Live on Tape
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| Live on Tape | |
|---|---|
| Format | Late Night comedy sketch show |
| Created by | Thomas Hart[1] |
| Starring | Thomas Hart John (Janos) Horvath Don Abbott Brandon Lovested Merlin Nelson Jr. Pete Calderone Monta Ponsetto Scott Hoyt Jim Peterson Mike Carron Jennifer Hanson Larry Brennan Brad Hauskins Leann Donovan Barb Engstrom Patti Flaherty Pat Flaherty Scott Tunnicliff Greg Baldwin Lora Adams Denise Hollmer Donny Bargmann Jr. John Bain |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 56 |
| Production | |
| Running time | half-hour |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | KLJB-TV (Davenport Communications ltd.) |
| Original airing | July 4th, 1987 through September 2nd, 1989 rerun through 1990 |
Live on Tape is a late night comedy sketch show that aired on Saturday nights at 10pm on KLJB-TV (FOX 18) in Davenport Iowa from 1987 until 1990. Except for news programs "Live on Tape" was the only locally produced[2] entertainment show at that time in the Quad City area. It was also the only original sketch comedy show produced for broadcast in the Midwest. "Live on Tape" was a locally produced, low budget show, featuring characters such as: E.J. Crackerhorn, Arnie Upshoe, Guy Newswarthy, Uncle Joey, Nosey, Clive Knobfinder, Zippy Spamhammer, Bongo the Exploding Clown, and plenty more.
Much of the humor poked fun at local and national personalities, spoofed commercials and TV shows, but also included silly adventures of the show's cast of regular characters -- be that sending them through a black hole after a stockpile of powerful hairspray goes nuclear and blasts them into space, or bombing Kewanee Illinois with Mallo Cups in a failed attempt to keep Cosmonauts Ivan Drombollo and Voster Slepenski from taking over the air-waves.
