Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 1
Series: Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES featuring "Classic Bob & Ray"
From: The Radio Foundation, Inc.
Length: 00:58:57
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Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES "PROMOS"
(00:03:43)
From: The Radio Foundation, Inc.
Additional promos for use with the 13 one-hour program series.
Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 2
(00:58:28)
From: The Radio Foundation, Inc.
Part 2 in a series of 13 one-hour programs featuring the most beloved characters and sketches from comedians Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding.
Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 3
(00:58:45)
From: The Radio Foundation, Inc.
Part 3 in a series of 13 one-hour programs featuring the most beloved characters and sketches from comedians Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding.
Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 4
(00:58:49)
From: The Radio Foundation, Inc.
Part 4 in a series of 13 one-hour programs featuring the most beloved characters and sketches from comedians Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding.
Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 5
(00:57:44)
From: The Radio Foundation, Inc.
Part 5 in a series of 13 one-hour programs featuring the most beloved characters and sketches from comedians Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding.
Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 6
(00:58:21)
From: The Radio Foundation, Inc.
Part 6 in a series of 13 one-hour programs featuring the most beloved characters and sketches from comedians Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding.
Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 7
(00:58:25)
From: The Radio Foundation, Inc.
Part 7 in a series of 13 one-hour programs featuring the most beloved characters and sketches from comedians Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding.
Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 8
(00:58:57)
From: The Radio Foundation, Inc.
Part 8 in a series of 13 one-hour programs featuring the most beloved characters and sketches from comedians Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding.
Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 9
(00:58:58)
From: The Radio Foundation, Inc.
Part 9 in a series of 13 one-hour programs featuring the most beloved characters and sketches from comedians Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding.
Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 10
(00:58:50)
From: The Radio Foundation, Inc.
Part 10 in a series of 13 one-hour programs featuring the most beloved characters and sketches from comedians Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding.
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"Bob & Ray invented, dreamed up the lines for, and then played, mainly on radio and television, a surrealistic Dickensian repertory company, which chastens the fools of the world with hyperbole, slapstick, parody, verbal nonsense, non sequitur, and sheer wit, all of it clean, subtle and gentle... Bob & Ray's humor turns on their faultless timing and on their infinite sense of the ridiculous. It is also framed by that special sly, dry, wasteless vision of life perfected during the last couple of centuries by middle-class New Englanders..." -- Whitney Balliett, writing in The New Yorker. Bob [Elliott] & Ray [Goulding], the legendary American humorists, were loved by fans and by fellow humorists, comedians and broadcasters. Every humorist and comedian from 1946 to the present admired and copied Bob & Ray?s material and style. Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jay Leno, George Carlin, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. are fans. Bob & Ray's 40-year career began 60 years ago, in 1946 at WHDH, Boston. Bob was a disc jockey, and Ray a newscaster. When the Red Sox games were delayed on account of rain, they began to amuse each other to fill the time. Soon they had a daily show of their own, "Matinee with Bob & Ray," an improvised, madcap exercise in controlled chaos. Over their long career, they created more than a hundred characters, all played by Bob or Ray. Wally Ballou, the hapless journalist, Mary McGoon, whose recipe for frozen ginger ale salad, prefigures Martha Stewart; Biff Burns in the sports room, Webly Webster, Barry Campbell, a third rate actor with an ego the size of the universe, Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife whose pals travel the world in search of goofy adventure. Their humor is subtle, dry, intelligent and clean. Bob & Ray have a keen ear for language, how it is used and misused by the con artists, hucksters and hustlers who populate radio, television and cable. Bob & Ray routines are timeless and universal. They satirize the same lugubrious soap operas, manic game shows, self-important interviewers, clueless reporters, and semifraudulent commercials, that are still with us today. Hosted by Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding, this series showcases their most beloved characters and sketches.
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Review of Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 1I love listening to these older radio programs-- I'm a younger guy and these programs really bring comedy storytelling to life. it's just not done like this anymore. |
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Review of Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 1I?ll gladly confess a personal prejudice here: I think I?ve spent more time laughing out loud listening to Bob & Ray than I have to any other comedians. The dry wit and casual surrealism of Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding blasted the imaginations of countless radio listeners for more than a generation. Sophisticated and timeless, The Lost Episodes is an infectious collection of comedy that belongs on any station that celebrates radio drama. |
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Review of Bob & Ray THE LOST EPISODES Program 1
From the get-go, THE LOST EPISODES are a treasure. I start off by saying I have always loved Bob and Ray -- I memorized one of their albums in my youth and can still quote verbatim at length.
But there is brilliance here we can't even know these days -- the closest, perhaps, was Elmo's appearance a year or so ago on WAIT WAIT, when Elmo suddenly interrupted his voice. One of the exquisite things about B&R were their multiple roles in the likes of their Mary Backstage stories and how they'd skip from role to role with the ease of square dancers.
The glory of Bob and Ray to my ear -- old or young -- is their capacity for nonchalant surprise. They aren't interested in dazzling us -- I doubt they ever did overdubs, for example -- but each piece is a muzzled tour de force. For those enamored by the recent pursuit of the likes of irony, Bob and Ray are delivering like goods from the Irony Age.
Fans of John Hodgman will appreciate his succour upon the fumes of Bob and Ray's tailpipe. The resident authority chose his inspirations brilliantly.