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Podcast: The Good Old Days of Radio Show
Episode: Episode #328: Creepy Comedies: Life With Luigi
Description: J. Carrol Naish was one of the great dialect performers from vintage film and radio. For a brief period he became known for a well-written radio show from Si Howard, about a number of immigrants struggling to acclimate to American culture. As you might imagine, this gave the writers plenty of fodder to mock modern pop culture. This Halloween show came late in the show's run, when it was beginning to lose steam, and perhaps not quite a crisp as some of the earlier shows. But nonetheless it's still fun to hear great performances by Naish and some of...