Please Laugh Now
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's a joke show compilation with the now legendary "Buzz Off" competition between our sound- effects men Tom Keith and Fred Newman, Andy Stein's latest "Knock-Knock" song, and a slew of blonde jokes, lawyer jokes, Unitarian jokes, puns, groaners and one really good parrot joke (no penguins this time). Southern-fried humorist Roy Blount Jr. takes a break from that NPR show to chime in with a few jokes, Guy Noir tries to find love through a dating service, and Dusty lets the bad jokes fly — that is until Spike and Big Messer show up. Of course the rest of the gang is here too — The Royal Academy of Radio Actors to help keep the laughs coming; and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band to keep the toes tappin'. And if you want to know what happened when the chicken slept under the car, you'll just have to tune in...
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Segment 1
- 00:00:00 - Logo
- 00:00:11 - Tishomingo Blues
- 00:00:54 - GK Intro
- 00:02:46 - "Sound of Chickens" - GK and Pat Donohue
- 00:06:25 - Jokes Segment 1
- 00:13:50 - GK intros Pat Donohue
- 00:14:08 - "Blues When I Exercise" - Pat Donohue
- 00:17:22 - Jokes Segment 2
- 00:20:22 - "Railroad Bill/ Jokes" - GK and Pat Donohue
- 00:22:53 - Date script
- 00:25:36 - "Crawdad Song" - The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
- 00:27:36 - Winter script
- 00:34:58 - Powdermilk Biscuit Break
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Segment 2
- 00:36:13 - GK Intro Bad Jokes
- 00:36:32 - "Bad Jokes" - GK and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
- 00:40:20 - Lives of the Cowboys script
- 00:51:23 - Jokes Segment 3
- 00:58:33 - GK Intermission/"Stone's Rag" - The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
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Segment 3
- 01:02:54 - GK Welcome Back
- 01:03:29 - Guy Noir script
- 01:21:06 - GK Intro Knock-Knock Song
- 01:21:26 - "Knock, Knock" - Andy Stein and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
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Segment 4
- 01:25:00 - The News from Lake Wobegon
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Segment 5 - 01:35:23 - "Ain't No Joke" - Pat Donohue
- 01:38:39 - Rhubarb script
- 01:43:15 - Buzz Off script (SFX)
- 01:55:18 - "Bright Side" - Pat Donohue and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
- 01:58:33 - Credits
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Lovingly selected from the earliest archives of A Prairie Home Companion, this heirloom collection represents the music from earliest years of the now legendary show: 1974–1976. With songs and tunes from jazz pianist Butch Thompson, mandolin maestro Peter Ostroushko, Dakota Dave Hull and the first house band, The Powdermilk Biscuit Band (Adam Granger, Bob Douglas and Mary DuShane).
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