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When an advertising agency creates a new television commercial using clowns, things get crazy when the client begins to nitpick the ethinic diversity. A satire on taking political correctness too far. Laugh out loud funny.
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When an advertising agency creates a new television commercial using clowns, things get crazy when the client begins to nitpick the ethinic diversity. A satire on taking political correctness too far. Laugh out loud funny.
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Wickedly Funny!Rapier-sharp wit used on a subject that richly deserves to be skewered! |
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Just What Our Execs NeedGreat satire and lots of fun! I think all corporate execs with a bent toward political correctness should have a loop recording of this playing in their offices at all times! |
Intro and Outro
INTRO:included on recording
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Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
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| Penguin Cafe Single | Penguin Cafe Orchestra | Music from the Penguin Cafe. | EG | 1976 | 00:00 |
Additional Credits
Produced with help from James Spring, Jay Allison, and Viki Merrick at Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and supported, in part, by the Open Studio Project with funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Posted on July 27, 2009 at 07:28 PM | Permalink
Teh best stuff on public radio!
I think that our friends have already covered it here, but this is great audio. Finally a reason to listen to public radio! Great job, Amy!