# Has Doctor Demento changed, or have I?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 9, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-doctor-demento-changed-or-have-i/485080 "2009-02-09T16:29:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-doctor-demento-changed-or-have-i/485080/1 "2009-02-09T16:29:54Z")

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So, last night was the first time in quite a few years that I listened to the Doctor Demento radio program. I found it… Well, profoundly unfunny. Enough so that I turned it off before the countdown.

I remember as a younger man, perhaps a decade ago, eagerly awaiting Sunday nights to ‘wind up [my] radio’ and listen in to the ‘mad music and crazy commedy’, and I really, really enjoyed it. Last night, the Doc seemed a lot more reserved (yeah, I know he’s older) and the music just seemed like a mishmash of old records; more a media archive than trying to play things that are humorous / entertaining.

I remember hearing that the show format changed after 9/11, but I don’t have confirmation of this. Has it taken a nose-dive whilst I was away? Or was it just an off-night for the good doctor? Or have my tastes just changed that much?

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-doctor-demento-changed-or-have-i/485080/2 "2009-02-09T16:32:53Z")

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Not sure. I haven’t listened to Dr. Demento in at least a decade, probably 15 years. Hell, I used to get up at 5AM on Sunday mornings in college to listen to the show when it was on the local radio station! But I haven’t had a local station that airs it in at least that long and I just apparently don’t have…something…that would let me listen to internet radio (not something technological, something mental).