Today's Cancel Culture would blow a fuse trying to erase the careers of anyone involved in these 1970s sketches by the famed National Lampoon comedy troupe. Nat Lamp aired a syndicated weekly radio show in the 70s. Many of their most popular segments were later sold on albums. Here's one that would never see the light of day in this enlightened world. In the recording posted above, John Belushi interviews the very gay Charles Bronson (Christopher Guest), Clint Eastwood (Chevy Chase), and Lee Marvin (Steven Collins). Heads would explode in 2020 if comedians released this stinging mockery of LGBTQ people. But in the 1970s, being gay earned derision at the very least and violence at the very worst. In a separate sketch, Guest plays
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Grandma ruined Christmas at WHAS Radio
A 1986 Christmas season recording of WHAS Radio employees arguing over whether to play "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" Doug McElvein is now the morning personality on KMOX/St Louis. (air check submitted by Randall Hamm)
The Beasman is back on his payphone, savoring UofL’s scandals
THE BEASMAN rofl scandals 12/11/15 HEY LARRY! LARRY MINNER! WHAT KIND OF SCANDAL IS U OF SMELL DENYING TODAY? (laffs) “HEY DON’T WORRY ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO GIVE MONEY TO U OF SMELL….THE FBI INVESTERGATES ALL SCHOOLS…NOTHING TO SEE HERE…KEEP SENDING IN YOUR CHECKS.” YOU BUNCH OF SAGGY PANTS, RAP MUSIC, IDIOT U OF SMELL FANS IS REAPING WHAT YOU SOW WHEN YOU HIRE SCALAWAGS LIKE SLICK RICK, TOMMY TURTLENECK, AND BOBBY PETRINO. THEY IS PAYIN THEIRSELFS MILLIONS WITH YOUR DONATIONS AND THEN HIRING CRIMINALS FOR STEALING MORE MONEY OR BUYING PROSTERTUTES OR HAVING AFFAIRS WITH SOME SKANK. U OF SMELL IS A SOAP OPRY, CALL IT “ALL MY SCANDALS,” AND Y’ALL COULD
The Beasman’s holiday season means ho, ho, ho
THE BEASMAN u of smell plunge HOW'S EVERTHANG IN SIN CITY, BALDY? IS Y'ALL SPRAYIN FOR A HERPES OUTBREAK? IT DON'T MATTER THAT THE F.F.A. LEFT TOWN. ALL YOUR HOTEL ROOMS IS FILLED WITH NC2A INVESTIGATORS OR HOOKERS HELPIN Y'ALL RECRUIT. HEY LARRY, BEFORE YOU START FLAPPING YOUR BALD HEAD, SLICK RICK BUTTKISSIN MOUTH ABOUT HOW TENNERSEE WHOOPED U UH KAY IN FOOTBAW, JUST MEMBER THAT BOBBY THE FORNICATOR’S U OF SMELL TEAM IS DONE. STICK A FARK IN YOU. U OF SMELL GOIN DOWN TO SYRAMACUSE & PITTSNOGGLE & VIRGINNY, AND THEN YOU GONNA LOSE BIG TO U UH KAY FOR THANKSGIVIN. Y’ALL CARDINALS FLOPPED AROUND LIKE A FISH ON A SIDEWALK
Perfection Rejection – Kentucky loses
You'd better stay away from this guy for a few weeks. The vaunted Kentucky Wildcats basketball team lost to Wisconsin, ending a streak of 38 straight wins on a path to what seemed to be perfection. RADIO SCRIPTS FOR MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2015 THE BEASMAN #1 buy all the tickets WHY, GOD, WHY? (sniffing and crying) I AINT GOT OUTTA BED YET CUZ MY HEART DONE BEEN BROKE WHEN THE PATH TO PERFECTION WENT OVER A CLIFF. (cry) THEY TELL ME EASTER SUNDEE CHURCH SERVICES ACROSS KENTUCKY WAS LIKE A GHOST TOWN. NO CAT FANS NOWHERE. WE’S ALL SICK TO OUR BONES WITH ANOTHER FINAL FOUR MELTDOWN. I WAS BUXPECTIN TO CALL UP HERE TODAY AND MAKE FUN OF YOU
One and Dunce
One of the most downloaded 84WHAS Radio podcasts are my conversations with University of Kentucky fanatic The Beasman. These sketches air two times weekly, usually at 5:45 p.m. but occasionally earlier in the 4 p.m. hour. RECENT BITS: Beasman just prior to the UofL vs Cincinnati football game Beasman after UK beats Providence and Alabama football loses Beasman after UofL loses to North Carolina Here's tomorrow's radio script for The Beasman, scheduled to air at 5:45 p.m. so that you can read along. Terrestrial: 840 AM; streaming via whas.com