Donald Drumpf Theatre #251: Make Me Laugh, Make Me Cry or The Lying King

This week’s episode: “Make Me Laugh, Make Me Cry.” The new/old president prepares to invade other American cities this week on the “Donald Drumpf Theatre” radio show. Opening theme includes clips from Rod Serling; Bill Cosby; Donald Drumpf; Eric Cartman; Jon Stewart; Richard Nixon; Kent Brockman; and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Thanks for the songs from Golden Earring ("Twilight Zone"), Randy Rainbow (“He Just Can’t Wait to Be King”), and Souled American (“Make Me Laugh, Make Me Cry”). Clips and excerpts from the president, Tim Cook, Satan, and Towlie from “South Park;” “The Puppet Regime;” Andrew Craft and Robert Corn-Revere on Fox “News;” William Devereaux from “The Siege;” J.L. Cauvin; Nicolle Wallace; and Bill Mahar. Episode #251."Donald Drumpf Theatre" is the weekly radio theatre show about a fictional presidency, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. It is often a mash-up of the week's news, and sometimes a radio news fantasy with song parodies and covers all mixed in a style similar to Spike Jones, Dickie Goodman, Dr. Demento, or Richard Foreman with comedy skits, sketches, radio waves, and more. Produced by Tom Roe. Make sense of the unreality here. Clips and songs are from some of the sources below.MONDAYS: The Week in Art and Activism in the Hudson Valley and The Hudson Valley Show Paper.WEDNESDAYS: The Donald Drumpf Theatre radio show.FRIDAYS: The Week in Transmission Art and Pirate Radio.EVERY DAY: All sorts of new stories are posted on “Turn On The News” including these recent works:* An Interview with Jeff Parker by Levi Dayan.* Eddie Palmieri’s “Gotcha” to the World: From Lincoln Center to Spike Lee, Palmieri’s Legacy is East Harlem River Rooted by Aurora Flores Hostos.* In 1951, Bronx teens Orlando Marín, Joe Quijano and Eddie Palmieri formed The Mamboys. An Oral history by Judy Cantor-Navas.* Impatient for a Reckoning: A litany of frustrations quelled by Brittany Howard's singing by Harmony Holiday.* This ’90s Zine Lays Bare the Roots of U.S. Rave History: Peter Wohelski’s TRiP Magazeen is a lost snapshot of progressive electronic culture in its infancy by Philip Sherburne.* The Exhaustion of Influence: On Lists by A Closer Listen.* I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is zero percent: Once they win elections, it's already too late by Chris Armitage. * Hard Times and Hot Jams: The song of the summer we deserve, and more by Listening Habit.* Panic at the Grocery Store: Everything is about to cost $1 million by Michelle Albanes-Davis.RespondSend items, press releases, announcements, letters to the editor, angry responses, gentle praise, images, sound, and more for this column to:[email protected] is also encouraged to make comments on this site. Interact! Please get in touch if you feel something is incorrect. If you like this radio show, please subscribe. Please consider getting this new multi-media project started with a lifetime subscription. Thank you — Tom Roe. Clear. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tomroeradio.substack.com/subscribe