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We aired this piece during the holiday edition of the Texclectic Radio Hour in December of 2003. Again, listeners had a hard time distinguishing this piece from actual BBC material.
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We aired this piece during the holiday edition of the Texclectic Radio Hour in December of 2003. Again, listeners had a hard time distinguishing this piece from actual BBC material.
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Review of Parody of BBC SportscastI generally don't like parodies on the radio much, and I almost didn't even bother to listen to this little batch (includes underwriter announce and geo-quiz parodies)from KERA. But these are really funny! And what can really recommend them is that they will still amuse listeners who haven't heard the originals. That elevates them beyond the simple dictionary definition of "imitating for comic effect". |
Broadcast History
Originally aired in December of 2003 during the Texclectic Radio Hour on KERA 90.1.
Benjamin Temchine
Posted on February 29, 2004 at 09:47 AM | Permalink
Review of Parody of BBC Sportscast
BBC is ripe ripe ripe for parody and the football scores are a low hanging fruit. I think the biggest shortcoming of this piece is its brevity.
Public radio in general needs a bit more of a sense of humor about itself. It has its own goofy mannerisms that threaten to become affectations or blindspots. laughing at them is a good way to keep people trying new things.
Good luck