{"id":19421,"date":"2019-01-21T00:04:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T05:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=19421"},"modified":"2019-01-20T19:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T00:23:43","slug":"spud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=19421","title":{"rendered":"Spud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This great piece of lunacy is from the first year of  Saturday Night Live!<br>Yes, back when it was funny, indeed.<br>Released in 1976, I snapped the vinyl album up and was just as <br>resolute when the CD arrived on the scene.<br>The reason the first year was special is the skills that those original <br>members had, alumni of the National Lampoon Radio Hour and The <br>Lemmings stage review, not to mention Second City and numerous <br>comedy sources that existed back then, they learned from the best.<br>They honed their skills in an era when radio skits were just as, if not<br>more, important as television ones.<br>You don&#8217;t see that anymore, radio is a dying format and the skill sets<br>are firmly in the visual arena now.<br>It is more difficult for me to locate as much quality programming for the<br>show as I used to be able to, a sad reality that I have to contend with.<br>Good stuff this&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spud\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFjf_BORIok?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This great piece of lunacy is from the first year of Saturday Night Live!Yes, back when it was funny, indeed.Released in 1976, I snapped the vinyl album up and was just as resolute when the CD arrived on the scene.The reason the first year was special is the skills that those original members had, alumni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19422,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421\/revisions\/19422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}