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Randy Hodgins and Steve McLellan’s lifelong love of comedy was kindled when they met more than 40 years ago in graduate school in Seattle. While managing family and professional work responsibilities, they hosted a one hour comedy radio program on Saturday mornings for 10 years on a small radio station in Olympia, WA and also co-authored two books on northwest popular culture – Seattle on Film (1995) and Wet and Wired (2000). Stuck at home during the early days of the pandemic with hundreds of comedy albums, cassettes and CD’s gathering dust on their shelves, they launched Laugh Tracks Legends of Comedy in May 2020, a weekly mini-program featuring a different comedy icon, with biographical bits and a nice slice of the comedy that made them famous. From standup stars, to stellar sketch teams, to novelty music maestros -- they are all part of our Legends.
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Monday Aug 10, 2020
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Meet Jim Gaffigan, a likeable everyman who made junk food his muse and became a star, in this miniprogram. Find extended cuts at laughtracksradio.com. And thanks for liking our page and sharing these shows.
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Take a young man with a gift for wordplay and a fierce desire to rock out on the accordion and what do you get? The legendary "Weird Al" Yankovic of course! Meet him on this week's episode and as always, look for extra clips at laughtracksradio.com. And thanks for sharing these episodes and your kind comments -- we really appreciate it!
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Friday Aug 07, 2020
Friday Aug 07, 2020
Meet Flip Wilson, groundbreaking purveyor of sly social satire, shaggy dog stories, with a bit of gender bending thrown in to boot. Flip was the first Black entertainer to host a network variety show and he was a fixture on variety and talk shows throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Extended cuts at laughtracksradio.com.