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One Foul Bird in RealAudio
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No Soap Radio is a radio comedy troupe. What else do you need to know?
We live mostly at WGBH-FM, a Boston public broadcasting station of
exceedingly high reputation located conveniently within spitting distance of
the polluted muck of the Charles River, which is our muse and inspiration.
WGBH tries very hard to pretend it doesn't know us, but when we threaten to
reveal our affair it slips us hush money. Okay, that's it. One more
question.
Easy. We of No Soap Radio live by one guiding principle: GIVE US YOUR RESOURCES AND WE WILL SQUANDER THEM. BIG TIME.
We SAID: NO more questions. Read the press release.
Just who do you think you are, anyway?
Where are you?
Do you--why, surely you MUST--have a motto?
And exactly how are those resources squandered--
Take cover and check it out, as NO SOAP RADIO presents "ONE FOUL BIRD" and "AIR SICKNESS" --two 30-minute radio programs of original sketch comedy already enjoyed by fans of WGBH-FM in Boston. Now they're yours to savor and enjoy in the privacy of your own cyberhome.
Who are these guys?
Doug Briscoe would be known as The Man of a Thousand Voices, except he already has a name and doesn't want to go through the paperwork of changing it. As a classical music scholar and radio announcer he is familiar to Boston audiences from his work on stations including WGBH-FM and WCRB-FM. He is the only member of No Soap Radio to own a Beta VCR, to prefer white bread, and to be tall enough to dunk.
Sharon Brody is the morning news anchor at WGBH-FM, but is most familiar to Boston listeners as the unhinged force behind the The Brody Beat--humorous essays airing daily on WFNX-FM. She also regularly contributes humorous essays to Monitor Radio's Midday Edition national magazine program (heard locally on WBUR-FM) and in her deep dark past has endured stints as a t.v. commentator, a newspaper essayist, and a 7-11 cashier in an orange smock.
Ilene Fischer is a graduate of the Players Workshop of the Second City in Chicago, and a founding member of Renegade Duck, Boston's most sublime improv comedy troupe. She was the co-producer and writer for Aunt Evy's Comedy Bee (and bake sale)--an evening of sketch comedy, music and lemon squares. Her day job involves something exceedingly technical that she doesn't really understand. She hopes to bring her juggling act to radio soon.
Susan Loucks is a stand-up comedian who makes frequent appearances in Boston area clubs, and who has performed in radio theatre productions aired nationally. She's also deeply involved in some upcoming television projects, the highly-classified details of which can not be divulged because her security entourage has enough trouble as it is. When she grows up she wants to be Marketing Coordinator for WGBH-FM.
Andy Rosenfeld is the mastermind of No Soap Radio--he's the producer, director, and editor of all No Soap Radio programming and has the calluses, migraines and hiccoughs to prove it. He has an extensive background as a stage actor, musician, broadcast journalist and jazz announcer, and in real life he plays Operations Coordinator for WGBH-FM.
Steve Steinberg is the co-writer of Meanwhile--a publication described astutely by a senior editor at Harper's as the funniest magazine in America. Meanwhile is now one of AOL's most popular sites (within AOL, Keyword: Meanwhile). A former stand-up comic, Steve now happily spends his days humming softly to himself.
Original music for No Soap Radio is provided by Arnie Schachere, owner of Intuition Music Productions.
Contributing writers and performers are Anne Damon, Chris Engles, Richard Knisely, Ellen Kushner, Hyo Choon Lee, Bob Lyons, Jared Mattes, TingTing McCarron, Jack Narron, Steve Schwartz, and Leslie Warshaw.
"One Foul Bird" and "Airsickness" were engineered by 89.7 FM's Alan Mattes. The executive producer of "One Foul Bird" is 89.7 FM's Ron Jones. The executive producer of "Airsickness" is Martin Miller.
"One Foul Bird" and "Airsickness" are productions of WGBH-FM Boston.