Garrison Keillor to Retire

WCQS.org ^ | July 24, 2015 | Michelle Keenan

[Cecily]

In an recent interview with the Associated Press Garrison Keillor says he plans to step down as host of A Prairie Home Companion (APHC) after the 2015-2016 season. The 72 year old said, "I have a lot of other things that I want to do. I mean, nobody retires anymore. Writers never retire. But this is my last season. This tour this summer is the farewell tour."

[Cicero]

Many years ago, I used to listen to Prairie Home Companion on the car radio while commuting. In the early days, it was mostly pretty funny and well done, and no more liberal than everything else on the radio.

But after the early years, it started getting less and less amusing and more and more political, and eventually I dropped it. Too bad. He has real talent, but he’s a political nutball, unfortunately.

[buckalfa]

I like listening to the old fart liberal. The vignettes on the radio show remind of the old America. You know, kind of like looking at a display of Norman Rockwell paintings. The PHC will probably live on in NPR syndication like Click and Clack. Shoot, I even would love to see NBC bring back their radio network and redo Monitor on the weekends. I guess it is the formats I like, not the political slant, Then again, maybe I need my meds readjusted.

[wally_bert]

I liked the early Guy Noir episodes with Pete.

[Fred Hayek]

I know someone who worked on his stage crew. He describe Kiellor as an arrogant boor, and he got even worse after his stay in NYC. A very nasty character, especially towards anyone he disagreed with in the slightest way. He had some sketches where he describes Minnesotans as having a junior high mentality. Quite accurate, and Keillor fits the description as well.

Keillor was also known to be a groper.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Good riddance to the old Commie and anti-Semite.

[fieldmarshaldj]

[EternalVigilance]

I think I’ve mellowed too. I once called Keillor an unfunny, arrogant, unintelligent, ugly Marxist, but now that I think about it, he’s really not any uglier than any other Leftist.

[Arthur McGowan]

Keillor eulogized Harry Blackmun at a memorial service at a Methodist church across Nebraska Avenue from American University. Such a hero Blackmun was!

Garrison Keillor. PTOOEY!

[tet68]

I thought he was already dead

I was hoping he was.

Oh well, maybe soon.

[Cecily]

He sounds a little like another comedian from the Midwest, David Letterman.

[Rastus]

That means me lifelong goal of never listening to a single episode of PHC is almost complete! Now if I can continue to never see a Woody Allen movie, I’ll be batting 1.000.

[dead]

Next thing you know, McLean Stevenson will retire.

[Heart-Rest]

"I thought he was already dead"

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He just looks that way.

[twister881]

Holy cow, was he in Europe to serve as Elton John’s body double?

[Twinkie]

I think it’s “Guy No “R” instead Guy Nor (there’s no “R” in
his name). I liked that, too, but we don’t get it any more.

[trisham]

I like the show, and I don’t like that type of music, but the music on his show is very, very good. I also think that it’s a funny show.

At 72, I can imagine that he might be looking to try something new, though.

[sasportas]

“Nihilists in golf pants?” I don’t think Keillor even knows what “nihilist” means. If he did, he would realize he just described his beloved leftists.

[trisham]

Good grief. The man is 72. What do you expect him to look like?

[SamAdams76]

Damn, he looks old. I mean really old.

[odawg]

I agree, especially about the old America. It has been a while since I tuned in, but I have heard some memorable programs.