Keillor celebrates 'Prairie Home' 35th anniversary

Keillor needs to try something new. He's ridden this horse into the ground and it has become stale and boring. Thirty five years is long enough to do anything - hang it up and take your crap show with you.

Keillor sucks! His show is lame, long and boring! He's lucky MPR is funded by the gov or he would have been gone many years ago.

What's worse is that our tax money supports him.

I do not read his column, listen to any of his shows or buy any of his tapes since he became a political genius. I used to enjoy him when he was an entertainer.

Edward wrote:

What's worse is that our tax money supports him.

How do you figure? Keillor was, until a few years ago, employed by MPR. The 10% of MPR's budget that comes from public money is used for new transmitter equipment for weak signal areas of the state. Keillor's production company Prairie Home Productions is not funded by tax money. So I'm not sure where he would get tax money.

I love the above comments. Gov. Ventura summed it up correctly when he was asked about PHC he said he tried to listen to it once and fell asleep. I listened to it once a few years back and lost my memory for three days. It is painfully boring, he is painfully boring and it is a outrage that tax dollars support this garbage. It would never survive the free market.

JP - St Paul wrote:

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How do you figure? Keillor was, until a few years ago, employed by MPR. The 10% of MPR's budget that comes from public money is used for new transmitter equipment for weak signal areas of the state. Keillor's production company Prairie Home Productions is not funded by tax money. So I'm not sure where he would get tax money.

National Endowment for the Arts

Garrison is a humorist?

Lake Wobegon maybe a mythical MN place, and Keillor's lyrical style maybe outdated but if you listen to the PHC dialogue you will find Garrison talking about us and the MN human condition. After all, Keillor is a 'satirist' in the traditional sense.

I may not always like the dialogue of the show but one has to admit between the lines there is a message to be heard. Where would we, as an educated society, be without some mind bending, thought provoking, and even dull dialogue that elicits a plethora of unique responses?

The verbiage of the postings here on this thread only prove the point of Keillor's 35 years on Prairie Home Companion.

"Life is never dull in Lake Wobegon!"

ill-humorist

The show is a way that city-bound liberals can fantasize on what rural life is like. I was cute, if bloated and trite, back in the day. I learned about it when I visited the east coast where I found said city dwellers who think its really how life is in minnesota.

Yeah, its got a 'thought provoking' message alright--the same message as 95% of media today--socialism smothered with sugar and whipped cream.

This bug-eyed dude's a bitter vindictive little twerp like our other homegrown 'funnyman' angry al--and appeals to the same crowd: people who find leftist political polemic to be the height of wit.

Dane wrote:

Keillor sucks! His show is lame, long and boring!

A wrestling fan I take it?

Dane wrote:

He's lucky MPR is funded by the gov or he would have been gone many years ago.

MPR is funded primarily by member donations. That's what keeps the station operations running. Keilor's show is run the good ol' fashioned way, off of corporate underwriting (advertising) and money he makes off of licensing.

Nice try though.

35 years of smarm. Take a hike.

This batrachian, arrogant, condescending lout has never recovered from when he got his butt kicked 6 out of 5 days a week at school. Now he's a mean-spirited bully and a political "genius."
What a jerk-o**!

That guy is a wart on the heel of society.

I'm a realtor in need of a listing, Garrison, I've got a long list of buyers if you're interested in moving out of Lake Wobegone.

Unless you're gone, they're not interested.

Garrison Keillor, the world's tallest dwarf.

Beavis wrote:

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National Endowment for the Arts

What page of the APM annual report shows any of Garrison Keillor's programs are funded by the NEA? I'm looking at it and I just don't see this? Are you making up numbers?

It would appear that the GOP trolls on here have no repect for the self made person. That is unless it is Rush, the addict, Limpbrain.

Years ago I really enjoyed the show. Haven't listened to it for a few years, though. His arrogance and bitterness really ruined it. The awful picture on the home page is pretty accurate. If you run into him around town as I have, he's mean and arrogant. No, not shy. Arrogant.