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...
This one has a happy ending. Okay, how many times have you been stuck in traffic or cut off by some maniac and wanted to yell at them? A lot. Well, instead of just sitting in my car and muttering about it, I wrote a sketch! I helps me blow off steam. I can often write things out of my system, it's a way of venting. So, I wrote this up so PHC could reject it. But I was working the angles at this point. PHC was the big fish. But I had developed two other leads to follow for radio-based comedy. So, if I listened to the show over the weekend and they didn't used my submission, I would re-work it a bit to submit to American Comedy Network, which syndicated jokes and bits to radio station nationwide. If they passed, it went off to All-Star Network, which did the same. So Mike's Auto Mike did get produced at ACN several weeks later, which I've included below the script.
