Two weeks before airtime, and we had no name for the show. We had a lot more trouble getting through it, and it seemed much funnier to us that it did to either the audience of 10 (in a hall that seated 450) or the audience at home (minimal I am sure). What is it, seersucker?Įugene Oregon (me): Yes, Harry, I got it for $300 at Sears. Alan was only prepared with the theme, not the incidental music, and the three of them, famed as script doctors, did not spend enough time punching up my weak jokes.Īnncr (Harry Klein): Hubba Hubba Gene, that’s some suit. Michael Fiertag, in February, 1972, wrote a much better description of that taping than I ever could. We would tape them in a lecture hall, 9-150, before a live audience which would be attracted by ads in The Tech, which I could get cut rate. Harry Klein, Alan Baumgardner and Jeff Rubin, the only other people at the station who had ever written comedy besides myself, agreed with me we could do the shows. We’ll start with the show, the last major thing I did for WTBS in terms of original production. When I arrived in the fall of 1971, Mike was too busy to perform them.
#Ten thumbs inaudible series#
In the summer of 1971 I wrote four sketch shows for a WTBS series we had agreed to call The Twilight Dome. The audience appears courtesy of a major error (they thought they were somewhere else)ĭuring my freshman year of 1970-1971, I wrote a number of radio sketches for my friend and fellow resident at MIT Student House, Michael Wildermuth, also known as Captain Zomarr. Written, Produced and Directed by Gene S. Musical Director/Organist: Alan BaumgardnerĮngineers: Paul Green, Jeff Rubin, John “Sassy John Ten Thumbs” Sasse Special Thorn in the Works: Sherry Grobstein Other Parts: Alan Baumgardner, Dan Murphy Paste this link into your podcast app under add a new podcast by URL It might be more convenient to download them as a podcast. You can listen to the four episodes of the Eugene Oregon Show by clicking these links:
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