My secret addiction (humor)...

[Dien Rice]

I have a secret addiction... I didn't realize it until a few months ago...

I was addicted to the comedy sketches on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion"!

A few months ago they took the archives off the net... and now they're back...

I can indulge in my addiction once more!

Here's one of my favorite sketches (that I was feeling deprived of)...!

(Probably because of my Midwestern roots... This reminds me of members of my family...! The lady in the sketch... not the guy...!)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSeiDPZ1jNA

Best wishes!

Dien

Archives - https://www.prairiehome.org

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

I have a secret addiction... I didn't realize it until a few months ago...

I was addicted to the comedy sketches on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion"!

A few months ago they took the archives off the net... and now they're back...

I can indulge in my addiction once more!

Here's one of my favorite sketches (that I was feeling deprived of)...!

(Probably because of my Midwestern roots... This reminds me of members of my family...! The lady in the sketch... not the guy...!)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSeiDPZ1jNA

Best wishes!

Dien

Archives - https://www.prairiehome.org

Thanks Dien, love this sketch. What great writing, eh?
GordonJ

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by GordonJ

Thanks Dien, love this sketch. What great writing, eh?

Hi Gordon,

I agree!

I think one reason I like the old PHC sketches (when Garrison Keillor wrote them) was because they're a kind of Midwestern humor...

Much of the humor we're exposed to seems to come out of New York City or Hollywood... Which culturally is much more brash and self-promoting. Midwestern culture seems more self-effacing, down-to-earth, practical, and even stoic...

While I never lived in the Midwest, my family is originally from there (from Coldwater, in rural Michigan), and I certainly inherited some Midwestern traits in my own personality... Actually, I just realized, my wife and I are a little bit like a gender-reversed version of that sketch! She's very impulsive (I think that's one thing which attracted me to her), and while I do take risks, they are always very calculated risks...

Best wishes!

Dien