Kean University 2013 Distinguished Alum Joe Bev's 56th New Radio Theater Premieres Saturday, April 27, 2:30 pm ET on CRAGG!

"Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go! Chores, Pours & Porcupine Wars"  on The Comedy-O-Rama airs Saturdays as part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, which includes The Jazz-O-Rama Hour & The Joe Bev Experience, starting 2:30 pm ET, 1:30 CT, 11:30 PT streamed overcultradioagogo.com!

This Saturday, April 27th, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour presents "Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go! Chores, Pours & Porcupine Wars". The new radio play is part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, starting 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT on http://www.cultradioagogo.com.

OUR PROMO VIDEO:

In the hour, it's still April Fools Day, when Sgt. Lefty (Joe Bev) and Olive Pitts (Lorie Kellogg) are doing all the chores at Camp Waterlogg, leaving the others to goof off. Kenny Savoy is featured as Stinky and Luigi. Meanwhile, two Homeland Security officers (both Joe Bev) are searching the camp grounds for Adam Maxwell (also Joe Bev).

http://firstarkansasnews.net/lum-and-abner

Also featured on the hour will be the 4th installment of the first new "Lum and Abner" comedy since 1954, written and performed by Donnie Pitchford, who also draws the "Lum and Abner" comic strip appearing at http://firstarkansasnews.net/lum-and-abner in a "Sunday strip" format with a new installment each Sunday.


The series is just one of four weekly hours produced, directed, written and voiced by Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev), who is the recipient of the 2013 Kean University Distinguished Alumni Award. Bevilacqua will accept the award at the  reception being held at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, on Sunday, April 28, 2013. For more information, read: http://www.prlog.org/12085461-joe-bevilacqua-receives-2013-kean-university-distinguished-alumni-award.html

The April 20th Joe Bev 3-Hour Block includes:
1. Comedy-O-Rama #56: "Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go! Chores, Pours & Porcupine Wars"
2. Jazz-O-Rama #39: "Java Jive: Jazz About Coffee"
3. Joe Bev Experience #35: "Classic Cartoon Carnival #3"

Joe Bevilacqua began his career at Kean University, where he acted in many stage productions and created a weekly radio theater hour for WKNJ. Since graduating, Bevilacqua has created hundreds of hours of audio content for National Public Radio, WNYC-New York Public Radio, WBGO-Jazz88, KUT-Austin, TX, WBAI-Pacifica, Hawaii Public Radio, and other radio stations, as well as The Public Radio Exchange, Radio Spirits, Bear Manor Media, Audible, and Blackstone Audio--producing, directing, writing, acting and hosting a wide varieties of genres including drama, comedy, music, interview, biography, autobiography and documentary programs and specials.

Joe Bevilacqua as Mr. Jazzbo

Bevilacqua has acted in a number of feature films and TV shows. He can be seen as the first lawyer Abraham Lincoln met as a child in the soon to be released theatrical motion picture The Green Blade Rises directed by A.J. Edwards, and as an IRS Agent on the Lion TV series Deadly Devotions, soon to air on Investigation Discovery Channel.

He also has performed in many stage productions, including Black Comedy for The Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, NY, The Case of the Murdering Microphone, which he also wrote and directed for 90 Miles Off Broadway, in New Paltz, NY, and "Vaudeville in the Catskills" at Bethel Woods and other venues for the Sullivan Count Dramatic Workshop. He has also 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 is currently touring as Bud Abbott with Bob Greenberg as Lou Costello in "A Tribute to Bud & Lou".

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.

WATERLOGG PRODUCTIONS

 4 PODCASTS

SUBSCRIBE to The Comedy-O-Rama Podcast on iTunes OR click on the link to the right to hear us online	SUBSCRIBE to The Jazz-O-Rama Podcast on iTunes  OR click on the link to the right to hear us online
SUBSCRIBE to  The Joe Bev Experience Podcast on iTunes  OR click on the link to the right to hear us online	SUBSCRIBE to The Cartoon Carnival Podcast on iTunes  OR click on the link to the right to hear us online

More about Waterlogg Productions at: http://www.waterlogg.com.

Many of our projects are for sale on our website: http://waterlogg.com/buy-comedy.html

or visit SimplyAudiobooks.com or Audible.com  or theaudiobookstore.com  or Amazon.com  or theAudioBookMart.com or iTunes.com

A New Character Arrives at "Camp Waterlogg" inspired by Jonathan Winters

Weekly improvisational radio theater The Comedy-O-Rama airs Saturdays as part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, which includes The Jazz-O-Rama Hour & The Joe Bev Experience, starting 2:30 pm ET, 1:30 CT, 11:30 PT streamed over cultradioagogo.com!



