A compilation of hilarious outtakes from the recording sessions of Dead Air. Follow Thom Savino on Twitter @tjsavino. Read more on Thom’s blog Topical Tweets & Titillations. Follow Frank Cotolo on Twitter @FrankCotolo. Read more on Frank’s blog Cotolo Chronicles.
Frank complains to Thom who’s decided not to speak, but, instead, open the show telepathically. On the subject, Short Don Rebel interviews Yuri Melbert psychogenesis expert whose psychic skills can’t decipher different meanings of homonyms causing it to “rain” in the studio when it was “reign” he was looking for. The Friendly Mailman delivers Thom’s […]
Thom wins the Nifty Shoe contest and the Friendly Mailman delivers a “parcel” of six-hundred pairs of size 6 shoes. On this week’s Wasteland Playhouse Lieutenant Rodumbo solves “The Rock Star Murders,” followed by Mel & Collie Babie’s Collie Baby solving a “crime” that isn’t in “Strange Footprints.” As if Thom’s shoe delivery weren’t enough […]
Rodumbo, “the everyday, ordinary police lieutenant with a special sense for solving crimes” here in serial form featuring nine short episodes. Rodumbo “Wealthy Oil Man’s Assistant” (serial) This episode of Dead Air is a compilation of nine (9) quick Rodumbo segments each advancing the plot line the one before it: “The Wealthy Oil Man’s Assistant.” […]
On the drive enroute to the Casino Loot Studios, Thom & Frank realize they’ll never make the start of tonight’s show. Accepting their inevitable tardiness, they turn on the car radio only to discover that they are two clowns replaced by two clones. But, the joke’s on you, the listener. The episode features Mel & […]
After a hard day recording radio comedy, Thom and Frank stop into their favorite watering hole, Joe’s Bar, to unwind, where Frank takes the heat of ridicule when ordering a Sloe Gin Fizz. Joe, aware it’s Dead Air’s broadcast time, turns on the radio for all to enjoy. The duo’s wish to get away from […]
Dusty the Cameraman’s 400 watt bulbs cause Frank’s make up to melt, as Thom cues in Short Don Rebel who interviews Fredrick Carltons author of Vitamins from A to Z, and then projects his own hypochondria onto Frank when Cotolo admits to feeling a bit tired; Thom sends for Dracula-like Dr. Quick (a quack) who […]
As Dusty the Cameraman applies pancake makeup to Frank & Thom, a man and his horse enters the studio answering a classified ad Thom published for a blacksmith sketch which turns out to be this week’s episode of Wasteland Playhouse: “Rodumbo” ‘The Racetrack Blacksmith Murderer.’ Then, when Dead Air’s next-door neighbor, Miss Pugnose, enters to […]
Future During an archeological dig together, Professor Goldwhipple and fellow colleague Dr. Josephson discover a “wheel-to-wheel” magnetic tape, which, as their luck would have it, contains one complete episode of the zany 1970’s radio show Dead Air which, as our luck would have it, happens to be this very episode. During the archeologist’s playback of […]
LIVE at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time, Nov. 17, our host and his former partner, Thom Savino, re-introduce their ground-breaking comedy series from the ‘70s—DEAD AIR. With modern technology and Savino at the helm, most of the recordings from the series have been digitally restored and are available to collectors, historians and the homeless free, one […]
