Hadleigh, Boze

Summary: "Game and quiz shows first started appearing on radio broadcasts in the 1930s, led by the CBS network's Professor Quiz, hosted by a man who was neither a professor nor even a college graduate, the first of several frauds that seemed to be endemic to the genre. Professor Quiz was followed by other such game shows as Uncle Jim's Question Bee and Ask It Basket, which in turn spawned successful box...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 HAD

Contents: The Jack Benny program / w Mel Blanc (1953) -- The Burns & Allen show / w George Burns, Gracie Allen, Frank Sinatra (1946) -- The Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy show / w Edgar Bergen, Humphrey Bogart (1943).

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Radio Spirits, Inc. 1994

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN OLD

Keillor, Garrison.

Contents: Giant decoys (6:08) -- Darryl Tollerrud's long day (9:35) -- Hog slaughter (13:42) -- Thanksgiving (10:28) -- The royal family (20:15).

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge/Minnesota Public Radio 1983

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KEI

Lackmann, Ronald W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Facts On File 2000

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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 791.4475 LAC

Lackmann, Ronald W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4475 LAC

Daley, Brian.

Summary: Ten episodes building on the original story as seen in the film The empire strikes back.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2013

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAL

Summary: "This extended session of Laughter Therapy explores the history of all things funny, presenting a cornucopia of comedy from the pioneers of vaudeville and the silent film era, to the wildly creative innovators that transformed television in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, to the modern practitioners that continue to bend the boundaries of comedy today. Chronically serious? Prepare to be cured by...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 817 EIS

Keillor, Garrison.

Summary: A tasty smorgasbord of sketches, stories, comedy, music, and more from America's favorite radio show, A Prairie Home Companion.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge/Penguin Audio 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KEI

Contents: We talk about cars / (Ric Seaberg) -- Me and my automobile / (Jack Williams) -- If she wasn't on blocks / (The New Duncan Imperials) -- Light blue Saturn / (Ben Frey) -- 1000 dollar car / (The Bottle Rockets) -- Who taught these idiots to drive? / (Arnold & Gretz) -- S.U.V. / (Mem Shannon) -- Auto mechanically declined / (Joe Jencks) -- Ranchero / (Adam Kay) -- Unfit to drive / (The Auto Body...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Company 2004

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CAR

Contents: Disc 1: Barack Obama -- Terry Gross -- Major Robert Bateman -- Lee Smith -- Harold Ramis -- Penn Jillette. Disc 2: Janeane Garofalo -- Brian Williams -- Ken Jennings -- Sarah Silverman -- Tom Hanks -- Tom & Ray Magliozzi.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2007

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN WAI

Daley, Brian.

Summary: Six episodes of Return of the Jedi building on the original story as seen in the film, using the motion picture score and sound effects.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 1996

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Daley, Brian.

Contents: A wind to shake the stars (27:16) -- Points of origin (27:40) -- Black knight, white princess and pawns (28:02) -- While giants mark time (27:42) -- Jedi that was, Jedi to be (27:28) -- The millennium falcon deal (26:32) -- The Han Solo solution (25:26) -- Death star's transit (28:30) -- Rogues, rebels and robots (27:52) -- The Luke Skywalker initiative (25:08) -- The Jedi nexus (26:58) -- The...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 1993

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Summary: As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRA

McPartland, Marian.

Contents: Waltz for Debbie / Bill Evans (Evans solo) (1:33) -- Conversation (2:55) -- All of you / Cole Porter (Evans solo) (2:18) -- Conversation (:18) -- All of you / Cole Porter (duet) (:40) -- Conversation (4:14) -- In your own sweet way / Dave Brubeck (duet) (5:02) -- Conversation/demonstration: The touch of your lips / Ray Noble (Evans solo) (5:40) -- The touch of your lips / Ray Noble (duet)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Jazz Alliance 2002

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MCP

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Jass Records 1991

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN BEH

Summary: Penn and Teller debunk a number of dubious enterprises, including PETA, the war on drugs, the myth of monogamy, twelve-step programs, the FCC's crusade against profanity, the New Age movement, the anti-aging industry, recycling, Biblical claims, the exercise industry, and hypnosis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PEN

Payne, M. D. (Matthew D.)

Summary: "Your favorite characters are now part of the Who HQ library! Nothing mysterious about it! Learn all about how Scooby and his friends took over Saturday mornings--and then the world--in this debut title in the What Is the Story Of? series. Most kids are familiar with the always-hungry, scaredy-cat Great Dane called Scooby-Doo and his true-blue friends of Mystery Inc. But how did Scooby and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 791.45 PAY

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 791.45 PAY