TV Guidance Counselor Episode 254: Jo Firestone

May 15 - 21, 1993

Today Ken welcomes writer/comedian Jo Firestone to the show.

Sitting on a concrete staircase in Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA Ken and Jo discuss being very tired, nap stations, closing time at Cheers, when people get together how it ruins things, hope, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Dead Kennedys, step-singers, updating Wikipedia, seasons changing, Pappy's St. Louis BBQ, Pizza based improve, Matlock, Andy Griffith, escapism, horror of nature, Disney's Lemmings, COPS, renting SNICK, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Death Becomes Her, She-Devil, Roseanne, dumb parents on kids TV shows, The Simpsons, seeing people you know on TV, gameshows, amateur magicians, Punderdome, Square Dancing on TV, Murder She Wrote, hiding Klondike bars behind a false wall, The Kids in the Hall, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, replacing actors, Shelly Long, Troop Beverly Hills, Hello Again, Blossom, getting concreted out, Flight of the Navigator, the mind blowing revelation that ET is all of us, Rescue 911, getting "stuck" in a hot tub, women in stand up, Coach vs. Woody, when the dumb character can be way too dumb, the Simpsons, and Sharon Stone's bath problems.