This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 38a: Why I Make A TV Show Called This Week in Joe’s Basement or The Diapers and Daisies Dance, Part I.
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The Eighties in Retrospect: A Documentary
“The 80s in Retrospect” is a mockumentary produced in 1979. The documentary “begins” in the middle of the footage (10:06), and features a series of mock commercials, scenes from a New Year party, a scene within a restaurant, and a soliloquy in a train station. The tone of the “documentary” shifts between comedic irreverence and earnest social criticism. The beginning of the footage (before 10:06) establishes the basic premise that polluted radio and television waves sent from Earth are being re-broadcast to Earth from a “space” Haight-Ashbury. The “documentary” footage, then, shows the “polluted” nature of television and radio media. Produced by The Anybody You Choose Video Group at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Continue reading
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Burned out in Carbondale
Tongue-in-cheek polemic against a 1979 Chicago Magazine article about the failures and debaucheries of Southern Illinois University–Carbondale (“Burned Out in Carbondale”). The video takes the form of a 60 Minutes-esque investigation. It has several humorous segments and parodies, including rounds in a dilapidated library, an academic adviser who is actually a magician/diviner, and a woman who passes through a neighborhood bar (PK’s) selling test answers. Continue reading
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Second City Relics
This tape captures a Second City performance from 1972 featuring John Belushi, Harold Ramis, Joe Flaherty, Jim Staahl, Jim Fisher, Judy Morgan, and Eugenie Ross-Leming. Continue reading
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![[TVTV Goes to the Super Bowl comedy outtakes]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653909378_640-228x160.jpg)
[TVTV Goes to the Super Bowl comedy outtakes]
Raw footage of improvised comedic scenes shot for (but mostly not used in) TVTV Goes To The Super Bowl, a documentary about the events and personalities surrounding Super Bowl X in Miami between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys. This tape features Christopher Guest, Bill Murray, Brian Murray, and Harold Ramis. Continue reading
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2 + 1
Sitcom pilot starring Mary Gross, Tim Kazurinsky, and George Wendt. Gross and Wendt are a couple, and Kazurinsky is staying with them after a divorce. The plot revolves around it being Wendt’s 30th birthday and the other two attempting to arrange a special evening and facing a series of mishaps. Continue reading
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 56: Anton’s Science Project
AIR DATES: January 25, February 1, 1992 Continue reading
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 54: The Dregs of the Bottle
AIR DATES: December 28,1992, January 4 1993 Continue reading