I found this – “You Ate My Thumb”
That’s gotta be it, Boyo Jim!
If not, then it should be.
Hilarious!
Thanks for finding it.
Quasi
Y’all may have read upthread that I used to work with Alan “back in the day” when we were both either DJ’s/Talk Show Hosts/News Directors or hosted live remote charity events.
Alan is CNN’s entertainment reporter and it’s great to see him on the air every now and then, though I’m a little surprised that management lets him sport that ponytail!
Broadcasting was/is in Alan’s blood. It wasn’t in mine, although I was good at it.
He’s multi-talented, as is whole family and we’re very proud of him here in Carrollton.
I wish him all the best and look forward to his reports.
Q
I was never into doing that, although I did once, on April Fool’s Day, call a local pizza restaurant and asked the young lady who answered the phone what toppings were available?
After she finished naming them all, I asked, “What about scruples? Do y’all have any?”
After a long silence, I identified myself, got a bit of a giggle, gave her a t-shirt and that was it. The rest of the “newscast” was a satirical look at county government done in a straight newscaster’s voice.
Prank calls always made me uncomfortable to listen to when our morning drive time jock made them. They might work in a major market, but in a medium or small market - no matter how funny - it’s playing folks for a fool and that wasn’t my personality. Not in real life and not on the air.
I did a lot of funny stuff as a DJ, but it was mostly topical or involving myself and/or one of my character voices.
Q
In the early days of Saturday Night Live, I was encouraged to engage in my favorite genre, which by now, y’all ought to know is satire.
So one night I wrote a little sketch called “Is Lordy (lordy, lordy ain’t it a hot one today??”) Jesus’ nickname?"
That was how I started out, then I went on to say this the next morning: in “drive time”:
“Because if it was his nickname, might not his little friends knock on the door of his parent’s house and ask, " Mr. and Mrs. Christ? Can Lordy come out and play with us?”
I caught living hell for that one (so to speak), and almost had to go to every altar in Carrollton, Georgia USA to beg forgiveness and get saved!
Luckily, I was Catholic at the time and got that whole thing wiped off my record, lickety split. 10 “Hail Marys” and I was good to go and sin again!
Now I’m gonna tell you something about a guy I used to work with, whose initials are AD and who now works at CNN. Handsome guy too, doesn’t show his age one fucking bit, that bastard.
At our station, WBTR-FM, he once commented on a sports story which contained the phrase “come from behind”.
"What does that mean, ‘Come from behind’, anyway?’ ", he asked our radio audience. “From behind???”
There was silence as I (News Director) and our Morning Jock left him “swinging in the wind” all alone.
There was no doubt about what he meant. Remember these were the 70’s early 80’s, okay, and all of us have come a long way since then.
Bob Stone got him out of it, by playing a Dolly Parton tune (“48 double D’s, Gotta be”, was written on the album cover).
But yeah, those were the “bad old days” of FM radio, encouraged by the station manager, because his balls were swinging in the wind as well, for what the FCC called “a cavalier attitude” when he tried to block another station from coming into town by making disparaging remarks about that station owner’s failures as a lawyer and a person.
Quasi