Firesign Theatre’s David Ossman (as George Tirebiter), comedy legend Shelley Berman, and former SNL comedian Senator Al Franken join the cast of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour for another six misadventures of Sgt. Lefty, Ellis da Boatkeeper, Adam Maxwell, Andy, and Woody (all voiced by Joe Bev); Olive Pitts, Ellis, Mrs. Terwilliger, and Lkie (all voiced by Lorie Kellogg); Ron Drysdale and Jimmy (both voiced by James Folly); and Stinky Peter Moss (voiced by Kenny Savoy), as well as the rest of the cabal of crazy Camp Waterlogg characters.
Included in this set:
“Camp Waterlogg Homeland Security Needs to Go-Go-Go!”“A Happy Camp Waterlogg Father’s Day from Uncle Goopie”“A Camp Waterlogg July 4th Fundraiser”“Camp Waterlogg: Firesign Gets Waterlogged”“The Camp Waterlogg Election Special”“Camp Waterlogg: Shelley Revisited, Part 1”The Comedy-O-Rama Hour is story- and character-driven improvisation that goes beyond sketch comedy to blossom into full-fledged radio theater. Recorded in and around husband-and-wife creative team Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg’s Napanoch, New York, house in the woods, the series first aired on XM Radio in 2002. More than 120 shows and thirteen years later, the series is heard weekly on public radio stations nationwide, streamed on the web at bearmanormedia.com, and podcast anytime all over the Internet, including on Waterlogg.com.
Joe Bev says, “We have been doing most these characters for more than twelve years now and some I have been voicing for more than forty years. We no longer have to write what we want to say. The Comedy-O-Rama Hour has also evolved from a scripted to a fully improvised hour of radio theater.”
Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev, is a public radio producer and radio theater dramatist. However, his career has taken him into every aspect of show business, including stage, film, and television as a producer, director, writer, author, actor, journalist, documentarian, and even cartoonist. He is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City.
Lorie Kellogg is a busy graphic and voice-over artist as well as a skilled improv comedian. She studied painting, printmaking, and video and film at the Kansas City Art Institute and the California Institute of the Arts.
Donnie Pitchford is an artist, a fan of Old Time Radio, and cofounder of the National Lum and Abner Society.
David Ossman, narrator, writer, producer, and character actor, is a founding member of the legendary comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre, which has celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Funny, prophetic, and groundbreaking Firesign has had an incalculable influence on generations of comics and sound artists. Their album Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers has been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. With his wife and partner, Judith Walcutt, he continues to create audio magic through their production company Otherworld Media.
Al Franken is the author of several #1 New York Times bestsellers and is a two-time spoken word Grammy Award winner. He graduated from Harvard College, and before running for office, spent thirty-seven years as a comedy writer, author, and radio talk-show host. He rose to prominence as one of the original Saturday Night Live writers in the 1970s and won five Emmy Awards for his work on SNL. He has taken part in seven USO tours, visiting our troops overseas in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait. He was first elected to the United States Senate in 2008 and re-elected in 2014.
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