NATIONAL LAMPOON RADIO HOUR

OLD TIME RADIO - 1 CD - 27 mp3 - Total Playtime: 14:20:58

The National Lampoon Radio Hour was a comedy radio show which was created, produced and written by staff from National Lampoon magazine.
The show ran weekly, for a little over a year, from November 17, 1973 to December 28, 1974.[citation needed] Originally an hour in length, after 13 weeks it was cut down to half-an-hour due to the difficulty of putting together the very considerable amount of material required for a one-hour show.[citation needed]
The show was created by Michael O'Donoghue and producer/engineer Bob Tischler.[citation needed] When O'Donoghue left, later producers included Sean Kelly, Brian McConnachie and John Belushi.
Performers on the show included John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, John DeBella, Gilda Radner, and Harold Ramis, who was one of the co-writers for the National Lampoon movie Animal House. Other writers and performers on the show included Anne Beatts, Richard Belzer, Christopher Cerf, Brian Doyle-Murray, Joe Flaherty, Christopher Guest, who did many of the show's musical parodies, Ed Subitzky, Douglas Kenney (another co-writer of Animal House) and Bruce McCall.
The radio show was recorded in a studio specially built at the National Lampoon's offices. The musical theme for the show was co-written and performed by Bob Hoban and Nate Herman.
The show was broadcast nationally on 600 different radio stations, but the stations picking it up were free to air it at any time they chose. It proved difficult to get enough advertising to support the series: national sponsors seemed reluctant to take on the show, probably because of the controversial nature of much of its material.
When the show folded, several of the performers and writers moved on to Saturday Night Live. Michael O'Donoghue was head writer for the first three seasons of Saturday Night Live, and this may explain why some of the radio show material, such as "What if Ed Sullivan Were Tortured?", was subsequently re-purposed for television.
Two examples of the sometimes shocking humor of the Radio Hour are sketches which featured game shows entitled "Catch it and Keep it" (prizes - some quite lethal - are dropped from a great height to the crowd below), and "Land a Million" (in which a housewife is left alone in an airborne Boeing 747 containing $1 million in cash and a ton of TNT and must answer questions about literature in order to receive tips on how to land the plane safely).

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NLRS731117 - Program 001 - 54 Min
NLRS731124 - Program 002 - 54 Min
NLRS731201 - Program 003 - 57 Min
NLRS731208 - Program 004 - 56 Min
NLRS731215 - Program 005 - 60 Min
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NLRS740330 - Program 020 - 28 Min
NLRS740420 - Program 023 - 26 Min
NLRS740504 - Program 025 - 25 Min
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NLRS740518 - Program 027 - 15 Min
NLRS740601 - Program 029 - 23 Min
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NLRS740615 - Program 031 - 25 Min
NLRS740628 - Program 033 - 11 Min
NLRS740921 - Program 045 - 29 Min
NLRS741005 - Program 047 - 25 Min
NLRS741012 - Program 048 - 25 Min
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NLRS741109 - Program 052 - 26 Min
NLRS741123 - Program 054 - 24 Min
NLRS741130 - Program 055 - 25 Min
NLRS741214 - Program 057 - 27 Min
NLRS741221 - Program 058 - 28 Min
NLRS741228 - Program 059 - 29 Min

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