[samtheman]

I heard Keillor exactly one time on an NPR program while driving. He was giving one of his so-called local color stories and obvoiusly thought it was humorous, but I didn't find it the least bit funny or appealing, so I never listened to him again. There was something about the fact that he could even think that hundreds of thousands of people could find it funny which turned me off.

My reaction completely. I have freinds who adore him and so have heard his stuff over the years (though never voluntarily). He always struck me as astronomically pretentious and bursting to the gills with an inner appreciation of his own clever wit, which I never found all that clever or all that witty.

[buffyt]

He used to be funny and witty. When he came to Houston he wrote the transcript for the show after he got here. And the jokes all had to do with Houston local color/customs etc. It was very funny. That was quite a few YEARS ago. He has spiraled downward ever since. He keeps getting divorces, too.

[eternity]

Think Garrison is bad. Think of people who imitate him. Am a Ham operator and this guy gets on the net every evening and talks with the same "inner appreciation of his own clever wit." Eh gadds...

[Rate_Determining_Step]

He always struck me as astronomically pretentious and bursting to the gills with an inner appreciation of his own clever wit, which I never found all that clever or all that witty.

HAHAHA Nailed it.

I'm so pretty!
I'm so pretty!

First time I heard that clown, my skin crawled. And that was before he deep-ended. If you tried to manufacture a more pretentious person, you couldn't come close.