A Prairie Home Companion: Keep It Clean (3/29/2014)

Coming to you this week from The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, it's a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, folksinger Willie Watson, soul siblings Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, singer Hilary Thavis, and pianist and clarinetist Butch Thompson. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, musical director Richard Dworsky with Richard Kriehn, Dean Magraw, Gary Raynor and Peter Johnson, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

3rd & 7 37yd

Hello Mike, from The Fitzgerald Theater in beautiful downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:01:24 PM
Popcorn! Yum!

by Tim 3/29/2014 10:01:31 PM
It's 22.00 here in the UK

by Shane Doveton UK 3/29/2014 10:01:42 PM
So excited!

by Metlover 3/29/2014 10:01:46 PM
I'm making some this evening!

by Chak Man Yeung 3/29/2014 10:01:46 PM
Marietta? I've been in your corner, Chak Man. We have people outside Atlanta.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:01:52 PM
About how many hours a week does the regular cast spend in rehearsals?

by Will Westerfield 3/29/2014 10:01:55 PM
Hello Shane! Thanks for staying up to join us!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:02:13 PM
Coming in clear as a bell, good picture too!! Cool beans!

by debbie 3/29/2014 10:02:26 PM
popcorn sounds good wish I had some got pretzel nuggets instead

by OldLion 3/29/2014 10:02:40 PM
Hello from Walla Walla!

by Oregon Trail 3/29/2014 10:02:41 PM
was invited to watch the rehersal in ann arbor by the producer

by busguy5 3/29/2014 10:02:54 PM
Next time y'all come, be sure to holler! I'd love to meet y'all!

by Chak Man Yeung 3/29/2014 10:02:57 PM
LOVE the Steel sisters

by OldLion 3/29/2014 10:03:02 PM
Will, that's a great question and I can't quite say. There's a full day's worth of rehearsal just before the show. Think 10am-5pm. Writing and test runs not included.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:03:02 PM
Hello from Medford, WI. Does anybody know where Medford is?

by Tim 3/29/2014 10:03:19 PM
Hi Debbie! Hello Oregon Trail! Howdy Tim! Where is Medford?!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:03:42 PM
Love Hilary Thavis... missing Heather Masse, though.

by Chak Man Yeung 3/29/2014 10:03:53 PM
Careful, Chak Man, I might take you up on that!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:04:04 PM
I know where wisc. is, Tim

by john pea 3/29/2014 10:04:18 PM
North Central WI, Debbie. About 1 1/2 hours east of Eau Claire.

by Tim 3/29/2014 10:04:38 PM
This Radio Show is so good that seeing the broadcast doesn't spoil it......

by GherkinCat 3/29/2014 10:04:39 PM
Yay Wisco!

by CjBuv 3/29/2014 10:04:50 PM
I think it makes it better

by OldLion 3/29/2014 10:05:12 PM
GherkinCat, I might quote you on that!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:05:12 PM
Hello CjBuv!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:05:21 PM
Hey Garrison - what do Lutherans have to look forward to?

by Tim 3/29/2014 10:06:26 PM
Hello hello! Watching from Arlington, VA, being the uprooted Sconnie that I am.

by CjBuv 3/29/2014 10:06:34 PM
40's and 50's....time for shorts!

by Will Westerfield 3/29/2014 10:06:58 PM
Some of the sound effect props you'll hear tonight

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:07:01 PM
Hello from Portland, OR!

by Paul 3/29/2014 10:07:14 PM
after I press play nothing happens.

by pahl 3/29/2014 10:07:34 PM
was 60 today and raining sheep and goats

by OldLion 3/29/2014 10:07:39 PM
Hello Paul! Tim, I'm afraid to ask. Is it something that should go to the joke machine?
this pretty good 'Professional' joke
A Prairie Home CompanionA Prairie Home Companion's infamous Pretty Good Joke machine.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:07:51 PM
I love watching Fred Newman doing the sound effects, along with Garrison on narration....

by GherkinCat 3/29/2014 10:08:22 PM
Hello pahi, could you try refreshing the whole page and trying the video again?

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:08:23 PM
Any one out there in Portage,
WI?

by Paul 3/29/2014 10:08:24 PM
"Deliver takeaways" = {screech!} "Here, take it!" :D

by Chak Man Yeung 3/29/2014 10:08:50 PM
The show I listen to is not the show I see. This way I get both shows at once! Thanks again for streaming this. From Ann Arbor

by Cendra 3/29/2014 10:09:01 PM
Hey, Paul! Another Wisconsinite!

by Tim 3/29/2014 10:09:09 PM
Hello Paul! Glad you could join us Cendra!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:09:21 PM
A weekend SFX script to start things off tonight http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bj7VxJKCEAACvOX.jpg

by Prairie Home Comp. via twitter 3/29/2014 10:09:38 PM
Thanks for joining us tonight! Some portions of tonight's show are not available for video streaming, but you can stream live audio of the full show using the listen link above the chat box. Enjoy the show!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:10:04 PM
If you're experiencing technical difficulties with the video, please try refreshing this page. Some issues may be out of our hands but we'll fix anything we can!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:10:07 PM
Fred is BRILLIANT!

by headopin 3/29/2014 10:10:09 PM

A Prairie Home Companion: Keep It Clean (3/29/2014)

this pretty good 'Professional' joke