Prarie Home Companion: The Movie

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Or the radio show. Whatever. When I was 13 I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. Sometimes, now, when I'm incredibly high, I listen to it on the web.

― Remy IS THE Snush (x Jeremy), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Garrison Keillor
Lyle Lovett .... Lefty
Meryl Streep
Lily Tomlin
Tom Waits .... Dusty

― Remy IS THE Snush (x Jeremy), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been told I do a good Garrison Keillor impression. The key is to start out strong and high-pitched and then gradually work your way down to a low whisper. Then repeat, starting each new sentence as if you've just beeen suddenly roused from sleep.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I like PHC, but it falls outside of my hearing range, like a dog whistle. No matter loud I crank the radio is still sounds like faint murmuring and ghostly whispers.

― andy --, Monday, 17 January 2005 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

god i despise Garrison Keillor.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

TOM WAITS.

He and Garrison Keillor having a conversation would make the walls rumble. They'd have a bass-off.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Did someone somewhere tell Keillor that he can sing? Because he's convinced he can.

― andy --, Monday, 17 January 2005 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes Virginia, there is a Satan.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

People who hate Garrison Keillor are always funny in the same way. They get so exasperated. He's really pretty avoidable. Lefty hipsters especially can really get riled up by his cornpone act.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

But wait, you do know that Ira Glass has a movie deal and that the This American Life t.v. show will be airing on showtime in the near future, right?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll believe it (the TV show) when I see it, Scott. That's supposedly been in the works for like five years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

(Then again, I was at a taping last spring, and there was some cameraman milling about the studio.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

my mom loves this show.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Prairie Home Companion is actually one of my very earliest radio memories; I remember hearing it in the kitchen of a house we lived in before I was 6.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

We'll see if Pauline's "one on, one off" theory about Altman still holds up. If it does, this will suck.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been meaning to start a thread about the show for days now.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't listen to it that often, these days (far more frequently when I was a kid, though my parents eventually stopped listening), but like it a lot, at least in my limited exposure.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Thompson, frequent guest: classic.
The Ketchup Advisory Board: classic.
The sound effects guy: classic
The annual Joke Show: double-classic
Hataz: dud

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the opening and Powdermilk Biscuits and Lake Wobegon stories (especially the intro): classic

Richard Thompson, frequent guest:

really? I always seem to catch the Chieftains or Pete and Maura Kennedy.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard him once, and at least three occasions heard my NPR affiliate plug the show saying "This week, Garrison's guests include Richard Thompson blah blah" Maybe it was a really good show and they rerun it a lot.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

My brass band played a democratic charity thing that he was supposed to host. We started off playing polite traditionals in hopes of getting on the radio show, but he never showed (and the music got progressively louder).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel like I'm disappointed every time I listen. His show is sort of like Randy Newman for me, one of those things I know I'm supposed to appreciate, and think is sort of ok and has some wit and charm, but I just can't quite get into it.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds familiar. It took me years to acquire a taste for the show. Strangely, tho, I only listen when I'm driving. I kinda like the cards from the audience, the skits, Keillor's narratives, and most of the music.

Whoops! That's just about the whole christly show.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

oh c'mon, randy newman's much better.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Meh.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

he's actually funny, whereas Keillor is just wannabe funny.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

but hey, Jews. They got the funny thing down, man.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't have to tell me. You're talkin' to one.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, you don't mean to tell me that Garrison Keilor is Jewish? I sort of think of him as classic "goy" humor.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, reading comprehension, dude.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, huh? Oh, right.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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