Satire
Bob and Ray Monitor Radio
From the Bob and Ray For The Truly Desperate Collection, this segment features a humorous bit from Monitor Radio about cow lifting, along wi…
Candida
This play tells the story of Candida, the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, po…
Cinderella
If you are expecting glass slippers and pumpkin coaches, look elsewhere... This is "a pantomime as Ibsen would have written it, if only…
Bob and Ray
In this episode of Bob and Ray, originally aired on December 27th, 1973, the first day of filming is filled with comedic mishaps as Harry st…
Man's Rights
"Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams" is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The te…
Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen
These short comic parodies of five well-known tragedies by Henrik Ibsen originally appeared in Punch, the British humor magazine. From the p…
The Tenth Cow
When Teddy Kagan finds a pure red heifer (heifer: a young, virgin cow) on the Florida ranch of a TV evangelist, he knows - because he knows …
The Admirable Crichton
From the author of Peter Pan:Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties…
The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith
Lucas Cleeve is living in Venice with a widow, Mrs. Ebbsmith. His relatives do not accept this arrangement and come to intervene. Note that …
The Poems and Some Satires of Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell is a man of many faces, in both poetry and politics. A master of the pastoral dialogue, he can equally well fire out a Juvena…
This Simian World
Clarence Day, Jr., best known for his work Life with Father, presents a satirical speculation on how the world might be different if we apes…
A Treatise of Religion
Part diatribe, part discourse, part sermon and part stand-up comedy, this is Fulke Greville's 114 stanza, verse-poem about religious hypocri…
The Conscious Lovers
As early as 1720 Steele spoke in the Theatre of "a friend of mine" who was lately preparing a comedy according to the just laws of…
George Dandin
"The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle having been ratified ... and peace being assured ... Louis XIV resolved to give a festival in his favori…
The Henry Morgan Show
Caustic half-hour satires by the cantankerous comedian and future "I've Got a Secret" panelist.
The Magnificent Lovers
"The King [Louis XIV], who will have nothing but what is magnificent in all he undertakes, wished to give his court an entertainment wh…
Bob and Ray
This episode of Bob and Ray aired on June 21, 1973, featuring a mix of humor and commentary. The show includes a segment titled In The Gathe…
Marvellous Hairy
So hair is sprouting in unspeakable places and you can no longer carry a tune, but if you’re a surrealistic artiste with an addiction to Fre…
Bob and Ray
Join Bob and Ray in this memorable episode featuring the closing moments of the 'Mr. & Mrs. Broadway' television show interview with the…
Bob and Ray
Join Bob and Ray in this episode from September 15th, 1975, where they delve into the whimsical world of Hard Luck Stories. The gang, includ…