PRX - Pieces for Tone: Humorous
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
A 60th Anniversary review of the funniest album of the Kennedy era. The Grammy Award winning Album of the Year that was ultimately withdrawn from c...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 57:17
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
The perfectly nice lady behind one of TV's most menacing overdubs
- Added: Oct 23, 2019
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 2
Current Mood: Desperate. Mortified pays tribute to the kids who grew up in an era right before Myspace and Facebook and pioneered the idea of goin...
- Added: Apr 15, 2018
- Length: 27:04
In the 1950s poodles were all the rage – one tabloid even reported that when a girl “makes the big time she traditionally acquires 3 things — minks...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 25:15
- Purchases: 1
Dang Nguyen, an aspiring filmmaker, revisits friends in his old college town of Boston to shoot a personal video project that's been on hold for 4 ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 16:49
- Purchases: 1
George Carlin’s seminal 1972 album “Class Clown” includes his infamous bit, “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television,” which still rings true 4...
Bought by KPIK-LP and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 09:40
- Purchases: 2
Two records from 1983 achieved minor novelty fame, and then faded away, only to emerge 20 years later as the originators of a curious genre of pop ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 44:02
Was your best friend is a fictional person? Our Unlikely Celebrity Obsession series continues with the story of a boy who wrote letters to an 80's ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2017
- Length: 19:44
As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone f...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 24, 2016
- Length: 17:21
- Purchases: 1
Some people make college sound so hard and some make it sound like fun, but what is it really? We have two students who breaks down the generalizat...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 17:00
Brief excerpt of a 4.5 hour conversation had with Albert Maysles before our interview for the radio documentary I'm producing, "The Night Before Al...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 05:44
The famous duo of radio, television and film – George Burns and Gracie Allen – were married for 38 years. We look back at how their relationship a...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 11:51
- Purchases: 3
Recently, Sony was hacked, and because of this hack and the ensuing threats that followed, the company decided not to widely release their film “Th...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 02, 2015
- Length: 26:39
- Purchases: 1
Summer jobs, part-time employment, freelance work, gigs. There are all kinds of odd jobs out there, and these passengers have had odder ones than m...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 08:32
Bobby and Coletti podcast from a boat docked in Madeira Beach, Florida, with Dave Reynard, the “glass dildo king” - original inventor of the cellul...
- Added: Jan 19, 2014
- Length: 01:43:59
A salute to the pioneering comedy team of Bob & Ray, featuring a new interview with Bob Elliott, many excerpts from Bob & Ray recordings, and some ...
- Added: Jan 08, 2014
- Length: 48:44
In Brockton Massachusetts, a ten-year-old rap star's career has got people talking. His story raises questions about parenting, race, and how a kid...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 31, 2013
- Length: 08:22
- Purchases: 1
The amazing story of the world's first viral video, and how it launched a multi-million dollar media empire.
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 17:43
Foley artists are the unsung performers behind the Hollywood blockbusters. They design and perform the sounds you hear in the movies, from fistfigh...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Sep 09, 2012
- Length: 11:38
- Purchases: 1
A charity basketball game pitting a team of little people against a team of law enforcement officers goes very wrong.
Bought by WCNY and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Mar 13, 2012
- Length: 15:24
- Purchases: 2
When a neighborhood newspaper folds, the publisher creates a unique ritual to mark its passing.
- Added: Sep 01, 2011
- Length: 05:42
Where does Spam email come from? Why won't it stop? Why does the text read like the author was hit on the head with a baseball bat?
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: Apr 30, 2010
- Length: 12:23
- Purchases: 1
This feature explores the global subculture of Slash fiction, a genre of fan fiction where pop culture/media fans write stories about their favouri...
- Added: Apr 11, 2010
- Length: 31:38
- Added: Nov 01, 2006
- Length: 05:24
