Show #1470

November 1, 2014

Three Priests, Two Penguins, and One Chicken — Joke Show!

Pantages Theatre

Minneapolis, MN

This week, our vaunted Joke Show returns! Tune in for a live broadcast from the Pantages Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with special guests, Scottish music institution Battlefield Band and hot jazz preservationist Vince Giordano. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman; musical director Rich Dworsky and The November Boys Orchestra (Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, guitarist Dean Magraw, JT Bates on drums, Kenni Holmen on saxophone, and bassist Larry Kohut); and the latest News from Lake Wobegon. Have a few great, classic jokes? Send them our way and they just might make it onto the show!

Listen to past Joke Shows:

January 22, 2011 — St. Paul, MN
March 8, 2008 — St. Paul, MN
February 3, 2007 — St. Paul, MN
November 6, 2004 (requires RealPlayer) — Bonus Show
April 17, 2004 (requires RealPlayer) — St. Paul, MN
February 1, 2003 (requires RealPlayer) — St. Paul, MN
April 6, 2002 (requires RealPlayer) — New York, NY
April 1, 2000 (requires RealPlayer) — New York, NY
April 10, 1999 (requires RealPlayer) — St. Paul, MN
April 18, 1998 (requires RealPlayer) — New York, NY
April 5, 1997 (requires RealPlayer) — St. Paul, MN
April 27, 1996 (requires RealPlayer) — St. Paul, MN

Audio from the show

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Audio Highlights: "Everybody Eats When They Come to My House" — Vince Giordano | "Starbucks" | "Lovers and Friends" — Battlefield Band

Garrison Keillor’s monologue, The News from Lake Wobegon, is available for download and as a podcast.

Music Information

Performers, Show Rundown, Music Information & Credits

Videos from the show

"Everybody Eats When They Come to My House" — Vince Giordano

Frankenstein

Jokes Segment #2

"Yakety Yak"

"Bad Jokes"

Guy Noir

Jokes Segment #3

"Starbucks"

The Lives of the Cowboys

"Knock, Knock"

Jokes Segment #4

"Lovers and Friends" — Battlefield Band

Jokes Segment #5

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Photos from the show

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Scripts

Guest Information

Battlefield Band

“Forward with Scotland’s Past” — that’s the motto of The Battlefield Band, and they’ve spent more than four decades living up to it. Since a quartet of student friends started the group (naming it after the Glasgow suburb of Battlefield), the band has taken their innovative blend of traditional Scottish and modern music to venues the world over. Their latest CD is titled Room Enough for All (Temple Records). The current line-up features Mike Katz (pipes, whistles); Sean O’Donnell (guitar); Alasdair White (fiddle); and Michael Vass (fiddle).

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Vince Giordano grew up on Long Island playing vintage 78s on his grandmother’s Victrola. Maybe that’s what fueled his passion for music of the 1920s and ’30s. By age 14, he had joined the musicians’ union. Later, with Vince on string bass and bass sax, he put together his own band, the Nighthawks, now longtime favorites on the New York jazz scene.

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Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor was born in Anoka, graduated from the University of  Minnesota (’66), and lives in St. Paul. He is the author of numerous books,   including Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance; O, What A Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound (Grove Press); and The Keillor Reader (Viking). He is also the editor of the Good Poems anthologies.

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The November Boys Orchestra — November 1, 2014

Richard Dworsky
Keyboardist, composer, and arranger Richard Dworsky is APHC’s music director. He leads the band, composes themes, improvises script underscores, and collaborates with such diverse guests as Yo-Yo Ma, James Taylor, Brad Paisley, Kristin Chenoweth, and Sheryl Crow. He has released many recordings of original material and has provided music for documentaries on HBO and PBS.

JT Bates
JT Bates started playing drums when he was seven. By the time he was 15, he was sitting in with his dad’s big band. Since then, he has backed up countless musicians, as well as working with a number of Twin Cities-based bands, including Fat Kid Wednesdays and Poor Line Condition.

Kenni Holmen
Saxophonist Kenni Holmen is a member of the Hornheads, a Twin Cities horn ensemble, and he’s one of the area’s most active recording and touring musicians. He has performed or recorded with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Glen Miller Orchestra, Gladys Knight, and the Reverend Billy Graham, to name a few.

Larry Kohut
Bassist Larry Kohut has played on dozens of albums and many film scores, as well as performing with jazz artists such as Patricia Barber, Mel Tormé, Vincent Colaiuta, and Tony Bennett. In addition, he is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches acoustic and electric bass.

Richard Kriehn
When Richard Kriehn turned 10, his mom bought him a mandolin; at 19, he’d won the Buck White International Mandolin Contest. He went on to play with the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble and bluegrass group 1946. On the classical side, he has performed with numerous orchestras and was principal second violin for the Washington/Idaho Symphony.

Dean Magraw
Guitarist Dean Magraw studied at the University of Minnesota and the Berklee School of Music in Boston. His first recording, 1994’s Broken Silence, won the NAIRD award for Best Acoustic Instrumental Album of the Year. Dean has since turned out an array of dazzling albums. For his latest, he joined forces with drummer Erik Kamau Gravatt to produce Fire on the Nile (Red House Records).

One minute he’s mild-mannered Tim Russell; the next he’s George Bush or Julia Child or Barack Obama. We’ve yet to stump this man of many voices. Says fellow APHC actor Sue Scott, “He does a better Ira Glass than Ira Glass.” A well-known Twin Cities radio personality and voice actor, Tim appeared in the Robert Altman film A Prairie Home Companion and the Coen brothers’ A Serious Man.

Tim has also been reviewing films professionally for over 10 years.

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On APHC, Sue Scott plays everything from ditzy teenagers to Guy Noir stunners to leathery crones who’ve smoked one pack of Camel straights too many. The Tucson, Arizona, native is well known for her extensive commercial and voice-over work on radio and television, as well as stage and movie roles, including the part of “Donna” in Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion.

Sound effects man Fred Newman is an actor, writer, musician, and sound designer for film and TV. Turns out, no one is more surprised than Fred that he’s made a career out of doing what he used to do behind the teacher’s back —crossing his eyes, making sounds, and doing voices. He readily admits that, growing up, he was unceremoniously removed from several classrooms, “once by my bottom lip.”

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