What happens when a mystery writer blows into town and the bodies start piling up? Nick Flebber has to throw the book at the killer! Check it out!
The Florida Radio Project just posted their production of my script "The Nick Files: Author in the First." They did a great book with this adaption of my book (which you can buy here).
What happens when a mystery writer blows into town and the bodies start piling up? Nick Flebber has to throw the book at the killer! Check it out!
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From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell 'prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things... You all remember George W. Bush, right? He was the former holder of the title "Worst President" until present circumstances happened. I mean, he didn't seem like a bad guy, but he never struck anyone as the sharpest crayon in the box. He always looked like he was in over his head, and the fact that his vice president, the self-appointed Dick Cheney, seemed to be running the show didn't help that impression. Also, he supported terrible policies, but had sense enough to not to push too hard. He allowed a terrorist attack but then signed a big corporate tax cut and that seemed to even things out. He had a folksy charm and was in the habit of handing out nicknames to members of the press. This is a short sketch, practically a black out, where I just took that sole idea and ran with it. PHC did to political humor and W was one of his running targets. Cast member Tim Russell did a good impression of W and he often popped up in bits. I occasionally submitted Bush skits, so I kind of figured this might give me a leg up on getting picked. It did not. Bush Press ConferenceWeekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. I find the bluest I work is doing these hashtag games. I am not a car guy, either. But I manage to submit enough double entendres to get 6 into the finals here. I had to pull up a list of car makers and models, but a bunch came out of thin air, so I was productive. Well, as productive as a hashtag game can be. Check it out:
From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell 'prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things... Ah, yes, homonyms. I've actually written about this sketch before, here. It was a silly idea that just came together. I thought the wordplay would naturally work for PHC. They passed. Later on, I pulled it out again to my other radio outlets. They passed as well. As I wrote on the blog, one place was a maybe, then the same-titled sketch appeared on the show 30 Rock. That pretty much pulled the rug out from this bit. Here it is, the PHC version: Homonyms!Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. This was a fun topic. And it's always these kinds that I have to go look up a list of sit-coms. There's so many, my brain tends to freeze up trying to think of them. And the same 4 just keep popping up over and over. I started slow and wound up posting round 20 or so. I was still posting hours after the game started (and probably ended). I got to 10 and figured that's enough, then I notice some other guy was posting a lot of entries. That go my completive spirit going and I jumped back in. Anyway, what's there is below at the link. Let me know if the website comes up for you. It's been acting weird today.
From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell 'prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things... Back before GPS, the big development was OnStar, a direct connect to roadside assistance. You pushed a button and you were speaking with someone who could help. I had done a couple of OnStar parodies, especially after GPS systems began offering character and celebrity voice options. I wrote this one up special for PHC, for their voice guy, Tim Russell. Same goofy premise, you turn on the service and some celebrity pipes in to guide you along. I thought it was a clever bit and a natural for the show. Maybe I should have padded it out a bit and inserted the voices full names in each. They didn't pick it. So, here it is, long passed its "sell-by" date: GuestStarWeekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. I was kind of swamped on the day of this game and didn't think I'd do it. Once it went up, one joke popped into my head. So I posted it. Then another. And another. I was back in. But I didn't do any GIFs with most of them. They didn't seem to have any or my puns confused the search function. I even popped back on more than an hour later when what was (a pretty obvious home) popped up. And one of my jokes got used in the opening paragraph of the column. Eight made the cut:
From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell 'prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things... Rereading this after all these years I now realize this bit is short, it's based on an old red carpet show trope and it was a TV show parody, which means it never stood a chance of getting picked to go on air. Fashion week in NY was usually around April and maybe that's what inspired me to write it up. I can imagine that I saw no reason to try and punch it up or make it longer, so I went with short and sweet. After all, who needed yet another Law & Order parody back in 2005? Law & Order: Fashion PoliceWeekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. This was an unexpected topic. And a hard one, too. WH tends to grab a number of ideas first and present them as examples (and "winners"). There don't seem to be a lot of fairy tales...I mean after you hit the Disney movies, where to you go? To Google. I did the usual, looked up both fairy tales and synonyms for frugal. I managed to get some original and off-beat ones. And I came up with one or two that I'm pretty proud of. And many people were able to do variations on the same ones (Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks) that each were solid. Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. Well, this is last week's contest, and I was away for this week's contest. It's making farty puns with fish. What else can I say? |
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