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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