From the Daily Courier from Prescott, AZ:
There’s a beauty to being disgraced, said Garrison Keillor at his first show since Minnesota Public Radio cut ties with him last year.
That’s when you find out the person you’ve been married to is the most wonderful person in the world who loves you even though you’ve been inappropriate and unseemly, Keillor said. It’s also when you find out who your friends really are, he added after the show.
“In the newspaper, they refer to you as a disgraced broadcaster. They refer to this as a scandal, but your true friends, and you don’t need that many of them, but you find out for absolute sure who they are in the first two weeks after all of this happens,” he said. “They write into you and they say ‘I know no matter what it says in the paper, or no matter what Minnesota Public Radio says I know who you are.’ And that’s a brave thing to say. Maybe I’ve got 15 people now that I know I could call on them in any situation.”
Hundreds filled the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center Wednesday night, Feb. 28, including Paul and Connie Ziebell...
In his first show since November, Keillor sang upon taking the stage and right before leaving, telling tales of, among others, buying a plot in the cemetery where his parents, grandparents and an old girlfriend are buried 12 miles from where he was born, his conversation with an obituary writer and where in the obituary they’ll fit his controversy and the poem he wrote to an old girlfriend whose funeral he attended. He also told a few limericks.
Keillor had the old time radio show, Prairie Home Companion which I listened to for years, mostly for the music but also the humor.
He was accused of sexual harassment late last year and he was kicked to the curb. I think Keillor understated what happened while Minnesota Public Radio grossly overstated what happened due in part that wanted to get rid of Keillor so they can focus on the NPR show and host "Live From Here" with Chris Thile, which is a younger person version of PHC. The new show has much lower ratings than Keillor and MPR is afraid of that.
Even though Keillor is an extreme liberal, it's nice to see him back on stage.
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