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April 17, 2004—The Annual Joke Show
It's the Annual Joke Show, the performance when we expose our live audience and radio listeners to near-toxic levels of pure, uncut jokes. We have help from comedian Paula Poundstone, and Vince Giordano plays his bass saxophone with Rich Dworsky and the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band.
Find some Pretty Good Jokes.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo (MPR) |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:02:21 | GK opens, talks about joke show |
| 00:03:32 | Control freak knock knock joke |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:04:00 | Joke segment 1, GK announces email joke submission |
| 00:13:43 | GK talks to Vince Giordano |
| 00:14:23 | "Hyena Stomp" - Vince Giordano and Shoe Band |
| 00:16:55 | GK and Paula Poundstone tell jokes |
| 00:26:34 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
| 00:28:55 | GK talks about Pat's national steel guitar |
| 00:29:24 | "Downtown Breakdown" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
| 00:31:56 | GK reads jokes from the email submissions |
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| Segment 3 |
| 00:32:50 | Joke Segment 2 |
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| Segment 4 |
| 00:38:47 | Catchup script |
| 00:41:36 | GK reads more jokes from email submissions |
| 00:43:33 | "Friendship" - GK and Paula Poundstone |
| 00:46:17 | Paula Poundstone stand-up segment |
| 00:57:18 | "Friendship reprise" - GK and Paula Poundstone |
| 00:57:57 | Intermission - "It's A Sin to Tell A Lie" |
| 01:01:55 | GK reads more email submission jokes |
| 01:03:33 | "While We're Young" - GK and band |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:05:12 | News From Lake Wobegon |
| 01:20:08 | "Long Time No See" - Pat Donohue and band |
| 01:22:49 | GK reads more jokes from email submissions |
| 01:24:00 | Greetings |
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| Segment 6 |
| 01:27:50 | Joke Segment 3 |
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| Segment 7 |
| 01:38:06 | Guy Noir script |
| 01:50:48 | Last minute jokes |
| 01:52:35 | GK tells Vince an Ole and Lena joke |
| 01:53:30 | Credits, another Ole and Lena joke |
| 01:56:53 | "Goodnight Ladies"/ "Hyena Stomp" closer |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Kelly Schaub)
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| Paula Poundstone | | Sue Scott and Tim Russell |
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| Bass Saxophonist Vince Giordano laughs during "Hyena Stomp" | |
Tim Russell tells some Bush jokes |
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Garrison Keillor |
On July 4th, help us celebrate the 35th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion and the Fourth of July with a free live nationally broadcast show from Avon, MN.
From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”
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Robin & Linda Williams are among the most popular guest performers of A Prairie Home Companion (they also appeared in the movie, have performed as part of the The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and made appearances as Marvin & Mavis Smiley). This CD features some of the duo's best harmonies from the show. Among the 12 tracks are familiar fan favorites, including "For Better or Worse", "Visions of Mother and Dad", "Tied Down, Home Free" and the title track. A collection that is muy bueno!
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