When Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) decided to create new installments of his radio theater show The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, which aired for four years on XM Radio, he knew he did not want to produce the show the old fashioned way--standing at a microphones in a cold studio.

"With portable digital recording, radio theater can now happen anywhere," says the veteran award-winning actor-writer-producer-director.

He adds, "The days of being stuck in a cold little studio with a script and a sound effects table are gone."

Now Joe Bev records scenes in Japanese restaurants while eating sushi, doing dishes, taking a bath, climbing a tree in the woods, giving the radio stories a real life.

Bev concludes, "We have been doing most these characters for more than 12 years now and some I have been voicing for more than 40 years. W no longer have to write what we want to say. The Comedy-O-Rama Hour has also evolved from a scripted to a fully improvised hour of radio theater."

On this week's show, "A Camp Waterlogg Hide'n'Seek"--which was recorded on location in Kansas City suburb Lenexa, Kansas--the Camp Waterlogg staff tries to please the son of a rich potential donor, Silvia Salvatore played by Jennye Rose, who's real son Van also plays her son on the show. Meanwhile, during a game of hide'n'seek, Peter Moss (Kenny Savoy) shows up and thinks the camp is deserted.

Bev is the voice of most of the characters on the show, including Sgt. Lefty, Ellis the Boatkeeper, Adam Maxwell, Lil Andy, Uncle Dunkle, Donnie and even a little girl named Wootsy. Kellogg's voices include Olive Pitts, Elise, Mrs. Terwilliger and a little girl named Lkie.

The hour also includes the story "Uncle Dunkle, Donnie and Wootsy" by Daws Butler, voiced entirely by Joe Bev, and "The Chair" by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, voiced by Kellogg and Bev.

Guest actors on The Comedy-O-Rama Hour have included David Ossman, Rick Overton, Julie Newmar, Bob Camp, Judy Tenuta, Al Franken, Shelley Berman, Lewis Black, Fred Frees, and Stuart Pankin.

Joe Bev is a veteran radio theater producer and voice actor. He also works on stage and is the winner of the 2012 New York TANYS Award for Excellence in Acting. He has performed at the Improv, Caroline's on Broadway, Catch a Rising Star, the Comic Strip, and opened for Uncle Floyd. Joe has also MC'd shows featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Mahr and Gilbert Gottfried. He has been heard regularly on National Public Radio and Sirius-XM Radio and has produced hundreds of hours of audiobooks distributed through Blackstone Audio. Although primarily known as a radio theater dramatist, his career has taken him into every aspect of show business. Joe Bev has released hundreds of hours of his audio work through Blackstone Audio. He has acted such films as "The Green Blade Rises", "The Fly Room", "Cold in July", and "Hits" (directed by David Cross), and on TV, as British General Bernard Montgomery in the History Channel's The Wars and the Head of NBC Radio (circa 1931) on HBO's Boardwalk Empire. More at http://www.joebev.com

Lorie Kellogg is the co-producer. Kellogg started her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. There she studied painting, printmaking, photography, commercial design and video. She continued to Graduate School at the California Institute of the Arts where she received her MFA in Film/Video. Lorie is a graphic designer creating websites, logos, newsletters, newspaper & magazine layout, package design, ad design, and edits video & audio.

More about Waterlogg Productions at http://www.waterlogg.com.

On Tuesday, the next Joe Bev podcast will be The Jazz-O-Rama Hour: "British Dance Bands". More details to come!

The Camp Waterlogg Chronicles 1: "The Camp Waterlogg Offensive"

by Joe Bevilacqua , Lorie Kellogg , Pedro Pablo Sacristan Narrated by Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, Kenny Savoy, Jim Folly

Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins

Six one-hour comic misadventures of Sgt. Lefty, Olive Pitts, Ellis the Boatkeeper, Squeaky Lkie, Stinky Peter, Mrs. Terwilliger and all the wacky denizens of Camp Waterlogg, the dilapidated Catskills kids camp. The creation of husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) and Lorie Kellogg, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour has evolved since its successful run on Sirius XM Radio into a wacky mix of family-friendly humor, radio theater, audio cartoons, and improvisation.

The Camp Waterlogg Chronicles 1 includes:
"Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg" part 1 
"Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg" part 2 
"Homeland Security Comes to Camp Waterlogg" 
"Camp Waterlogg, Bon Appetite"
"The Camp Waterlogg Offensive"
"Camp Waterlogg: The Animals Are Revolting"

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Comedy-O-Rama Podcast on iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-comedy-o-rama-hour/id572142422

Jazz-O-Rama Podcast on iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jazz-o-rama-hour/id611001393

Cartoon Carnival Podcast
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cartoon-carnival-with-joe-bev/id624696898

Joe Bev Experience Podcast
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-bev-experience/id627773341

and check out Rick Oveton's podcast too! Overview with Rick Overton http://goo.gl/OM2mD