A Prairie Home Companion for February 3, 2007 from American Public Media

February 3, 2007
"Humor is the ability or quality of people, objects, or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses a form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy." - Wikipedia

Producing an eighth Joke Show is a lofty goal, our interns have lost weight (and some hair) over the last few weeks, but they actually found some funny jokes we haven't used in the past, so here goes nothing. This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's jokes, jokes, and more jokes. Jokes read by professional radio actors, willing to sacrifice their dignity for the greater good of giggling, guffawing, and groaning. The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band will be joined by Dan Newton and Andy Stein, with a new batch of humorous songs, plus we'll have a surprise lineup of comic re-enforcements to help deliver the massive payload of punchlines. If you're someone who is easily offended by PG-13 humor, please don't send us complaints, just tune into the "Murder, She Wrote" marathon on the Biography channel instead.

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Segment 1

00:00:00 Logo

00:00:13 GK opens, talks about the cold, actors tell jokes, Tishomingo Blues

00:03:22 GK opens the show, website announcement, talks about the art of the joke, tells Jewish Mother joke, laxative salesman joke, opening favorite jokes

00:10:28 "Bad Jokes" - GK/Shoes

Segment 2

00:14:30 More jokes

00:21:17 "Railroad Bill"/"Jokes" - Pat Donohue and GK

00:23:43 Date script

00:26:27 "Crawdad Song" - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band

00:28:22 Winter script

00:35:46 Powdermilk Biscuit Break

00:37:09 Knock Knock jokes/"Knock Knock" - Andy Stein and Shoe Band

Segment 3

00:41:01 News From Lake Wobegon

00:58:20 "No Laughing Matter" - Pat Donohue and Gary Raynor

01:00:29 Intermission/"Stone's Rag"

Segment 4

01:04:30 Welcome Back to the 2nd half/Greetings and jokes

01:08:40 GK talks about Molly Ivins

01:09:00 "Miss Molly" - Andy Stein and Shoe Band

01:11:14 GK reads more audience jokes

01:13:43 More jokes

01:18:24 Lightbulb jokes

01:19:34 Unitarian jokes, religion jokes

01:25:38 More jokes

Segment 5

01:28:25 Guy Noir script

01:46:18 "Jokomo Rag" - Shoe Band

01:49:17 More jokes from listeners

01:52:22 Catchup script

01:55:22 Credits, more listener jokes, close

Photos from the show
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"I hear that old piano…" GK opens the show		Is it true that an alligator won't attack you if you carry a flashlight?


Rich working so intently, he forgets it's the Joke Show		A listener submitted joke brings a smile to Mr. Keillor's face


Ke-Nock, Ke-Nock… Andy Stein brings us the ever popular knock knock joke		Arnie breaks out the wash board