{"id":36711,"date":"2021-10-16T23:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T04:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=36711"},"modified":"2021-10-16T23:11:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T04:11:59","slug":"comedy-101-radio-10-14-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=36711","title":{"rendered":"Comedy 101 Radio 10.14.21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strangely enough there were no technical errors this week.<br>Something usually goes wrong with my tablet, the control<br>board or the transmitter during the show, but not this week.<br>I played an odd piece, Sidekick Heaven, by Riders in the Sky.<br>It spotlights the odd trope of strange, twisted, yet useful<br>little men that helped certain types of cowboys back in the day.<br>The stereotype was usually a bearded, grizzled old coot that<br>worked hard, knew handy things, and talked like he had a <br>small chipmunk in his mouth.<br>What is odd about playing it is this, they don&#8217;t even make<br>cowboy oriented westerns anymore, that was a thing back<br>when I was a weeeeee lad.<br>Does anybody even KNOW what a sidekick even is at this point? <br>Much less&#8230;do they care?<br>Still, it&#8217;s a part of history, I put it forth for comedic digestion.<br>The blocks were silly, nothing truly cohesive, stretched it out.<br>Pants, Money, and Disease.<br>Don&#8217;t try to make sense of it all, it just IS.<br>Lewis Black shows his stuff.<br>The Whitest Kids U&#8217; Know with a pretty funny bus sketch.<br>Alonzo knows his bears.<br>Gotta love the voice of the late, great Paul Frees.<br>Logan Whitehurst contributes a great one!<br>Bob and Ray are legends for a reason.<br>Dan Cummins got preachy and it went very well.<br>A CLASSIC comedy sketch by Monty Python, even more<br>superb if you saw the movie.<br>Cy Amundson kills it.<br>Kellen Erskine gets the top spot.<br>Onward and upward&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cow Patti- Jim Stafford<br>Sidekick Heaven- Riders in the Sky<br>Married Life- Steve McGrew (s-up)<br>I Live Dangerous- Riley Armstrong   <br>Al&#8217;s Defective Gun Shop- Laughing Hyena<br>Gifts- Michael Somerville (s-up)<br>Curly&#8217;s Pants- Corky &amp; The Juice Pigs<br>911-Plus- Synaptic Anarchy Playhouse<br>Drinking- Shane Mauss (s-up)<br>Sweat the Small Stuff- Steve Goodie<br>Bus Driver- The Whitest Kids U&#8217; Know<br>Hungry Bears- Alonzo Bodden (s-up)<br>Cheerleaders on Drugs- Uncle Bonsai<br>This is Ponderous- 2NU<br>Monopoly- Christian Finnegan (s-up)<br>Money- Big Jim Buchanan (Paul Frees)<br>Money Programme- Monty Python<br>Just an Uncle- Pete Correale (s-up)<br>The Robot Cat- Logan Whitehurst &amp; 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