The Comedy-O-Rama Hour is the brainchild of husband and wife Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) and Lorie Kellogg. After a successful four year run on Sirius XM Radio, the improvisational comedy radio theater. It is now a podcasts for everyone to enjoy! Please subscribe on iTunes!
Comedy-O-Rama #43: "Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go! 2012 A Year in Review" - part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block - starts 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT, Saturday, December 29 on CRAGG This Saturday, December 29, at 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT, "The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block" will include radio comedy, classic jazz and radio cartoons, starting with The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, then The Jazz-O-Rama Hour and The Joe Bev Experience following. Listen online for free at http://www.cultradioagogo.com.
Judy Tenuta
NEW TIME 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT
Special guest stars Stuart Pankin & Judy Tenuda help The Comedy-O-Rama Hour Ring in the New Year, with "Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go! 2012 A Year in Review", presenting some of the funniest moments from the radio theater comedy's past 42 weeks. Kenny Savoy is heard as Stinky Peter Moss and Jim Folly as Chef Ron Drysdale. Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) and Lorie Kellogg provide all the other voices for the hour. Bev plays Sgt. Lefty, Ellis the Boatkeeer, Adam Maxwell, Sal Pilver, Andy and others. Kellogg voices Olive Pitts, Elise, Mrs. Terwilliger, Lkie and others.
2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT
Now in its 43th week on Cult Radio-A-Go-Go! (and its 103th since 2002 including the Sirius XM broadcasts), The Comedy-O-Rama Hour is produced by Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev). The couple have been working together since they met in 1996. They recently toured with their Vaudeville in the Catskills stage show, in which they performed "Lambchops" the classic Burns and Allen comedy routine, and Bev MCd and performed the classic Abbott and Costello routine Who's On First? with Bob Greenberg. A second tour is planned for 2013 (TBA).
Bevilacqua is a veteran radio theater producer and voice actor. He also works on stage and is the winner of the 2012 New York TANYS Award for Excellence in Acting. He has performed at the Improv, Caroline's on Broadway, Catch a Rising Star, the Comic Strip, opened for Uncle Floyd, worked with Al Franken, Shelley Berman, Lewis Black and Rick Overton. Joe has also MC'd shows featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Mahr and Gilbert Gottfried. He has been regularly heard on National Public Radio and Sirius-XM Radio and has produced hundreds of hours of audiobooks.
Joe & Lorie's Idols
Lorie Kellogg is the co-producer. Kellogg started her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. There she studied painting, printmaking, photography, commercial design and video. She continued to Graduate School at the California Institute of the Arts where she received her MFA in Film/Video. Lorie is a graphic designer creating websites, logos, newsletters, newspaper & magazine layout, package design, ad design, and edits video & audio.
Joe Bev's "Deconstructing Laurel & Hardy" Special Airs Sat., Dec. 29, 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT on Cult Radio-A-Go-Go! http://www.cultradioagogo.com
Joseph Bevilacqua and his friends
One-Hour Comedy-O-Rama Tribute Mixes New Radio Theater & Classic Comedy Soundtracks
When Cult Radio-A-Go-Go! asked Joe Bev to create an hour long tribute to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, he decided to make it more than just a clip show.
Instead, the veteran award-winning radio producer and voice actor created "Deconstructing Laurel & Hardy," airing Saturday, December 29, 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT on Internet powerhouse Cult Radio-A-Go-Go! It can be heard streamed live at http://www.cultradioagogo.com.
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The special edition of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour combines audio from classic moments from Laurel & Hardy movies with a new radio theater in which "the boys" open a fix-it shop and recall their past failures as they handle a barrage of wacky customers. In the new moments, full of funny sound effects and music, Joe Bev voiced not only Stan and Ollie but James Finlayson, Billy Bletcher, Edgar Kennedy and other characters including a dog. All of the females roles, including Mae Busch, were voiced by Lorie Kellogg.
