Today’s newly archived show is from August 11, 2001.
According to longtime ex-listener and April Winchell Show archivist Craig, this is “a perfect show.” And he would know, since he’s the one who’s been listening to all these tapes and converting them for us.
On the other hand, someone who would willingly listen to hundreds of these shows and convert them into mp3s for free might not have the best judgment.
The whole show is dedicated to Jerry Lewis, and this is why:
Yes, Jerry’s stalker was found dead in his jail cell, and that was good enough for me to build a show around.
And I do think this is a good one. It has everything: yodeling, Fabio, Jerry Lewis, customer service rants, fetish web sites, Star Trek slash fiction and an unrelenting assault on some shitbird who fucked with one of my eBay charity auctions.
I actually think this may be the show where it all sort of clicked for me. I stopped feeling like someone else was supposed to be doing it with me and just sort of took control of the whole soggy mess.
This is exactly the kind of show I liked to do, and would still like to do, if talk radio had not completely imploded and become a showcase for who can be the angriest.
11 responses so far ↓
1 Stretch99 // Jul 13, 2009 at 12:20 pm
…the best talk radio hosts have either been fired or become US senetors
now explain Bill Handel’s longevity…
2 thefifthbeatle // Jul 13, 2009 at 12:28 pm
That picture of Jerry could quite possibly be one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen. He looks like he’s been shot in the back of the head.
3 Ira Shlamazel // Jul 13, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Oh, I’ve seen much, much worse. I’ve seen John Lithgow sneeze up-close and in person. I still have nightmares.
Bill Handel is a random marginal phrase generator.
4 pal Jacky // Jul 13, 2009 at 2:52 pm
i was so excited when I first heard that Jerry Lewis was afraid of a stalker. Then I found out, they weren’t talking about me. All my hard work just went unnoticed. Or worse was attributed to this john benson assklown.
5 Ira Shlamazel // Jul 13, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Is there really a Placenta, CA? Is that what the news guy said?
6 Ira Shlamazel // Jul 13, 2009 at 3:07 pm
That answers that.
7 Stretch99 // Jul 13, 2009 at 3:33 pm
yes Placenta – the best area in the town is known as
“the C section…”
8 pal Jacky // Jul 13, 2009 at 3:41 pm
You will be in for a treat. Do you like great trend setting films from the 1960’s and ’70’s. Ones that get rid of a young up and coming but talented director like richard donner and instead hire jerry lewis. order them here.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/More-Time-Salt-Pepper-Region/dp/B00066VUCU
They were produced by my brother-in-law’s father, milton ebbins. Not a high point in his career, but his quote ‘jerry lewis was the biggest shithead I’ve ever worked with’ always got me to smile, even more than the JFK/Marilyn stories
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040303933.html
9 TalkinHorse // Jul 13, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Apropos of nothing…I was waxing nostalgic about old Johnson Smith catalogs (ordering from JS was once a fundamental rite of passage among American prepubescent teen males), and I found this article, which not only conveys the idiot delight we got out of our quaint pursuit, but its manner and style reminds me of April. If you need an April fix when she’s indisposed or incapacitated, this site may get you through.
10 Ed Haskell // Jul 13, 2009 at 11:16 pm
This is amazing. Thanks to new technology, conversations from Hitler’s death bunker revealed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps5NOn38w4o&feature=related
11 DavidinBerkeley // Jul 14, 2009 at 11:09 am
Since we’ve derailed the topic entirely, I’ll mention that there’s now a brothel in Berlin that offers a discount to people who arrive via bicycle or bus: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/jul/14/bike-brothel-discount
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