Episode 9: The Comedy Attic
While Deb's apparent resemblance to Amy Schumer (at least according to the random lady in the grocery store and Ed Schwartzman) doesn't make her funny, Deb and Amy do share a love for the Comedy Attic. In fact, Amy Schumer named the Comedy Attic one of the top 10 comedy clubs in the nation. And Deb agrees. The business of making people laugh isn't easy, but over the last 10 years, Jared & Dayna Thompson have built a Midwestern comedy mecca for fans and comedians alike. Not only does the Comedy Attic book some of the top names in comedy, they've helped their fair share of local comedians hone their chops. Community is also important to them. So much so, that they donate the proceeds from their yearly anniversary show and have raised over $45,000 for local charities over the last ten years! With six professional shows and an open mic weekly, there are plenty of chances to laugh loud and enjoy one of the best comedy clubs in the United States, right here in downtown Bloomington.
In our Facebook Follow segment we encourage listeners to be a part of the Bloomington food truck scene by following Top Shotta Jerk Chicken and Cuisine. A sweet story and a spicy (not too spicy) chicken. Can't get any better than that! And in our REAL-List segment, debunks a popular myth about mortgages - that you should avoid lenders who sell your mortgage after closing.
BIO: Originally from Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Jared Thompson moved to Bloomington in 2003 with his future wife, Dayna. They opened the Comedy Attic in 2008. Not long after, the couple welcomed their son Max into the world, followed by their daughter Margaret a few years later. Jared is a lifelong IU fan, but nothing (outside his love for his children) tops his love for the Chicago Cubs, even if it causes him severe emotional distress.
While Deb's apparent resemblance to Amy Schumer (at least according to the random lady in the grocery store and Ed Schwartzman) doesn't make her funny, Deb and Amy do share a love for the Comedy Attic. In fact, Amy Schumer named the Comedy Attic one of the top 10 comedy clubs in the nation. And Deb agrees. The business of making people laugh isn't easy, but over the last 10 years, Jared & Dayna Thompson have built a Midwestern comedy mecca for fans and comedians alike. Not only does the Comedy Attic book some of the top names in comedy, they've helped their fair share of local comedians hone their chops. Community is also important to them. So much so, that they donate the proceeds from their yearly anniversary show and have raised over $45,000 for local charities over the last ten years! With six professional shows and an open mic weekly, there are plenty of chances to laugh loud and enjoy one of the best comedy clubs in the United States, right here in downtown Bloomington.
In our Facebook Follow segment we encourage listeners to be a part of the Bloomington food truck scene by following Top Shotta Jerk Chicken and Cuisine. A sweet story and a spicy (not too spicy) chicken. Can't get any better than that! And in our REAL-List segment, debunks a popular myth about mortgages - that you should avoid lenders who sell your mortgage after closing.
BIO: Originally from Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Jared Thompson moved to Bloomington in 2003 with his future wife, Dayna. They opened the Comedy Attic in 2008. Not long after, the couple welcomed their son Max into the world, followed by their daughter Margaret a few years later. Jared is a lifelong IU fan, but nothing (outside his love for his children) tops his love for the Chicago Cubs, even if it causes him severe emotional distress.
While Deb's apparent resemblance to Amy Schumer (at least according to the random lady in the grocery store and Ed Schwartzman) doesn't make her funny, Deb and Amy do share a love for the Comedy Attic. In fact, Amy Schumer named the Comedy Attic one of the top 10 comedy clubs in the nation. And Deb agrees. The business of making people laugh isn't easy, but over the last 10 years, Jared & Dayna Thompson have built a Midwestern comedy mecca for fans and comedians alike. Not only does the Comedy Attic book some of the top names in comedy, they've helped their fair share of local comedians hone their chops. Community is also important to them. So much so, that they donate the proceeds from their yearly anniversary show and have raised over $45,000 for local charities over the last ten years! With six professional shows and an open mic weekly, there are plenty of chances to laugh loud and enjoy one of the best comedy clubs in the United States, right here in downtown Bloomington.
In our Facebook Follow segment we encourage listeners to be a part of the Bloomington food truck scene by following Top Shotta Jerk Chicken and Cuisine. A sweet story and a spicy (not too spicy) chicken. Can't get any better than that! And in our REAL-List segment, debunks a popular my
The Weekly Special - Paths Less Traveled
The Weekly Special shares some surprising Hoosier stories of unexpected life turns. Meet an Indiana prosthetist bringing hope to the Dominican Republic. Discover the fascinating art of folded lights by area artist Jiangmei Wu. Plus, learn how Bloomington's own The Comedy Attic, is gaining nationwide attention. Busman's Holiday joins us in the studio to perform songs off their debut album.
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The Great Gildersleeve: Aunt Hattie Stays On / Hattie and Hooker / Chairman of Women's Committee
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
He soon became so popular that Kraft Foods—looking primarily to promote its Parkay margarine spread — sponsored a new series with Peary's Gildersleeve as the central, slightly softened and slightly befuddled focus of a lively new family.
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.
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