TV Guidance Counselor LIVE! with Mary Mack at the Women in Comedy Festival

August 3-9, 1991

In this episode recorded LIVE! at ImprovBoston as part of the 2015 Women in Comedy Festival, Ken welcomes writer, musician, comedian and midwesterner Mary Mack to the show.

Ken and Mary discuss Mid-western attendance, central time, copious notes, realizing what you missed as a kid, roof mounted antennas, Punky Brewster, two beers as the cure for sadness, why Ken could never have been a Doctor, the physical nature of magazines, Choose Your Own Adventure books, cigarette ads, the original owner of the issues TV choices, Mary's cultural anthropological understanding of TV Guide, "Gerald", Janita, Madonna, 10 Years of MTV, horrorscopes, Gerald's crossword failure, Group Homes, working the night shift, Entertainment Tonight, Ken's invention of the Hold Button App, Uber for Jazz, traveling into town to see New Kids on the Block, Public TV, Benny Hill, Peoria, Morning Agriculture, John Candy, "Only The Lonely", The Twins, Sunday Football, Pickled Herring, Fresh Prince, Murphy Brown, Mark L. Walberg, Antiques Roadshow, Supermarket Sweep, Shop til You Drop, bowling tutorials, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, Ed vs. Chris in the Morning, the corner of happy and healthy, the inherent humor of the word "barf", celebrities who have tattoos, "If I Could Turn Back Time", school assemblies, tricking kids into being in show choir, jazzy Amish, terrible high school marching bands, catching up on things you missed via YouTube, Netflix, and Hulu, chasing sleep, Wild America, dealing with bears, playing dead, UK shows, Roseanne, 10pm Crime, Kenny Rogers, selling out to Dole, Mary's husband's obsession with the Mob and Mummies, Dawn of the Mummy, Mummies vs. Fashion Models, dish washing models, braces, Newhart, the importance of Thursdays, Joanna Kerns, Mutual of Omaha, Silver Spoons, Rickey Schroeder, Fischer Cats, knowing too much about swords, the hot market of China, Wheel of Fortune, familiar arguments igniting by TV Game Shows, Stotes, Winter Weasels, walking Mary's friend's sister, The treat of Pop on Friday Night, renting a VCR, Strange Brew, Coming to America, Willy Nelson and Kris Kristopherson, the Highwaymen Tapes, Follow that Bird, The best Muppet Movie, questioning if anything got better after someone died, why New Order is a better band than Joy Division, Ken's experiences camping, the horrors of deep sea fishing, how being beaten to death is a peaceful death, Arsenio Hall is horrible, Pat Sajak's talk show, Golden Girls, theme songs that were songs before they became theme songs, Molly B and polka, polka, polka.