Minnesota, on January 24. Then it's back to home base — the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul — on January 30 and 31.
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"Prairie Home Companion" epitomizes everything wrong with:
- NPR
- Garrison Keillor, and
- Midwestern America in general.
When this flavorless, humorless comedy, featuring bland, slow-paced, hokey, corn-fed themes, doesn't actually lull the listener into a lobotomized glaze characteristic of the entire region south of International Falls between the Mississippi and the Rockies, it manages to infuriate for
its sheer maddening unfunniness. Keillor and his crew of edgeless, hee-yuking goobers are the flat beer, Muzak, and unsalted chips of an outmoded radio world best left to nostalgic misremembrance or (better yet) glass-eyed senility.
Spare me this tripe. I'm not dead yet.
— Critical Miami
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Q: Who were the first people ever to eat pie?
A: Pioneers.
This joke was sent in by Aidan W., Williamstown, MA. Thanks Aidan!
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A Persistent Question
(01/08/2009)
I'm in the cab of our truck, basking here in the bright golden tiara of its own clearance lights. It's nighttime a half block east of Times Square and we are surrounded by truck fans in their colorful all-black New York holiday outfits...
Paris is a Fine Place to Wait Out the Big Belch
(12/23/2008)
Minnesotans are a humorous people and we are attempting to elect a comedian to the U.S. Senate, which is delicate work, as you might guess...
It all happened so fast, and now it's over
(01/05/2009)
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. Spent a good part of the day with the kids putting away the rest of the Christmas decorations...
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This independent feature-length documentary film by Peter Rosen goes behind the scenes at A Prairie Home Companion, and inside the imagination of the man who
created it.
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