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Revision as of 11:52, 26 March 2021
| Series | |
|---|---|
| WBAI And NPR Playhouse | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 11/29/1978 | |
| Cast | |
| Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| 26 minutes | |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by: | Jewish Blues |
| Followed by: | An American Hero Workshop |
I work hard at my job.
Laughing Back - A Movie For Radio is a program produced by Joe Frank for NPR Playhouse. It was originally broadcast November 29, 1978, and was released as a monthly premium at joefrank.com in December 2004.
Synopsis
This program features four Joe Frank stories. The announcer begins by comparing hearing Joe's work to watching a movie.
- "The Night Watchman": the first person account of a night watchman who rises through the ranks of a company by inviting bosses to dinner and burying them in the back yard, only to find himself invited to dinner by the new night watchman.
- "Caldwell": a fitness nut who dies while climbing stairs in a blackout has an out of body experience. He travels down a long dark tunnel and emerges into a festive dinner party attended by dead family members. They do the carnival dance.
- "Long Island Memories": Joe's childhood in Long Island. A child is open to experiences: Lady bugs, frogs, turtles, butterflies, campfire, grandmother's hollow chocolate-filled cookies, being in the countryside with a dog, walking to meet his father's car on its return home. It's thirty years later, the adult has dulled senses. Joe runs out of gas in the country, experiences a vivid memory of childhood and imagines that his whole life has been a child's dream.
- "Beautiful Woman on Elevator": the often repeated experience of an awkward elevator ride beside attractive woman.
Music
- "Banda" - Cyril Jackson (from Afro-Stereo, 1958) | YouTube
- "Evensong" - John Abercrombie (from Characters, 1978) | Spotify
- "Hard Work" - John Handy (from Hard Work, 1976) | YouTube
- "The Night Watchman" shares some text with Lies.
- The "Caldwell" story appears in Emergency Room.
- We hear another reference to Joe walking out to meet his father (Freddy) in Karma Memories.
- "Beautiful Woman on Elevator" is not the same material as the elevator encounter in Obsessions.
Miscellanea
- The background music to the elevator story ("Hard Work") is used often on Harry Shearer's Le Show.
External links
- The Nightwatchman - extended version at SoundCloud
- Worldcat
