Monday, March 22, 2004

Making A Left at The Mike (washingtonpost.com)

OK I couldn't hold off for a week. Here is a good look at the forthcoming Air America radio network. It sounds like it will be a comedy network as much as a liberal network.



Making A Left at The Mike (washingtonpost.com)



The programs, which will take listener calls, won't be entirely off the cuff. (Liz) Winstead is overseeing a staff of 11 comedy writers who are churning out produced bits for all the shows. There will be fake commercials and lighthearted travelogues for each state. Winstead is planning a routine called 'Waking Robert Reich,' where she calls the former labor secretary at 3 a.m. and asks him a question. She's invented a grizzled reporter named Stet Pressman -- a cross between Jimmy Breslin and Howard Cosell -- who's always getting the story wrong.

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