# The Doctor will no longer be in **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 2, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108 "2025-06-02T15:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
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Barret Eugene Hansen, radio’s “Dr. Demento”, is retiring. On his weekly show he announced he’s 84 now and he’s decided he’s going to stop doing the show in the future. He’s going to do retrospective and flashback shows through the fall and will do some other specials in the fall as well. The online site will continue with old shows being archived and available there. [Dr. Demento Show To End With 55th Anniversary – RadioInsight](https://radioinsight.com/headlines/people-places/301445/dr-demento-show-to-end-with-55th-anniversary/) I first started listening to his show when I was transferred to March AFB back in early 1977. On the Mighty KMET it was a live four hour broadcast (two hours syndicated elsewhere). From “Fishheads” to “Kinko The Clown” to “Shaving Cream” to Alan Sherman to Larry “Wild Man” Fischer to Tom Lehrer to “Weird Al” Yankovic to Barnes and Barnes etc., etc., most delightful etc. I met him a couple of time in person at the Midnight Capitol Records Tower Record Swap, and much later when he did lectures and live shows at Reed College. He would usually do two shows every spring, one all-ages and one adults only, and I would try to go to both. By the way, if you would like musical sample of The Funny 25 or The Funny 100 they are available on You Tube, but here is a link to the all time Funny 100 from 1974 to 2024: [Dr. Demento’s TOP 100 (or so) DEMENTED HITS (from Funny 25’s) - 1974 to 2023](https://solonor.com/100demented.html) In the meantime I, of course, will…Stay Demented! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108)._