Live on Oct. 1 at 9 p.m. EDT, we engage everyone to look beyond the story, whatever the story. As the primary example we study the common joke. Everyone has told a joke sometime. They are mostly amusing and even when they aren’t very funny they have their own beginnings, middles and ends. But do […]
While political movements include equal pay for women, there could never be legislation guaranteeing equal laughs for women comedians. On our Oct. 2 show, meet Alonna Breisch, who dares stand up before both sexes of all ages to make them laugh and think. She calls herself “strange and unusual,” just like our host (and co-host […]
It’s time for another Savino-Cotolo show, featuring the former team of Thom and Frank. This month the boys talk about jokes, something that has riddled their past, so to speak. The authors of Humorettes and Topical Paradise, two of radio’s more popular joke sheets of the ‘70s, discuss the mechanics of a joke, which could […]
