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unusual facts about radio comedy


Radio comedy

The majority of mainstream radio comedy now consists of personality-driven shows hosted by talk-radio hosts such as Howard Stern or comedic duos such as Armstrong & Getty and Bob & Tom.


Palace of Laughter

Palace of Laughter was a radio comedy aired by the BBC on Radio 4 from 2002 to 2003.

S. S. Van Dine

On April 11, 1939, at the age of fifty-one, Wright died in New York of a heart condition exacerbated by excessive drinking, a year after the publication of an unpopular experimental novel that incorporated one of the biggest stars in radio comedy, The Gracie Allen Murder Case, and leaving a complete novelette-length story that was intended as a film vehicle for Sonja Henie and was published posthumously as The Winter Murder Case.


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AudioGO

AudioGo's catalogue from the BBC included popular radio dramatisations such as Doctor Who, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as radio comedy including I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and Just a Minute.

Azusa Civic Center

A popular running gag on the long-running radio comedy The Jack Benny Program involved a train caller, voiced by Mel Blanc, calling out, "Train leaving on Track Five for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga." The gag, which also continued on Jack Benny's television program, brought national attention to the three cities.

Greg Ritchie

He played a comedy character, a supposed Punjabi Sikh with a full beard and turban called Mahatma Cote on Channel Nine's The Footy Show as well as other sports radio comedy chat segments.

Jackie Kelk

He played Jimmy Olsen from 1940-1947 on the radio show The Adventures of Superman and Homer, best friend of Henry Aldrich on the teenage radio comedy THE ALDRICH FAMILY.

James Moriarty

Count Jim Moriarty, fictional character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy The Goon Show

John Bluthal

He previously worked with Milligan in the radio comedy series The Idiot Weekly and The Omar Khayyam Show.

Lowbrow

Danger: Low Brow, a radio comedy show from Melbourne aired from 1985 to 1991

Six Charlies in Search of an Author

Six Charlies in Search of An Author is an episode of the classic radio comedy, The Goon Show.

TTFN

"Ta-ta for now" was brought into popular use in the UK in 1940 in the weekly radio comedy It's That Man Again by the character Mrs Mopp, who ended every scene with it.

Twice a Fortnight

As in the case of the radio comedy programme I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, and the television comedy programmes At Last the 1948 Show, Do Not Adjust Your Set and Broaden Your Mind, Twice a Fortnight was an excellent training ground, in both writing and acting, for the future stars of both Monty Python and The Goodies, as well as for the future co-writer of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

Ulladulla, New South Wales

Performed by journalist Paul Murphy, it was a regular segment for several years in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the weekly radio comedy This Sporting Life and the scripts were later published in book form by the ABC