THURSDAYS: The Donald Drumpf Theatre radio show (audio above, text below.)
Donald Drumpf Theatre 306: “Sleeping Through the Corporate Takeover of Democracy.” The new/old president gets some well-deserved shut eye this week on the “Donald Drumpf Theatre” radio show. Opening theme includes clips from Rod Serling; Bill Cosby; Donald Drumpf; and Jon Stewart and “The Daily Show.” Thanks for the songs for this week's episode from Golden Earring (“Twilight Zone”), and The Beatles (“I’m Only Sleeping”). Thanks for the clips and excerpts from John Oliver; The Onion; Jimmy Kimmel; Jon Lovett, Julia Ioffe, Roy Wood Jr., Amber Ruffin, and Michael Ian Black from “Have I Got News For You;” Nancy Pelosi; Jake Tapper; Jonathan Pie; Josh Johnson; and J.L. Cauvin.
"Donald Drumpf Theatre" is the weekly radio theatre show about a fictional presidency, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. It is often a mash-up of the week's news, and sometimes a radio news fantasy with song parodies and covers all mixed in a style similar to Spike Jones, Dickie Goodman, Dr. Demento, or Richard Foreman with comedy skits, sketches, radio waves, and multiple points-of-view. Produced by Tom Roe. Make sense of the unreality here. Get discombobulated. Clips and songs are from some of the sources below.
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This week’s episode had so many source possibilities, after a summer when many of the president’s funniest critics took time away from transmitting. But this week, everyone was back except Seth Meyers (next week he returns), and, of course, Stephen Colbert. The former CBS host, though, was on late-night as a guest with Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday. Also returning to the airwaves was CNN’s “Have I Got News For You,” and South Park’s new “South America” season. And there were hilarious bits this week from the UK’s Jonathan Pie, while their version of Saturday Night Live is also back, and so is Canada’s “22 Minutes.” With so much material, the key is to cut as much as possible, and then to cut some more. I just try to find the story within the jokes, (fake and real) news reports, and cultural clips.
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