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It Pays To Be Ignorant MP3 CD
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It Pays to Be Ignorant was a very popular radio comedy show whose
popularity remained steady during a run on three networks for such
sponsors as Philip Morris, Chrysler and DeSoto. The show was a spoof
on the more authoritative, academic intellectual panel series as
Quiz Kids and Information Please. The beginning of the show parodied
"Doctor I.Q.”
The announcers were Ken Roberts and Dick Stark, the show was
broadcast on Mutual from June 25, 1942 to February 28, 1944, on CBS
from February 25, 1944 to September 27, 1950 and finally on NBC from
July 4, 1951, to September 26, 1951. The original radio cast brought
the show to television in 1949-51, first on CBS and then on NBC. In
the 1973-1974 syndicated TV version, host Joe Flynn queried
panelists Jo Anne Worley, Billy Baxter and Match Game-regular
Charles Nelson Reilly.
The satirical series featured "a board of experts who are dumber
than you are and can prove it". Tom Howard was the quizmaster who
asked questions of dim-bulb panelists Harry McNaughton, Lulu
McConnell and George Shelton. The Irish-born Howard (1885-1955) and
Shelton (1885-1972) had previously worked together as a team in
vaudeville and comedy film shorts, while McConnell (1882-1962) and
British comic McNaughton (1896-1967) had both appeared in many
Broadway musical comedies and revues between 1920 and the late
1930s.
The questions asked by Howard often had the answer obvious in the
query ("What town in Massachusetts had the Boston Tea Party?") or
were common knowledge.
These are just some of the questions that would be asked:
"Can you tell me the man's name children look for on Christmas
Eve?"
"How long does it take a ship to make a five-day journey?"
"What animal does a blacksmith make horse shoes for?"
"For what meal do we wear a dinner jacket?"
"What is the habitat of the Bengal tiger?"
Some questions were just plain stupid:
"Do married men live longer than single men?" ("No, it only seems
longer.")
"On what side do you milk a cow?" ("The outside.")
However, the panelists would get the answer wrong, providing
outrageously funny answers instead, followed by an even more
uproarious rationale for their answer. The show had a number of
running gags which became catch phrases with listeners such as
McNaughton's "Now we're back to Miss McConnell again" and Shelton's
"I used to work in that town".
So sit back and laugh till your sides
hurt with over 17 hours and 35 episodes of It Pays to Be Ignorant.
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