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This Week's Show // January 2, 2010

The Best of Two Thousand Nine

  • Brad Paisley
    Brad Paisley
  • Patty Loveless
    Patty Loveless
  • Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello
  • Martin Sheen
    Martin Sheen
  • Sam Bush
    Sam Bush
  • Nellie McKay
    Nellie McKay
  • Robin and Linda Williams
    Robin and Linda Williams

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we present some highlights from our 2009 season including Pat Donohue, Brad Paisley and Sam Bush performing "Stealin' From Chet" at the Ryman Auditorium, Elvis Costello as an English author and stuttering son of the Earl of Twickerham in an epsiode of Guy Noir, and Martin Sheen as a flim- flamming, four flushing, shortchanging, deckstackin' yahoo in an episode of The Lives of the Cowboys. Plus, Marvin and Mavis Smiley's tribute to Bruce Springsteen, Nellie McKay's tribute to Doris Day, and Patty Loveless sings "The Bramble and the Rose." In Lake Wobegon, the story of Margie Krepsbach checking herself into a hotel for Mother's Day to watch movies.

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Garrison Keillor Post to the Host

Host Garrison Keillor gives advice on topics from English Major gaffes to affairs of the heart.

A Natural Step

GK,
Do you not feel a film about Lake Wobegon characters would detract from the pictures we as listeners hold for them in our imaginations? Mr. Altman's film worked well as a visualization of your radio personas, but I cannot imagine any actor giving the Lake Wobegon characters so true a portrayal.

Burton G.
Marietta, GA

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I'd love to see Lake Wobegon portrayed in a movie. I am curious to know what they look like and what they talk about. Fiction is a bold venture into the dark and this seems to me to be a natural step. But I intend to write the screenplay. 

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The circus comes to a small town and needs local acts. The Ringmaster sets up an audition at the big top. Guy walks in and the ringmaster says, "OK, whats ya got?"

The guy starts flapping his arms up and down real fast and up he goes — flies right to the top of the big top, he does loops and circles and buzzes the ringmaster. He lands at the ringmaster's feet and says "TAA-DA!"

The ringmaster says impatiently, "Thats it?!? Bird imitations?"

This joke was sent in by Dennis W., of Coshocton, OH. Thanks Dennis!

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