WATERLOGG PRODUCTIONS

CAMP WATERLOGG on Cult Radio A GO GO

2012-03-01T11:43:00.000-05:00

The
Comedy-O-Rama Hour Returns After Four-Year Hiatus
Heard Exclusively on
Cult Radio-A-Go-Go!
This Saturday at 10am (PST) / 1pm (EST)

Celebrity guests: Julie Newmar, Rick Overton, Stuart Pankin, Bob Camp, Judy Tenuta.

PRLog (Press Release) - Feb 16, 2012 -

On Saturday, 10am (PST) / 1pm (EST)--The Comedy-O-Rama Hour returns weekly, heard exclusively on Internet radio network Cult Radio-A-Go-Go!

”Cult Radio prides itself on airing and honoring classic old time radio shows of yesterday," boasts Terry & Tiffany DuFoe, creators and owners of Cult Radio A-Go-Go!--"and now we are thrilled to welcome Comedy-O-Rama to our line up to give Cult Radio listeners a taste of classic programming with new comedic content. Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg bring Sgt. Lefty and a cavalcade of characters to life as they welcome Cult Radio listeners into their exciting imaginarium."

Listen live at http://www.cultradioagogo.com.

"I am thrilled to be on Cult Radio-A-Go-Go!" exclaims Comedy-O-Rama producer and star Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev.). "We'll begin with further improvised woodsy adventures of Sgt. Lefty and the gang at Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go!"

On the new show, Ranger Joe Bevilacqua and Ranger Lorie Kellogg improvise radio theater stories, doing most of the voices themselves, from their cabin in Catskill Mountains.

The real-life husband and wife comedy team are joined in the fun by celebrity guest stars, who also ad-lib as characters at the Camp.

Upcoming guests include Julie Newmar (Batman), Rick Overton (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Stuart Pankin (HBO's Not Necessarily the News), Bob Camp (Ren & Stimpy) and Judy Tenuta (The Weird Al Show).

Bevilacqua says to "expect a lot of surprises on the new show! We'll have new performances of Vaudeville classics such as Abbott & Costello's 'Who's On First?' and Burns & Allen's 'Lampchops', new radio theaters of The Great Gildersleeve and My Friend Irma in front of a live audience, and a lot more celebrity guest stars improvising with us!"

This Saturday's Cult Radio broadcast is part one of "Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg", which The British Universities Film & Video Council called "a modernization of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ranger Lorie is having a big Valentine's "Kiss-Off" square dance to help raise money to save her dilapidated kids camp in the Catskills. Cupid sends the Baby of the Woods (Puck) to bring all the star-crossed lovers together, and confusion ensues. Meanwhile, Ranger Joe (Bottom) makes an ass of himself, while performing in Las Vegas."

The hour also includes Cousin Kenny Savoy, Jim Folly, Tom Giannazzo, and Reagan Leonard.

What Other Say about Comedy-O-Rama...

"An atmosphere of folk art and sophisticated sound equipment merge to create radio theater of a distinctly upbeat, G-rated variety." (Deborah Medenbach, Times Herald-Record, Middletown, New York)

"Experimental, Humorous. The Comedy-O-Rama draws characters that everyone can relate to, just turned up a notch for chuckles. The production is slick and story engaging. (Tanya Ott, WBHM-FM, Birmingham, Alabama)

"The Comedy-O-Rama Hour is one of the most unique and original productions out there these days. With Joe's talent for different voices, I never know what's coming next, or what it will sound like. Another thing that makes these shows stand out is that it is quite obvious to the listener that Joe and his cast are having fun making these shows, and that makes them fun to listen to as well." (The New York Times)

"Great parodies of old time radio icons, classic moments with legendary comedians and wonderful voice-acting, The Comedy O Rama Hour picks up where great radio comedy left off decades ago. Heck, it's even produced in the Borscht Belt." (Steve Karesh, former XM Radio Program Director)

"If there was an award for best husband and wife narrating team, I think the clear winners would be Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg. Come to think of it, why isn’t there an award for best husband and wife narrating team? Somebody needs to look into that. Anyway, individually, Joe an Lorie are both extremely talented voice artists. They can both do lots of entertaining voices, not just characterizations but whole personalities, and they both have a fine flair for drama, satire, and comedy. Put them together and, well, need I say more? If you haven’t heard these two at work, you’re missing out on something special." (Steven Brandt, audiobook-heaven.com)

Cult Radio-A-Go-Go! will be airing the "Best of Comedy-O-Rama" until March 31 when new "Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go!" episodes will begin. More details to come.

A Kickstarter campaign is underway to keep The Comedy-O-Rama Hour on the air beyond 13 weeks. Go to: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waterlogg/bring-back ...

Article about the return of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour: http://waterloggproductions.blogspot.com/2012/01/joe-bev ...

For more great audio, go to http://www.waterlogg.com.

Watch The Comedy-O-Rama Hour promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAgRxCqP7hQ

Best to you all,

Joe Bev.

Joe Bevilacqua is a veteran award-winning actor, writer, author and producer. His audio is available at Amazon, iTunes, and Audible for Kindle, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, iPod or iPad download, or CD purchase or rental. Find out more!

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Waterlogg Productions is a multimedia entertainment company founded by husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua & Lorie Kellogg. Their combined talents spanning over 40 years have garnered many awards in radio.

There new radio program The Comedy-O-Rama Hour airs weekly on Cult Radio A-Go-Go!

In 2009 Waterlogg Production ventured into the world of audio books and in 2011 released over 600 hours of sound. Their work can also be found on Amazon, iTunes, and Audible for Kindle, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, iPod or iPad download, or CD purchase or rental.

Do you have great radio theater or audio documentary?
To publish your work with us contact: joebev (at) joebev (dot) com

"Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go!" Improvisational Radio Theater To Feature Celebrity Guest Stars

2012-02-17T18:27:00.003-05:00

The
Comedy-O-Rama Hour Returns After Four-Year Hiatus
Heard Exclusively on
Cult Radio-A-Go-Go!
Starting This Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 10am (PST) / 1pm (EST)

Celebrity guests: Julie Newmar, Rick Overton, Stuart Pankin, Bob Camp, Judy Tenuta.

PRLog (Press Release) - Feb 16, 2012 -

On Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 10am (PST) / 1pm (EST)--The Comedy-O-Rama Hour returns weekly, heard exclusively on Internet radio network Cult Radio-A-Go-Go!

”Cult Radio prides itself on airing and honoring classic old time radio shows of yesterday," boasts Terry & Tiffany DuFoe, creators and owners of Cult Radio A-Go-Go!--"and now we are thrilled to welcome Comedy-O-Rama to our line up to give Cult Radio listeners a taste of classic programming with new comedic content. Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg bring Sgt. Lefty and a cavalcade of characters to life as they welcome Cult Radio listeners into their exciting imaginarium."

Listen live at http://www.cultradioagogo.com.

Best to you all,

Joe Bev.

Joe will be a guest on the THE NANCY PRISTINE SHOW MONDAY

2012-02-17T08:00:00.000-05:00

THIS COMING MONDAY - JOE WILL BE ON LIVE WITH...

THE NANCY PRISTINE SHOW

2/20/2012 MONDAY from 12-1 PM Mountain Time 2-3 PM EST

http://1100kfnx.com/

The show will air live on kfnx-1100 AM, known as the 5^th biggest radio station in the country and based in Phoenix. Please let us know if you'd like a copy of the audio for your records.

Joe will be talking about all his project but especially...

Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady By Joe Bevilacqua Narrated by Joe Bevilacqua, Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, Barbara Bush, Kirk Douglas, Helen Hayes and Katherine Graham		Lady Bird Johnson Waterlogg Producti... Best Price $2.95 or Buy New $2.95 Privacy Information
Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady, written, produced, directed, and narrated by Joe Bevilacqua. One of the most licensed audiobooks on The Public Radio Exchange and iTunes, Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady is veteran NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua's award-winning audio documentary examining the challenges and achievements of this extraordinary woman. The hour combines never-before-released archive audio, gleaned from thousands of hours of recordings housed at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, period news broadcasts, private conversations with Lyndon Baines Johnson, and the words of Lady Bird Johnson from an interview that has never before been released to the public. Bevilacqua spent nearly five months listening to the rare tapes and traveled to Washington, D.C., to interview Mrs. Johnson's colleagues and friends. The program features Lyndon Johnson Administration staffers Liz Carpenter, Bess Abell, and Nash Castro, Washington Post owner Katherine Graham, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum Director Harry Middleton, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Director Robert Glass Breunig; Lady Bird biographer Jan Jarboe Russell, and First Ladies Betty Ford and Barbara Bush. Other voices heard on the program include Kirk Douglas and Helen Hayes reading from LBJ's and Lady Bird's love letters. The production was produced in association with KUT Radio in Austin, Texas, and overseen by a panel of scholars and experts, including Lewis Gould, retired University of Texas (UT) at Austin Professor of History; Walt Rostow, UT Professor Emeritus, Elspeth Rostow, former dean of the UT LBJ School of Public Affairs; Carl Anthony, Washington, D.C., historian; and Don Carleton, director, The Center for American History at UT.

JOE's ADDITIONAL BIO

In 2011 Joe Bevilacqua signed a new deal with Audible to distribute all of his audio books including radio drama, science fiction, documentary, comedy and biography. And Joe signed a deal with Sirius/XM Sirius XM Radio to broadcast his work on the Book radio Ch. 80.

For 25 years Joe Bevilacqua was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, and, in 2004, was awarded a Silver Reel Award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for his personal essay A Guy Named Joe Bevilacqua, and two New York Festivals awards for "Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady" in 2001 and the NPR [1] All Things Considered tribute to Joe Barbera in 2006.

From 2002- 2006 Bevilacqua and his wife Lorie Kellogg co-produced the Comedy-O-Rama hour XM Radio, Sonic Theater ch. 160, which is now Sirius/XM Sirius XM Radio Book Ch. 80.

He co-edited, with Ben Ohmart, a book of Daws Butler scripts entitled Scenes for Actors and Voices in 2003 and in 2004 co-wrote the authorized biography: Daws Butler: Characters Actor.

Joe studied voice acting and writing from Daws Butler the voice of Yogi Bear.

The Art of Audio #12 “A Valentine From Graham Nash's MAC”

2012-02-13T11:39:00.000-05:00

The Joe Bev
Experience

The Art of Audio #12

“A Valentine From Graham Nash's MAC”

It was February 12, 1996, two days before Valentine's Day when I received an e-mail from one “Lorie Kellogg, height 5'4”, brown hair, single, living in Los Angeles”--with photo attached. It was an unsolicited singles ad from a women working for Graham Nash and sent from his MAC Laptop.

Here is “A Valentine From Graham Nash's MAC” from our "A Waterlogg Double Feature: 'The Joe Bev Valentine Treat' & The Comedy-O-Rama Hour Valentine Special 'Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg' Audiobook on sale for Valentines Day.

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I recognized her name immediately. Six months earlier, I had given up a good job as Senior Radio Publicist for WNYC, New York City's National Public Radio station, and was now living in the Beverly Hills garage apartment of Myrtis Butler, the widow of Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear, who had been my mentor, to try my hand at animated cartoon voice-over acting in Hollywood.

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I was reading the Internet newsgroup la.wanted and saw a post from Lorie Kellogg, looking for a roommate. I e-mailed her that I didn't “need a roommate” but was “looking for new friends to show me around LA.”

One of the reasons I wrote her was her named, Kellogg, reminded me of the cereal company that had sponsored the original Yogi Bear cartoons. Maybe I thought she was heir to the Battle Creek fortune. (She's not.)

Four months later, no reply from Lorie Kellogg.

When I received the unsolicited ad, I remembered, “She's the one who blew me off!”I decided to punish her with an excruciatingly long e-mail with all the sorted details of my life, from my father beating me as a child to loving Buster Keaton movies.

To my surprise, she wrote back. After a few nights talking on the phone, Lorie suggested, “Let's meet at My Father's Office.”

I thought, “We haven't even met and she wants me to meet her dad already?”It turned out “My Father's Office” was a micro-brewery and bar on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica.

We met on February 17, 1997. Lorie wore a yellow dress with pink flowers and turquoise tights and black leather sandals with a slight heal, her medium length wavy brown hair doted strategically with yellow, pink and turquoise plastic butterfly-shaped barrettes. I wore a pale yellow short-sleeved Izod shirt, cream-colored pants and sneakers, and sported a mustache and a lot more hair than I have now.

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We had our micro-brew and talked passionately about art, comedy, film, music, ecology, health, and other subjects we seemed to have in common. Lorie told me she loved Robin Williams and, as a child, sat, upside down, with her head on the couch and her feet in the air, after watching “Mork and Mindy.” I told her when I was three, in 1964, I piled up the living room furniture cushions on the couch, in size order, so it resembled a tugboat, climbed on top and watched Cap'n Jack McCarthy present 1930s black & white Max Fleischer “Popeye” cartoons on WPIX-TV, New York's local channel 11.

While Lorie was in the restroom, I thought, “This is the one.”

As she climbed into her car, she thought, “I'm gonna break this guy's heart.”

The next day, Lorie called and invited me to her house to watch Charlie Chaplin's “Modern Times” on video, which we did.

Two weeks later, she invited me to watch Graham Nash rehearse. Well, sort of. Nash was performing on stage in Philadelphia and Lorie and crew were in a building on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, in “The Valley,” as Los Angelians have dubbed it.

Nash was performing an autobiographical rock concert in which he stood before a large screen composed of a number of smaller screens, and clicked a portable mouse to bring up images, broadcast over the Internet, of his childhood attic bedroom during World War II and other pictures of his personal past.

Lorie sat at a bay of large Silicon Graphics computers, hand on her mouse, “in case” Graham's failed. (I'm sure she did a lot more than that. At the actual concert, a camera in Studio City was turned on Lorie and crew and they took a bow for the audience, who saw them projected on stage in Philadelphia.)

After the rehearsal, the crew broke for dinner and were told to be back in an hour for a second run-through.

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Lorie suggested we find a place to eat down Ventura Boulevard. We chose a Moroccan restaurant named "Marrakesh Express" which happens to also be a song written by Graham Nash, and performed by Crosby, Stills, and Nash, on their 1969 self-titled debut album.

No sooner had we pull up pillows and sat down on the floor when a zaftig belly dancer emerged to personally annoy me. I shooed away the wiggling stranger five times before she finally moved on to her next victim, leaving me to woo my new girlfriend.

We returned to rehearsal to discover the second run-through had been canceled.

“Wanna come back to my place? asked Lorie.“Sure,” I replied.

Darkness fell over the Santa Monica Mountains as I followed, in my 1995 aqua blue Chevy Cavalier, Lorie's 1991 navy blue Ford Escort wagon, out of “The Valley,” over the Sepulevda Pass, to West LA.

