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The Comic Stylings, Strained Crooning, Country-Fried Wisdom and Questionable Taste of Kinky Friedman

Aired on Friday, October 17th.

On this edition of StudioTulsa, the bawdy humor of Jackie Mason collides -- for better or worse -- with the common-sense politics of Will Rogers as we welcome the one and only Kinky Friedman back to our show. The legendary Texas-based singer/songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and former columnist for Texas Monthly was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas; Friedman placed fourth in the six-person race. Tonight, Friday the 17th, he will appear at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in downtown Tulsa (at 111 East 1st Street) at 8pm; it's a benefit performance for the Oklahoma Jazz Hall's educational programs, and you can learn more about Friedman's upcoming show -- which will mix storytelling, country-fried crooning, stand-up comedy, autobiography, and fact-finding as only he can -- at this link.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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