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...
Frankly, this was one of those ideas that had been kicking around inside my head for a long while, basically the "farting or non-farting" line. I thought it every time we'd go out to eat in the old pre-smoking ban days. I mean really, how could second hand farts effect me, sitting all the way over there in this enclosed space with circulated air? I'm not sure what triggered this actual sketch, though. Was I under the gun to come up with something for the week? Had I read a news story about new sections in restaurants? Did I finally come up with enough ban-able activities? All I know is this sketch was placed in the "No thank you" section of PHC that week.
