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:
