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Garrison Keillor to Retire
WCQS.org ^
| July 24, 2015
| Michelle Keenan
Posted on 11/18/2015 1:24:20 PM PST by 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."
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TOPICS: Humor; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: garrisonkeillor; minnesota; npr; pbs
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I will be curious to hear what the new host does with the show.
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:24:20 PM PST
by
Cecily
To: Cecily
I thought he did the farewell show of Prairie Home Companion about 15 years ago.
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:25:32 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: Steely Tom
I thought he was already dead
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:27:19 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
(Genius at Large)
To: Cecily
The biggest news to come out of this story for me is that The Prairie Home Companion is still on the air.
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:27:24 PM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Cecily
Perfect, Castro’s workers paradise is now open, let him retire in Cuba...
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:28:50 PM PST
by
taildragger
(Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
To: Cecily
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:29:31 PM PST
by
Vendome
(they arDon't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Cecily
" I mean, nobody retires anymore. Writers never retire. But this is my last season. This tour this summer is the farewell tour." Yeah, I can imagine him saying it just like that.
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:30:00 PM PST
by
Fido969
To: Cecily
The only time I have ever heard his name was when they made fun of him on The Simpsons. The show’s creator is a big fan and I don’t think he liked that..
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:30:26 PM PST
by
Trillian
To: Cecily
The world would be better off if that smarmy POS would retire to a mountain top, above the treeline, and try to live off his survival skills.
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:30:50 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: Steely Tom
Without Googling it, I think he did, and moved to Europe for some period of time (I think).
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:31:01 PM PST
by
Cecily
To: Opinionated Blowhard; Trillian
I never understood his appeal.
The show itself has great musical guests-particularly if you enjoy folk music-but him and his inane sketches are unlistenable.
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:32:00 PM PST
by
OddLane
To: Vendome
I used to drive by Lake WoeBeGone from time to time..
Back in my yout’.. He’s still around? Wow.
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:32:55 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
To: OddLane
I listen for the music. He often has great classical musicians and choirs too. The only bit I find consistently funny are some of the messages written by or to the audience members he reads at the beginning of the second hour.
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:36:16 PM PST
by
Cecily
To: Cecily
“Garrison Keillor to Retire”
“Oh, sir, would you?”
-——The Wrong Box
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:36:36 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
To: Cecily
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:38:23 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Cecily
Born Gary, he legally CHANGED it to “Garrison”.
Lives in California.
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:40:24 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: Cecily
Good! Good riddance to bad rubbish!!!
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:41:11 PM PST
by
sauropod
(I am His and He is mine.)
To: NormsRevenge
He has a short little bit that plays on NPR, “The Writer’s Almanac”. Smarmy pap, which ends with him reading some obscure poem.
Horribly unlistenable (I’m in a van pool). He whistles his ss’s like that beaver in “Winnie the Poo”.
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:41:30 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
To: Cecily
I’m another that never understood the appeal. The one article I read, probably pimping the movie, said he wife was a Dane, and he was singing the praises of Denmark at the time, how much better Danish society was than the US’s, etc.
To: Opinionated Blowhard; All
The biggest news to come out of this story for me is that The Prairie Home Companion is still on the air.
That and the fact that garrison Keillor is still alive!
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posted on
11/18/2015 1:43:02 PM PST
by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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