The Wonder Show  

With awards season in full swing, your friendly neighborhood Wonder Show throws its own annual gala, saluting the things from last year that caused us to wonder the most!

Hey comedy writers, why doncha go back on strike??  It was bad enough that you somehow convinced us (myself, Mike and John) to keep you on payroll throughout that big writers strike of yours, and it didn't help that you also convinced us that the strike ended only when a new President was sworn into office, but now you've really gone and done it!!  Why, if we hadn't fed all of you to hungry crocodiles during this evening's Wonder Show, I'd have each and every one of you FIRED!!  I'm fuming, man - fuming!

Fuming with comedy, that is!  Tonight's Wonder Show is a new classic in the annals of comedy history!  Hey PBS, is it too late to submit material for that big "Make 'Em Laugh" comedy retrospective your airing?  Because just earlier tonight, Mike, John, and myself relived the Best of the year 1978!  Not 2008.  1978!  Hah!  How topical!  How timely!  How... lame!

Okay, I take that last paragraph back.  Our writers really blew it this time.  We were supposed to have our big (and very delayed) 2008 year-end retrospective tonight.  We had the submarine and everything!  But instead, the crummy writers delivered a load of thirty year-old, warmed over tripe, and then went into the next room to party down.  Well I hoped they enjoyed their little disco inferno, because that's it for them!!

By the way, the submarine may or may not have time travelled back to 1978 with us inside.  It's kind of hard to tell what year it is inside a submarine, though.  So if you're reading this, I guess it means that the internet has been invented, and it is 2009, not 1978.  Of course, I am writing this on a teletype machine...

- JRG

The Wonder Deejays prepare their year-end "Best Of 2008" show...in a submarine?!

Yea, the plague of death hath come a-knocking upon thine studio door!  Aghast!  Aghast!  I leer once fore, then yore.  Yon death plague shan't claim mine soul, that of Radio Guy, Jim!  Back foul, beast!!  At bay with ye!!!

A little inner monologue for you there. 

You see, shortly before this week's Wonder Show was set to go to air with our long awaited, long delayed BEST OF 2008 program (live from an actual submarine, combing the river floor, no less!), Mike the Radio Guru called in, taken ill.  Ah well, John and I shall carry on.  Right John?  John?!?  Oh, no!!  John had fallen as well.  Sick, sick, sick.  So, lonesome but not loathsome (that would come later), I, Jim the Radio Guy trudged onward, delaying the submarine/BEST OF thing until next week (or such a time as there's no vomiting and wringing of intestines), and slapped together another rerun clip show.

This time you get to hear rare live field audio circa 1997, from Webster University's annual Springfest.  The Wonder Show had quite a presence at that, I'll tell you.  We made sure of it.  And if you listen to this week's show, you'll get to hear it all, in glorious mono!

Dig it, Dancing Queen.

JRG

Tune in for some hilarious clips from the Wonder Show's rich history! (Look, Mike and John got sick - what else can we do?)

Tonight we hit the high seas of St. Joseph, MO!  John the Radio Gross is mortally terrified of water and the ocean, and Mike and I thought, what better way to launch into 2009 than by forcing him to face his fear?  Radio gold awaits you when you listen to The Wonder Show episode 1.20!  (Just keep in mind it's internet radio. Only internet radio.  Yeah.)

And another thing - !  If you like talk about "Smallville's" Tom Welling ripping his shirt open, over and over again, this is the show for you!  So dust off the iPod, head to the nearest cornfield, and prepare for...  something!  Guest starring Tom Cruise!

- JRG