Joe as Stan in the Ellenville, NY, 4th of July Parade with the Sons of the Desert
Along the way, listeners are treated to hilarious moments from classic Hal Roach Laurel and Hardy sound films, including:
Brats (1930)
Blotto (1930)
Towed in a Hole (1932)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Them Thar Hills (1934)
The Fixer Uppers (1935)
Way Out West (1937)
Block-Heads (1938)
A Chump at Oxford (1940)
Among the highlights of the special is when Bev inter-cuts a scene the English version of "Blotto" with the Spanish version "La vida nocturna," one of the films Laurel & Hardy spoke phonetically. First, Bev as Stan recalls the scene in which he is speaking Spanish an Ollie English. Then, Bev as Ollie recalls the same scene but with him speaking Spanish and Stan English.
James Finlayson
Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. Composed of thin Englishman Stan Laurel and large American Oliver Hardy, they became well known during the late 1920s to the mid-1940s for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous Hardy. They made over 100 films together, initially two-reelers (short films) before expanding into feature length films in the 1930s. Their films include Sons of the Desert (1933), the Academy Award winning short film The Music Box (1932), Babes in Toyland (1934), and Way Out West (1937). Hardy's catchphrase "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" is still widely recognized.
Oliver Hardy
Joe Bev, who's full name is Joe Bevilacqua also hosts and produces three distinct radio hours per week, known collectively as The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, which includes The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, The Jazz-O-Rama Hour and The Joe Bev Experience.
Archived Comedy-O-Rama Hours are now podcast on iTunes at:
Bevilacqua is a veteran radio theater producer and voice actor. He also works on stage and is the winner of the 2012 New York TANYS Award for Excellence in Acting. He has performed at the Improv, Caroline's on Broadway, Catch a Rising Star, the Comic Strip, opened for Uncle Floyd, worked with Al Franken, Shelley Berman, Lewis Black and Rick Overton. Joe has also MC'd shows featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Mahr and Gilbert Gottfried. He has been regularly heard on National Public Radio and Sirius-XM Radio and has produced hundreds of hours of audiobooks.
Lorie Kellogg is the co-producer. Kellogg started her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. There she studied painting, printmaking, photography, commercial design and video. She continued to Graduate School at the California Institute of the Arts where she received her MFA in Film/Video. Lorie is a graphic designer creating websites, logos, newsletters, newspaper & magazine layout, package design, ad design, and edits video & audio.
COMEDY-O-RAMA TV:
"Laurel and Hardy in Knuclear Knuckleheads"
A video from Joe Bevilacqua filmed in 1987.
(Visually) Performed by Alison Nead as Oliver Hardy, Ron Willoughby as James Finlayson, and Joe Bevilacqua as Stan Laurel. Joe Bevilacqua is the voice of all three characters!
A Christmas Comedy-O-Rama Saturday, December 22, 2:30 pm ET - listen online for free at cultradioagogo.com This Saturday, December 22, at 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT, "The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block" will include radio comedy, classic jazz and radio drama, starting with The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, then The Jazz-O-Rama Hour and The Joe Bev Experience following. Listen online for free at http://www.cultradioagogo.com. Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg provide all the voices for this Saturday's Christmas Comedy-O-Rama Hour: "The Adoption of Andy," part 42 of their weekly "Camp Waterlogg serial.
Husband and wife duo also improvise all the dialogue, based on a predetermined scenario. Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) describes the process as similar to how Larry David creates "Curb Your Enthusiasm". "More like Larry David Meets Edgar Bergen," says Bev, who (together with Lorie Kellogg) improvise all the voices in each hour, including Sgt. Lefty, Ellis the Boatkeeper, Adam Maxwell, Andy, Woody, Abner Bibberman, Olive Pitts, Elise, Mrs. Terwilliger, Lkie, Courtney and others. In "The Adoption of Andy," Abner has kidnapped Andy just as he is about to live with his new dad Sgt. Lefty. The hour also includes the Christmas fables "A Forced Christmas" and "The Little Christmas Star" by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, voiced by Kellogg and Bev.