Joe Bev has multiple personalities. Sometimes, Bev is gruff Sgt. Lefty. Sometimes, he's meek Ellis de Boatkeeper.  Other times, he's a seven year old immigrant named Andy. Or stoner Woody. Or... sometimes Bev is all of them at once.

OUR PROMO VIDEO:

"Only when voicing my radio show," admits the veteran, award-winning actor-writer-producer, who has been improvising full storylines on the radio, doing all the voices himself for more than 40 years.

Along the way, Bevilacqua (his full name) has created serious documentaries, NPR reports, jazz shows and many other works in many genres.

Jonathan Winters

This Saturday, April 20th, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour presents "Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go! Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice". The new radio play is part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, starting 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT on http://www.cultradioagogo.com.

In the hour, it's April Fools Day, when Sgt. Lefty (Joe Bev) and Olive Pitts (Lorie Kellogg) are doing all the chores at Camp Waterlogg, leaving the others to goof off. Kenny Savoy is featured as Stinky and Luigi.

In one scene, Joe Bev ad-libs all the characters in a pool match, including a new character Bev has created as a tribute to the comedian Jonathan Winters, who died on April 11, 2013.

"Jonathan was the greatest comedian of our time and an inspiration to all comedians," added Bevilacqua, who admits his new character is based on Winter's Maude Fricket.

The April 20th Joe Bev 3-Hour Block includes:


1-Comedy-O-Rama #55:
"April Fools Me Once, Fools Me Twice" with a new Jonathan Winters (https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.winters.7927?group_id=0) inspired character.


2-Jazz-O-Rama #38: "My Favorite LP Cuts of the 1950s & 60s": Count Basie, Art Blakey, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Miles Davis, Horace Silver

3-Joe Bev Experience #34: "Joe Bev Goes to College"
"Peter Bergman and the End of the World" by Philip Proctor (https://www.facebook.com/philip.proctor2?group_id=0)
"Napoleon Brandy," part 1, read by Fred Frees (https://www.facebook.com/frederic.frees.5?group_id=0)
"Solid State University" from Great Northern Audio Theatre (Jerry Stearns and Brian K. Price (https://www.facebook.com/bkprice1?group_id=0)), featuring Dan (“Dr. Science”) Coffey.

Also featured on the hour will be the first new "Lum and Abner" comedy since 1954, written and performed by Donnie Pitchford, who also draws the "Lum and Abner" comic strip appearing at http://firstarkansasnews.net in a "Sunday strip" format with a new installment each Sunday.

Joe Bev has produced and directed The Comedy-O-Rama Hour for the last 55weeks for Cult Radio A-Go-Go! (plus, 60 previous hours for XM Radio).

It was announce on February 27 that Blackstone Audio, Inc., has entered into partnership with Joe Bev's Waterlogg Productions to providing its award-winning audiobooks to a wider audience. 

On February 22, it was announced that Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) was chosen to be among those to receive a 2013 "Kean University Distinguished Alumni Award".

WATERLOGG PRODUCTIONS

 4 PODCASTS

SUBSCRIBE to The Comedy-O-Rama Podcast on iTunes OR click on the link to the right to hear us online	SUBSCRIBE to The Jazz-O-Rama Podcast on iTunes  OR click on the link to the right to hear us online
SUBSCRIBE to  The Joe Bev Experience Podcast on iTunes  OR click on the link to the right to hear us online	SUBSCRIBE to The Cartoon Carnival Podcast on iTunes  OR click on the link to the right to hear us online

 

Joe Bev

Bevilacqua has been producing radio in many genres most of his life. In 1980, at 19, Bevilacqua produced his first radio show, Liquid Comedy, for public radio station WRSU in New Brunswick, New Jersey, subsequently distributed internationally by the National Federation of Community Broadcaster (which became Pacifica Radio Archives). He co-hosted The Jazz Show with Garret Gega in the early 80s, a four hour a week mix classic jazz and comedy for WKNJ in Union, New Jersey. 

Bevilacqua also worked for WBGO, Jazz 88 in Newark, NJ and produced documentaries for WNYC New York Public Radio on jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Cab Calloway, and Lionel Hampton. 

He is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, and in 2009, Bevilacqua did a commentary for Marketplace about his "green lifestyle". 

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. 


More about Waterlogg Productions at: http://www.waterlogg.com.

Many of our projects are for sale on our website: http://waterlogg.com/buy-comedy.html

or visit SimplyAudiobooks.com or Audible.com  or theaudiobookstore.com  or Amazon.com  or theAudioBookMart.com or iTunes.com

Husband & Wife Team Create a World of Characters, Saturday, April 13, 2:30 pm ET on CRAGG!

