A Prairie Home Companion for March 08, 2008 from American Public Media

A Basset Hound

March 08, 2008

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, our staff has been scraping the bottom of the joke barrel once again and coming up with a lot of painful splinters for Saturday’s Joke Show, so we’re asking our listeners to dig deep and send us some worthy new candidates. We don't do cute on the Joke Show. We don't do stand-up, as such. We don't do long-winded story jokes. We do classic jokes. Clean, but just barely. So send in your best stuff right now, today, and there may be some free stuff for you if we use your jokes on the air. Just remember, if we come up short, we may have to go with the nuclear option, where Garrison sings two hours of long-forgotten vaudeville classics, accompanied only by a harmonica and an old basset hound. It’s up to you.

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Segment 1

00:00 Logo

00:12 "Tishomingo Blues"

02:54 GK opens, call for jokes

04:08 "Sound of Chickens" - GK/ Pat

08:05 GK and Roy Blount tell jokes, "Hell's Kitchen" playoff

12:48 Daylight script, "Louie Louie" playoff

19:04 Cowboys script

30:16 Powdermilk Biscuit Theme

Segment 2

31:40 More jokes

32:22 "Blues When I Exercise" - Pat Donohue/ GASB

35:56 More Jokes, "Johnny B. Goode" playoff

40:26 Pat Donohue tells a joke, GK intros Rich Dworsky

41:25 "Otra Madrugada" - Richard Dworsky

44:42 GK talks about March, daylight savings time

45:33 Ketchup script

48:30 More jokes

49:07 Guy Noir script

59:20 Hibernation script, "Wipe Out" playoff

1:02:41 intermission ("Miss Annabelle Lee")

Segment 3

1:06:08 listener jokes, greetings

1:10:39 "Knock Knock, Who's There?" - Andy Stein and Shoes

1:14:29 More jokes, "I Saw Her Standing There" playoff

Segment 4

1:19:25 The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3)

Segment 5

1:29:58 "Ain't No Joke" - Pat Donohue and band

1:33:15 More Jokes, Roy Blount

1:39:45 Rhubarb script

1:44:23 More jokes

1:45:19 SFX (Fred vs. Tom) script

1:55:55 last jokes, credits

1:57:30 Bad Jokes, "Down Yonder"

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Roy Blount Jr.		Rich Dworsky provides a mellow moment in the joke show with the song, "Otra Madrugada."


Tim Russell and Sue Scott read this week's message from the Catchup Advisory Board..		"Ain't No Joke" performed by Pat Donohue.


Andy Stein plays the baritone saxophone.		Tom Keith and Fred Newman collaborate on this weeks "SFX" script.