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Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts) Sat Mar 1, 2014, 07:22 PM Mar 2014

Looking for some fun entertainment? Prairie Home has Lily Tomlin & Martin Sheen on their show today.

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, our final winter rebroadcast, a blast of warmth originally from June 2013 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Colin Hay sings "Send Somebody," Lily Tomlin and Martin Sheen join us for a few scripts, Paula Poundstone ponders life in L.A., and Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele ask "Are You Ready for a Miracle?" In Lake Wobegon, high school graduation brings to mind tales of senior pranks from years past.

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Looking for some fun entertainment? Prairie Home has Lily Tomlin & Martin Sheen on their show today. (Original Post) Elwood P Dowd Mar 2014 OP

And then we could watch Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk on Youtube TransitJohn Mar 2014 #1

you consider Prairie Home Companion equavalent to Hee Haw and Welk? grasswire Mar 2014 #2

Guy Noir and Lake Wobegon? Oh yeah. TransitJohn Mar 2014 #5

I guess Keillor is too subtle for you. grasswire Mar 2014 #6

Not really. TransitJohn Mar 2014 #7

OK I get it. grasswire Mar 2014 #8

Everything I've said has gone right over your head. TransitJohn Mar 2014 #9

Thanks for posting this. Sounds like a really good show. senseandsensibility Mar 2014 #3

If you miss the show live on Saturdays you can catch the replay online. sueh Mar 2014 #4

There was a time back in the late 80s when I liked him a lot... CTyankee Mar 2014 #10

TransitJohn

(6,932 posts)

1. And then we could watch Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk on Youtube

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Original post)

Sat Mar 1, 2014, 07:26 PM

Mar 2014

no thanks

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

2. you consider Prairie Home Companion equavalent to Hee Haw and Welk?

Reply to TransitJohn (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 1, 2014, 07:32 PM

Mar 2014

Oh my. Really. Wow.

TransitJohn

(6,932 posts)

5. Guy Noir and Lake Wobegon? Oh yeah.

Reply to grasswire (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 02:50 PM

Mar 2014

Fucking powder milk biscuits...cornball old folks shit. Just my opinion, though. There's a million modern podcasts I'd rather listen to.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

6. I guess Keillor is too subtle for you.

Reply to TransitJohn (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 03:09 PM

Mar 2014

Alas. Your loss.

TransitJohn

(6,932 posts)

7. Not really.

Reply to grasswire (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 03:40 PM

Mar 2014

He's about as subtle as a ton of bricks. I just don't find him funny, nor his social commentary incisive at all. It's just cornball shit. Sometimes, when he's speaking from the heart, he's a decent orator, with a right-on liberal sensibility. His 'showbiz' affectations and characterizations are just awful. Most of the time it's dreck. Lefty and that cowboy shit? Being from and living most of my life in Wyoming, that's the worst stereotypical, unfunny shit ever. Like I said, it's just my own opinion, and I doubt he's too 'subtle' for me. I've got a decent head on my shoulders, and a pretty keen ear for our culture and popular entertainment. He just sounds like a voice from before the psychedelic revolution of '65 or so. Your mileage may vary.

Too subtle. Get out of here with that.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

8. OK I get it.

Reply to TransitJohn (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 03:48 PM

Mar 2014

He satirizes cowboys. That makes you mad. Well, he satirizes Lutherans and Minnesotans, too. It doesn't seem to make them mad.

TransitJohn

(6,932 posts)

9. Everything I've said has gone right over your head.

Reply to grasswire (Reply #8)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 03:53 PM

Mar 2014

And you accused me of not getting subtlety? Have a good one.

senseandsensibility

(17,118 posts)

3. Thanks for posting this. Sounds like a really good show.

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Original post)

Sat Mar 1, 2014, 08:43 PM

Mar 2014

Did Garrison Keiler (sp?) retire? I listen to it occasionally, and would like to listen to it more. It's really funny, and not remotely like the shows in the above post. Sorry for the rudeness here.

sueh

(1,826 posts)

4. If you miss the show live on Saturdays you can catch the replay online.

Reply to senseandsensibility (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 1, 2014, 09:03 PM

Mar 2014

Here's the link:
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/

They also have recent and many of the older shows in the archives. Hubby and I like to listen on late Sunday afternoon. It's a good way for us to wind down from the weekend.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

10. There was a time back in the late 80s when I liked him a lot...

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Original post)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 04:28 PM

Mar 2014

Now, for some reason, he grates on my nerves a bit. I don't think he's a bad guy at all. He seems very nice, actually. I guess I'm just not in that place any more. And I think some of it has gotten stale. I hear him on my public radio station occasionally and try to like him but I end up turning him off...

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