Lorie Kellogg voices a plethora
 of characters on the radio every week.

New "Camp Waterlogg" radio play on Joe Bev's Comedy-O-Rama Hour, part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, which includes The Jazz-O-Rama Hour & The Joe Bev Experience, EVERY SATURDAY starting 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT on cultradioagogo.com.

Sgt. Lefty is washing dishes. Ellis, Andy, Woody and Adam are running in and out annoying him. This is a scene from this Saturday's "Camp Waterlogg" installment. And one person is doing all these voices: Joe Bevilacqua (aka Joe Bev).

Olive Pitts is taking a bath. Elise, Lkie, Mrs. Terwilliger are running in and out annoying her. This is also a scene from this Saturday's "Camp Waterlogg". And one person is doing all these voices: Lorie Kellogg.

THIS WEEKS VIDEO:

Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg are married and together create three hours of radio and four separate podcasts per week.

This Saturday, April 13th, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour presents "Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go! Camp Waterlogg is... Waterlogged". The new radio play is part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, starting 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT on http://www.cultradioagogo.com.

In the hour, it's April Fools Day, when Sgt. Lefty (Joe Bev) and Olive Pitts (Lorie Kellogg) have returned to Camp Waterlogg after being magically whisked off to India for their honeymoon by famous Indian magician Kutmar Kutmar (Joe Bev) where they appear in a movie directed by Sal Pilvers (Joe Bev).

Upon their equally magically return, they are put on one month KP duty and most do the work of all the Camp Waterloggers including Ellis the Boatkeeper, Adam Maxwell, Woody, Lil Andy (all Joe Bev)  and Elise, Like, and Mrs. Terwilliger (all Lorie Kellogg).

Meanwhile Luigi (Kenny Savoy) hurts his back shoveling the last of the snow around Giannazzo's Cheese Shop, forcing him to take inventory with his feet.

Also featured on the hour will be the first new "Lum and Abner"comedy since 1954, written and performed by Donnie Pitchford, who also draws the "Lum and Abner" comic strip appearing at http://firstarkansasnews.net in a "Sunday strip" format with a new installment each Sunday.

Joe Bev has produced and directed The Comedy-O-Rama Hour for the         last 54 weeks for Cult Radio A-Go-Go! (plus, 60 previous hours for XM Radio).

WATERLOGG PRODUCTIONS

 4 PODCASTS

SUBSCRIBE to The Comedy-O-Rama Podcast on iTunes OR click on the link to the right to hear us online	SUBSCRIBE to The Jazz-O-Rama Podcast on iTunes  OR click on the link to the right to hear us online
SUBSCRIBE to  The Joe Bev Experience Podcast on iTunes  OR click on the link to the right to hear us online	SUBSCRIBE to The Cartoon Carnival Podcast on iTunes  OR click on the link to the right to hear us online

     
In addition, Bev produces The Jazz-O-Rama Hour (37th week), The Joe Bev Experience (33rd week) and Cartoon Carnival (53 weeks).

Bevilacqua and Kellogg have been married since 1996. All of their Camp Waterlogg scenes are recorded, most of it ad-libbed,at the couple's rustic home (and the surrounding woods) in the beautiful Catskills, designed to look like a 1950s kid show set.

It was announce on February 27 that Blackstone Audio, Inc., has entered into partnership with Joe Bev's Waterlogg Productions to providing its award-winning audiobooks to a wider audience.

On February 22, it was announced that Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) was chosen to be among those to receive a 2013 "Kean University Distinguished Alumni Award".

Joseph Bevilacqua addicted to the mic

Bevilacqua has been producing radio in many genres most of his life. In 1980, at 19, Bevilacqua produced his first radio show, Liquid Comedy, for public radio station WRSU in New Brunswick, New Jersey, subsequently distributed internationally by the National Federation of Community Broadcaster (which became Pacifica Radio Archives). He co-hosted The Jazz Show with Garret Gega in the early 80s, a four hour a week mix classic jazz and comedy for WKNJ in Union, New Jersey.

Bevilacqua also worked for WBGO, Jazz 88 in Newark, NJ and produced documentaries for WNYC New York Public Radio on jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Cab Calloway, and Lionel Hampton.

He is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, and in 2009, Bevilacqua did a commentary for Marketplace about his "green lifestyle".

Lorie Kellogg as Gracie Allen
backstage last year 

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.


More about Waterlogg Productions at: http://www.waterlogg.com.