Joe & Lorie performing in
The Vaudeville in the Catskills
Now in its 42th week on Cult Radio-A-Go-Go! (and its 102th since 2002 including the Sirius XM broadcasts), The Comedy-O-Rama Hour is produced by Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev). The couple have been working together since they met in 1996. They recently toured with their Vaudeville in the Catskills stage show, in which they performed "Lambchops" the classic Burns and Allen comedy routine, and Bev MCd and performed the classic Abbott and Costello routine Who's On First? with Bob Greenberg. A second tour is planned for 2013 (TBA). Archived Comedy-O-Rama Hours are now podcast on iTunes at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-comedy-o-rama-hour/id572142422
Bevilacqua is a veteran radio theater producer and voice actor. He also works on stage and is the winner of the 2012 New York TANYS Award for Excellence in Acting. He has performed at the Improv, Caroline's on Broadway, Catch a Rising Star, the Comic Strip, opened for Uncle Floyd, worked with Al Franken, Shelley Berman, Lewis Black and Rick Overton. Joe has also MC'd shows featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Mahr and Gilbert Gottfried. He has been regularly heard on National Public Radio and Sirius-XM Radio and has produced hundreds of hours of audiobooks.
Lorie Kellogg is the co-producer. Kellogg started her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. There she studied painting, printmaking, photography, commercial design and video. She continued to Graduate School at the California Institute of the Arts where she received her MFA in Film/Video. Lorie is a graphic designer creating websites, logos, newsletters, newspaper & magazine layout, package design, ad design, and edits video & audio.
Husband and wife duo Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg make a new hour a radio theater every week. But this week's show, "Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go! In Training", presented a big challenge for the scene in which Sgt. Lefty builds miles of model train villages around Camp Waterlogg.
Bevilacqua reveals the secret to his train sounds: "My wife's stationary bike and a couple of toy whistles. Then, I mixed them in various stereo pans, crossing each other."
This Saturday, December 15, at 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT, "The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block" will include radio comedy, classic jazz and radio drama, starting with The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, then The Jazz-O-Rama Hour and The Joe Bev Experience following. Listen online for free at http://www.cultradioagogo.com.
Bev not only produces and directs the lush radio theater hour, he is the voice of most of the characters on the show, including Sgt. Lefty, Ellis the Boatkeeper, Adam Maxwell, and Lil Orphan Andy. Kellogg voices include Olive Pitts, Elise, Mrs. Terwilliger, Lkie and others.
Together, Bev and Kellogg improvise all of the Camp Waterlogg character's dialogue. The hour also includes the stories "August Heat" and "The Match and the Toy Men" by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, voiced by Kellogg and Bev.
Now in its 40th week on Cult Radio-A-Go-Go! (and its 100th since 2002 including the Sirius XM broadcasts), The Comedy-O-Rama Hour is produced by Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev).
The couple have been working together since they met in 1996. They recently toured with their Vaudeville in the Catskills stage show, in which they performed "Lambchops" the classic Burns and Allen comedy routine, and Bev MCd and performed the classic Abbott and Costello routine Who's On First? with Bob Greenberg. A second tour is planned for 2013 (TBA).
Joseph Bevilacqua
Bevilacqua is a veteran radio theater producer and voice actor. He also works on stage and is the winner of the 2012 New York TANYS Award for Excellence in Acting. He has performed at the Improv, Caroline's on Broadway, Catch a Rising Star, the Comic Strip, opened for Uncle Floyd, worked with Al Franken, Shelley Berman, Lewis Black and Rick Overton. Joe has also MC'd shows featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Mahr and Gilbert Gottfried. He has been regularly heard on National Public Radio and Sirius-XM Radio and has produced hundreds of hours of audiobooks.
Lorie Kellogg
Lorie Kellogg is the co-producer. Kellogg started her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. There she studied painting, printmaking, photography, commercial design and video. She continued to Graduate School at the California Institute of the Arts where she received her MFA in Film/Video. Lorie is a graphic designer creating websites, logos, newsletters, newspaper & magazine layout, package design, ad design, and edits video & audio.