Inside Lorie's apartment, we did “the pre-kiss dance”--I stepped forward; she stepped back. I stepped back; she stepped forward, four or five times, until I leaned in for our first kiss.We “made out” on her couch for maybe twenty-minutes, when Lorie stopped, looked me in the eyes, smiled and confidentially announced, “OK. Here's the deal. You can either shave off your mustache and stay the night... or leave now.”

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Without skipping a beat, I enthusiastically asked, “Where's the razor?”

Lorie walked her dog, Duchamp, named after the French painter Marcel Duchamp (1887—1968), while I stared in her bathroom mirror. No sooner had I had shaved off the right half of my mustache, when I remembered that two days before, I had seen a live taping of a sitcom called “The John Cryer Show,” in which Cryer's character had a beard. In the plot, his girlfriend worries that something is wrong with their relationship, she thinks it might be the beard and asks him to shaved it off, which he does. He comes out of the bathroom, they kiss and she looks at him, says, “No, it just must be you,” and leaves.

I bravely shaved the left side.

Lorie and I fell in love and moved in together a few weeks later and we've been nearly inseparable ever since, all because of that Internet valentine from Graham Nash's MAC.

To quote the recommendation letter Graham Nash wrote for her at the end of his concert tour, “Lorie is a rare combination of a mother hen and Einstein.”

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Best to you all,

Joe Bev.

Waterlogg Valentine Double Feature Audiobook

2012-02-10T14:21:00.001-05:00

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FOR VALENTINES DAY

A Waterlogg
Double Feature
from
husband & wife team
Joe Bevilacqua
& Lorie Kellogg

PART ONE:
"The Joe Bev Valentine Treat"This is a charming hour of stories (real and fictional) about love, hosted by veteran public radio producer Joe Bevilacqua. The hour includes:
(1.) "Who's Afraid of a Virginian's Wrath?": a parody of the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as played by George and Martha Washington.
(2.) "A Valentine From Graham Nash's Mac": On February 12, 1996, an email from rock artist Graham Nash's Macintosh laptop triggered a series of bizarre coincidences, which led to the meeting of Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg.
(3.) "Ode to a Transfer Station", or "Love Poem for the Dump".
(4.) "A Mathematical Valentine": Joe Bevilacqua tracks down his former mathematics professor, Ron Reummler, to hear how math can explain lost love.
(5.) "The Love of Lee the Horselogger": Joe Bevilacqua meets a man who set out in a covered wagon in 2006 to find his childhood sweetheart and fell in love with America instead.
(6.) "Marian the Librarian Finds Love at the Bookmobile": The true story of love, in Marion's own words.
(7.) "Valentine Vignette": a sketch by Daws Butler.

PART TWO:
The Comedy-O-Rama Hour Valentine Special: " Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg"
A comic one-hour radio play written by Joe Bevilacqua and performed by real-life husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg, plus Cousin Kenny Savoy, Jim Folly, Tom Giannazzo, and Reagan Bonjorno Leonard. Recorded in the woods of Napanoch, New York, and at Carolyn's on Broadway in New York City.

FYI- We have a KICKSTARTER campaign
for NEW Comedy-O-Ram Hour Shows
with more Camp Waterlogg Stories.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waterlogg/bring-back-the-comedy-o-rama-radio-hour

PRESS RELEASE BELOW

KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN for the COMEDY-O-RAMA RADIO Hour!

2012-02-09T12:12:00.001-05:00

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waterlogg/bring-back-the-comedy-o-rama-radio-hour

CHECK OUT OUR CAMPAIGN

Help us bring back The COMEDY-O-RAMA RADIO HOUR!

THIS PROJECT WILL ONLY BE FUNDED IF MONEY IS PLEDGED
BY SUNDAY APR 1, 12:00PM EDT.

It is an hour long comedy improvisation/radio theater program. Returning after a 4 year hiatus after a 4 year run on XM Radio.

If you donate/support our Kickstarter campaign you will get our radio shows and audio books for FREE and your NAME will be spoken in the weekly Kickstarter ad during the show.

PAST GUESTS: Lewis Black, Shelley Berman and Al Franken.

CAMP WATERLOGG SEGMENT: We live at a kids camp in the Catskills called Camp Waterlogg and comedy guest improvise with our characters.

LISTEN TO OUR PILOT EPISODE with BOB CAMP of REN & STIMPY: campwaterloggagogo01.mp3

PAST SPECIALS: http://goo.gl/wzH3p

NEW GUESTS: Bob Camp (Animator, Ren & Stimpy), Julie Newmar (Catwoman), Stuart Pankin (HBO's Not Necessarily the News), and Rick Overton (Comedian & Actor)

FREE RADIO SHOW/PODCAST to STATIONS - It will be first released on Cult Radio A-Go-Go! March 31st, 2012 and then month later to public & commercial radio stations. It will also be offered as podcast on iTunes, and for Kindle, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, iPod or iPad.

OUR FIRST SHOW WILL AIR MARCH 31, 2012

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The Official Cult Radio Tune In Page - Many Ways To Tune In!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waterlogg/bring-back-the-comedy-o-rama-radio-hour

Thanks for your support,
Joe Bev. & Lorie K

Our work gets great press & reviews...

Yabba Dabba Doo! The Alan Reed Story "Clip-filled tribute to a master character actor... Movie clips, too, and it's amazing to hear all the parts Alan played over the years. Joe Bevilacqua, who turns up doing some narration, puts in backing music and various clips which make this a nostalgia trip into the Golden Age of Radio. "	Ancient Rising "Ancient Rising is a non-stop thrill ride through the world of the ancients."	25 Spanish Children’s Stories "Your children will delight in these winsome and fanciful tales."
Spanish Halloween Stories for Children"Kids will immediately identify with the funny and crazy voices of Joe and Lorie. I always get a kick out of listening to them myself; they always remind me of the Saturday morning cartoons I used to watch as a kid."	The New Stories of Old-Time Radio "If you yearn for simpler times and your moral compass is set straight, you’ll definitely enjoy this new collection from Waterlogg Prod.. Give it a try!"	The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes "Fans of the legendary figure of Sherlock Holmes are sure to get a kick out of this."
Daws Butler’s Halloween Happening "If you haven’t heard these two at work, you’re missing out on something special."	Uncle Dunkle and Donnie "This is 5 hours of listening pleasure that you won’t regret."	Old-time Radio Parodies "We’re talking three hours of non-stop laughs here. Don’t miss out!"

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waterlogg/bring-back-the-comedy-o-rama-radio-hour

_______JOE's ADDITIONAL BIO ____________

In 2011 Joe Bevilacqua signed a new deal with Audible to distribute all of his audio books including radio drama, science fiction, documentary, comedy and biography. And Joe signed a deal with Sirius/XM Sirius XM Radio to broadcast his work on the Book radio Ch. 80.

For 25 years Joe Bevilacqua was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, and, in 2004, was awarded a Silver Reel Award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for his personal essay A Guy Named Joe Bevilacqua, and two New York Festivals awards for "Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady" in 2001 and the NPR [1] All Things Considered tribute to Joe Barbera in 2006.

From 2002- 2006 Bevilacqua and his wife Lorie Kellogg co-produced the Comedy-O-Rama hour XM Radio, Sonic Theater ch. 160, which is now Sirius/XM Sirius XM Radio Book Ch. 80.

He co-edited, with Ben Ohmart, a book of Daws Butler scripts entitled Scenes for Actors and Voices in 2003 and in 2004 co-wrote the authorized biography: Daws Butler: Characters Actor.

Joe studied voice acting and writing from Daws Butler the voice of Yogi Bear.

NEW REVIEW - The Laugh Makers by Bob Mills

2012-02-08T15:59:00.003-05:00

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Audiobook Review:

The Laugh Makers

by Bob Mills

Feb 7, 2012

by Andy Howells

Gag writer Bob Mills recalls three decades of working with comedian Bob Hope giving a rare insight into the comic legend's career via anecdotes and jokes.

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For over two decades writer Bob Mills wrote scripts, gags and one-liners for film star and comedian, Bob Hope. Mills worked as part of a team of gag writers for the legendary comic and ultimately gained credits on no less than 85 television Specials.

Mills recalls these times in an audio reading of his book The Laugh Makers going behind the scenes of Bob Hope's famous TV specials, recounting stories of fellow gag writers and a cavalcade of legendary guest stars

including George Burns, Milton Berle, Lucille Ball, Danny Thomas, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

The Laugh Makers Recalls Legendary Comic

Bob Hope With Affection

Bob Mills spirited reading of The Laugh Makers recalls decades worth of anecdotes with fun, enthusiasm and affection supplemented in many places with some of the classic material he and other writers wrote for Bob Hope during the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Hope was one of the last true performers of the Vaudeville era and his professionalism and keenness to deliver a perfect show comes across in The Laugh Makers. On one occasion; Bob Mills recalls a comedy sketch that had to be remounted when it was noticed at playback the naval officers featured were wearing the wrong insignia on their uniforms.

Another anecdote relates to the first moon landing in 1969. Keen to get a few jokes in about the historic event, Hope called the TV studio to have the pre- recorded TV special paused to enable him to insert a few gags relevant to the moon landing live on air - a precarious scenario even for 1969 - but one that subsequently worked.

Travel On The Road To Laughter With Bob Hope

and Bob Mills In The Laugh Makers

The Laugh Makers is far from an expose on Bob Hope, if anything it reflects the star in a very good light, as someone who worked extremely hard to deliver comedy to his audience conducting his work in a fun but professional manner.

Even though The Laugh Makers reflects the latter decades of Hope's career, Bob Mills also recalls comical stories from Hope's wartime Hollywood career including a few teasing glimpses of his days working alongside Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour on theRoad movies.

Bob Mills also recounts his own personal road to laughter as an up and coming script-writer which included an early encounter with Bob Hope in the 1950s, decades before he would write for him. These personal accounts never detract from the ongoing story and serve to create a broader and even more personalised account of events.

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From The Joe Bev Experience

The Laugh Makers provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of the writers who wrote for Bob Hope and a revealing insight into the legend himself. Running for approximately 11 hours and 24 minutes, The Laugh Makers is available as a download along with many other exciting and original audio titles from the Joe Bev Experience.

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The Laugh Makers is a fabulous tribute to the legendary Bob Hope and his script-writing team and is an essential document of comedy history which leaves the listener recalling the sentiments of Bob Hope's signature tune "Thanks for the Memory" and we are!

NEW REVIEW- Ancient Rising: The 3D Audiobook Experience

2012-02-06T17:41:00.004-05:00

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Ancient Rising:
The 3D Audiobook Experience

"I really, really like the additional sound effects in the background. It's the first time I've encountered an audiobook which utilized this kind of creative license. If I am to make an analogy of this technique to cinematography, I would say that this is 3D technique in audiobook as 3D is to movies. And it brought a richness to the audiobook listening experience which I never had in other plain or '2D' audiobooks I'd listened to thus far. It really is wonderful listening to this audiobook. I enjoyed the 3D audiobook experience and wish the author and narrator would produce the rest of the books in the series."
Cherry Mischievous, www.cherrymischievous.com

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The Joe Bev Experience

Thanks for listening!

Joe Bev.

The Art of Audio #11: The Return of " The Comedy-O-Rama Hour"!

2012-01-26T17:13:00.000-05:00

The Joe Bev
Experience

The Art of Audio #11

The Return of
" The Comedy-O-Rama Hour"!

In 2002, Steve Karesh--then program director for XM Satellite Radio's Sonic Theater Channel--asked me to develop a new radio theater show based on Comedyorama.com the comedy tribute website my wife and had developed. Thus, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour was born.

Comedy-O-Rama Got Great Reviews!
Read more!!

I immediately brought in all my characters, of course, the ones I have been doing all my life--Willoughby and the Professor, Oldtime Radio Parodies, "booby" Sherlock Holmes and "the lot".

By the second season in 2003, new characters were added--Daws Butler's Uncle Dunkle, Mitchell Pearson's Adventures of Teaman, Crunch Frog, Offramp, Permafrost MN, and others.

Me with my multi-talented wife Lorie Kellogg.
Check out our great reviews!

In 2004, my old Liquid Comedy buddies joined us for a series of specials. Just as the series was based on our website, we created a new segment called Camp Waterlogg, based on our own funky cabin in the woods of Napanoch, NY. In fact, together with Kenny Savoy,we improvised most of The Comedy-O-Rama Fourth of July Special in those very woods!

Two new characters I completely improvised that day was one-armed Sgt. Lefty and "fraidy-cat" Ellis the Boatkeeper, characters I have continued to do on my Cartoon Carnival radio show.

Listen to the audio of the first time I ad-libbed Sgt. Lefty--
with Lorie Kellogg & Kenny Savoy ... set to puppets!

More Camp Waterlogg specials followed and celebrities, including Lewis Black, Shelley Berman and Al Franken, began making appearances on our show. By 2005, we added NEW stories using oldtime radio characters, such as Fibber McGee & Molly, Duffy's Tavern, Our Miss Brooks and others.

New Oldtime Radio on
The Comedy-O-Rama Hour

We prepared for a sixth season of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour with a big name comedian (I cannot say who, sorry!) signed on as the new host. This comedian was also going to be the voice of Jack Benny in new sketches!

Plans were scuttled with the merger of XM with Sirius Satellite Radio. Our show was cancelled in July of 2007. I went on to many other successful projects.

Last year, I appeared as a guest on Cult-Radio-A-Go-Go! and it went so well, the station asked me to do a new weekly show for them.

And so I am happy to announce The all NEW Comedy-O-Rama Hour will premiere on Cult-Radio-A-Go-Go! Saturday, March 31 from noon to 1pm (Eastern time)!

Shelley Berman guest starred on
The Comedy-O-Rama Hour in 2005

We'll begin with further improvised woodsy adventures of Sgt. Lefty and the gang with "Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go!," plus... new performances of Vaudeville classics such as Abbott & Costello's "Who's On First?" and Burns & Allen's "Lampchops", new stories of The Great Gildersleeve, My Friend Irma and more, in front of a live audience, and a lot more celebrity guest stars improvising with us!

If you are as excited about this as I am... tune in next time to find out more!

Best to you all,

Joe Bev.

The Art of Audio #10: "The Game is a-foot!" or "Your show is undone"

2012-01-18T16:08:00.001-05:00

The Joe Bev
Experience

The Art of Audio #10

"The Game is a-foot!"
or "Your show is undone"

I recently remastered (from the original master tapes) The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, my ten-part series of half-hour radio theater, paying homage to the characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You can buy the series on Amazon, iTunes, and Audible for Kindle, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, iPod or iPad download, or CD purchase or rental.

Get The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes

In episode one: "The Mystery of the Creepy Hack Writer," Holmes is 28-year old beggar on Baker Street when Doctor John H. Watson, MD, takes him into his lodgings at 221 Baker Street, London, much to the dismay of Watson's Irish landlady, Mrs. Hudson. Soon, Holmes is thrust into his very case when they are visited by three mysterious men. Who is the creepy hack writer? You will have to listen, to find out!!

Vernon Morris played Sherlock Holmes

I was inspired to create this radio series, first from reading Conan Doyle's stories. I tried to fill the scripts with sly references to the original "Canon," as it s called. Even the Baker Street Irregulars and other Holmesian groups and scholars have enjoyed this about my series.

Me with Daws Butler

My second inspiration was Daws Butler, the great voice actor and my mentor. In 1976, Daws wrote a script called "Sherlock Holmes in Trouble," which portrayed Holmes as a booby and Watson as a selfish intellectual using Holmes. It led to several other scripts some if which were produced, including "This Here is Your Life, Sherlock Holmes," written and performed by Daws and his acting workshop.

The third inspiration came when I met a group of actors I met in the summer of 1982. I was acting in an Off-Broadway play, "Spider's Web" by Lucille Fletcher, author of the great radio play. "Sorry, Wrong Number." I was the mysterious Butler (I didn't do it.) and the cast was rounded out by Brit Vernon Morris, and an American cast of wonderful actors I grew to love over the months we performed for the Meat & Potatoes Company, with no air condition!

The cast of The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes

My parody of a Holmes
Sidney Paget illustration.

All the characters in "Spider's Web" had their Holmesian counterparts. I quickly decided to write a ten-part radio drama series, built around the first Daws Butler script, which eventually served as episode three in th plot arc of my series, starring this cast. The Misadentures of Sherlock Holmes premiered in October 1983 on WBAI and ran through 1985. By the time, we were finished, we had ten great, inspired half-hours.

I later discovered that Ellery Queen had published an anthology of parodies in 1944 also called The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, and another of the same title edited by Sebastian Wolfe in 1990-91.

They have since played on public radio stations across the United States, in Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand. Mostly, recently, they aired on XM Radio, since 2003. Vernon Morris was an amazing Holmes, playing him more like Stan Laurel than Basil Rathbone. Henry J. Quinn, though not English, played his Watson as a pompous, lying egotist, the opposite of the Nigel Bruce booby interpretation of the character from the 1940s movies. Henry was a retired FBI agent, who took up acting late and was often seen in sketches on David Letterman. The late Jan Meredith of North Carolina was the nutty but jovial Mrs. Hudson, played as an Irish woman. English actress Gwendolyn Lewis played Holmes's secret love, Irene Adler, as a sexy tone-deaf tart who dreamed of being an opera singer.

The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes by Joe Bevilacqua (Audiobook Review)Audiobook Reviews from Audiobook-Heaven

Title: The Misadventures of Sherlock HolmesSeries: The Comedy-O-Rama HourAuthor: Joe BevilacquaNarrator: Full castCopyright: 2011, Waterlogg ProductionsDuration: 4 hours, 56 minutesGenres: humor, radio productionFiled in: Audiobook Reviews

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Fans of the legendary figure of Sherlock Holmes are sure to get a kick out of this. Arthur Conan Doyle spent many years recounting the adventures of the world’s greatest detective, but now the truth is revealed. In these dramatic and hilarious episodes, we find an aging Dr. Watson, finally setting the record straight in the form of his personal journal.

In episode 1, The Mystery of the Creepy Hack Writer, we learn that Sherlock Holmes was a beggar on the streets when Dr. Watson took pity and invited him to stay at his flat on Baker Street. Furthermore, it is revealed that Holmes is little more than a bumbling fool who couldn’t solve his way out of a wet paper bag. Presently, Watson is approached by a hack writer by the name of Arthur Conan Doyle who strikes a deal with Watson. They will co-write a series of detective stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. Of course no one will want to read about a blithering idiot, so they will make Holmes out to be a master of deductive reasoning.

And so, the legend of Sheer-luck, er I mean Sherlock Holmes begins. As recounted in later episodes, Doyle and Watson’s gimmick is a tremendous success, and the books sell like onion buns. That’s a rather obscure reference, I know, but if you listen to these episodes, you’ll understand.

Of course, you can’t have Sherlock without the nefarious Professor Moriarty. That would be like pickled rhubarb without the toast. Forgive me, another obscure reference. In episode 2, My Dinner at Baker Street, we learn how the two really met, as the foes sit down to dinner. Maybe it was the food that set them off. The landlady, Miss Hudson, served beef brisket and plums, artichoke pudding (she used all the plums in the brisket), a vegetable dish of carrots in mustard and ice cream sauce, and for dessert (you guessed it) pickled rhubarb on milk toast. This was a funny episode as you can imagine. After dinner, Holmes and Moriarty engage in a sword fight, before which Moriarty has to show Holmes how to hold the sword correctly. I got plenty of laughs from this one.

And that’s only the beginning. This volume includes ten episodes in all, explaining in great detail the truth behind the myth. Other episodes include:Sherlock Holmes in Trouble, A Study in Lavendar, The Death of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, The Giant Rat of Sumatra, Tales from the Vienna Wards, His Second to Last Bow, Revenge of the Bee Keeper, and Holmes’ Creepy Christmas.These full cast audio productions include the voice talents of Vernon Morris as Sherlock Holmes, Henry J Quinn as Dr. John Watson, Jan Meredith as Miss Hudson, Ed Hyland as Professor Moriarty, and William Gillette as Arthur Conan Doyle. Other voice artists include Terry Price, Gwendolyn Lewis, B H Barry, and Joe Bevilacqua. Don’t worry if you aren’t familiar with these names, their voice characterizations are as good as any you’ll hear.

Like I said, fans of Sherlock will get a real kick out of these comedies. Personally, I’m not very familiar with Holmes, but I got a kick out of these anyway. The humor is sometimes campy and sometimes rather clever and subtle. And the acting and sound effects are of the highest quality. Give this a try, you won’t be disappointed.

For more about The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, visit www.comedyorama.com.

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A review from an Audible.com listener: Craig, Williamsport, MD, United States "Roll Over Doyle" - If the Holmesian canon is sacred to you - avoid this book. If, however, you want a good, sarcastic, ironic, well written AND even say silly pastiche, this is your baby. Nothing is sacred - not even the ideas brought forth from the authors themselves. A right jolly romp. BTW The Giant Rat of Sumatra is finally unhinged - as it were.

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Here is complete episode guide to The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes:

Episode One: “The Mystery of the Creepy Hack Writer”

In 1887, Holmes is a 28-year old beggar on Baker Street when Doctor John H. Watson, MD, takes him into his lodgings at 221 Baker Street, London, much to the dismay of Watson's Irish landlady, Mrs. Hudson. Soon, Holmes is thrust into his very case when they are visited by three mysterious men. Who is the creepy hack writer? You will have to listen, to find out!! Sherlock Holmes: Vernon Morris; Dr. John H. Watson, MD: Henry J. Quinn; Ms. Hudson: Jan Meredith; Arthur Conan Doyle and all other roles: Joe Bevilacqua.

Episode Two: "My Dinner at Baker Street"
Holmes invites his old math teacher to dinner, not knowing he is the evil Moriarty who is there to kill him. The story ends with a hilarious sword fight (with REAL swords, choreographed by Broadway's Ed Easton.) I wrote this one by hand on a legal pad in 12 hours one day in 1983 when I was visiting Daws Butler. He had dropped me off at LAX and my flight was delayed. I was stuck so I bought a pen and pad and what you hear on this show is exactly what I wrote that day! Sherlock Holmes: Vernon Morris; Dr. John H. Watson, MD: Henry J. Quinn; Mrs. Hudson: Jan Meredith; Professor Moriarty: Ed Hyland.

Episode Three: "Sherlock Holmes in Trouble"
This is the Daws Butler script that started it all. Cockney Bert Stover visits 221-B Baker Street to ask Holmes to find the ''bloke what done in'' his Teresa, who turns out to be a cat Holmes himself tripped over and killed near London Bridge while out buying an onion bun. Sherlock Holmes: Vernon Morris; Dr. John H. Watson, MD: Henry J. Quinn; Mrs. Hudson: Jan Meredith; Bert Stover: Joe Bevilacqua.

Episode Four: "A Study in Lavender"
This was the second script I wrote while I was in college. Holmes is visited by his old flame Irene Adler, who wants him to investigate her husband's murder. The husband? Professor James Moriarty! Sherlock Holmes: Vernon Morris; Dr. John H. Watson, MD: Henry J. Quinn; Mrs. Hudson: Jan Meredith; Irene Adler: Terry Price; Young Basil Rathbone: Terry Price.

Episode Five: "The Death of Mr. Sherlock Holmes"
While the great detective is in India on holiday, Watson conducts Holmes's death to boost his sagging books sales. Holmes is mistaken for an imposture and put in jail with Gandhi, who he trades places with to escape. When Holmes returns Holmes he gives Watson a present, a box of cheese he bought on the island of Sumatra. Unfortunately, all that is is the box is a rat who ate the cheese. Sherlock Holmes: Vernon Morris; Dr. John H. Watson, MD: Henry J. Quinn; Mrs. Hudson: Jan Meredith; Gandhi: Gary Beery; Hester and Lester: Joe Bevilacqua; newspaper reporter: Vernon Morris; prison guard: William Melillo.

Episode Six: "The Giant Rat of Sumatra"
Holmes has a drug-induced vision about the rat he inadvertently brought home from Sumatra. The rat talks to him, recites ''Jabberwocky,'' eats all the cheese in the flat, grows gigantic, breaks through the walls of 221-B Baker Street and ravages London and beyond in search of more cheese. Sherlock Holmes: Vernon Morris; Dr. John H. Watson, MD: Henry J. Quinn; Mrs. Hudson: Jan Meredith; The Rat: Henry J. Quinn; additional characters by Joe Bevilacqua, William Melillo and Gary Beery.

Episode Seven: "Tales From the Vienna Wards"
Holmes finds himself in the loony bin, being treated by an equally loony Doctor Sigmund Freud, who eventually uses a strange method of ''singing therapy” to cure him, as well as Watson, Irene Adler and Mrs. Hudson. Sherlock Holmes: Vernon Morris; Dr. John H. Watson, MD: Henry J. Quinn; Mrs. Hudson: Jan Meredith; Irene Adler: Gwendolyn Lewis; Sigmund Fred: Joe Bevilacqua.

Episode Eight: "His Second to Last Bow"
In 1924, Holmes, Watson and Mrs. Hudson travel to America in search of Sherlock Holmes imposer, only to discover it is actor William Gillette who is playing the detective in a Broadway musical. Sherlock Holmes: Vernon Morris; Dr. John H. Watson, MD: Henry J. Quinn; Mrs. Hudson: Jan Meredith; William Gillette and all other characters and songs: Joe Bevilacqua.

Episode Nine: "Revenge of the Beekeeper"
In 1929, Beekeeper Holmes comes out of retirement one last time to find out who is trying to kill him. Mrs. Hudson appears to have gone made and now thinks SHE is Sherlock Holmes, so Holmes dresses up as Mrs. Hudson to solve the case. The trail leads him the the onion bun shop he frequents near London Bridge, where he encounters every characters from the previous eight episodes. In the end, Holmes has his revenge on them all by dying of natural causes before the have a chance to kill him. Sherlock Holmes: Vernon Morris; Dr. John H. Watson, MD: Henry J. Quinn; Mrs. Hudson: Jan Meredith; all other characters: Joe Bevilacqua. The show includes outtakes from “Holmes Creepy Christmas”.

Episode Ten: "Holmes Creepy Christmas"
This special holiday story takes place in 1888, when Holmes, Watson and Watson's wife, Mary Morstan, visit Scotland and the castle of Lord Tavis Mac Millian, only to become entangled in the curse of the Loch Alsh monstor and the ghost of Mac Beth. Sherlock Holmes: Vernon Morris; Dr. John H. Watson, MD: Henry J. Quinn; Mary Morstan: Gwendolyn Lewis; Tavis Mac Millian: B.H. Barry; the three witches: Jan Meredith, Gwendolyn Lewis; Joe Bevilacqua; Scotty Mac Melillo: Vernon Morris.

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I will be releasing another 600-plus hours of audio entertainment in 2012, including NEW (serious) Sherlock Holmes mysteries. What are some of the new titles coming up? Tune in next time and find out...

Best to you all,

Joe Bev.

CASTING CALL - Joe's directing a new show 'about Jersey!

2012-01-17T20:20:00.002-05:00

Joe is please to announce that he is directing

Over the Boardwalk for Kean University

CASTING CALL

The creative team behind Over The Boardwalk, the new JERSEY musical, written by Lou Ann K. Behan, is seeking a vibrant cast to bring the work before producers and potential investors. Joe Bevilacqua, director, Gary Fitzgerald (Broadway veteran of the first-run productions of Cats, Dreamgirls, Nine, and Merrily We Roll Along), music dir.

Auditions are Friday, February 3rd, 2012
4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.- Zella Fry Theatre, Kean University
1000 Morris Avenue, Union, New Jersey 07083

Rehearsals will start March 4th. Performance is March 10th at 2:00 p.m. at Kean University.

Seeking—Leading Man Type: early 20s, LEAD; Ingénue: early 20s, LEAD; Male and Female Character Actors Who Sing: 60s, female must be soprano and tenor; two character males who can sing, ages 20’s and 50’s-60’s. 2 females (supporting roles) with strong vocals.

Please prepare 16 bars of an up tempo tune that shows your range and acting ability.
Sides from the script will be available at the audition.
For additional information email joebev@joebev.com.
Or check the website: www.overtheboardwalkthemusical.com.

Set in the “happy” days of summer of 1963, Over The Boardwalk is a coming of age musical comedy-with all original music- that follows philosophy grad student, Bobby, and journalist intern, Matthew, two outsiders (“bennys”) who are reunited at the beach. They arrive just as the “locals” Melody, Janet, Candy, Anthony, Grammie G and Big Al are facing their own individual and collective crises including a plot by a determined developer who wants to demolish the boardwalk for a more “progressive” project. Love and acceptance, like the summer sun, melt even hardened hearts, and from the depths of a person’s “winter” an invincible summer just might emerge.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO "OVER THE BOARDWALK" AUDIO SAMPLES

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NEW REVIEW for TANKS of FURY- voices by Joe & Lorie

2012-01-15T16:12:00.001-05:00

AS MENTIONED ON BOB CAMPS BLOG....
http://bobcampcartoonist.blogspot.com/2011/12/tanks-of-fury-iphone-app-review.html

Joe & Lorie were very happy to have performed voices for Bob Camp's (co-creator or Ren & Stimpy) new iPhone Game, co-created by Mark Greenbaum.

NEW REVIEW

Tanks of Fury: Storming the Beaches (With Humor and Class)

December 22nd, 2011 Luke Patrick

Price: $0.99

Tanks of Fury: iPhone App Written Review

Reviewed by Luke Patrick

In our time here at the iPhone App Review, we’ve seen our fair share of war simulations and physics puzzlers. However, rarely have we seen an app that seeks to combine the two playing fields, much less one that does it well, as Tanks of Fury, by developer Iversoft Solutions, does. This arcade title for the iPhone gave us plenty of opportunities to both exercise our laugh muscles and destroy enemy unites—and all without leaving our armchairs! All in all, if you’re looking for a quirky, creative, and not-quite-baked app that combines the best of projectile shooting and witty one-liners, Tanks of Fury is your new best mate.

Concept and Gameplay

As stated, Tanks of Fury is somewhere between a classic arcade shooter and an Angry Birds clone, allowing for the best of both worlds to nest and take root. The app has players piloting their own tank—though its helmed by a captain of their choosing—into various missions, requiring them to pull back the turret and launch projectiles in a physics-based way that most reminds us of Angry Birds Seasons. However, there are no pigs to be found here. Instead, the player must punch their way through 16 solid levels, each presenting a new objective. These missions were varied, and came with enough detail that we never once found ourselves bored with the proceedings. As though they thought we might doze off, though, the developers have included a wealth of power-ups and defensive skills to keep us on our toes. And in most cases, we did need these additions: The game comes with two unique difficulty modes, but in our experience, the whole thing can be categorized as hard.

Design and Graphics

Tanks of Fury for iPhone

Still, the challenge didn’t stop us from enjoying the app’s excellent design. The characters are well animated, and the physics engine at work here behaves organically, as we like it. However, we did have some difficulty seeing our targets: More often than not, the view screen is somewhat limited, requiring us to slide back and forth from our station to the front lines, hoping our shots were aimed properly. That being said, we had no problem controlling either the placement of our tank, nor its actual firings. All in all, it’s a tight package, though one we might (literally) like to see more of.

Overall Value

At the end of the day, Tanks of Fury clocks in at $0.99 in the App Store, which is a bargain in our books. For that measly dollar, players can enjoy all 16 levels, including the menagerie of tank commanders and missions. At that price, the app is a solid steel, especially with the challenging arcade gameplay. All in all, it’s a four star rating for Tanks of Fury, as well as a hearty recommendation from us here at the iPhone App Review.

Tanks of Fury requires iOS 4.1 or later and is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. A small expedite fee was paid by the developer to speed up the publication of this review.

The iPhone app reviews rating:

OUR FAVORITE EPISODE OF REN & STIMPY
SPACE MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New Review for Son of Harpo Speaks! A Family Portrait

2012-01-11T21:41:00.003-05:00

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Another great review!

Son of Harpo Speaks!
A Family Portrait
Written & Narrated By BillMarx
Produced by Joe Bevilacqua

"A pleasant surprise"

"I have long been a fan of Harpo Marx, having read Harpo Speaks, so I was naturally curious as to the point of view of his son. I bought the book on a lark, hoping that it would be, if not at least interesting, then perhaps it would have some funny family stories. To my delight, the book was insightful, fun and yes, interesting. Bill Marx has a good speaking voice and the stories are presented in a way that make you feel as if you are sitting on the couch in his home, sipping a warm beverage and speaking to him in person. I enjoyed it and am very happy that I have this in my collection. I will recommend this to friends and know that they will enjoy it as much as I have."

- J.A., Audible listener, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 01-06-12

OTHER GREAT AUDIO BOOKS FEATURING BILL MARX:

The Best of Cartoon Carnival,
Volume One

Yabba Dabba Doo!:
The Alan Reed Story

Watch Harpo in Action...

Harpo Marx & Milton Berle 1959 Kraft Music Hall

Joe on Anthony Gemma Show "The Next Level"

2012-01-11T16:19:00.001-05:00

Joe will be LIVE
TODAY
Wed, January 11,
4:30pm – 6:30pm

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Joe Bev will be talking about all his new projects.

Joe Bevilacqua is a veteran award-winning actor, writer, author and producer. His audio is available at Amazon, iTunes, and Audible for Kindle, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, iPod or iPad download, or CD purchase or rental. Find out more!

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Buy all 10 half-hours of
"The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes"

NEW PROMO VIDEO FOR Yabba Dabba Doo! The Alan Reed Story by Alan Reed

Voiced by Alan Reed Jr. with Bill Marx as Fred Allen, commentary by Joe Bevilacqua
An audio biography/documentary with rare interviews of Alan Reed and Joe Barbera,
re-mastered audio of Reed's radio, TV and film work.

"Clip-filled tribute to a master character actor"

A lively tribute to the life of character actor and cartoon voice Alan Reed, spiced by background music and audio clips of radio/TV shows and movies. Most of it is read by Alan Reed Jr. (whose father had died in 1977) but there are some bits spoken by Reed himself from 1970s interviews. Joe Barbera is heard commenting on Alan's work with The Flintstones (as Fred) and the creation of the series. Bill Marx narrates some letters Fred Allen wrote to Reed.

NEW for 2012, A Waterlogg Valentine Double Feature Audiobook

2012-01-10T15:11:00.001-05:00

LATEST PRESS - what a great year, and a year to come!

2011-12-30T12:59:00.000-05:00

The Art of Audio #9: "The Christmas I Saved Macy's"

2011-12-25T19:20:00.000-05:00

The Joe Bev
Experience

The Art of Audio #9

"The Christmas I Saved Macy's"

I have told many holiday stories on radio over the years. (You can hear many of them on the bottom of this column today.) But the story I get the most requests for is this one I wrote and voiced, which aired on National Public Radio stations in December 2007. (See if you can find the mistake!)

The smell of cotton candy always makes me think of Christmas. It takes me back to the holiday season of 1964. I was three years old, Christmas shopping with my mom at Bamberger's department store in Newark, New Jersey.

Listen to "The Christmas I Saved Macy's"

The store was founded in 1893 by Louis Bamberger, and the building, which was erected in 1912, had a big clock on it. Unlike the sprawling malls of today, Bamberger's took up the entire building and sold everything from ladies underwear to model homes.

In 1929, Bamberger's was purchased by R.H. Macy Co. of New York City, but it wasn't until 1986 that the name was changed to Macy's when they went national.

Today, there are Macy's across the country, eight of them within driving distance of my home in Napanoch. The store in the Galleria Mall in Middletown (NY) only became a Macy's this year.

My first Beatles album
bought in downtown Newark, NJ - 1964

And you can thank me for it. That's right. The same year The Beatles invaded America, I saved Bamberger's, so if it were not for me, the Macy's we know today may not have existed.

My mom had brought me to downtown Newark so I could see my dad, who was a policeman, directing traffic, white gloves and all, at the intersection of Market and Halsey Streets, where Bamberger's was located.

My black Buster Brown shoes lifted off the sidewalk, as we passed the animated outdoor window displays of Santa and his elves in their workshop, my mom clutching my hand and shoving me through the revolving door into a sea of legs scurrying frantically around me.

In 1964, nearly every kid wore Buster Browns!

After a nondescript visit with Santa, my mom took me into a world I had before never seen—the ladies lounge. It was a handsome place with real wood paneling, glass ashtrays on ornate brass stands and leather chairs in which sat seven or eight Jackie Kennedy look-alikes, wearing pillbox hats, half-jackets and white gloves. They had all kicked off their spiked healed shoes and were rubbing their stockinged feet in between puffs of their cigarettes. A sea of smoke floated above.

My mom sat down, lit up a Marlboro and kicked off her spikes, as I occupied myself by sitting on the carpet and pretending all those shoes were racing cars.

Suddenly, I heard a woman scream. I looked up and saw flames coming out of one of the ashtray stands. The woman kicked over the stand and jumped up onto her leather chair. Now the carpet was on fire, too. All the woman screamed and jumped up.

A few years earlier, I wasn't so brave!

“Somebody put it out!” urged one woman.

“I can't! I don't have my shoes on!” replied another.

“Me either!” added a third.

I actually do not remember what my mother was doing at this moment, but I do remember the woman who pointed to me as she suggested, “Get that kid to do it! He's got shoes on!”

I stood up and quickly stamped out the fire. To shouts of “Thank God” and sighs of relief, the women descended upon me, lifted me up and passed me around the room while they hugged and kissed me.

Then, the woman who had suggested my act of heroism picked me up, kissed my cheek and smiled.

Her makeup smelled just like a delicious cotton candy.

FREE AUDIO - DAY 12 - CELEBRATE the 12 days of Christmas with Waterlogg Prod.

2011-12-25T11:46:00.000-05:00

HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!!!!

Did you get a new Smart Phone, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, iPod or iPad
and you want to download something onto them NOW?
Well... listen to our last free Christmas Story...

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12th DAY: "Balloon Acrobatics" A contest of bugs and balloons.

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Visit Santa at the North Pole, witness the birth of Baby Jesus, go inside Noah's Ark and more - with these 12 timeless short stories, by noted Spanish children's author Pedro Pablo Sacristan. They'll charm and entertain your whole family! Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio-theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, and performed by husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg.

Christmas stories include: "The Best Choice", "A Forced Christmas", "Bula the Traveler", "Christmas Presents", "The Please-o-Meter", and "The Little Christmas Star." There are also the stories "The Tidy Toys", "The Match and the Toy Men", "Problems on the Ark", "A Colorful Head", "A Drop of Water", and "Balloon Acrobatics".

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Pedro Pablo Sacristan is back with yet another collection of Spanish stories for children, translated into English. And just in time for the holidays, this collection includes 12 whimsical stories with a Christmas theme. This is my third Sacristan anthology and I have to say that I have enjoyed them all very much. Sacristan's stories are written in a simple style that children will love. And parents will love the important life lessons their children will gain from these tales. Audiobook Reviews from Audiobook-Heaven
©2011 Pedro Pablo Sacristan (P)2011 Pedro Pablo Sacristan, Joe Bevilacqua

FREE AUDIO - DAY 11 - CELEBRATE the 12 days of Christmas with Waterlogg Prod.

2011-12-24T14:17:00.001-05:00

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE!!!!!

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the 10th DAY's story was
: "A Drop of Water"
Are you a dirty or a clean drop??

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The Art of Audio #8: "Liquid Comedy 103"

2011-12-23T17:05:00.001-05:00

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Experience

The Art of Audio #8

"Liquid Comedy 103"

It was 1964. I was 5. Dressed like a cowboy--hat, gun, holster, boots. I follow my mom into Tom's Pork Store in Newark, New Jersey. I kicked the sawdust on the floor as I rushed over to the gumball machine in the corner. I put in a penny, turned the knob and out slid a gumball. I popped it in my mouth and turned.

Kenny Savoy, Tom Giannazzo and me
Listen to one of our "Camp Waterlogg" specials here!

"You cowboy?" another 5 year old near the counter asked me.

"Yup," I proudly replied.

"No. You cry-baby," the kid answered.

That was my first encounter with Tom Giannazzo, the son of the pork store owner, and my oldest friend and a founding member of Liquid Comedy.

More about Tom here.

As Tom put it on Facebook recently:

"Weren't we in the womb together? Seems like it goes back that far. I'm sure my knuckle-prints were all over the yard sticks Mrs. Coughlin (our third grade Catholic school teacher) used on you. Or was it one of the crazy penguins? Mrs. Mango? Maybe it was at the Home for Sons Abused by Italian Fathers (The SAIF House)?"

That is Tom's style of humor. If Jim Folly is Chico and Kenny Savoy is Harpo... then Tom Giannazzo is Groucho! (I guess that makes me Zeppo. Hmm.)

Master Sergeant Tom Giannazzo's
23 Years of Service

In fact, in one of our early sketches, a parody on TV's M*A*S*H called M*A*S*S, took place in a Catholic rectory and Tom played Father Hawkeye in a Groucho voice.

Little did we know at the time that Tom would go on to have a successful 23 year career in the United States Airforce. He traveled the world, ran a TV station on Guam, and was a military advisor to a number a major motion pictures and TV series, including Stargate SG-1, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Sum of All Fears, and The Perfect Storm.

Tom was interviewed for Stargate SG-1: Bonus Disc 3

Tom knew movies even back in college. In 1978 we spoof Star Wars in our stage show. Ours was Star Wars Tonight, a merging of the blockbuster hit with the then popular TV show Fernwood Tonight, which starred Martin Mull as Barth Gimble and Fred Willard as Jerry Hubbard, the show itself a spoof of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Liquid Comedy, circa 1979.
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In our version, Tom was Barth Vadar and I was C3PO Hubbard. Tom wore a Darth Vadar mask. I wore a plastic mop pale on my head with a face drawn on it in magic marker. Our R2D2 was a dented metal garbage can with flashing lights attached. Our guest, Baby Irene (played by Kathy Higgins) tap-danced with three legs (the third was stuffed and sowed onto to Kathy's dress and she flipped it back and forth as she proclaimed "tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap".

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"Camp Waterlogg" specials here!

Tom Giannazzo is now semi-retired and living in Florida with his wife and son. I say semi because I keep dragging him back to work! I'm just now planning new weekly broadcasts of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour: "Camp Waterlogg" to premiere Spring 2012.

Tom Giannazzo's Film & TV credits.

You can be sure there will be juicy parts for Tom Giannazzo (the only man I know who can clap with one hand).

Tom may be may earliest friend by not my earliest memory. THAT is a Christmas story--the year I saved Macy's. But you'll have to wait until you tune in next time...

Best to you all,

Joe Bev.

WATERLOGG PRODUCTIONS

CAMP WATERLOGG on Cult Radio A GO GO

"Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go!" Improvisational Radio Theater To Feature Celebrity Guest Stars

Joe will be a guest on the THE NANCY PRISTINE SHOW MONDAY

The Art of Audio #12 “A Valentine From Graham Nash's MAC”

Waterlogg Valentine Double Feature Audiobook

KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN for the COMEDY-O-RAMA RADIO Hour!

NEW REVIEW - The Laugh Makers by Bob Mills

Audiobook Review:

The Laugh Makers

by Bob Mills

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NEW REVIEW- Ancient Rising: The 3D Audiobook Experience

Ancient Rising: The 3D Audiobook Experience

The Art of Audio #11: The Return of " The Comedy-O-Rama Hour"!

The Art of Audio #10: "The Game is a-foot!" or "Your show is undone"

CASTING CALL - Joe's directing a new show 'about Jersey!

NEW REVIEW for TANKS of FURY- voices by Joe & Lorie

Tanks of Fury: Storming the Beaches (With Humor and Class)

New Review for Son of Harpo Speaks! A Family Portrait

Joe on Anthony Gemma Show "The Next Level"

NEW for 2012, A Waterlogg Valentine Double Feature Audiobook

LATEST PRESS - what a great year, and a year to come!

The Art of Audio #9: "The Christmas I Saved Macy's"

MORE OF MY CHRISTMAS STORIES:

FREE AUDIO - DAY 12 - CELEBRATE the 12 days of Christmas with Waterlogg Prod.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!!!!

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FREE AUDIO - DAY 11 - CELEBRATE the 12 days of Christmas with Waterlogg Prod.

The Art of Audio #8: "Liquid Comedy 103"

Ancient Rising:
The 3D Audiobook Experience

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and you want to download something onto them NOW?
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