Many of our projects are for sale on our website: http://waterlogg.com/buy-comedy.html

or visit SimplyAudiobooks.com or Audible.com  or theaudiobookstore.com  or Amazon.com  or theAudioBookMart.com or iTunes.com

New "Lum & Abner" Radio Comics on Comedy-O-Rama Premieres Saturday 2:30 pm ET, 11:30 am PT on CRAGG!

Beginning Saturday, April 13, 2013, at 2:30 pm ET, new Lum and Abner audio comics will become a regular feature of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, which premieres every Saturday streamed over Cult Radio A-Go-Go! [http://www.cultradioagogo.com].



Comedy-O-Rama is the creation of veteran radio producer-host Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev).




Lum and Abner was an American network radio comedy program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was aired from 1931 to 1954. Modeled on life in the small town of Waters, Arkansas, near where Lauck and Goff grew up, the show proved immensely popular. In 1936, Waters changed its name to Pine Ridge after the show's fictional town.

Lauck and Goff had known each other since childhood and attended         the University of Arkansas together where they both joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. They performed locally and established a blackface act which led to an audition at radio station KTHS in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Prior to the audition, the two men decided to change their act and portray two hillbillies, due to the large number of blackface acts already in existence. After only a few shows in Hot Springs, they were picked up nationally by NBC, and Lum and Abner, sponsored by Quaker Oats, ran until 1932. Lauck and Goff performed several different characters, modeling many of them on the real-life residents of Waters, Arkansas.


Lum and Abner broadcast more than 5,000 shows on NBC, Mutual, CBS and ABC (formerly NBC Blue) before leaving the air in 1954. The show had various sponsors during its 22 year run, including Quaker Oats, Ford Dealers of America, Horlick's Malted Milk, General Foods (Postum), Miles Laboratories (Alka-Seltzer and One-a-Day), and Frigidaire.

Cartoonist/writer/actor Donnie Pitchford said, "I created these audio audio dramatization of my comic strip, complete with voices, sound effects and music, as a feature for blind fans of old time radio, but one that any reader may access. I am thrilled my Lum and Abner audio will now please new audiences on Joe Bev's Comedy-O-Rama!"

Early in 2011, negotiations between Pitchford and Ethan C. Nobles of http://www.firstarkansasnews.net,         the Chester Lauck family resulted in a new comic strip series based on the classic radio programs and its characters. Beginning June 5, 2011, "Lum and Abner" officially began appearing at http://firstarkansasnews.net in a "Sunday strip" format with a new installment each Sunday. Readers may sign up for a free e-mail subscription by visiting GoComics. The comic strip made its newspaper debut in "The Mena Star" of Mena, Arkansas on Thursday, July 28, 2011. It has since been signed by two more Arkansas papers, "The Saline Courier" of Benton and "The Standard" of Amity.

A feature unique to this strip is a weekly audio version, designed with blind readers in mind. It is posted here and contains character voices, sound effects and music, much in the same style as the 1931-54 "Lum and Abner" radio series. Fans of "Lum and Abner" have the opportunity to buy coffee mugs, mouse pads and tee shirts at the Lum and Abner store. A "Lum and Abner Comic Strip Group" page is available on Facebook. "Lum and Abner" entertained millions as a classic radio program, inspiring a series of seven motion pictures and shaping the style and content of television's rural comedies as well. We hope our comic strip will carry Lum and Abner into a new era of entertainment.

Joe Bev hosts and producers four different radio hours per week. Archived episodes are podcast via iTunes:

WATERLOGG PRODUCTIONS

 4 PODCASTS

SUBSCRIBE to The Comedy-O-Rama Podcast on iTunes OR click on the link to the right to hear us online	SUBSCRIBE to The Jazz-O-Rama Podcast on iTunes  OR click on the link to the right to hear us online
SUBSCRIBE to  The Joe Bev Experience Podcast on iTunes  OR click on the link to the right to hear us online	SUBSCRIBE to The Cartoon Carnival Podcast on iTunes  OR click on the link to the right to hear us online

Listeners can subscribe to each show, which will automatically download weekly for FREE.


Every Saturday, at 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT, "The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block" includes radio comedy, classic jazz, radio drama, interview, documentary and more, 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.

Waterlogg Productions is a full service entertainment company, founded by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg, specializing in audio production of many styles and genres, from fictional comedy to serious documentary. For more information, go tohttp://www.waterlogg.com.

VIDEO-Behind the Scenes Recording The Comedy-O-Rama Hour:

More about Waterlogg Productions at: http://www.waterlogg.com.

Many of our projects are for sale on our website: http://waterlogg.com/buy-comedy.html

or visit SimplyAudiobooks.com or Audible.com  or theaudiobookstore.com  or Amazon.com  or theAudioBookMart.com or iTunes.com